Titan coach Mike Vrabel expects Blaine Gabbert and Marcus Mariota to face Texans

The Texans may have to prepare for their half-quarters before their Titans Week 2 match, as Titans coach Mike Vrabel seems to want to play Marcus Mariota (a quarter) and Blaine Gabbert (half). one quarter). on Sunday.

It's going to sound strange, but on Friday, Vrabel told reporters that he expected Gabbert and Mariota to both play the Texans, making it one of the most curious quarterbacks in NFL history. No coach should ever try to create a split time in the quarter, especially when the second of two quarters is Blaine Gabbert, but that's what Vrabel said this week – for unknown reasons.

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"(He) tries," said Vrabel about Mariota, according to the team's website. "We are evaluating, we expect both players to play, okay, we will have to do a lot of things to win this football game, and I expect both guys to play at some point." Marcus will do everything possible to prepare, as each player will do everything possible to prepare for Sunday's game. "

As Vrabel mentioned, Mariota is not in perfect health. He left the defeat of the week 1 of the team against the Dolphins with an elbow injury. Mariota practiced fully Wednesday, but was limited on Thursday and Friday. he is officially listed as questionable.

If Mariota is not in good health, Gabbert would become the starter. This is really the only scenario that would make sense for Gabbert to bring representatives together. He should only play if Mariota is unable to play, which is why Vrabel's plan seems so strange.

It's simple. If Mariota is injured, then Gabbert and Gabbert alone should play. If Mariota is in good health, then Mariota and Mariota alone should play. The two quarters should only play if Mariota starts and leaves the match with an injury, which could very well happen, since the Titans are both of their starting tackles – Taylor Lewan and Jack Conklin – against JJ Watt, Whitney Mercilus and Jadeveon Clowney.

There is no doubt that Mariota has been fighting for over a year. Last season, he launched two more steals than the touchdowns and had a score of 79.3. In his first match under this new coaching staff, before being injured, he launched two interceptions, no touchdowns and scored 36.2.

But the Titans have already invested the second overall pick in Mariota. The main reason they probably fired a coach who led them to the playoffs is that coach Mike Mularkey did not put Mariota in a position that best suited his skills. Although Mariota has struggled recently, the Titans have no reason to abandon it now. This season is all about the development of Mariota. Letting him down – for Gabbert of all quarterbacks – a game in his first season in a new system would be foolish.

If Gabbert really stole representatives from a healthy Mariota, that probably will not happen well. For as bad as Mariota was recently, consider Gabbert's career passer rating to be 71.1. Even at Mariota's worst, he's better than Gabbert.

We can not judge Vrabel's plan until we see it in action, but in the meantime, consider the majority of the NFL community as skeptical.

The best explanation might be that Vrabel does not want the Texans to know who they will face on Sunday, so he decided to say that the two-quarters would play to force the Texans to prepare for Mariota and Gabbert. But a simpler way to accomplish this would have been to simply tell him that he does not know if Mariota will play or not. For the moment, it's not wrong to assume that the Titans will face Gabbert and Mariota on Sunday because that's what their coach says two days before the match.

It was thought that the Titans had improved to the head coach when they traded Mularkey against Vrabel, but if Vrabel really plays Gabbert with Mariota fit enough to play – I'm still skeptical, that will happen – Perhaps it will be time to wonder if Vrabel knows what he's doing. Quarter shifts almost never work. It certainly will not work with Gabbert as one of the two quarters.