Ron Carthon Out as Titans GM, Team’s Future in Flux

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00:00Well, we do have some NFL news this morning that Ron Carthon's out as the general manager

00:04of the Tennessee Titans.

00:05And that is massive, absolutely massive, massive news there from Tennessee.

00:16So the Titans quarterback situation is obviously not desirable.

00:21Will Levis, who wasn't a first round draft choice anyway, doesn't look like he's going

00:26to pan out.

00:28What's more important in that kind of aspect is the former versus the latter.

00:34Will Levis not being a first round draft choice is going to very likely mean he won't get

00:42the additional reps that maybe some other quarterbacks would if they were to see if

00:47it'll turn the corner.

00:48I wasn't high on Will Levis coming out of Kentucky.

00:51I feel like most weren't super high on Will Levis coming out of Kentucky.

00:56So there's a level of confirmation bias.

00:58You could certainly argue that happens when Will Levis plays the way that he does.

01:03But Levis is not going to stop Tennessee from drafting.

01:07Quarterback would be the idea.

01:11And the Tennessee Titans, for anybody who does not know, they have the first overall

01:14draft pick, which is going to have many people expecting Tennessee will sit and pick between

01:21either Cam Ward of Miami or Shador Sanders of Colorado.

01:27But this is interesting now that they fire their general manager.

01:33And I would imagine anybody they hire is smart enough to know that you want to have coaches

01:45and quarterbacks on the same timeline.

01:50Now again, this is interesting, but most GMs would also prefer to be on the same timeline

01:58as their head coach.

02:01As a general manager to come in and you have now Brian Callahan, who just finished his

02:07first season in Tennessee and finished it with the worst record in football.

02:13And by the way, the Tennessee Titans, while they were not projected to be good, were not

02:20supposed to be the worst team in football.

02:23They weren't supposed to be a three-win team in Tennessee.

02:27They had a lot more talent on that roster than, say, the New England Patriots, right?

02:34Jerron Mayo still lost his job.

02:37So if we saw the new general manager come in and everyone is given the A-OK to move

02:46on from Brian Callahan, well, then expect them to make their hire, draft their quarterback,

02:55and continue on their merry way.

02:59One of the things that I would always want to avoid if I was a GM, right?

03:06The situation the Chicago Bears put themselves in.

03:10Draft the quarterback, keep a coach who you're not in love with in Matt Iberfluss, fire Iberfluss,

03:16which they had to do.

03:17No choice.

03:18Now, Caleb has to reset and re-rack again, right?

03:22Caleb has to now go and figure out a new head coach this offseason.

03:28Who knows who that's going to be?

03:29We can get into that.

03:31Mike McCarthy, Pete Carroll, I mean, it looks like Chicago will strike out on Ben Johnson.

03:40We'll get there.

03:41We'll get there.

03:43My wonder, though, is if the new general manager in Tennessee is not given the OK to move on

03:52from Brian Callahan.

03:54And I'm not saying I would or wouldn't even fire Brian Callahan.

03:57I'm just being realistic that a general manager likes to have their quarterback, but maybe

04:02more importantly, their coach.

04:05If there's not given that OK, could perhaps the new GM in Tennessee say, I ain't drafting

04:11quarterback.

04:12Nope.

04:13Not doing it.

04:14Not for me.

04:15I'm not drafting quarterback here.

04:18Let me get a lay of the land.

04:21Let's take a beat.

04:22A little bit of patience.

04:26Truly the thing that you almost never see in the NFL is patience.

04:33You just don't.

04:34You know, in the NBA, they preach it a lot.

04:39Rebuilds, resets, you know, any NFL team that's in a rebuild is not by choice.

04:47It's not by choice.

04:48They got caught with a bad decision.

04:50They're stuck and they pretend they're rebuilding for a year, right?

04:55The New York Giants didn't rebuild the New York Giants made a ridiculous decision to

05:00pay Daniel Jones the money that they paid him.

05:04The New York Giants went into this season with a quarterback making franchise level

05:09money.

05:10Wasn't a rebuilding year.

05:12They're just bad.

05:13There's bad.

05:15By the way, Brian Dable and Joe Shane, who are coming back next season, are not being

05:21given the grace of, hey, listen, we're rebuilding here in New York.

05:26You take your time.

05:27If you don't love this quarterback class, all good.

05:29We've heard a lot of good things about next year's quarterback class, which we've heard.

05:33Which we've heard.

05:34With the Giants and Shane and Dable, they're, no, you better go win next year.

05:39Better go figure out the postseason next year.

05:41Nobody rebuilds, really, in the NFL.

05:45Maybe then the Tennessee coach will just, again, fall down that same exact path, draft

05:55his quarterback not like his head coach, fire his head coach, rookie quarterback gets, you

06:04know, year two, coach two, hope that works.

06:08Ooh, it doesn't work.

06:09Is it the quarterback's fault?

06:10Is it the coach's fault?

06:12The GM is just sitting there like, oh, man, can we please figure this out?

06:17Please can we figure this out?

06:18Now, if you're the general manager and you love one of the quarterbacks, so this is irrelevant

06:23then, right?

06:25If your room, if your group, if your guys come to the conclusion that Cam Ward or Shador

06:31Sanders is worth that pick, you make that pick.

06:38That's the position that you have to make that pick at.

06:42But if Brian Callahan is the coach and you don't want Brian Callahan as the coach, you're

06:47in a tough spot.

06:49You could say, well, what if we draft, sit, wait, patience, patience, and then maybe we

06:59could move on from Callahan and never really muddy the water here on our young quarterback.

07:07We're not going to draft someone at first overall and have patience.

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