Titans making a crucial mistake...again!

Um...they already announced who is in control of the 53 man roster and it's NOT Hue Jackson.

Gase was the last one standing last year when all the jobs were filled. It has been reported on NFL network he was more aggressive this year. I don't know if it was the first job offer he got, but it sure looks like he took the first job that was offered that was acceptable to him. If not, wouldn't he have wanted to wait for an interview with the Titans? Problem is, if he was still waiting for that, again, most of the jobs would have been filled and if we had decided to go with Bevell or McDaniels, he'd again not be a HC.

Chip Kelly chose San Fran for a few reasons. First, the Titans hadn't even scheduled an interview. Second, he wants a mobile QB. And third, San Fran wanted him.

 

Well, your theory holds if you have 100 candidates you truly believe are worthy candidates. Unfortunately, this is for the fans as NO TEAM will interview 15 candidates, let alone 100. it's because there aren't 15 quality candidates who are available and would come to TN. Guys like David Shaw and Saban already are staying in college as well as a handful of other quality college coaches. Who's left?

We are stuck with what is left because we didn't even schedule an interview with the earlier candidates. That's not to say the sky is falling and we can't still land a good HC, but it is poor practice to be behind everyone else in the interview process. The Titans lost out on a lot of valueable info they could have gotten just from seeing how all of these candidates view the roster, what they think we should do with the offense, defense, special teams, and strengths and weakness of the team from an outside the building perspective.

Right now I think our top choices are a strong coordinator or a HC. The coordinators left to look at are McDermott and Austin on D (though both coordinate a 4-3), McDaniels, Bevell, and Shula on the offense. Might as well bring in Taub even though he's a special teams guy. As far as HC's, you have Marrone and Coughlin.

I'm almost positive Coughlin won't come here just due to his health, age, moving his family for a rebuild. Marrone doesn't sit well with me because he dumped his team and HC job to try and get some extra money.

So on the one hand, you can look at it that we can still bring in McDaniels, Bevell, Shula, and McDermott after they lose. So the good thing is, there are still some excellent choices that WILL be available. The problem is, how are they gonna build a staff with what's left? This is how Munchak ended up having to get some less than ideal people.

If we move quickly now, who are we picking from...Marrone, Austin, maybe Pat Shurmur or Mularkey. I could see in that field, the titans choosing Mularkey with the thought process of Austin wants a 4-3 D, Marrone quit on his team and how much of a difference is there between Mularkey and Shurmur (I'd argue a lot, but that's me). Plus, the fact that we haven't seen any of the defensive staff even look anywhere else (as far as I know) makes me think this has been Mularkey's to lose all along.

 

But that's my concern. I think, at this point, we need to look at the top candidates who are left and those guys could be playing in the Super Bowl. If they won't interview until there teams are out we could be waiting a fairly long time which would give us problems with coaching staff.

Let's just hope our choices aren't only Marrone, Austin and Mularkey.