I guarantee you that the team doesn't give a crap about the Titans being the ghost Oilers. Otherwise yes. The chance to host the AFC title game would be a huge motivator. The problem is the Chiefs also now have the same motivation.
If a trip to the afc title game doesn't provide the necessary motivation, y'all might need reevaluate your motivation. The titans win should mean absolutely nothing to you all. In fact, that would be the epitome of looking past the chiefs or in the chiefs case, the texans. Everyone seems to criticize the texans for looking ahead and thats what you all are asking them to do. The texans have their hands full worrying about the cheifs who are a damn good football team with the best qb in the game right now. If the texans lose, it's because they got beat. And probably got outcoached. BOB is seriously a bad coach.
Reality says, your guarantee is crap. We've already seen Titans-Texans matchups have extra curricular activity whether it be MNF or Dre vs Finnegan. Now, do the players care as much as fans? Of course not Why would a chance to host a conference title game mean "absolutely nothing at all" ?? Why would playing an "easier" opponent mean "absolutely nothing at all" ?? Nobody said there wasn't motivation before yesterday. The issue is now there's even more of it. We can agree Bill isn't a good coach.
Because the texans are playing the chiefs, before and after, the Titans win that game. So if the ravens had won, by extension, does that mean the texans dont have as much motivation to win, due to having to play a team that is stronger? That titans game should mean nothing at all to a hungry team. It's like I said yesterday when John Harbaugh went for it against the Titans on fourth down, I said this favors us. If the ravens make it, they were supposed to make it, but if they don't make it, Harbaugh just put his team in harms way. H basically gave the Titans the opportunity to make a big play, rather than the other way around. So I was glad that Harbaugh went for it on fourth down. The texans should have a similar mindset, play hungry, be glad that they can show who they are today without searching for some cheap motivation. If you're a hungry team you look for the hard road not the easy road. You want to prove that you're the best.
Reduced motivation can still equal *enough* motivation. Everybody wants the easiest road. Otherwise, teams wouldn't want home field and byes. By your logic, a "hungry" team should forfeit their home games to play on the road, so the task is more difficult. I doubt the league could stop them if that's what a team wanted to do. Perhaps teams should also kickoff both 1st half and 2nd half to make victory seem more earned.
No, that isn't correct. You're not taking the easy road when you play within the rules of the game, lol. Thats ridiculous. Why not play with 8 men on the field instead of 11. Thats dumb, gorilla logic. Hey why not play with one coach instead of you know the offensive coordinator in the defensive coordinator. Why not cut your salary cap in half just to make it extra hard. None of that stuff equates to what I said which is teams want to play the best teams fairly. They're not hoping to get an easier road. And I certainly don't look at it as extra motivation. the Titans were glad that they could finish Tom Brady's career not the other way around.
The main thing teams want to do is win. Everything else is propaganda. Regarding Titans-Patriots, you're very naive if you think former Patriot Vrabel doesn't have extra motivation playing his former team/coach. What a silly conversation this is.
If the Texans lose, then I have to see my wife and puppy continue wearing this for the next few weeks...
The proof is on the field, but I understand you will deny that fact the same way you denied/deleted the last sentence.
