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But I'm here today as always with co host Tyler you want to say
hate everyone. Hello everyone, It's been a somber week for US Titans fans.
Yeah, started out did I thought I was gonna have a lot to
gloat about on today's show, But I did foresee happen what happened, and
I just wanted to be known that I called it and my co host did
not. Yeah, it's true. It's not a move I always wanting made,
that's for sure. We'll we'll get into the good news and then we'll
get into all of that. The good news is the Jags are out of
the playoffs at nice. So running down a little bit of the game,
Derrick Henry had had a vintage performance for himself one hundred and fifty three yards
and a touchdown against the Jaguars, and the offensive line the best day by
far that they've had all season. All of Henry's one hundred and fifty three
yards one oh seven was before contact, so they was opening up huge holes
to get him downfield. Then, of course the offensive line allowed one sack,
so they waited till the end of the year to actually pass block and
run block for us. I mean, I guess it's better late than ever,
right, Yeah, it's true. They also had two false start in
the game, which got him to thirty on the season and out of the
last decade or the fifteenth, so three hundred and twenty possible teams through the
fifth one they ever have thirty four starts in the season. So I was
telling him on Monday night, I can't wait for the off season to officially
begin so that we can say goodbye to about five of these guys and never
have to think of them again. I mean, the first move we need
to make his cut on as the cut Dillard, Yep, gotta be.
He's not worth the money that we signed him to No, if I ain't
mistaken, he leads all left tackles in sacks allelled, and our left tackle
position as a whole. If you combine all of the left tackles we fielded,
they lead the league in sacks ollelled. And you're not going to have
a good team or be able to score as many points when you have an
offense an offensive line that plays like that. Yeah, I mean, I
think sixty four sacks on the year, which is or sixty five with that
last one, maybe there's just ridiculous. I think third most sacks allowed in
the NFL. So what do you think? So what do you think the
Titans do in the offseason? Do we do we fix the secondary? Out
a good wide receiver, draft to offensive lineman. What are your projection?
What are your predictions? I think that we have to add a legit number
one wide receiver. And if we go into next year like it with a
T. Higgins or Mike Evans or someone lined up across from Hopkins with Burts
as the number three option, I'm comfortable with that. And Burks is on
rookie, fully guaranteed rooky contract, so I don't think we're going to cut
him because it don't save us any money. So I think he will end
up being the number three next year. Yeah. Also in free agency,
there's not any quality left tackles and not even any really quality right tackles.
But there are some quality centers in free agency, and so if we sign
a decent center and then draft one of these top two left tackles, I
feel pretty comfortable with the offensive line with Spronsky, Brunskill and an actual legit
center because Brewers just too small. He's getting pished around. Oh yeah,
he's he's very small. He's a very small center. I didn't like him
as a offensive lineman for us last year. Yeah, I think I think
he has some value as like the swing tackle, like if we want a
six man lining up in that tight end position or something like that. But
yeah, him out there in the center of the line, that he's just
of his dead. Yeah, what about you? You're you having predictions off
season once or me? I think it's undeniable that we have to go out
and get a wide receiver. We need someone to take the pressure and the
double teams off of DeAndre. DeAndre is going is getting older, so inherently
he's going to slow down. He's not going to be as fast. I
don't know when that time is going to come, but it's going to happen
eventually. So with that being said, I don't first see us getting Mike
Evans. Mike Evans is kind of u is. I think he's thirty thirty
one personally like, yeah, Mike Evans is good, but he has a
really good young wide receiver to compliment him on the outside and Chris Godwin.
So I would personally be against getting Mike Evans. T Higgins would be nice.
And I say this only to uh to really dig in at Colts fans.
Uh. Michael Pittman would also be nice, since last report I read
says that he doesn't want to go back to Indianapolis. Yeah, and well,
we thought we was getting Taylor all of the division for that same reason
last year and he ended up back. I think t Higgins is everyone's number
one choice a wide receiver, like who they all want. But I don't
know if you've seen what Joe Burrows said this week. I did not.
