Look – we, as fans of the Tennessee Titans, just need to face the facts and admit it…Logan Woodside is going to be this team’s backup quarterback as long as Mike Vrabel and Jon Robinson are the head coach and general manager respectively. He could roll up to Nissan Stadium in a wheelchair and they’d be like “suit up” and roll his ass out there. Every time the Titans bring someone in to compete with him for the backup job, all Woodside does is bury them. The latest victim of the Logan Woodside Body Count is Matt Barkley, who the Titans signed earlier in the preseason, and has actually looked not-so-bad at times.
#Titans release Matt Barkley.
— Paul Kuharsky (@PaulKuharskyNFL) September 1, 2021
Good night, sweet prince. It was fun while it lasted. Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened. Now, it came out right away that the Titans wanted Barkley for the practice squad, and not too long after this news broke, PK followed up with confirmation that Barkley would indeed be joining the Titans practice squad. So, he’s still going to be hanging around, and as far as third options go, I think Barkley is pretty damn okay.
To me, it was that game against the Chicago Bears Saturday night that sealed Barkley’s fate. I groaned as soon as he threw that interception because it looked like a completely terrible decision. Like, if the dude who picks that pass doesn’t get it, there were several other guys who would have. It sucked ass whole. Now, Woodside had an interception of his own, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as Barkley’s. Other than that, he played well on Saturday night. This is a guy that obviously knows the offense inside and out because he’s been beating third options left and right for the last 15 years (an estimation – at least it feels like it’s been 15 years). I don’t know that he’s going to win you many games, but he’s not going to be an outright liability and for a Titans team that has Super Bowl aspirations with its potent run game, that might be all that matters.
So, pour one out for Trevor Siemian, Cole McDonald, DeShone Kizer, and now Matt Barkley. They just couldn’t fuck with what Woodside has built here in Nashville apparently, and I’m beginning to think that no one can. He is the new age Billy Volek, and a much less handsome version of Charlie Whitehurst. No one is going to wrangle this job away from Logan Woodside. We need to start calling this guy “Iron Grip” or something that is significantly less bad as that but still conveys a sense of how strong Woodside’s grip is on this backup job. Since this dude has the grip of a bald eagle carrying its prey through the sky back to its babies, maybe “Eagle Talon” would work? I don’t know. Regardless, he’s not letting go of this job any time soon.
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