Cortland answering questions on NFL.com

[Titanette]

There is a link on the front page of NFL.com it will be 12:15 today, but you can submit questions now.

[wari0]

Thanks! I got my question in. We'll see if it gets a response :D.

[TITAN 1]

I asked about a drop off without Albert. A few minutes later they posted a message that thousands are asking the same question.

[Sect309Fan]

I asked about a drop off without Albert. A few minutes later they posted a message that thousands are asking the same question.

Honestly, how is anyone supposed to answer that?

[Titanico]

Honestly, how is anyone supposed to answer that?

They got the best crystal balls available? :lolhit

[LiamVengeance]

he spelt lavelle hawkins and Cary Williams wrong, unless im the one who's wrong.

[Titanico]

I loathe the thing...I am finishing to type my question and the DANG page refresh itself not allowing me to send it....the thing 4...me 0 :cry

[TITAN 1]

Honestly, how is anyone supposed to answer that?Just wanted his opinion.

[TITAN 1]

I loathe the thing...I am finishing to type my question and the DANG page refresh itself not allowing me to send it....the thing 4...me 0 :cryYou can turn off the refresh and refresh it yourself.

[ChrisJohnson'sdreads]

Some of these are good questions... Sounds like our Titans will be ready for the Steelers week 1. What do you think?

[Titanico]

Ah....I typed it here...copy and paste over there, and VOILA! :D

Let's see if Finnegan answers it.

[Titanico]

What would you say is the hardest hit you've dished out during your time in the league and who was on the receiving end of it?

Cortland Finnegan, Tennessee Titans
Actually, it was Todd Heap on the Ravens. It was last season in Baltimore. He ran an out route, and then I got him, I feel like I baptised him.

He has earned my eternal respect with that answer!! :D

[ChrisJohnson'sdreads]

Ah....I typed it here...copy and paste over there, and VOILA! :D

Let's see if Finnegan answers it.

Crossing my fingers for you, mine haven't been answered :(

[Titanico]

Crossing my fingers for you, mine haven't been answered :(

LOL...He must be receiving like a 1000 questions per second....let's be patient :p

[Yvette]

I love that answer! He baptized him in a Titan flame of fire :D

[Titanico]

Some of these are good questions... Sounds like our Titans will be ready for the Steelers week 1. What do you think?


Seriously, we need to win that game. The Steelers can keep on chewing that they weren't the best team, then. :thumbsup

[ChrisJohnson'sdreads]

Yes I had to lie about my name and location but my question was answered!

[Titanico]

Dan McD, Pottstown, PA 02:03 PM ET
What was your favorite team growing up?

Cortland Finnegan, Tennessee Titans
It was the Cowboys. America's team.

WHAT!!!???!!!

Poor Cortland...he had a delusional period in his life!

[Titanico]

Yes I had to lie about my name and location but my question was answered!

Copy and paste here...yes?

[Titanico]

Andrew Papadopoulos, London 02:06 PM ET
Yo Finnegizzle! who's the funniest player on your team?

Cortland Finnegan, Tennessee Titans
That would be Chris Hope. That's an easy call. Anyone and everyone would say him.

Finnegizzle???

no....comment.

[ChrisJohnson'sdreads]

Copy and paste here...yes?

Mine was:

Cody, Arizona 02:01 PM ET
Could we see more stomping of the terrible towel this year?


Cortland Finnegan, Tennessee Titans
No, absolutely not. Certain individuals may do that, but that's not what this team is all about. That's not what this coach is about, that's not what our team is about. You do it inbetween the lines ... the rest of it is unacceptable.

[Titanico]

Awesome! good for ya! :thumb

thanks for pasting it in here.

[ChrisJohnson'sdreads]

Awesome! good for ya! :thumb

thanks for pasting it in here.

Your welcome and thanks :thumbsup

[Titanico]

1:17 pm CT ...chat's over.

[Titanette]

I loved his answer to the Terrible Towel question. it is called respect, and while I have none for the Steelers, i do not believe in doing crap like they do.

Two wrongs do not make a right!

Cortland just rocks!!

[TTP77]

Hunter, Virginia
02:13 PM ET
Do you think that the team is better than last year and could win the superbowl this season?
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Cortland Finnegan, Tennessee Titans
Absolutely. I think we're a year more mature. We return 10 starters on defense, and our whole offense comes back. I think this team is a better football team. We're more mature. I'm looking forward to a run at the Super Bowl.

