wv wrote:

wv

I thot Boras was going to be OC and they
were just looking for a “passing co-ordinater”

w

Well to be fair…we have not heard yet what the team is saying about any of this.

Notice btw that JDF was hired by the eagles as a qb coach, not a coordinator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Glass

In 1822, Glass responded to an advertisement in the Missouri Gazette and Public Advertiser placed by General William Henry Ashley, which called for a corps of 100 men to “ascend the river Missouri” as part of a fur-trading venture. Many others who later earned reputations as famous mountain men also joined the enterprise, including James Beckwourth, Thomas Fitzpatrick, David Jackson, William Sublette, Jim Bridger, and Jedediah Smith. These men would later be known as “Ashley’s Hundred”.

The expedition was attacked in May 1823 by Arikara warriors, and Glass was apparently shot in the leg. Fearing that continuing up the Missouri would make them vulnerable to further attack, at least some of the party, including Glass, chose to travel overland towards the Yellowstone River.

Near the forks of the Grand River, in present-day Perkins County, South Dakota, while scouting for game for the expedition larder, Glass surprised and disturbed a grizzly bear with two cubs. The bear charged, picked him up, bit and lacerated his flesh, severely wounding him, and body slammed him to the ground. Glass managed to kill the bear with help from his trapping partners, Thomas Fitzpatrick and Jim Bridger, but was left badly mauled and unconscious. General Ashley, who was also with them, became convinced he would not survive his injuries.

Ashley asked for two volunteers to stay with Glass until he died, and then bury him. Young Jim Bridger, then 19 years old, and John S. Fitzgerald, then 23 years old, stepped forward, and as the rest of the party moved on, began digging his grave.[5][6] Later, claiming that they were interrupted by attacking Arikara Native Americans, the pair grabbed the rifle, knife, and other equipment belonging to Glass, and took flight. Bridger and Fitzgerald later caught up with the party and incorrectly reported to Ashley that Glass had died. There is a debate whether Bridger was one of the men who abandoned Glass.[7]

The 200 mile route of the 1823 odyssey by Glass
Despite his injuries, Glass regained consciousness, but found himself abandoned, without weapons or equipment. He had festering wounds, a broken leg, and deep cuts on his back that exposed his bare ribs. Glass lay mutilated and alone, more than 200 miles (320 km) from the nearest American settlement, at Fort Kiowa, on the Missouri River. Glass set the bone of his own leg, wrapped himself in the bear hide his companions had placed over him as a shroud, and began crawling back to Fort Kiowa. To prevent gangrene, Glass laid his wounded back on a rotting log filled with maggots and let the maggots eat the dead, infected flesh, from the rest of his healthy body.

Glass crawled overland south toward the Cheyenne River, using Thunder Butte as a navigational tool, where he fashioned a crude raft and floated downstream to Fort Kiowa. The journey took him six weeks. He survived mostly on wild berries and roots; on one occasion he was able to drive two wolves from a downed bison calf, and feast on the raw meat. Glass was aided by friendly Native Americans who sewed a bear hide to his back to cover the exposed wounds and provided him with food and weapons.

After recovering from his wounds, Glass set out again to find Fitzgerald and Bridger. He eventually traveled to Fort Henry, on the Yellowstone River, but found it deserted; a note indicated that Andrew Henry and company had relocated to a new camp at the mouth of the Bighorn River. Arriving there, Glass found Bridger, but apparently forgave him because of his youth, and then re-enlisted with Ashley’s company.[4]

Glass later learned that Fitzgerald had joined the army and was stationed at Fort Atkinson, in present-day Nebraska. He traveled there as well, where Fitzgerald returned his stolen rifle. Glass reportedly spared Fitzgerald’s life because of the heavy penalty for killing a soldier of the United States Army.

In the period intervening, between finding Bridger and Fitzgerald, Glass and four others were dispatched by Ashley in 1824 to find a new trapping route: up the Powder River, then across and down the Platte River to the bluffs. The party set off in a bull boat, and near the junction of the Laramie River. They discovered a settlement of some 38 lodges, with several Native Americans on the shore. The Natives appeared to be friendly, and the trappers initially believed them to be Pawnees. After going ashore and dining with the residents, they realized the population to be Arikara. The men quickly got in the bull boat and paddled for the far shore, the ensuing chase ending with both parties landing simultaneously. Two of the men, Marsh and Dutton, escaped and reunited later with the trapping party, but two other men, More and Chapman, were quickly overtaken and killed by the pursuing war party. Glass managed to hide behind the river rocks. Glass also found his knife and flint in his shot pouch after the ordeal. He fell in with a party of Sioux and traveled with them back to Fort Kiowa.

Glass returned to the frontier as a trapper and fur trader. He was later employed as a hunter for the U.S. Army garrison at Fort Union, now Williston, North Dakota.

Glass was killed, along with two of his fellow trappers, in an attack by the Arikara on the Yellowstone River in the winter of 1833. Like many of his fellow mountainmen, including Jedediah Smith, his life ended violently.

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http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-arikara.html

In 1804, when Lewis and Clark visited the Arikara, they were disposed to be friendly to the United States, but, owing to intrigues incident to the rivalry between trading companies, which brought suffering to the Indians, they became hostile.

In 1823 the Arikara attacked an American trader’s boats, killing 13 men and wounding others. This led to a conflict with the United States, referred to as the Arikara War, but peace was finally concluded. In consequence of these troubles and the failure of crops for two successive years the tribe abandoned their villages on the Missouri River and joined the Skidi on the Loup River in Nebraska, where they remained two years.