He basically they asked him about t Higgins and he basically said that his contract
was worked out in a way that they didn't have to lose the whip and
around him and so the way that his contract is worked that he expects to
retain those weapons. So it maybe trouble imparadise as far as the Bengals and
Joe Burrow if they let him walk out of the building. I there's I
don't I don't see that being true. They're they're going to lose one of
those wide receivers. There's no way that you're going to have Joe Burrow making
fifty million dollars a year, pay the offensive line alignment to protect that quarterback,
keep money saved up because we all know that Jamar Chase is going to
break the bank for them as well as keep some premier players on defense.
It's I don't foresee that happening. Yeah, because everybody was thinking the same
thing that the Chiefs were going to magically make it all work. And Tyreek
Hill's going to the playoffs in Miami right now, so he's actually against the
Yeah. I I would be okay with getting a good center and maybe focusing
a little bit more on the secondary and free agency and trying to focus on
offensive linemen and wide receivers and this Sear's draft just because this is a really
big this is a very deep offensive lineman draft. And last thing I read
so that it was also a pretty deep wide receiver draft as well. I
mean, and we've seen what what your rookie wide receivers can do with the
Texans. So but there's there's things that have to be immediately fixed, especially
since hopefully we let Christian Fulton walk. Yeah. Yeah, I don't see
any way that we can keep on the roster. But we also need another
safety. Yeah yeah, we need at least one safety in at least one
corner. Yeah, rather it comes in the draft or free agency, Like
we can't go and be bottom of the league again for the third straight year.
In past defense, should SMB come back? I think he done enough
to come back and keep a role on the team, But he wasn't.
He had his good games and bad games, but overall averaged across the season.
He wasn't out there hurting the defense the way Fulton was. Kay because
mcfreary he's an outstanding corner, but he's a inside corner. He can't work
the sidelines and he got exposed all throughout December once we put Fulton on on
IR and forced him into a starting role. MH. But the inside he's
one of the top of the league covering the slot. So okay, before
we can think about the draft or free agency, we got a little a
little bit of news happening with Rabel out as head coach. As you said,
you for saw it coming. So what are your felts? Good?
Good decision? Bad decision? In my opinion, I think it's definitely but
on the horizon after the fact that we lost to the Bengals when having the
number one seed and we kept going for it on fourth down instead of kicking
field goals in that game. It definitely doesn't help that we had Ryan Tannahill
throw multiple picks, but that was definitely I mean, the defense carried us
that game. And so one thing I will say is is Mike Rabel being
a defensive coach, obviously things could have been better. But for the most
part, when you have the number one red zone defense defense in the league,
you know, traditionally you would think that you're going to do well like
that, that you may be fighting for our playoff spot. But here we
are, first week of playoffs and our team is eliminated. So with that,
I I definitely think it was needed. I think that we need a
new rebranding as a team as a franchise. I think that Amy Adams,
drunk, our owner, is setting a very clear message that being mediocre is
not something that she will accept. Mike Grabel is a is a phenomenal head
coach. He's one head coach of the Year. He's had a very difficult
time in Tennessee these past couple of years, with the massive amounts of injuries.
I wish him nothing but the best. But the reason why I had
a feeling that he was going to get fired this season was because I do
truly think that he does not like or does not want Will Levis on that
team. The reason that I say that is because in the press conference where
he basically announced that Will Levis was going to take over as the starter,
it didn't really seem like the same Mike Rabel. It seemed he seemed very
defeated and and you know, maybe I could I'm reading too much into it,
but when Mike Tomlin and Pittsburgh has had the quarterback troubles that he's had,
he doesn't sound the same way that Mike Rabel did. When Mike Brabel
announced that Will Levis was going to be the starter. So I do believe
that there may have been some internal conflict between him and Ran regarding the future
of the team, because I think if it was up to raybel I think
that Ryan Tannehill would still be the starter for this team after the season.