Cortland is awesome. :thumbsup Sounds like our guys are confident in themselves and that's good to hear.

[Titanico]

Hunter, Virginia 02:13 PM ET
Do you think that the team is better than last year and could win the superbowl this season?

Cortland Finnegan, Tennessee Titans
Absolutely. I think we're a year more mature. We return 10 starters on defense, and our whole offense comes back. I think this team is a better football team. We're more mature. I'm looking forward to a run at the Super Bowl.

word!

[Titanico]

TTP...great minds think alike! :faint

[TTP77]

Haha, that's right Titanico! :D

[tyrant28]

i tried to get my question in, but i think i was a bit late! cortland though is just world class, on and off the feild! guys like him don't come around very often! i am so glad that he is a titan, because in my opinion he represents everything that i titan is!!!

[LiamVengeance]

None of my 20 something questions got answered :(
But i suppose he wouldnt come play some basketball anyway

[Titans and Turtles]

Sometimes I have negative opinions about players, coaches, and the front office, or maybe the team in general. I'm a pessimist, a "glass half-empty" kind of guy.

But if there is one player on the Titans I openly worship, whom I hold up as an example to behold in all phases of life, it is Cortland Finnegan. The man came from a small school, and worked his butt off to do his best, and earned a chance at the pros. He's continued to work as hard as anybody can and has worked himself up to true pro-bowl status. He says the right things during interviews, he has shown he has a great sense of humor, he has already established a charity and a culture and spirit of generosity surround him.

Hat's Off to C-Finn, the best of what Sports are about.

[gnarl]

What would you say is the hardest hit you've dished out during your time in the league and who was on the receiving end of it?

Cortland Finnegan, Tennessee Titans
Actually, it was Todd Heap on the Ravens. It was last season in Baltimore. He ran an out route, and then I got him, I feel like I baptised him.

ahh, i remember being on the TOMB during the OGT and right after that play happen.

just a bunch of post about how cortland layed the wood out on that dude.

truley was quite the hit

[tyrant28]

i don't think my idea of a baptizmal would be getting taken to the wood shed by finny! i love that answer!!! classic bad ass!!!!!

[Fairweather Fan]

Hunter, Virginia 02:13 PM ET
Do you think that the team is better than last year and could win the superbowl this season?

Cortland Finnegan, Tennessee Titans
Absolutely. I think we're a year more mature. We return 10 starters on defense, and our whole offense comes back. I think this team is a better football team. We're more mature. I'm looking forward to a run at the Super Bowl.

Im glad to know he didn't consider J Mac part of the offense either.

[MillaKilla8]

finnegizzle???

No....comment.

foshizzlemynizzle

[ChrisJohnson'sdreads]

I know it's on the main page on titanstailgate.com but I was excited to see that the question I asked Cortland Finnegan was mentioned in Paul Kuharsky's AFC South blog:

"Cortland Finnegan on the potential for more towel stomping: "No, absolutely not. Certain individuals may do that, but that's not what this team is all about. That's not what this coach is about, that's not what our team is about. You do it in between the lines ... the rest of it is unacceptable." Read the test of his chat at NFL.com here. "

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afcsouth

[chronbrownie012]

I loved his answer to the Terrible Towel question. it is called respect, and while I have none for the Steelers, i do not believe in doing crap like they do.

Two wrongs do not make a right!

Cortland just rocks!!

I have respect for some of the players bc they're tough and hardnosed and remind me a great deal of some of our guys

but i hate their arrogant SOB fans

[OhioTitan]

This just makes me so much more excited for the season opener against the Steelers!

I just hope we beat them down like we did last year!

[kytitansfan1]

This just makes me so much more excited for the season opener against the Steelers!

I just hope we beat them down like we did last year!

Nate Washington with the go ahead/game winning touchdown would be pretty cool.

[tyrant28]

i hope we do to , but honestly i am expecting an all aout blood bath!! should be very exciting though!!!! i can't wait!!!

[TTP77]

LenDale on Finnegan's comments:

"That's football to me. I have fun with the game and like I said, if Troy and Willie Parker and Big Ben... if me stepping on that towel made them want to win a championship even hard then I feel bad for their coaches anyways. If me and Keith Bullock... if me stepping on your towel made them win a super bowl they god they better hope we step on it again this year right? We go out there and play, we love this game. you brought your towel into our stadium, that's our house and we defend it how we defend it. Cortland defends it how he does. He get his personal fouls and his fines and that's what he does."

