I’m talking about Albert Haynesworth. Clifton is going to have go without help against Kyle Vanden Bosch on many plays because double teaming Haynesworth is a must. You can’t be any more dominant than what he has been the last two years. Keith Bulluck, Tony Brown, Cortland Finnegan and Michael Griffith are all playing awesome ball for the Titans. This defense is probably even better than Tampa’s.
The Titans O-Line is very good, maybe the best we’ve faced so far this year. Michael Roos is really playing well at Left Tackle. They make everything on the Titans offense go.

Mike McCarthy probably has a base gameplan somewhere, that under neutral conditions against a hypothetical opponent, he would against said opponent. But he’s very good at adapting it to fit the opponent he is playing. The last two weeks against Seattle and Indianapolis, two teams that are having a lot of trouble stopping the run, he let Ryan Grant go for over 30 carries in each game. Usually Grant only has between 15-20 carries. Looking at his game logs over the past two seasons, he’s only had more than 20 carries five times; the previous two games, and in 2007 at Denver (they’ve got a lousy run defense too), and against Minnesota and Oakland in lopsided blow outs. I think, hope, McCarthy tries this approach:

1. Forget about the run offense. As great as it would be to have Grant run wild at Tennessee, I don’t believe it can happen. Instead they should have Brandon Jackson and Grant combine for around 15 carries, and let Aaron Rodgers throw it. McCarthy did this a lot at the beginning of 2007, before Ryan Grant became the starter. The leading rusher would have as few as 6 or as many as 17 carries, while Favre was throwing between 35-45 pass attempts. Football Outsiders says the Titans pass defense is better than their run defense, but the Titans’ opponents so far this season has been a collection of lousy pass offenses. Jacksonville, Cincinnati, and Houston should be good passing offenses, but they’ve all had some struggles this season.

2. Play a safety in the box. I completely agree with you; they’ve got to stop Johnson and White from running the ball down their throats. Bring that 8th defender in to stop the run. Kerry Collins isn’t the reason they are unbeaten. Make him beat you. However I don’t think this will happen. Defensive coordinator Bob Sanders would rather break a leg then play his safeties in the box. He rarely does it, and usually sticks to his base package with small adjustments. I think Sanders will let his rested front seven stand up to the Titans’ running game, and I think they will run all over the Packers.

3. Wait until after the Colts game. How does Manning do against the Titans pass defense? Can they run the ball at them without Addai? Are the Colts able to stop Johnson and White, and how did they do it? I’ll be watching that Monday night game to see if anything works for them. Maybe the Colts will hand the Titans their first loss, and give the Packers a blueprint for beating them in two weeks.

Chris Johnson is has dangerous speed, but I swear to you Bob Sanders is not losing sleep gameplanning how to stop Lendale White. Their O-Line is very good, and we wouldn’t be talking about the twins if their hadn’t blown open some huge holes for these guys. Pickett, Jolly and Cole (Harrell?) need to continue their good play against the Colts into this game.

And our underachieving o-line has to have their best game of the year. This front seven is really good. Ball control is not going to have to be nearly the priority it was against the Colts. We won’t be able to run inside against Haynesworth and Brown at any point in the game. This game is going to have to have alot of three step patterns by us and Chad Clifton is going to have to have no help against Vanden Bosch or Kearse on the majority of the snaps. Donald Driver needs to show up in this game and A-Rod needs to get the ball to him on slants alot. We need to keep their very good corners from jumping the slant routes by using Jennings deep on rare occasions.

always. They have no deep threat that your corners cant handle with a little help from the safety. I think you guys can throw on them, as long as you give Rodgers a little time.

Do you guys still think that the Titans can’t score points after they hung 31 on Indy—mostly in the Fourth and through the air? Contrary to popular belief, this was the SECOND come-from-behind victory of the year for the Titans and the second time Collins has had to win a game with his arm after the running game got stopped.

That said, I agree with you that GB has a very good team with a good shot at winning this game. It’ll be an interesting week for sure.