This week’s Q&A is with Tom Gower (@ThomasGower) of Football Outsiders, who shares with me the philosophy that fans don’t want lame insults or kool-aid but want straight talk about the teams they follow. If I want to know what is really going on with the Titans, he is one of my first resources. And in our long history of these Q&As, it is interesting to see how many of them really identified the things to come.
Q: How is it that you know about this Titans-Texans matchup?
A: I'm a Houston native, long displaced, who grew up a fan of the Oilers and continued to follow them after the move to Nashville (I moved first, and thought it made sense for them to move, so I don't have the move-related anger toward the late Bud Adams that Houstonian residents of the mid-1990s did.