mdi construction barNASHVILLE, Tenn. -- His daughter doesn’t remember why Bud Adams had such a hard line against sons working for their fathers with the Titans, but she knows he did.

“I don’t know where he got such a strong feeling on it,” Amy Adams Strunk said at the recent owners’ meetings. “But he did have a strong feeling on it.”StrunkOwners2

I think it came out of the Jeff Fisher-Floyd Reese era. Reese’s son worked with him in the front office in some sort of assistant capacity late in his Reese’s term as general manager.

Fisher tried to hire his son, Brandon, at the end of his tenure.

And Gregg Williams was a candidate to come back as defensive coordinator at one point but didn’t when the team would not also

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