5 names to know for the next Titans DC.
The Tennessee Titans went through the 2020 season without a defensive coordinator and it resulted in the worst 3rd down defense in the long history of the NFL.
It was pathetic to a degree unseen in Tennessee and the embarrassing lack of adjustments or self-evaluation that the coaching staff did over the course of the season seems to indicate that they either don’t know how to fix it or they don’t care.
Either way, no coach on defense should be safe. Especially Shane Bowen.
I believe that Mike Vrabel wanted to make Shane Bowen the DC before the season, but his resume wasn’t strong enough and he knew there was a real chance that he would struggle. In his head, I think that he thought that he was sparing Bowen from being the man behind one of the worst defenses in the NFL.
Instead, everyone saw through what he was trying to pull and it just made Bowen look weak and like someone who got the job because he was friends with Vrabel.
This is incredibly important to clarify and I will write something more detailed later, but if there is one thing you should take from this piece it is that: The defensive failures of the 2020 Tennessee Titans were the results of bad coaching and not bad players.
Now, with that out of the way, let me talk about the coaches that have a good chance of rising through the ranks to the Titans DC job this offseason.