Why I blame the coaches for the Tennessee Titans losses

A quick look to the future for Tennessee Titans fans.

Well, that was horrible huh? The Tennessee Titans lost to inferior teams in back to back weeks on the road and potentially turned an 8-4 record into a season where they will miss the playoffs.

I want to be clear though, while I have a couple of issues with execution the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of Mike Mularkey and the coaching staff.

Guys are going to pull together and say that they are behind their coaches, but why should they be?

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Is this roster less talented than Kansas City, San Diego, Baltimore, or Buffalo? Those are the teams in the hunt for the two WC playoff spots that the Titans are now competing for.

I mean, I will go a step further. If you exclude QB (which is a huge piece) are the Titans less talented than the New England Patriots or Pittsburgh Steelers (now that Shazier is hurt)? I would say no, the Titans are right there with those teams.

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The team has talent, but the coaching staff just doesn’t offer anything to make you say “wow” or “that was unique” it is largely the same stuff that doesn’t work week in and week out.

Honestly, how many times will fans have to sit through Mike Mularkey talk about players not executing the plays? The job of a head coach is to make sure that the team can execute, or to find coordinators who can do that.

If that isn’t the head coaches job, then what does he do? It is the GM’s job to bring talent to the team, it is the HC’s job to make sure that the coaches on the staff get the most out of that talent. In that capacity Mike Mularkey is failing this team.

I don’t like writing this, because I genuinely think that Mike Mularkey is a good guy and that he has the right idea most times. However, he says and does the same things so many times that when the team wins, they do it because they force other teams to make mistake, they don’t win because they out-scheme the other team.

Heavy regression despite unsustainable success

This made me sick, look at the list of QBs that this team has beaten this year:

-Blake Bortles

-Russell Wilson (pretty good)

-Jacoby Brissett (twice)

-The Browns QB hydra

-Joe Flacco

-Andy Dalton

-Tom Savage

That is a list with 4 players that won’t be starting on their own team next year. So ultimately you are winning games against backup QBs and doing it by small margins. That is not sustainable.

I think we can all agree that no matter what this team does from here on out they have regressed at every position other than DB. With no major talent losses, that means that about 5/6th of the coaches on the roster failed to improve, and in the NFL if you don’t go forwards you go backwards.

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Forget us as fans, players have to be able to go into a game confident that they will win even if the odds are against them. Mike Mularkey has been the captain of the ship as the Titans have gone from exciting sleeper to laughingstock in one season.

The offense is averaging almost a full field goal less per game than they were last year. In case you don’t know how big that is, if the Titans were averaging what they were last year they would be 12th instead of 19th in scoring.

Defensively, despite the surge over the four or so weeks where they looked good they are still in the bottom half of the NFL. With two top-5 offenses heading to town to finish the season I think that number is about to get a lot worse.

Changes needs to be made

This team needs new blood and they need it sooner than later.

With a full regression not only on the scoreboard but in terms of players failing to develop, Jon Robinson needs to go to Amy Adams Strunk and suggest a change.

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Robinson is a great GM who has done well at picking out talent in free agency and the draft so it makes since that he probably knows how to identify good coaches.

Give Robinson money and let him sell people on the great state of Tennessee (and the non-existent income tax) as well as Marcus Mariota and other great young building blocks. Someone good should be interested and we shouldn’t have to take scraps like we always do.

If you don’t shoot to be better and you accept the status quo you will always be the same. It is time for an owner who isn’t alright with “ok” they want great. Pray that Amy Adams Strunk is that owner.

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