Tennessee Titans: What’s Next?

After another disappointing NFL season, the Tennessee Titans have decided to discuss a lot of issues that have surrounded this franchise since the death of long-time Houston Oiler/Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams.

The first order of business for controlling owner, Amy Adams Strunk was to talk interim President and CEO Steve Underwood into a long-termed commitment with the organization moving forward.

I feel like this was one of the first steps in getting someone permanently in control of the franchise rudder and setting a course that will get this organization back on-track, and back to some prominence in the National Football League.

In his presser yesterday, Underwood assured me, and hopefully other Titans fans that he and Mrs. Strunk have a plan for success, and want to make the Tennessee Titans relevant again, and get back to winning football.

The two things I took away from the presser that has me excited for the future in Music City besides the retention of Steve Underwood, was the franchise is not for sale, and the recognition that having a franchise quarterback like Marcus Mariota will not win ball games without adding more weapons to help him.

When asked about the sale of the team, Underwood replied:

The team has never been for sale and it is not for sale now.

When asked why the “for sale” rumor that is floating around the league would not go away, he replied:

To me what is kind of comical about it is the people who write those stories never source them.  All you hear is them and undisclosed sources.  Maybe it is because we had an owner who passed away a couple of years ago, sometimes that causes an ownership change.  If I was in your shoes, I would always be looking at who does the writer of the story say is the source for those remarks, and when you see no source, you don’t see anyone identified, nothing attributed to anyone, then you need to remember what I tell you now.  The team is not for sale and it has never been for sale.

The obvious void of talent on this team starts with the General Manager who is in charge of evaluating players. At the request of Mrs. Strunk, General Manager Ruston Webster has been relieved of his duties and the team will conduct a search for a new General Manager and new head coach.

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Interim head coach Mike Mularkey and his staff are still under contract with the Titans and Mularkey will get an opportunity to interview for the job along with a long list of candidates.

The one factor that I don’t quite understand is with a team that had so little talent, why did they still have $25 Million in cap space with so many good players who went through free agency.

It didn’t appear that anyone wanted to pull the trigger on spending more money to give Mariota more play makers to work with.

Was this due to Ruston Webster not being able to identify good players to add, or the owners didn’t want to spend more money?

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Changes to this franchise and it’s success will be determined in the near future as they go forward in the hiring process for a head coach and general manager.

We will see what kind of decisions are made, and judge the future based on what they come up with.