Stop making excuses for Tennessee Titans DC Shane Bowen
By Will Lomas
The Titans need a new DC.
I didn’t think we would be here two weeks after the Tennessee Titans were knocked out of the playoffs, but everyone has to stop defending Shane Bowen.
At this point, Mike Vrabel has distanced himself from Shane Bowen and the defense saying that it was Bowen who called the plays on defense and he was the main voice in creating the game plans for the defense.
Some people think that Vrabel is using Bowen as a scapegoat and other people think that he was trying to protect Bowen early in his career by not pinning the DC title on him but at the end of the day that doesn’t matter. This is a business where results matter and there is nothing that suggests that the Titans would be any better in 2021 with Shane Bowen.
After a historically bad season on defense, there are still tweets like this out there:
I’m not expecting Bowen to be fired. Vrabel has fired one guy as Titans’ coach. D personnel was also terrible. Which OLB did you expect to progress? Landry is a one-trick pony who played hard but way too much. There was no one else.
— Paul Kuharsky (@PaulKuharskyNFL) January 22, 2021
I want to take a look at some of the bad arguments being made that suggest that there was no way for Bowen to succeed this season and that he did as well as anyone could. Let’s start with this idea that the Titans defense lacked talent or that he didn’t have anything to work with this year.