Why Are Fans Blaming Cam Ward? Throwing it Too Hard? Craig Focuses on Titans HC for Brutal Loss

Why Are Fans Blaming Cam Ward? Throwing it Too Hard? Craig Focuses on Titans HC for Brutal Loss

Titans have uh this new head coach, right? Um uh Coach Callahan, right? Brian Callahan. Yeah. And look, the Titans had a very, very tough go of it uh in week one. Yeah. Uh not good. They lose. Cam Ward wasn’t great. Receivers let him down a little bit. Also, uh there’s people in Tennessee that were actually blaming Cam Ward that he throws the ball too hard. Come on. At receivers, can you just go catch the ball? Real quick, reminds me of a story. when Chris Sims got drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Keshan Johnson was there and so was Warren Sat. Now Chris is a lefty. So in the first uh you know uh um training camp, Chris was throwing darts to Keshan and he couldn’t catch it and he’s like man the ball spins weird off that dude’s left hand and Warren Sap was like kind of ruled the roost there and he’s like what are you talking about Keshan? Catch the freaking ball. You’re a wide receiver. He goes, “No, the spin’s off. I can’t get strong.” He goes, “Yo, Sims, throw me a ball.” Boom. And Warren Sap caught it. He goes, “I caught it. You can catch it. Shut the bleep up.” And that was that ended that conversation. Yeah. I can’t catch it because of the spin. Anyhow, so Coach Callahanss of Tennessee, there’s a key moment in the game where a wide receiver on his team makes a catch. Uh goes down to the ground, looks like he goes out of bounds, doesn’t get either foot or both feet down in time, but his elbow clearly makes contact inbounds before he rolls out of bounds. Now, we all know the rule because John Madden wrote a book about it. And the name of the book was one elbow equals two feet. We’ve all grown up. We know the rule. A hand, a forearm, an elbow is as good as as good as two feet. My man pots of pants. So, he was asked right after the game. So, I’m going to go back two days first whether or not he thought about asking for a replay because it could have changed the outcome of the game. They didn’t get blown out. The game was in the balance still. They’ve got the ball. A little drive is starting. And he was asked why he didn’t challenge the call when it was so clear that the wide receiver got the elbow down. Listen to this. Yeah, you got to get a foot in bounce, too. Uh, which we didn’t have a clean look at whether his foot was down as well. An elbow doesn’t equal two feet. So, uh, his foot would have had to come down as well. We didn’t have a clean look. So, the call from upstairs was that, you know, it wasn’t worth challenging. He just came out and said what? One elbow doesn’t equal two feet. He’s the head coach in the NFL and he doesn’t know the rule. Come on. So now to be fair, whoever’s talking to him in the headphone don’t know the rule either because someone that has the ability to see the replay is yelling in his ear, call the replay. He’s in. But that means the entire coaching staff. Now, if you went back and watched it, there’s a handful of players going, “He’s in. He’s in. Replay. Re replay. Coach never replayed it.” So, now I know we don’t have this. I don’t think we have this piece of audio. Yesterday, now he’s had 24 hours to think about it. He was asked about it again yesterday. Yesterday, he says, “No, I know the rule.” No, you don’t know the rule. No, you don’t. Because if you knew the rule, you would have called for a replay. like you might have won the football game, probably not, but at least you would have had a drive going. Who knows what happens at that spot. And it’s weird like it look, you can’t get fired after one game. It’s impossible to get fired after a single game. But if I own the Tennessee Titans and whatever you did to hoodwink me, bamboozle me, land on Plymouth Rock with me, whatever you did, all right, to convince me to hire you to be the head coach. I now say to myself, I think I made a mistake. Yeah. Because you may lose games, especially with a bad roster. They have a bad roster with a rookie quarterback who’s now got to figure out the NFL game. And I’m a huge fan of Cam Wards, I think he’s going to be fantastic when there’s talent around him and coaching. But for the 53 dudes that put their blood, sweat, and tears on that field, there’s one thing that you have every right to expect and demand from your head coach, and that’s that he knows the rules. You may call a bad play. That happens. I called a run against a run blitz, we lose five yards. I can’t be pissed at the coach. That happens. Happens. But when I’ve got to keep playing the game and my coach doesn’t do the obvious thing and his explanation is faulty in logic and fact because he doesn’t know the rules. Sorry, not sorry. You could make an argument today after one game that Brian Callahan’s got to

Brian Callahan’s debut as Titans head coach went from bad to worse after a brutal Week 1 loss. But the real story? He didn’t know a basic NFL rule on a key replay challenge. Cam Ward struggled, the roster is thin, but this mistake has fans questioning the hire already. Titans fans, sound off!