By MIKE HERNDON, columnist

One of the Titans' primary objectives for the 2024 season was to get an answer on Will Levis. And with the Tuesday revelation that Brian Callahan is benching Levis for backup Mason Rudolph for the rest of the season… mission accomplished. Unfortunately, the answer is not what the franchise was hoping for, which means the Titans will again be looking for a new quarterback in 2025.

We will have plenty of time to discuss the options who could be on the table for them this offseason (sneak peek: it’s not looking great). But now, I want to explore whether Ran Carthon and Callahan are the right people to make that decision.

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Brian Callahan/ Angie Flatt

After all the talk of collaboration and the big-time selling of the Carthon-Callahan relationship this offseason, I struggle to see a scenario where one goes and the other stays. To me, they are a package deal at this point, and if Amy Adams Strunk decides to be done with one of them, she needs to move on from both. No more of the half-measures of keeping one or the other.

Unfortunately, messy transitions seem to be a hallmark of this franchise. I went all the way back to the early 80s,

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