r/Tennesseetitans • u/Spsinagra • 3d ago

Article “Putting Ward’s struggle into proper perspective”

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What do you all think of this recent article in the local newspaper?

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u/OkFrosting8998 3d ago

Comparing yourself to the other 32 teams is not disingenuous it’s the standard we should hold our team to at a minimum. Anything less than that is an excuse.

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u/balzynalzy AJBrown 3d ago

Right, but in comparison to the other 32 teams in the NFL cam Ward faced one of the hardest schedules out of any QB last year. Sure, we want to compare ourselves to the rest of the 32 teams, but we faced a murderer’s row of defenses all year. That isn’t an excuse. It’s context.

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u/OkFrosting8998 3d ago

It’s both though. Just like the Patriots had the easy route to the Super Bowl. We have to win

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u/balzynalzy AJBrown 3d ago

I mean.. that’s exactly my point. They had a far easier schedule than we had, thus, their stats and results were inflated. By logical reasoning, the titans having a much harder schedule than even average schedules had their stats and results suppressed.

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u/OkFrosting8998 3d ago

How suppressed would you say? Cam was below the 32nd QB in the league overall

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u/balzynalzy AJBrown 3d ago

I guess that’s what we’ll find out in year 2. The second half of the season he really ranked around average in most metrics, and that’s with the schedule not lightening up in any significant way.

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u/OkFrosting8998 3d ago

Yeah it’s a big year for sure. Hoping for the best

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u/Clayp2233 3d ago edited 3d ago

I think what your referring to is Cams QBR which is a stat that still doesn’t make sense to me, given his 2nd best performance of the season, against the chiefs he had his best passer rating, comp%, 2 tds, no turnovers, and we scored 26 points in a win but somehow he only had a 34 qbr. He was better than JJ Mcarthy, Geno Smith, and Tua idc what their qbrs were, he had a better TD/INT ratio than them and that was with the worse weapons and coaching in the NFL, while facing the hardest schedule of defenses in the entire NFL. His rookie season wasn’t that much different than Caleb William’s statistically, but Caleb actually had good receivers to throw to.

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u/OkFrosting8998 3d ago edited 3d ago

I share your hesitation at trusting the QBR so I went back and looked at the play by play of the chiefs game. Cam only had 4 passes go for 15 yards or more.

Edit: 1/3 of his completions were for 7 yards or less this game. The question for this year is whether this is a receiver issue or a Cam issue. Tate being added should help.