Titans Fire GM Amid Surprising Team Overhaul & Strategy

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00:00Maybe I'm wrong, but this was not a name that at least I saw as a potential firing, but

00:06I guess the Titans' ownership, it has to be, looked at this as though, hey, we have the

00:10number one pick.

00:11We don't trust this guy to make the pick, I'm sorry to say, but that's got to be it

00:14for me.

00:15Yeah, that has to be their mentality, but this is a surprise, I would say.

00:20I mean, there was four years left on his contract, he'd only been there two years, and he really

00:25oversaw a big transition within the organization this past year, with Mike Vrabel being fired,

00:30Brian Callahan being brought on, and he really overhauled that roster.

00:35He spent a lot of money in free agency to get guys like Tony Pollard and Chidobe Owuzie

00:40and Lloyd Cushenberry to try to strengthen some of these teams' weaknesses, and of course

00:44Calvin Ridley they got, but things just didn't pan out this year.

00:49I think the team probably was expecting more under first-year coach Brian Callahan.

00:54I'm not sure that the ownership group maybe realized exactly what they had in Mike Vrabel,

00:59a coach who consistently got more out of his roster than maybe any other coach in the NFL

01:05would have, so I kind of think that bringing Callahan in, a less-proven coach, there was

01:11always going to be some sort of pullback in terms of record, and the Titans apparently

01:17are blaming Ran Carthon for that.

01:19I don't know that he did a bad job of assembling the talent, I think it was just, yeah, the

01:22first-year head coach, he didn't have a good quarterback.

01:24It's usually a recipe for disaster in the NFL.