Yeah, I think. I think he did look to pressed and stuff on
the sidelines in the press conferences, like you could tell he wasn't the same
guy from twenty twenty twenty one. And I think part of that is because
he was losing the locker room and he didn't know how to handle it,
how to stop it. Yeah. And I say that because we had multiple
guys that would get cut and then instantly tweet out thank God or glad to
be out, and we thought, like as fans, everybody was saying,
oh, he was a locker room cancer. You know. Tierre Tart was
one of them that, you know, we had to get him out of
there because he wasn't buying end he was missing everything up. But then it's
coming out now that the locker room was more divided, like a sixty forty
locker room with forty percent not by an end of rabel this year, and
so I feel like he felt he was losing the team and like didn't know
how to stop it. It was just just a boulder rolling downhill and he
couldn't get no traction to stop it. Yeah, thking to that. Also
the owner, Like if you remember years passed, anytime they was in the
same room, they had their arms around each other, embracing each other like
that. There was memes about them having affairs and everything because they always had
their arms around each other. This year, they I've never even seen them
shake hands this year. And after the Jaguars game, Brabel stood outside of
the locker room and as everyone came in, including Wren, he gave him
a handshaking a hug, and Amy went around him and entered the locker room
from behind him to avoid him. Like they didn't even make eye contact.
Interesting, definitely seems like there's some there was a riff there, and I
think part of it is Tim Kelly. Okay. The reason why I say
that, if you remember Mike Malarkey got fired. He won a playoff game
in twenty seventeen. It was their first playoff win since two thousand and three,
when Steve mcnarr was starting for a quarterback, and she gave him a
two year extension and then twenty four hours later she fired him. And the
reason she fired him was because he refused to cut to fire his offensive coordinator
because she didn't like the offensive philosophy that he was using. And then Brabel
hangs on to Downing for two seasons and ends up costingus playoff birth last year.
And then he promoted his friend, and then we had this season this
year, and I think that she might have wanted him to pick someone else
and modernize the offense, and he was loyal to his friends and wanted to
give Killy another year. Interesting, I can see that. My Here's the
thing that I struggle with. I think how Amy responded to the media regarding
Rabel's firing was very poor. Yeah, I agree, it almost came across
in a sense she was bashing him. And personally, if I am some
of these you know coordinators out there, then I've got multiple offers and multiple
people you know calling one to interview me after hearing what you know, an
owners saying about a coach she just fired. That's going to leave a bad
taste in my mouth. And that's not necessarily that may not persuade me to
want to go there. I just feel like, I feel like it was
very disrespectful. I mean, she can disagree with how Rabel ran things,
and that is totally fine. I definitely would have done things differently as well.
But how she handled that I have zero respect for. Yeah, the
thing that bothered me about the way she handled it was she did include Ran
in the firing process. Her and Ran both say he had no input,
no say whatsoever. Which the gum is there to hire and fire players and
coaches and which The reasoning behind that I get because Ran didn't hire him,
so she didn't want to put the burden of being the bad guy and heilm
fire someone he didn't hire, which is fine, except she then gives a
five minute interview on a closed set to an in house reporter where she's everything
scripted and she doesn't have to answer any hard questions or follow ups, and
then sends him out in front of the media and he's got to sit there
for an hour and try to justify her decision. And to me, she
should have been sitting behind that table with him, because she's really she's the
one making the decision, She's the one that needs to answer to it.
