3 potential punishments the NFL could give the Tennessee Titans

NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 11: Director of Player Personnel Nick Caserio of the New England Patriots talks on the field with General Manager Jon Robinson of the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium on November 11, 2018 in Nashville,Tennessee. The Titans defeated the Patriots 34-10. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 11: Director of Player Personnel Nick Caserio of the New England Patriots talks on the field with General Manager Jon Robinson of the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium on November 11, 2018 in Nashville,Tennessee. The Titans defeated the Patriots 34-10. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images) /
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Suspension

In my opinion, the NFL’s investigation should be about finding out whether they did enough to communicate that they didn’t want any gatherings to take place and if they have hard evidence that they did that.

Once that is clear, then they have to find out if that information was given to players before the off-site practices occurred.

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From there only three things could have happened, and all three scenarios have a clear person to blame and subsequently suspend.

Option 1: The Tennessee Titans front office and coaching staff heard the league’s ruling and then didn’t tell the players that they weren’t allowed to gather. In that scenario, Mike Vrabel should be the person suspended for not making sure his players knew that was wrong.

Option 2: The Titans front office and coaching staff heard the league’s ruling and then relayed that to their players. From there, the players went rogue and decided to schedule a practice on their own and try to skirt around the rules saying they didn’t know. Here, whoever was in charge of organizing the workouts should be suspended.

Option 3: Both the Titans coaches and the Titans players knew about the NFL’s rules and they agreed to disobey anyway. It may seem like this should be both parties being suspended, but I actually lean towards suspending Vrabel considering it should be his responsibility to stop this and enforce what the NFL is asking the team to do.

The Titans roster is dangerously thin already, so a few suspensions might be as close to forcing losses on the Titans as you can get without technically forcing them to forfeit games. Speaking of…