From Jim Wyatt's blog. People still can't spell Keith's name right. :slap

[Titanico]

For me, it was fun to watch LenDale stomping on that towel. At the end that game meant who was the best team and who was going to receive playoffs at home (too much for us, huh?).

Adding those things to a game (like stomping a rag) it's only a way to show determination. A rag was stomped..not a person or a player.

I hope that Finnegan's comments doesn't create a trouble or division in the locker room. He was only been honest, and intelligent at the same time. He was not going to make that a bigger issue.

[ChrisJohnson'sdreads]

For me, it was fun to watch LenDale stomping on that towel. At the end that game meant who was the best team and who was going to receive playoffs at home (too much for us, huh?).

Adding those things to a game (like stomping a rag) it's only a way to show determination. A rag was stomped..not a person or a player.

I hope that Finnegan's comments doesn't create a trouble or division in the locker room. He was only been honest, and intelligent at the same time. He was not going to make that a bigger issue.

I agree I thought stomping the towel was great but would I say do it again this coming season if we were to win? No, it's done and over with. We would have beat the steelers again had we not lost to the Ravens with a combo of our own fumbles and their cheap shot or should I say bend of CJ. Oh and don't forget the expired play clock! :mad:

[Yvette]

"Cortland defends it how he does. He get his personal fouls and his fines and that's what he does."

And a jab follows the uppercut! This could get more interesting :lol

[Titanico]

I agree I thought stomping the towel was great but would I say do it again this coming season if we were to win? No, it's done and over with. We would have beat the steelers again had we not lost to the Ravens with a combo of our own fumbles and their cheap shot or should I say bend of CJ. Oh and don't forget the expired play clock! :mad:

Crumpler's fumble was more hurtful than the one White did. I'm saying this in terms on how things weighted during that game.

What was totally unexpected was that delay of game not marked as you say. There are not only several referees on the field, but there is another one in the upper deck, that checks and calls the main refree when those things happen...but that refree was unexistant and then every other referee on the field was blind?

Those ratbirds get their dirty calls done.

[Titanette]

To stomp or not to stomp? I was sick of this story last season, and it is going to be all the talk from here until we play the the Steelers. I DREAD it. this is part of the reason I wish it had not happened. Glad we could stomp and go home the first round....:( Save the childish crap for T.O. go out and play and let winning do all the talking.

The upper cut from Lendale is understandable, Finnegan has pissed me off a few times, but at least he is playing on the field and not with towels when the game is over.

[gnarl]

hmmm, i really hope lendale and finny are cool, cause i really dont know if that was a shot at cortland or if thats "lendale" humor.

cause i know he is good friends with deangelo williams, and with that whole smash and dash thing he was taking shots at him too...but it was friendly. i hope it was friendly in this case.

if nobody has seen his interview on BDSP w/ d-will and j-stew heres the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91V-N1LgALg

[tyrant28]

i think its lendale humor and nothing more big will be made about it! cortland is being honest, and so is lendale, both points are valid to me! people handle things differently and i see where both are coming from.

[ChrisJohnson'sdreads]

Here is profootballtalk.com's take on it

Finnegan Calls Out Towel-Stomping Teammates
Posted by Mike Florio on May 12, 2009, 10:19 p.m. EDT

A regular-season win over the Steelers last December gave the Titans home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.

Which they squandered by losing to the Ravens in the divisional round.

Some would say that the Titans were the victims of a little Myron Cope karma, given that some of the players opted to disrespect the Terrible Towel at the tail end of Tennessee’s win over Pittsburgh.

Now, cornerback Cortland Finnegan has called out the guys who danced on the rectangular chunk of yellow material, during a chat on NFL.com (via JJ Cooper of Fanhouse).

“Certain individuals may do that, but that’s not what this team is all about,” Finnegan said. “That’s not what this coach is about, that’s not what our team is about. You do it in between the lines . . . the rest of it is unacceptable.”

Uh oh.

If/when LenDale White breaks his current diet, Finnegan might be in danger of being eaten. :lmao

[tyrant28]

don't call out bulluck either!!! i am sorry, i love cortland , but no one should be dumb enough to call out keith bulluck!!!! bulluck himself would eat finny for lunch!!

[LiamVengeance]

Im glad to know he didn't consider J Mac part of the offense either.

:lmao didnt see that before