Former Titans GM Weighs In on Cam Ward, Titans’ 4-0 Start + Bryce Young BENCHED | NFL Week 4 Recap

Former Titans GM Weighs In on Cam Ward, Titans’ 4-0 Start + Bryce Young BENCHED | NFL Week 4 Recap

count on Sundays with the NFL on CBS and Paramount Plus. I mean, if we’re keeping the buck right now, we are. So we owe it for we have this one. We got nothing to lose. We dropped a quarter of our games and we’ve yet to do anything. So we have to lock in, especially myself on the offensive line, from the defensive line, from the special teams to all three phases. We have to play together. We have not played together this year yet, and that’s just something that, you know, we want to preach about it every day. Every day. We got to do better and we’re doing that. But it has to show up on Sundays. It hasn’t showed up yet, but it got to show up next week. I don’t know who is spicier. Pete Prisco, Damien Harris or Cam Ward, man, that’s good stuff. I mean, but that is right. I mean, when you have a rookie quarterback and he’s kind of laying it all out there, right? He’s like, look, it is what it is. We’re zero and four. We just lost to the Texans. I mean Pete, what is there to be excited about. What is the goal for Tennessee this year? When you look at them they’re zero and four. Cam Ward now the fifth different number one overall pick to get shut out as a rookie. Get him better make things better make it easier on him. He’s not playing very well. Let’s be honest about it. He’s number one overall pick in the draft. And you haven’t heard a lot of criticism of him yet. Strangely, because there should be I’m disappointed with what I see, but there’s a lot around him that’s not going right. The offensive line isn’t very good. They don’t run the ball. The receivers aren’t scaring anybody down the field. And so you look at it, you say, okay, it’s easy to blame him, but really it’s big picture. And I think when you look at the big picture, that team is a mess right now. And and I think changes are coming. I think Brian Callahan is in trouble, I really do. And I do think that they’re going to make a change at some point. If things don’t turn around, you don’t score any points on the road against a division rival, particularly the Texans. That’s something that really sets off, you know, warning shots, I think, to to him. And I think the organization is going to look at it. Well, they absolutely will. And more importantly than going on the road not scoring any points against a division rival. When we watch this Tennessee Titans team play, they don’t look inspired. They don’t look like they’re out there to play for anything. They look like they’re out there just, you know, going through the motions, collecting a sweat as Bill Belichick used to say it, like we’re just not seeing any competitive fire cam Ward. We can talk about not playing very well. Ten for 26 108 yards an interception. That’s not good Tony Pollard you signed him to a nice lucrative contract. He hasn’t delivered this year. I mean he had 14 carries for 64 yards I mean I know 4.6. That is a good yard per carry. But again you’re not affecting the game in a way that scares defenses and makes the pass game easier. I mean, you just signed Calvin Ridley to a boatload of money. Two catches for 30 yards. So yes, it is a in totality the defense too. Because let’s not act like this Texans team wasn’t having trouble scoring points as well. You give up 26 points to a Texas or excuse me, a Houston Texans offense that they’re not really in a rhythm right now either. So when you look at it, big picture. I do think Callahan is in trouble just because this is just an uninspired football team. When you watch them play, there’s no competitive fire, there’s no spirit, there’s no leadership from guys like cam Ward, who was the number one pick, a guy like Jeffery Simmons, who is the man and the anchor in the middle of the defense. There’s just no competitive juices in Tennessee right now. What I can’t figure out is this is going to be me saying something. Because of last year. I thought he would be good. I thought Will Levis could be good. Will Levis played just like cam Ward, and everybody just crucified the guy. Well, when you put mayonnaise in your coffee, it’s hard to bounce back from a football standpoint. From a football standpoint, he was no worse than cam Ward is right now. And he had nothing going for him either. So when you look at it, I mean, look you look at the numbers. Was he worse? I mean, think about that. He’s better. And yet this guy went first overall. So he’s getting a pass. That guy went the second round so he got none. And so I think the Titans have a problem organizationally. Neither one of them had much around them where they could absolutely succeed. I think they had problems. Offensive line issues have been a problem there for a while. You know, despite the fact that they supposedly have one of the best offensive line coaches in the league in Callahan’s father. But until that all fixes around him, the quarterback’s going to have problems. I don’t care who they are. Is it fair to say that Will Levis did more with less? It’s less and less. I don’t think either one of them right now has. I mean, it’s just you said it best like it’s very uninspiring right now. It feels like in Nashville. But something else you said, Damien, that I want to bring ran in on is the other side of this matchup. Right. It was not very good football from the Houston Texans. This was a six nothing ball game going into the fourth quarter. And it was six because of field goals not because of touchdowns. So ran what do you think changed for Houston in that fourth quarter. And did it change your perspective on what this team can look like going forward? I think for this Houston Texans team, we felt like the offense was going to take a next step, right. You move on from Bobby Slowik. You bring in Nick, Nick Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Nick Kelly. You bring him in to coordinate the offense and you start to give it give C.J. Stroud more. So we expected this offense to really take off and it hasn’t. But this defense has been lights out. It has been keeping people from scoring. And so we saw a little bit of that today in terms of holding the Titans offense to zero points. But I think having C.J. Stroud in the day 22 for 28 for 233 yards and two touchdowns should be the point to get them going. And we saw they got the young running back marks going right. And that’s been a that’s been a focal point for this Houston Texans offense