5 big questions Mike Vrabel and the Tennessee Titans are facing
By Will Lomas
2. Can you take over a position that is being poorly coached?
All that being said, six games again Rodger Saffold was playing like the best guard in the NFL or at least one of them. It isn’t like he retired or got hurt, he just isn’t where he needs to be and he constantly looks confused.
I don’t think that is all on him, especially since we know that the scheme isn’t that different to the one that Sean McVay is running in L.A. Well…I mean, other than the scoring points thing.
Back to the point though, at what point do we think that OL coach Keith Carter should be fired? He is the OL coach who has seen the offensive line turn into a laughing stock under his control, and he has had two game (Baltimore 2018 and Jacksonville 2019) where the teams have combined for 20 sacks.
Vrabel is saying that this is an issue of players not winning one on one at the line of scrimmage, which is fair. However, how many players have to lose those matchups before you start to think that they are going into battle unprepared.
Part of an offensive line coach’s job is to research what the other team does well defensively and offer up counters and suggestions on how to help that. Instead of looking like they have a plan, Titans OL seem to find consistent ways to look like they have never watched a snap of the opposing defense.
Right now the Titans have two first round picks, a pro bowl left guard, a third round rookie right guard and a center they just re-signed, and over the last two years we have seen them all struggle at different points.
This is the worst coach on the roster right now from a production output compared to the assets he has been given and you have to assume the Titans are in the minority of the teams in the NFL that would have him.