Oh, I agree with you, but I do agree. Yeah, And
the other thing I don't like about it is the timing her. Her justification
for not pushing Carter for free was that it couldn't She didn't want to go
to the back of the line and getting coaching interviews. But we can't interview
coaches for two more weeks. Yeah, so why not spend another week or
ten days and try to force the Patriot's hands if that's where he's going to
end up, and make him give you something for him. Well, I
think that there was so much uncertainty at the time with what was going on
with Bill Belichick. There was definitely rumors that those rumors came to fruition and
they the Bill Belichick and the Patriots ended up parting ways. Yeah. It
in my opinion, I think she's going to potentially scare away any of the
top coaching talents. Yeah. The good thing is they've said that Rand has
pulled control over this coaching search, so he's gonna kick his guy, He's
going to hire him. So Rand's gonna have a lot more control over the
team now that that Rabels out and the alleged power struggle is is gone.
So who do you want? Who is your number one, Like you want
the Titans to hire as the head coach. I'm leaning towards Bron Callum.
Where's coordinator for the Bengals? Okay, Bron Callahan? Okay. Interesting.
I've read on some of the Titans pages that we are on that a lot
of people are wanting either the offensive coordinators from either the Dolphins, Bengals,
or the Texans. And I think the Texans one Bobby I think is his
name. I think he's Yeah, I think he I think he's basically got
a shoe in just because he was in San Francisco with Ran, so they're
going to have that relationship and seeing how the offense has looked this year with
him as the offensive coordinator with c J. Stroud, I definitely think that
that is going to be very appealing to to Ran. Yeah, yeah,
I agree. It's Uh. There's his like his stats this year fifth passing
offense, twenty first rushing, fourteenth scoring offense. The reason why I shy
away from him is it's his first year as a coordinator, so you're going
from a rookie coordinator to rookie coach. And he's he's been proven on the
assistance level, but he's not like, do you trust a Hill not to
be a one hit wonder as a as a top level coach? Yeah?
Fair true mhm. And and the other thing about bron Callahan here is he's
also works closely with the wide receivers, So you've got a chance a better
chance of getting Tea Higg and Waring Hill away. Yeah. I could see
that this smart idea working smarter, not harder. What do you think about
We've announced nine coaches being brought in, and four of them are decons of
coaches. Well, I think we have to do our due diligence. You
know, you want to bring in people from a wide variety. We also
have to appeal to the rony role. I don't I don't think the fans
want a defensive head coach because we just got rid of one, but I
personally would like an offensive one. Yeah. My thinking is, if if
you want a defensive coach, you just now hired one of the top ones
on the market right now. Yeah, like there was no point of firing
him if you're going to just go get someone just locking Yeah, correct,
I agree. I mean, and this is my opinion. There's a six
time Super Bowl winner that just is no longer on his team. He should
at least get an interview. Yeah. I think the six Super Bowls,
the six, the six Lambardi Trophies, almost at Heisman, the six Lombardi
trophies, I think speaks for itself. Yeah, but do you think he
will. They're saying, they're saying that we have no interest in Hume or
in Harbaugh, and I don't. I guess I just don't understand, Like
I get, you know, Bill Belichick has has the past couple of seasons,
he's been really rough, but he did take a rookie quarterback to the
playoffs. Yeah, I just think. I mean he's also again defensive coach.
And Harball, I mean also defensive coach. But I think, if
I remember correctly, a majority of the people that we have requested an interview,
they're pretty young for the most part. Oh yeah, they all are,
except for Dan Quinn and the lines defensive coordinator Aaron Glynn. I think
those are the two oldest ones. I hate to say this, but I
don't want Dan Quinn as my head coach. He was kind of a bad
coach in Atlanta. Yeah, I mean he blew at twenty eight to three
lead in the Super Bowl. Yeah, I don't think I would want him.
