Tennessee Titans: Steve McNair and Eddie George will reach immortality in 2019

Amy Adams Strunk has announced that Steve McNair’s number 9 and Eddie George’s number 27 will be retired by the Titans.

Steve McNair and Eddie George were two cornerstones in building the Titans franchise from the ground up when they got to Nashville. Now the Titans are rewarding them by retiring their number.

Air McNair and George are the seventh and eighth players to have their number retired and the first two that were predominately Titans. They are also the first players to have No. 9, and No. 27 retired in the NFL.

McNair had a career record of 91-62 and joined Steve Young and Fran Tarkenton as the only quarterbacks in NFL history to record at least 30,000 passing yards and 3,500 rushing yards in their career.

The Ring of Honor section of Nissan Stadium will also be receiving an upgrade according to Amy Adams Strunk. The banners are expected to be replaced, and we could even see the location of the ring of honor moved in the stadium.

I hope this will be enough to push McNair and George into the Hall of Fame. Both have been deserving of it since they have been eligible. Both of them deserve to be in the Hall of Fame, and I can’t explain why they’re not.

The last three quarterbacks to get inducted into the Hall of Fame are Brett Favre, Ken Stabler, and Kurt Warner. All had hall of fame careers and deserved to be in the hall but excluding Favre why did Stabler and Warner get in over McNair?

McNair has more passing yards than Stabler and just barely trails Warner. Both Stabler and Warner edge out McNair with touchdowns, but McNair has fewer interceptions.

You could make the argument that Warner is slightly a better quarterback and might deserve the honor of going into the Hall of Fame before McNair, but you can’t say the same about Stabler.

George has over 10,000 career rushing yards and was a force to be reckoned with when he and McNair were on.

McNair and George have been mentioned in Hall of Fame talks, but nothing has shown for it. Having their number retired is a huge honor, and I don’t want to undersell that. I just hope this can push both of these guys into the Hall of Fame where they belong.