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Craig Murray: Looking back at Jake Locker, Vince Young, and Marcus Mariota, it seems the Titans are likely to ride Cam Ward for the full five years. Most teams would, right? That said, Cam will take time to develop. Which addition for the 2026 season would be most beneficial? More O-line help? A WR1? A better TE (I miss Delanie Walker)
PK: This team has a giant need at edge and is going to need a cornerback.
But for Ward and the offense, I think the answer is an easy one – a clear-cut, top receiver. Please give him a guy like the Bucs got with the 19th pick in Emeka Egbuka and watch how the offense can be transformed. Egbuka has been hurt some, but he’s averaging seven targets a game, 17.4 yards a catch and has five touchdowns in six games.
The Titans are desperate for someone like that for Ward. Get out of Calvin Ridley’s deal with $16 million dead cap, find a premier young guy and let the other young guys find their proper place in the mix.
(That said, it’d be hard not to go edge first. Get two firsts.)
Tom Vincent (from BlueSky): Is there a likelihood more coaches leave next week, as it wasn't practical to do it this week at such short notice before a game? Also, do we know if AAS is intending to be in attendance this weekend?
PK: Coaches can't just leave. They are under contract. Quit, and you sacrifice money and make it harder for yourself to get hired for your next job. As for firing, well they don't want to be paying guys not to work and leaving themselves thin. The changes have been made.
She will be there, I've been told.
Nathan Cherolis Hey Paul, is there world where McCoy actually does some positive things and works himself into the coaching search conversation? I mean, I know how crazy that sounds. And to that I say.. yeah but Amy Adams Strunk.
PK: It’s not inconceivable. But she’s overattuned to perception, and unless McCoy does crazy good things, choosing him over someone in the whole world of possibilities would be widely bashed. And she’s not interested, hard as it seems to believe, in being bashed. So I’ve got to think it’s a long shot.
I know it happened with Mike Mularkey. But he was basically the first coach she knew, and she was an incoming controlling owner who was around more then. Things are different.
Any issue with Jeff calling out Latham during practice when Latham is coming off of an injury and there may be some evidence to suggest Jeff doesn’t like Latham?
— Colby (@_ColbyD) October 16, 2025
PK: If a guy wasn’t practicing up to par and the team’s top guy called him out on it, that’s terrific. That’s a teammate serving the team. If JC Latham is back at practice, he’s got to be ready to go for the week. Imagine how bad he might have been against the Raiders if he hadn’t gotten that wake-up call?
Alex Law Has (Gunnar) Helm’s play and production been disappointing or typical for a TE drafted where he was?
PK: Helm doesn’t block real well yet, so that hurts him.
I found 11 tight ends drafted in the fourth round from 2022 through 2025.
Let's look at it just on reception production.
Compared to Helm’s current 17-game pace of 37 catches for 320 yards, five surpass it (including 2022’s Chig Okonkwo at 48-500) and two are right about in line with it.
Helm should grow and expand and you’d hope he’ll be comparable to Isaiah Likely (36-418, five TDs), Jake Ferguson (62-556, four) or Cade Otten (52-517, three).
Do you subscribe to the thought that it’s easier to have a fire sale with an interim head coach as oppose to telling Callahan you support him and then trading away anything worth value?
— The General (@mac9nj) October 16, 2025
PK: Maybe a touch. But the front office has to serve the long-term interest of the team over the short-term interest of coach-preservation.
Would hiring a "leader of men" type coach like a Robert Saleh be an admission from AAS that she fucked up firing Vrabel?
— Canadian Titan (@Canadian_Titan) October 16, 2025
PK: I don’t think they won’t hire such a guy for fear of being perceived that way. You can be a leader of men and be more of a diplomat long-term than Mike Vrabel was.
Paul, I know it's in the past now, but seeing Brownlee Jr have a superb start in NY so far, I want to know why exactly they got rid of him?
— NashThrillz (@JrJr695668) October 17, 2025
Ive heard rumors of attitude problems and whatnot, but nothing that deserved to ship him out.
Im still very upset about it!
It was a cultural issue, pure and simple. They didn’t want a guy with Jarvis Brownlee’s attitude and Mindset – the details of which we don’t know on the record – in their locker room any longer after he didn’t respond to whatever requests they made of him.
If the Titans were to win every divisional game here on out, do we make the playoffs?
— How Hard Is It To Answer? (@AnswerThePoll_) October 16, 2025
It's four games. If those were the only games they won, they’d finish 5-12. So no. Not close.
