2022 Offseason
There is hardly any need to preface what happened here, everyone knows the only move that mattered from this offseason, and that was trading AJ Brown. Parting with arguably the best wide receiver in franchise history was highly questionable at the time, and it aged to be one of the worst moves any team has made in recent NFL history.
What is crazy is there were some decisions in 2022 that, if nothing else, looked good at the time. The Titans re-signed key pass rusher Harold Landry and center Ben Jones, while also signing Austin Hooper to a one-year deal and giving up virtually nothing to trade for veteran receiver Robert Woods. They also brought in veteran defensive lineman DeMarcus Walker, which turned out to be a quality, buy-low move.
But even before a snap was played, nobody cared about those moves, because the call to trade Brown held so much more weight than any other that could have been made. The only way anyone could have felt any better about it was if the draft class panned out, and yet again, Robinson did absolutely terrible.
For starters, the guy who essentially replaced Brown, Treylon Burks, has been an outright bust, suffering injury after injury and only having one touchdown in his career so far. This was also the draft where they took Malik Willis, which could have been serious value late in the third round, but there was always a reason why a quarterback of his talent fell that far, and it showed.
There were two modest hits in Roger McCreary and Chig Okonkwo, but obviously, those alone were never going to make the draft class a success. Add in other bad decisions that Robinson made that offseason, particularly on the offensive line, and this was really the point where everything was catching up to him.
Two days after the Titans got destroyed by the Philadelphia Eagles, and AJ Brown himself, owner Amy Adams Strunk fired Robinson, and few could blame her after his mistakes sunk the team. The search for a new GM felt like a good fresh start for the organization, and it was not going to be easy, but with the right guy at the helm, they could right the ship.