To me, that means there was a very real
possibility, that St.Louis would indeed
keep the team. It just doesnt seem like
it was all a ‘done deal’.

People who say St. Louis was misled base it on things like the fact that Goodell knew the Inglewood site was for a stadium when Kroenke first bought it, and encouraged SK to continue with it.

zn wrote:

Rams hired ex-Titans OC Jason Michael.

That turns out to be incorrect.

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Titans’ 2015 OC staying on as QB coach

Zac Jackson

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/01/18/titans-2015-oc-staying-on-as-qb-coach/

After two years as offensive coordinator, Jason Michael will be the Titans quarterbacks coach.

That news came from the Titans press conference Monday, where new general manager Jon Robinson and head coach Mike Mularkey were formally introduced. Mularkey, who served as the interim coach after the firing of Ken Whisenhunt last season, said nothing else is set with the team’s coaching staff and that there will be changes from last season.

Earlier Monday, reports said Terry Robiskie will be hired as the offensive coordinator. Robiskie is a veteran coach who most recently coached the wide receivers in Atlanta.

Mularkey and Michael staying on provides continuity for quarterback Marcus Mariota. Michael just finished his 10th NFL season and second with the Titans. He was the Chargers tight ends coach from 2011-13.

zn wrote:

Jason Michael – C – Rams
Rams hired ex-Titans OC Jason Michael.

Michael is being brought in as either the TEs coach or passing game coordinator. He will work under the yet-to-be-hired offensive coordinator. Michael did not call the plays in Tennessee while Ken Whisenhunt was in charge, and the offense did not take off after Whisenhunt was canned. Still, Michael is extremely young as coaches go. He should emerge in coordinator discussions again in the near future.

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/9341/jason-michael

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Titans bio page

http://www.titansonline.com/team/coaches/Michael_Jason/9ee7985d-6a83-450c-ae40-c904f104ee79

Jason Michael is in his 10th season in the NFL and his second season as offensive coordinator with the Titans. He joined the Titans coaching staff following three seasons (2011-2013) as the tight ends coach for the San Diego Chargers.

Last season for the Titans, Michael saw injuries at a number of key positions and franchise-best numbers from two players. TE Delanie Walker set a franchise mark for receiving yards by a tight end with 890 and the best reception total of his career. Rookie QB Zach Mettenberger earned a number of highs during the season, including the rookie franchise mark for passing yards in a game (345 at Philadelphia), the highest franchise passer rating for a rookie season (83.4), highest passing yardage total by any rookie on Monday Night Football (263) and the second-highest passer rating among the 2014 rookie class of quarterbacks. Michael and the Titans offense saw a total of four different quarterbacks and seven different offensive tackles take snaps during the season, due to injuries.

In his final year with the Chargers, Michael worked under the direction of current Titans head coach Ken Whisenhunt, then the offensive coordinator for the Chargers. Through his work with TE Antonio Gates, who led the Chargers in receptions (77) in 2013, and with tight end Ladarius Green, who posted 22.1-yards per catch, Michael helped the Chargers offense rank fifth in the league. In his three years working with the tight ends in San Diego, he guided Gates to the fourth most receptions (190) among NFL tight ends over that three-year timespan, while totaling 2,188 yards and 18 touchdowns.

In 2011, his first year with the Chargers, he delved into an offensive system that would rank sixth in the league, and Gates led the team with 64 catches.

Prior to joining the Chargers, he spent two seasons (2009-10) with the San Francisco 49ers as an offensive assistant and then quarterbacks coach. In 2010, his trio of quarterbacks passed for more than 3,600 yards and 19 touchdowns combined.

Michael began his coaching career at the University of Tennessee in 2003, where he worked as a graduate assistant with the secondary and special teams for two seasons. His NFL debut came with the Oakland Raiders in 2005 as a quality control coach. He spent the following season as the offensive quality control coach for the New York Jets in 2006 and assisted coaching the quarterbacks in Chad Pennington’s Comeback Player of the Year season. He was promoted to tight ends coach in 2007 with the Jets before returning to the University of Tennessee as the tight ends coach in Phillip Fulmer’s final season in 2008.

As a college player, Michael was a two-time captain, who as a senior quarterbacked Western Kentucky to the 2002 NCAA I-AA championship; and was named the school’s Male Athlete of the Year. Graduating with a degree in civil engineering technology, Michael was named a I-AA Athletic Directors Academic All-Star and a second-team Verizon Academic All-District IV honoree.

A native of Louisa, Ky., Michael and his wife, Jamie, originally from Knoxville, have one son, Wyatt.

Jason Michael Coaching Ledger

2014-15: Offensive Coordinator, Tennessee Titans
2011-13: Tight Ends, San Diego Chargers
2010: Quarterbacks, San Francisco 49ers
2009-10: Offensive Assistant, San Francisco 49ers
2008: Tight Ends, University of Tennessee
2007: Tight Ends, New York Jets
2006: Quality Control, Quarterbacks, New York Jets
2005: Quality Control, Oakland Raiders
2003-04: Graduate Assistant, University of Tennessee

Isiah58 wrote:

Good to be back on the forum, guys.

Isiah 58

Good to have you back!

Blue and Gold

Outgoing #Titans OC Jason Michael in line for TE coach or passing game coordinator with #Rams.[/quote]

Zooey wrote:

zn wrote:

Well they need a qb, and either Mannion is that guy or they need to get one.

That’s the reality. And it’s a bit frightening. Because Mannion may not be that guy. And even if he is, he may not be ready next year.

Jeesh dude quit the whining. Be stoic. You;re a Rams fan. What’s another 10 years.