Im so frustrated with cally because everyone seemed to like him and think he is smart but he just got in his own way
I get where Eddie George is coming from and I agree with his assessment that the team’s failures are mainly on the people at the top of the food chain in that building. With that said, I feel like it’s easy to underestimate just how quickly a team can turn things around once you get the right people in the building. This isn’t even copium, I’ve seen teams who I thought were completely hopeless somehow click and before you know it, they’re a competitive group. Titans need to dig their heels in and make sure they land this next coaching hire or else Eddie will be proven right.
I love Eddie but this is silly. If we hire a good coach, Cam progresses, we have a couple good drafts and free agencies, we can be a playoff team in 2028. Those are obviously big ifs, but it’s certainly possible and been done by plenty of other teams before.
No, Callahan wasn’t given time or the tools. If his job was truly on the line they should have got veterans instead of having a rookie squad. But hey what does Eddie George know
Eddie auditioning. Honestly he might be the best option given his history with the franchise and his love for the history of it. He gets the need for identity
However, as an original oilers fan from the Moon days, I can’t take anymore run-first, smash mouth offense. So many teams have had electric offenses this year and years past while my favorite team I fell in love with for the offense has bored the hell out of me for three decades
This is laughable saying know how the business works yet you wanted to keep brian on. What has Brian done to void confidence moving forward. What did you say that garnered that trust that he was the answer? Other than blind faith that he would just turn things around? Same with vrabel. He was litterly handed a fantastic roster. He didnt build it up. We saw what happens with time things got worse not better. So no im all for firing these guys till we have someone in place who can talk the talk and walk the walk
We’ve certainly wasted a few years, but it doesn’t take 10 years to turn around a team lol. 3-5 seems like plenty of time to turn over a roster of 52 and build a new system even if you get it all wrong before. Now Cleveland might have set itself back 10 years when they moved off of Baker and traded 3 x firsts for the brownhole bandit but we aren’t that fucked we can’t compete until 2035.
…So that’s a “No” for the HC job?
Amy is going to HATE this
Literally no NFL team is more than 1-2 good offseasons away from being a playoff team. Not even the Jets or Saints.
Look at the Patriots. They were diabolical last year and now they’re 5-2 and one of the best teams in the AFC. Eerily similar issues to us as well.
No team is set back 10 years ever. 2 good drafts and good coaching can turn you from dog shit to competitive in 2 or 3 years.
If you hired a professional to wash your car and they accidentally wash it with piss, the answer isn’t “give them time to figure it out”. The answer is cut loose and get somebody competent.
There goes his head coaching opportunity
Idk if it’s now or in three years but Eddie is the man I want for this job. He’s doing a good job at WKU, he understands the franchise and he knows what Titans Football is all about
Can we hire Eddie as coach?
Callahan nice guy, showed 0 potential of making this team better. There is absolutely no reason for him to have less wins over 23 games than this team had in 2023 when the roster (while still not good) is way better than what they had. So why waste more time when the team is actively getting worse
He’s right.
He’s also put into words better than I’ve been capable of about why firing Vrabel was such a massive mistake. It was a culture killer and a complete reset. Unfortunately, we had a first time head coach that wasn’t able to set up any coherent culture while he was here so we are left in the same spot as when we fired Vrabel.
Let’s not forget that we didn’t go straight from whisenhunt to Vrabel. Mularkey was a perfect bridge between because he established a culture of hard nosed, hard working football that Vrabel was able to take the reins of and push a little bit farther.
The titans desperately need the team culture established so that we can actually form a plan for what we want our rebuild to look like.
All it takes is a good head coaching hire and nailing a draft class and we’ll be on the right track again. I just don’t know if I trust Brinker to be making those decisions
Stability is so overrated. Loyalty to guys who suck shit doesn’t suddenly make you a competent franchise, it just makes you a slightly different kind of incompetent. I don’t mind people that think we should have kept Vrabel but guys thinking we should have kept Jrob, Ran, or Cally with their track record are just asinine. Look at guys like Grier and formerly Baalke who were given extremely long leashes, did they bring stability and respectability to the franchise or did they just make the team suck and make you miss out on a lot of interview cycles where you could have found someone better
Maybe saying a decade is a bit hyperbolic, but he is addressing the elephant in the room that is Amy Adams Strunk. There really just doesn’t seem to be a game plan behind all these hirings and firings, that all starts from the top down. And it seems that the highest ups are more focused on getting the new stadium built more than building a good football team to play in it.
It’s up to all 3 leadership positions of owner, GM, and coach to come up with a concrete identity for who the Titans are, and it seems like that just hasn’t been the case even before Vrabel was fired. That’s why these past 2 years haven’t just felt like a bad football team, but even moreso like just a group of guys thrown together with little rhyme or reason. It doesn’t feel like we’re building towards anything because we don’t have a something TO build towards.
Nah that’s an overreaction. But they are definitely set back years and fans need to accept that. A miraculous turn around would be this team being competitive (I’m talking like .500) in 2027. That would require hitting most draft picks, Ward turning out to be the guy, and every free agent signing hitting.
Right now this team needs pieces at every position except maybe DT. It’s gonna take a while to fill the holes.
Probably not far off. Rebuilding an offensive line takes at least a couple years
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F it, hire Eddie George as HC.
