{"id":733235,"date":"2026-02-06T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/733235\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:49:14","slug":"warren-moon-opens-up-on-cam-ward-titans-future-at-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/733235\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Moon opens up on Cam Ward, Titans future at the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 5, 2026, 4:11 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Last offseason, Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon gave his blessing for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" data-autotag=\"f9731e2d-52ac-46db-9b52-ab518dbe13b4\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> quarterback Cam Ward to wear his retired No. 1 jersey, and now, after watching him grow as a rookie, he feels confident that the jersey number is in good hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Moon, who was at the Super Bowl representing the NFL Alumni and promoting screenings for cancer awareness, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennesseetitans.com\/news\/from-super-bowl-lx-hall-of-famer-warren-moon-talks-all-things-titans-from-hc-robert-saleh-to-oc-brian-daboll-to-qb-cam-ward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">caught up with Jim Wyatt<\/a> to discuss Ward, Robert Saleh, and the Titans&#8217; future, and feels like there is a bright future ahead for Ward and the organization.<\/p>\n<p>On Ward: He will only get better<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I thought he really came along as the season went along, and I know he learned a lot,&#8221; Moon said of Ward. &#8220;He just needs a few more weapons, and as they get more people around him, I think he&#8217;ll be just fine. He&#8217;s a very confident young man, and I also think he got an eye-opener about what the NFL is all about. I think the league probably humbled him a little bit, to be honest, and now that he&#8217;s played an entire season, he has figured out what he has to do to be successful, and I think he&#8217;ll do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Moon was excited by Ward\u2019s growth, and although he kept his distance, he was always a phone call away to help mentor the young quarterback. Now, he believes the Titans need to build around their franchise quarterback and allow him to take another step forward.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a>On Saleh: Look past New York<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a solid hire, a really good hire, as far as the guys who were available and on the market,&#8221; Moon said of Saleh. &#8220;I thought he did a really good job in New York under the circumstances. He just didn&#8217;t have a really good quarterback, and he had to deal with that whole Jets dysfunction. It&#8217;s been that way for about four years. It would have been hard for him to succeed there; it would be hard for anybody to succeed there. But I think he&#8217;s a solid coach and he has shown that with his two appearances with the 49ers. He did a great job this year keeping that team together on the defensive side of the ball, and he is known as a great leader and can rally guys. I think he&#8217;ll do a great job with the Titans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Moon points to a fact that many overlook when discounting Saleh as a quality head coach: the Jets organization. Yes, Saleh went 20-36 during his tenure, but that doesn\u2019t paint the entire picture. The Jets have gone 6-23 since Saleh\u2019s departure and are nowhere near as competitive as they were when he was at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>On Daboll: He was a key hire this offseason<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I think the key for Coach Saleh was getting Daboll as his offensive coordinator, because you always wonder with a defensive-minded coach: What&#8217;s his OC going to be like?&#8221; Moon said. &#8220;I like Daboll because he is very aggressive, and he knows how to work with athletic quarterbacks. He did a great job with Josh Allen in Buffalo. And I think he&#8217;ll do a really good job with Cam, too. I thought it was a great hire for his offensive coordinator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Daboll has a long history of developing young quarterbacks and experience implementing an offense in which they can thrive. An experienced play-caller, he gives Tennessee something they have lacked in recent seasons and should create a system that can be successful with the Titans. Now they just have to find the players to make it work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 5, 2026, 4:11 p.m. ET Last offseason, Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon gave his blessing for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2061],"tags":[95878,7,6,96009,96010,95882,95896,95888,95895,95906,95975,96008,95883,95889,526,394,2411,527,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-733235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sstssportsnfltitans","12":"tag-sstsntitans","13":"tag-tagamerican-football","14":"tag-tagnational-sports","15":"tag-tagnfl","16":"tag-tagnfl-hub","17":"tag-tagoverall-positive","18":"tag-tagrobert-saleh","19":"tag-tagsmg-listicle","20":"tag-tagsports-news","21":"tag-tagtennessee-titans","22":"tag-tennessee","23":"tag-tennessee-titans","24":"tag-tennesseetitans","25":"tag-titans","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116023300276524579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}