NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An eventful day calls for a get-together and a thorough discussion of all matters connected to the Titans releasing Taylor Lewan, Robert Woods, Zach Cunningham and Randy Bullock.

So many of you poured yourself a little something and joined me to talk about these moves, what they mean and what's next for the football team from Nashvegas.

Media will have a chance to discuss all this and more with Ran Carton and Mike Vrabel next week in Indianapolis at the scouting combine. But until then, it's for us to sort through. SO we got to it. You can head to the private Facebook page or below to the private YouTube to rewatch.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Taylor Lewan needed an assist to find the press room at Titans headquarters. From the locker room, he’d headed down a long hallway to the lobby where security pointed him through another door to us.

He was pissed, the only player any of us remembered coming into our little area holding his phone open to an Instagram post and working his way down to me, last seat in the second row.

“What’s this?” he asked, holding it up.

By MIKE HERNDON, columnist

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Over the last couple of weeks, we have been previewing Titans' free agency at specific positions of need. We started with the offensive line (check that out here) and then moved to wide receiver last week (read here).

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – There is one question that comes up in the discussion about Ryan Tannehill’s future with the Titans that is too simple, too cut-and-dried and simply can’t be what the franchise uses to decide what to do about him as he heads into the final year of his contract.

Ryan Tannehill/ Photo: Angie Flatt

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Because the current state of their roster and salary cap dictates so much work pertaining to 2023, it’s difficult to look beyond the league year that starts on March 15 and the season that will kick off in September.

But teams that are in good working order are not just looking at the coming season as they plan for personnel, but for a year and even two years ahead.

We’ve covered the most significant decision pertaining to the 2024 Titans quite thoroughly as we’ve contemplated their direction with Ryan Tannehill, who’s got a $36.6 salary cap number in 2023, the final year of his four-year contract.

What about other key players who are heading into the final year of their deals?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- We cut to the chase.

If you've not listened to the podcast, you should and you can listen to it on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn or watch on YouTube.

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And then dig into this mailbag, in which members have provided every question. Please keep the quality questions coming, particularly through the private Facebook page, which is always the first place I will turn when I am putting one of these together.

Jamie Zaleski If Vrabel’s style is play good defense and run the ball, doesn’t that put you in games that are grind them out close games? Does that mean he prefers to play close coin toss games week in and week out when the league has proven there are better ways to win games? If all this is true and Vrabel seems very intelligent, why is he opposed to changing his philosophy?

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Subjects I dive into:

💥 The noise about QB scenarios
💥 How new offensive coaches will be good for Malik Willis
💥 The shape of Mike Vrabel's staff has changed, but the numbers are only up a tick
💥 A small technical adjustment with immediate results
💥 Fans hearing what they want 

You can find previous podcasts here.

By MIKE HERNDON, columnist

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Last week we talked about how the Titans could go about rebuilding their offensive line through free agency. If you missed it, you can check that out here. That column also opened with a breakdown of the Titans' cap situation and how much money they may be able to free up through various cuts, extensions, and restructures with veterans currently on the roster.

I won’t completely re-hash that here, but the short version is that the Titans are currently projected to be $21.5 million over the salary cap when the new league year starts on March 15^th. Obvious cuts like Taylor Lewan and Zach Cunningham can get them to the cap, and a few other potential cuts or restructures for guys like Bud Dupree, Robert Woods, and Ryan Tannehill could take them below the cap enough to allow them to make some of the necessary moves in free agency to bring this roster closer to competing in 2023.

Realistically, they could create somewhere around $30 to 40 million in cap space without totally gutting the current roster or crippling their future cap situation for the 2024 season and beyond.

Behind offensive line – and maybe quarterback if the Titans decide to make a move there – wide receiver is clearly the next spot that must be addressed by Ran Carthon in his first offseason as GM in Tennessee. (Photo: Adam Thielen, a potential cap casualty in Minnesota: © Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports.)