is being able to run the football. And when they got time when you need when you needed to have that close the door moment, they were able to score two touchdowns on the ground late to put the game away. Yeah. And look they have to get guys like marks going because Chubb is slow and you need some speed on that team. They’re a slow team across the board. You look at them they’re not very fast. And so I think they’re another team. Their offensive line has been a major problem. You know how many sacks the Titans had today not A10. If your plan that offensive line and you don’t get sacks you got problems on the other side of the ball as well. We’re going to go a little rapid fire here with a couple of these other games because there’s a lot to get into. But I don’t want to spend too much time. So I’m going to go. Let’s talk about the Falcons getting a big win over the commanders today Pete I’ll come to you. What stood out about the Michael Penix played much better. And you want to see how a guy in his early part of his career responds after just a dreadful performance last week, and he responded in a big way, and he made some plays down the field. And that’s the biggest thing that comes out of that game. He was capable of hitting the big shot. He hit some big shots. You look at those numbers, that’s outstanding. So I think that’s personally to me that was the biggest takeaway from that game is Penix responded outside of Penix, something that just keeps popping up in my mind every time I watch this Atlanta Falcons team. Bijan Robinson is making a case to be the best running back in the National Football League. He’s explosive, he’s fast, he’s versatile. He’s just as effective in the passing game as he has as a runner. And again, I’ll keep emphasizing it. I’ll pound the table for running backs as much as I can. Michael Penix best friend should be outside of the offensive lineman should be Bijan Robinson, because he is a threat that takes a lot of pressure off of your reads, takes a lot of pressure off how you mentally have to dissect the defense to see what they’re doing, because a lot of times, I’m telling you, when a defense is playing against Bijan Robinson, he is their prime suspect. So kudos, kudos, kudos to Bijan Robinson and the success that he’s having. And if he continues, this Atlanta offense can continue to just get better and better each week. First player with 300 or more rushing yards and 250 receiving yards in the first four games since 2011 for Bijan Robinson. All right. We got to pick up the pace just a little bit here. Damian I’m going to give you the first word, but I’m going to give you a minute to talk about the Patriots and what they were able to do against the Panthers today. Well first of all, they manhandled them and they did it at home, which is really encouraging. I mean Drake Maye played clean football. That’s what they’re expecting. That’s what they want. The running backs played a clean game. No fumbles. That is the most important part. Ball security is job security. We know that they fix those issues. It was great to see Rhamondre Stevenson still in the lineup. Still out there as the starting running back. They know how important he is to this team. They know what the player he is can bring to the organization. And the defense played lights out. They held Carolina to six or excuse me to 13 points and they just played a great game all across the board. There we go. Clocking in there at the buzzer. Let’s see if we can clean this one up here. The Lions they have now started three and one over the last three seasons. Really good stuff coming from Dan Campbell’s crew and Aman Ross Saint Brown. Yeah he got in the end zone twice today. And you were able to get Jahmyr Gibbs going. I think he finished just under 100 yards. Now listen, the way they performed today wasn’t them lighting up the scoreboard like we’ve seen them have in previous weeks. But again, and I keep saying it and I know I’m probably sounding like a broken record at this point, but it’s finding different ways to win football games and you got to be able you got to appreciate that. And then our guy Aidan Hutchinson getting two sacks today, I believe it was. So it’s just this defense continuing to come around under under the tutelage of Kelvin Sheppard, which is only going to match this offense as they get later in the year. And then they’re playing complete football. Look the Lions can win a bunch of different ways today. They won with special teams and defense. They had a punt return for a touchdown, which really kind of won the game for them because Jared Goff, who had come in as the completion percentage leader in the league, didn’t have a good game today. And so it shows how good they are as a football team. Have you seen enough of Joe Flacco? No. Not yet I mean I think the Browns with that defense will stay in games. But you get a couple more games this way. I think you’re going to go to Dillon Gabriel. I’ll say this. We know what Flacco is. And I think it’s time to see these young guys because right now they have the they have the formula. They have a really good defense and they have a good ground game. And and so now you know what Flacco is going to bring at this point I think it’s time to see what these young guys have. So you can decide what your future is going to be come next April. Lord knows they have enough quarterbacks to try something different for sure. Got to hit another break here on game day. Recap I’ve been dreading this all show long, but we’re going to give you an update on Sunday Night Football. And how about this. My Cowboys are back baby. They just got into the end zone I believe it was a Dak Prescott QB keeper. So we are in the mix here trailing the Packers 13 to 9 guys I’m feeling pretty good. Yeah the Packers look like they’re leaving points on the board. They got 160 yards passing and 13 points. Let’s hope they leave them off the board. We’ll be right back on game day recap. As Sunday Night Football hits the halfway point. We also hit a break. And when we come back, we talked about Ashton Genti earlier in the show, how special he was, why he

Damien Harris, Ran Carthon and Pete Prisco join CBS Sports HQ to recap NFL Week 4, breaking down the biggest headlines.

[00:00:00] – No. 1 pick Cam Ward, Titans drop to 0-4
[00:06:04] – Michael Penix Jr, Falcons back on track vs Commanders
[00:07:30] – Patriots throttle Panthers, Bryce Young gets benched
[00:08:12] – Lions handle browns, win 3rd straight game

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