I don't I I don't want a defensive coach, period, point blank
period. Yeah. And he's the fifth with the Cowboys this year, fifth
best past D, fifth best scoring D. So I mean, I'll take
him as my defensive coordinator all day, but I don't want him having control
over the whole team. Yeah. I won an offensive head coach. We've
had a defensive head coach. We literally just had a defensive head coach for
six years. I'd like a new one. I'd like it. I'd like
I'd like something different. You have any opinions on Ben Johnson, the lines
offensive coordinator. No, he's getting enough from me. The reason why is
because he wants Bill Belichick money. That's true. I've heard he's asking for
everything. He's asking for over fifteen million, and Bill Belichick, who was
the highest paid coach, was making twenty. The one good thing about having
a high paid head coach, well, I'm speaking from college. I don't
know if it's the same and the pros or not, but in college,
the head coach hires their own coordinators. It comes out of his salary,
and more money you give them the better their coordinators are going to be because
they'll have more money to get the coordinators. Huh. Interesting, did I
know that? I don't know if that's the same for the pros though it
I don't think it would be. I think that would be the team probably.
Then who else do we have the Eagles offensive coordinator. I mean,
we've given him all of our players. We could go after one of their
coaches, Brian Johnson. I'm pretty sure that's also a rookie offensive coordinator.
Yeah, it is. Yeah, he's a pretty young guy too. And
the most interesting one to me was Matt McDonald, the Ravens defensive coordinator.
A lot of people were really rooting for him. Yeah. You know what's
really shocking to me, the Rams defensive coordinator has not been requested to interview.
Yeah, and he's been there for quite a few years. Yeah.
And also, I've not seen any team require Eric the Enemy to interview this
year. True. Usually, usually he gets quite a few interviews. He
just never gets the job, and everybody always says eventually he's going to get
one. This year, he hasn't even grown an interview. Well. I
think it's because he was on a bad team. Yeah, it's different interviewing
you when you're the coordinator for the Chiefs. I guess, yes, very
much, very much. H m hmm. But where we get out of
here? I was wanting to get your get your opinion on one more thing
here? You want to share my screen years of my life? Was hopefully
you think that's his final goodbye? Or is there still hope that he's back
in twenty twenty four to finish his career. I mean, why would I
not want King Henry to come back to the Titans? Yeah? Second and
rushing this year? Yeah, I mean I I hate to see him go.
I that would be a letdown. I mean, that's that's the team
over, that's that's been that's someone who's been with the team for nearly ten
years. Why would you want to get rid of him? I mean,
yeah, like you have a rook you had a rookie running back who's shown
flashes. But like you've got Derrick Henry who's going out there and rushing for
one hundred and sixty yards against the Jacksonville Jaguars and carrying the team on his
back. Yeah. And I remember Eddie George going watching him play for the
Cowboys and Chris Johnson playing for the Cardinals and it never does feel right.
Work. More recently, Darrell Casey going and playing for the Denver Broncos.
Yeah, and that didn't turn out well. If he does go, where
you think he ends up or where would you want him to end up?
I think he ends up wherever Mike Rabel goes. Yeah, that's what I've
been saying. I you know what, I wouldn't be shocked by Pytree.
And I don't know was it Ezekiel Elliott's contract more than one year. I
think he got a two year. So you could end up with Rabel as
the coach and Henry and Elliott, Sharon Perry's in the backfield. Yeah,
that would give Rabel his his run heavy offense. He wouldn't ever have to
pass it as long as he can coach up the defense. That is true.
But yes, that's going to do it. This week. That's all
the coaching, all the King Henry news. Maybe over the next couple of
weeks we'll have something, some more definitive coaching news to come in and then
the real phone starts because we what coordinators are going to get fired, who's
going to get kept, who's coming in New Let's hope all of our coordinators
get Yeah, I'd like I wouldn't mind seeing both coordinators, a couple of
the underneath guys. I'd like to see Kip the defensive line coach. I'd
like to see him and Kep Yeah, because I mean we've always got a
decent past rush with Landry and neilm out there. Then also the quarterbacks coach,
because by all accounts he's one of the top five or six QV coaches
in the league. And on top of that, Will Levis like, give
him some kind of continuation from last year to helping keep development. Yeah,
I would agree with you. Other than that, where can everyone find you
on social media? It's you can follow me on Facebook a Tyler Warren or
on Instagram at Manning of Seel eighteen. All right, and other than that,
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