Cam Ward faces the pressure of carrying a disproportionate share of the offensive load at a very early stage in his career.

Despite struggling to perform at the professional level, the Titans organization still has faith in him.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6714832/2025/10/14/cam-ward-rookie-qb-titans-organizational-dysfunction/

24 comments

  1. I am still not quite willing to form a negative opinion about him. The team, the coaching, and the organization is SO bad that I don’t think even prime Tom Brady would be pulling off many wins on this team. Not that he doesn’t have some things to own up to, but, he’s in a really tough position as a rookie QB.

  2. It’s impossible to form a fair opinion of Cam’s performance. The OL is terrible, there is no legit #1WR, the run game is largely non-existent and the Head coach was a clueless idiot who was clearly in over his head from the very beginning.

  3. I’ve been watching this league for over a decade and I’ve never seen a young qb with this kind of a team around them be able to light anyone up.

    This is not a make or break season for Cam Ward in my mind, I think the most important thing is for him to get real game exposure and experience to build on. The organization absolutely has to build around Cam in the offseason to give him an actual opportunity at success with the Titans.

  4. I’m hoping with Callahan gone now that McCoy can bring a little life back in the locker room and on the field. I’m not expecting to see any miracles but something is better than nothing.

    The play calling has been abysmal. The playbook needs to be tossed in the shredder. Blasé plays with absolutely no creativity. When was the last time that Cam pitched the ball?

    Definitely didn’t abandon the screen play but did abandon the play action and draw plays. Need to minimize the short pass game and open it up a bit more. Cam does need to get the ball out quicker.

  5. This is a big year for the FO. We aren’t going to be contenders next year, but the roster has to flip dramatically. They’ve got to trade down (almost guaranteed to have a top3-4 pick), trade what they can from this team (even Jeff IF the trade package is massive), fix the Oline, add playmakers, and get the right coach to stop the bleeding and give us something to talk about other than what we think Chad Brinker is or isn’t in charge of. Stop being a distraction and fix the team. The leap wasn’t big enough from what they did this past offseason….they need to get aggressive.

  6. One thing for sure is that Will Levis and Mason Rudolph come out of this dysfunctional mess smelling like roses! It was never about the QB-the roots of the problem go way deeper. No one has wanted to accept the fact that it’s blatantly obvious that the Titans should have taken the draft capital and Hunter/Carter.

  7. Not that he should take my advice or he reads reddit, but hey why not say it. Ward you need some core plays, like 3 formations with each having 3 alternating route schemes. Find your bread and butter that work best with the talents of your reciever pool. You keep missing those time windows by inches and they keep missing on the rhythm aspect of catching routes when the passes are decent.

     It is clear, you need to simplify and get those reps in to sync. The other teams strats are important, but watching film isn’t going to give you your impact. You worry about your game first, get your core plays, and when you can run those under game pressure throughly, then look for specific plays to counter teams. God knows you need Red zone practice. Your core plays need to get you to the end zone…rather than taking FGs.

  8. Questioning if you’re rookie QB is a bust 6 games into his tenure while he shows zero character flaws and was surrounded by a historically incompetent lame lame-duck coach is ridiculously short-sighted, even for NFL standards. Stroud and Daniels both set unrealistic expectations as rookies with much better situations put in front of them (and have also slumped a bit since their quick starts). The league is also reversing course back to what it was at the beginning of the Brady/Manning era. Heavy foundation on good defense and running the ball while keeping the game close enough for your QB to win the game (meaning Vrabel was both behind and ahead of the curve).

    This is by far the worst situation I can remember a first overall pick at QB walking into in recent memory. Baker had Chubb and Landry. Burrow had Higgins and Mixon. The TLaw Jags with Urban Meyer is the only thing comparable. That is how bad this franchise is right now. Think we need to take a few steps off the ledge before we judge Cam.

  12. This team doesn’t know what a franchise QB looks like.. it’s been 20 years since we’ve had a solid QB under center.

    Cam isn’t a bust, if anything we are the bust.

  13. He’s a rookie. Sure, it’s an “eyeball test” thing but when I watch him, he looks like he belongs on the field. Everything else is about development.

  14. Some pretty damning quotes in that article

    > “That might be the worst team I’ve seen in the last 25 years,” one Raiders coach said of the Titans after Sunday’s game. “They don’t have any difference-makers other than (defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons), and the whole thing was a total mess.

    > According to several witnesses, Simmons stopped Thursday’s practice to point out what he considered a poor showing by second-year right tackle JC Latham, who had missed the previous four weeks with a hip injury. “I’ve watched you for the last 10 plays, and this ain’t it,” Simmons told Latham. “We need more from you.”

    > “There hasn’t been a lot of alignment in this building,” said one organizational source, “but if there’s one thing that everybody agrees on, it’s Cam Ward.”

    > Ward is caught in a blender powered by Adams Strunk’s impetuousness and impatience.

    all in all it paints a picture of this organization that is rudderless at the top and is failing it’s talented but raw rookie QB

  15. What pressure? He has nothing to work with on this team. His best receiver right now is a late round rookie.

  16. Regardless of how this season goes, we HAVE to give this young man a legitimate chance to develop and succeed. We have to treat him differently than we treated Malik Willis and Will Levis. It may take a season or two for him to find his footing and be able to fully utilize the traits that make him special, but we need to afford him the time and tools to get there.

    We just can’t completely turn on him immediately or we’ll be stuck on the QB draft carousel forever and won’t be able to use our 1st rounders to fill our many other roster holes with real impact players. We have to let him play out his contract so that we can build around him and give him a real chance. Let’s learn from the mistakes of our past and from the mistakes of other teams that gave up on premium talent too early.

    If it’s apparent that he just isn’t the guy at the end of his contract, then we’re able to move on AFTER we’ve hopefully (big hopefully) used that time to build a legitimate team and are only a QB away from competing.

  17. Shit blows man. We’re such a trash org. Look at guys like Penix surrounded by Bijan, Pitts and London.

    We have nobody man. 😢

  20. Everyone wants to talk about how bad he played this week.. but his #1 receiver was out. The most accomplished vet receiver left was terrible… and he was relying on an average journeyman and 2 rookie 4th round picks.

    1 fumble was a sack within half a second. The second time that same rush came ,he dirted the ball immediately. The other fumble was a slip.

    Latham was dogshit all game… and Cam is on pace for the 3rd most sacks in history where most all are not his fault.

    Despite all that he had his highest completion % on the year and second highest QBR

  24. Not having the ability to run is making things very difficult. Jaxson Dart is mobile. Big advantage.

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