The Series record is 5-5,counting the days when they were the Oilers,with the Titans winning 31-0 in Tenn. in the last meeting and in 97 they won 27-14 in Dallas.
Emmitt's numbers vs them:
4 games 61 attempts 181 yards 3.0 YPC 45.3 YPG 1 TD
Last year they were 8th in the league-12th rushing 8th passing.Defensively they were 25th-5 rushing and 31st vs the pass.
Swinton is expected to play,along with Garmon.Gibson got hurt in practice and likely won't play.Darnay Scott will play as well.Kearse is out for them,but his replacement,Carlos Hall,had 3 sacks last week vs the Eagles.Randal Godfrey,an ex Cowboy,is listed as questionable.
This is a huge character game for Dallas after last week's performance.If the team goes into the game flat,you might as well write off the season.Even if they don't win,showing a whole lot more fight than they did will be an improvement.If not,there will be more QB controversey speculations by the media,as well as the Jerry doesn't know what he's doing stuff.
Eddie George is coming off his worse season last year.He appeared to be healthy last week,but had a little over 2 yards a carry,despite scoring twice.McNair had around 270 yards passing,but remeember Troy Vincent wasn't in the lineup.Wycheck is among the better receiving TE's in the league.They signed Greg Comella,formerly with the Giants,to play FB for them.
A key matchup will be their WR's vs the Dallas secondary.Derrick Mason is their best WR as well as a top returner,so hopefully Edwards will match up with him.Kevin Dyson,the answer to which WR was drafted ahead of Randy Moss,hasn't done much,so whether Westbrook or Hawthorne covers him he's unlikely to be a deep threat.
The Titans have a strong line,despite losing Bruce Matthews to retirement.The Dallas d-line played great last week,so this is a test to see if they are that good.
Offensively,Dallas can't afford another stinker game from Carter.He should be more relaxed playing at home,but needs to show enough to not have 8 or 9 man fronts all year.The line hopefully will be pissed off about their game last week and take it out on the Titans.They have Rolle,one of the better CB's,and signed Lance Schulters from SF,although he's better against the run than the pass.Coslet needs to show a better ability to adjust during the game instead of the run on 1st down,run on 2nd,and pass on 3rd,as well as go downfield some.