Im so frustrated with cally because everyone seemed to like him and think he is smart but he just got in his own way
I get where Eddie George is coming from and I agree with his assessment that the team’s failures are mainly on the people at the top of the food chain in that building. With that said, I feel like it’s easy to underestimate just how quickly a team can turn things around once you get the right people in the building. This isn’t even copium, I’ve seen teams who I thought were completely hopeless somehow click and before you know it, they’re a competitive group. Titans need to dig their heels in and make sure they land this next coaching hire or else Eddie will be proven right.
I love Eddie but this is silly. If we hire a good coach, Cam progresses, we have a couple good drafts and free agencies, we can be a playoff team in 2028. Those are obviously big ifs, but it’s certainly possible and been done by plenty of other teams before.
No, Callahan wasn’t given time or the tools. If his job was truly on the line they should have got veterans instead of having a rookie squad. But hey what does Eddie George know
Eddie auditioning. Honestly he might be the best option given his history with the franchise and his love for the history of it. He gets the need for identity
However, as an original oilers fan from the Moon days, I can’t take anymore run-first, smash mouth offense. So many teams have had electric offenses this year and years past while my favorite team I fell in love with for the offense has bored the hell out of me for three decades
This is laughable saying know how the business works yet you wanted to keep brian on. What has Brian done to void confidence moving forward. What did you say that garnered that trust that he was the answer? Other than blind faith that he would just turn things around? Same with vrabel. He was litterly handed a fantastic roster. He didnt build it up. We saw what happens with time things got worse not better. So no im all for firing these guys till we have someone in place who can talk the talk and walk the walk
We’ve certainly wasted a few years, but it doesn’t take 10 years to turn around a team lol. 3-5 seems like plenty of time to turn over a roster of 52 and build a new system even if you get it all wrong before. Now Cleveland might have set itself back 10 years when they moved off of Baker and traded 3 x firsts for the brownhole bandit but we aren’t that fucked we can’t compete until 2035.
…So that’s a “No” for the HC job?
Amy is going to HATE this
Literally no NFL team is more than 1-2 good offseasons away from being a playoff team. Not even the Jets or Saints.
Look at the Patriots. They were diabolical last year and now they’re 5-2 and one of the best teams in the AFC. Eerily similar issues to us as well.
No team is set back 10 years ever. 2 good drafts and good coaching can turn you from dog shit to competitive in 2 or 3 years.
If you hired a professional to wash your car and they accidentally wash it with piss, the answer isn’t “give them time to figure it out”. The answer is cut loose and get somebody competent.
There goes his head coaching opportunity
Idk if it’s now or in three years but Eddie is the man I want for this job. He’s doing a good job at WKU, he understands the franchise and he knows what Titans Football is all about
Can we hire Eddie as coach?
Callahan nice guy, showed 0 potential of making this team better. There is absolutely no reason for him to have less wins over 23 games than this team had in 2023 when the roster (while still not good) is way better than what they had. So why waste more time when the team is actively getting worse
He’s right.
He’s also put into words better than I’ve been capable of about why firing Vrabel was such a massive mistake. It was a culture killer and a complete reset. Unfortunately, we had a first time head coach that wasn’t able to set up any coherent culture while he was here so we are left in the same spot as when we fired Vrabel.
Let’s not forget that we didn’t go straight from whisenhunt to Vrabel. Mularkey was a perfect bridge between because he established a culture of hard nosed, hard working football that Vrabel was able to take the reins of and push a little bit farther.
The titans desperately need the team culture established so that we can actually form a plan for what we want our rebuild to look like.
All it takes is a good head coaching hire and nailing a draft class and we’ll be on the right track again. I just don’t know if I trust Brinker to be making those decisions
Stability is so overrated. Loyalty to guys who suck shit doesn’t suddenly make you a competent franchise, it just makes you a slightly different kind of incompetent. I don’t mind people that think we should have kept Vrabel but guys thinking we should have kept Jrob, Ran, or Cally with their track record are just asinine. Look at guys like Grier and formerly Baalke who were given extremely long leashes, did they bring stability and respectability to the franchise or did they just make the team suck and make you miss out on a lot of interview cycles where you could have found someone better
Maybe saying a decade is a bit hyperbolic, but he is addressing the elephant in the room that is Amy Adams Strunk. There really just doesn’t seem to be a game plan behind all these hirings and firings, that all starts from the top down. And it seems that the highest ups are more focused on getting the new stadium built more than building a good football team to play in it.
It’s up to all 3 leadership positions of owner, GM, and coach to come up with a concrete identity for who the Titans are, and it seems like that just hasn’t been the case even before Vrabel was fired. That’s why these past 2 years haven’t just felt like a bad football team, but even moreso like just a group of guys thrown together with little rhyme or reason. It doesn’t feel like we’re building towards anything because we don’t have a something TO build towards.
Nah that’s an overreaction. But they are definitely set back years and fans need to accept that. A miraculous turn around would be this team being competitive (I’m talking like .500) in 2027. That would require hitting most draft picks, Ward turning out to be the guy, and every free agent signing hitting.
Right now this team needs pieces at every position except maybe DT. It’s gonna take a while to fill the holes.
Probably not far off. Rebuilding an offensive line takes at least a couple years