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Well, so much for holding out on that hope.

As per Jim Wyatt, the Tennessee Titans have released offensive assistant Tom Moore.   Moore was brought in as an assistant to help out with the offense after Munchak dismissed coordinator Chris Palmer with about 5 weeks left in the season.  Then quarterbacks coach Dowell Loggains was promoted to interim offensive coordinator for the remainder of the season.  Munchak asked Moore to come in and aid in the transition.

Tom Moore was who Mike Munchak had wanted as his offensive coordinator when taking the head coaching job two years ago.  At the time, Moore was coming off of knee surgery and felt unable to adequately perform the duties expected of him for the position.  Apparently that is no longer the case as he is openly looking for an offensive coordinator position.

There was a bit of hope, as well as speculation, that during this off-season Moore would be given the offensive coordinator position, and Loggains would go back to his old post, a little richer in experience.  The first inkling that this wasn’t happening was when the Titans brought in John Shoop to interview for the quarterbacks coach, their only off-season interview to date.  Obviously this isn’t going to happen.

The most important part of the article , however, is Tom Moore’s quote “They have their coaching staff set there at Tennessee, and I don’t want anybody’s job. I want a job that is open,”.  So apparently we can all stop holding our breath that the Titans might make a move at the OC position and get one of the bigger names with a proven background that have been out there since Black Monday.

That means Dowell Loggains is it folks.  All I can do is hope that his relationship with Locker allows him to implement a scheme that the players we have can run, and that he doesn’t try to prove himself by going over the top with complication.  In his defense, he didn’t have time to implement his offense on the fly last year, and all he could do was trim down the complication of Palmer’s.  There was a noticeably excited reaction from the skill players on the offense when this move was made mid-season.  I can only take that as a good sign.

So how do you feel?  Excited? Mad? Sad?  Don’t care anymore because you feel like nothing will ever change with this franchise?

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The big news out of the Titans camp yesterday was the arrival of  ex-Colts Offensive Coordinator Tom Moore.  Moore is best known for all of his work with the Indianapolis Colts and Peyton Manning, who’s offense was powerful to say the least.  Head coach Mike Munchak says that Moore has been brought in as “a helping hand” and the he has “no real title”.

Munchak reached out to Moore when he was first named head coach of the Tennessee Titans, along with Mike Tice and a few others.  Further proof that Palmer was NOT his first choice.  Moore is 74 years old and didn’t feel he could make the commitment necessary to be a coordinator.  Now that the Titans are short handed by firing Chris Palmer and promoting Dowell Loggains from within, Moore has come to the aid of the Titans as a consultant.

What This Means

Dowell Loggains has actually been a well talked about “up and coming” coach for a few years now.  He is being thrown in the frying pan mid season however, and getting ready to call his first offensive game against a super bowl favorite Texans team.  The presence of Moore can help smooth over some of this transition and bring a calming effect over the sideline when needed on gameday.  Munchak has brought in Yoda to help guide young Skywalker through the rough patches.

I think this shows how dedicated to and hopeful about Loggains that Munchak is.  This is an incredible boon for Loggains and proves that the staff has every intention of seeing him succeed, as opposed to him just being a “filler” for the remainder of the season.  Hopefully Loggains, with the help of Moore, will settle in and prove to be Heimerdinger jr. for years to come for the Titans.  Munchak is truly committed to the growth and development of this team and not just trying to keep his job.

What do you think?

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