26CornerBlitz Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Mularkey: 'You will see change happen' (2:26)Mike Mularkey discusses the changes and improvements he hopes to make as the permanent head coach of the Tennessee Titans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumby Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I actually feel sorry for Mariota. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 @Titans Mularkey: I've spoken to Dick LeBeau, and I have a good feeling he will be back with us this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondo in seattle Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Playing Devil's Advocate... lots of NFL coaches needed years of on-the-job training to become good HCs. Marv Levy, Peter Carroll, and Bill Bellichick, for example, all had losing records in their first HC gigs. I'm guessing the Titans feel like Mularkey has learned some valuable lessons since he was last a HC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimer1960 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 How is Mularkey worse than Rex and his twin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincec Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 How is Mularkey worse than Rex and his twin? He's not. But that doesn't make it a good hire. It makes the Bills hire bad too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8-8 Forever? Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Titans will more than likely be sold at some point in the next year or two. Beats investing a large, guaranteed contract in a new coach that the new owner may not want. now that makes more sense. lame duck coach. just like Marrone was here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manther Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 he's holding out for a "manager" position, like Cousin Eddie Well played Marrone Sexton and Schefter in a bar. Sexton says " well whaddya think? and gimme another Scotch " Schefter says " next year is the year the iron will be hot and gimme another Scotch too, make it a double" Marrone says " Just set the bottle in front of us " Bartender says " Obviously " chuckles from the dishwasher and the drunk chick Lmao!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manther Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Marrone was the Jags offensive line coach last year and still is so he wasn't and still isn't on the unemployment line. There have been 14 openings the last two years with Marrone interviewing for 7 or 8 so not even close to interviewing with half the league. I do agree that he will end up looking to go back to college next year So, essentially 14 of 32 teams don't want him. Pretty close to half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnC Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 I'm sure the Titans just wanted to go with stability in making their decision. The Titans went with stability and continuity when they hired Mularkey. As Bills fans we are not in position to chortle. We hired a huckster who is the embodiment of instability. Wherever he is at there there follows a carnival sideshow. Predictably, he draws more attention for his blustering and blubbering comments than for his team's quality of play and his coaching prowess. Is Mularkey an uninspiring and mediocre hire? Probably so. But I would prefer a boring personality of a mature person over a loud and obnoxious personality of an immature and undisciplined person. Mularkey certainly isn't an innovative coach. But he would not be dumb enough to take a highly ranked defense and turn it into a confused unit for the sake of running a scheme he is more comfortable with. We hired a colorful personality who had a losing record with the team he had a long association with. He finished his stint with his former team by leaving it in shambles. The Pegulas hired him for whatever reason. The Rex Ryan we hired is the Rex Ryan we got. He worked his destructive magic in his first season with the Bills. Let's give him more time to set back a franchise that was moving forward. Hallelujah! Let's ridicule another organization for not being as absurd as the one located in western NY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 How is Mularkey worse than Rex and his twin? He was horrible in Dances with Wolves. So, essentially 14 of 32 teams don't want him. Pretty close to half. Add Buffalo to that mix and it's 15. The Titans went with stability and continuity when they hired Mularkey. As Bills fans we are not in position to chortle. We hired a colorful personality who had a losing record with the team he had a long association with. He finished his stint with his former team by leaving it in shambles. The Pegulas hired him for whatever reason. The Rex Ryan we hired is the Rex Ryan we got. He worked his destructive magic in his first season with the Bills. Let's give him more time to set back a franchise that was moving forward. Hallelujah! Let's ridicule another organization for not being as absurd as the one located in western NY. Take a breath. A big reason Rex is still here is for the sake of "continuity". The GMs in NY were more to blame than Rex was, IMHO. And as far as "moving forward" just exactly how many playoff games did Marron's squads produce in his two years here? He went 6-10 his first year here. Rex went 8-8, and had his former team in two conference championship games. That's not exactly chopped liver, which Marron exactly is at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnC Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 He was horrible in Dances with Wolves. Add Buffalo to that mix and it's 15. Take a breath. A big reason Rex is still here is for the sake of "continuity". The GMs in NY were more to blame than Rex was, IMHO. And as far as "moving forward" just exactly how many playoff games did Marron's squads produce in his two years here? He went 6-10 his first year here. Rex went 8-8, and had his former team in two conference championship games. That's not exactly chopped liver, which Marron exactly is at this point. The comparison between Marrone and Rex's first year is not a good comparison. Marrone took over a team that was a border-line expansion team that was rebuilding. Rex took over a team that was much more advanced and had a fuller roster. Marrone's team in his second year improved from his first year. Rex took over a defense that for the previous two years was good. It took a precipitous fall under him. The offense although still not a finished product under Rex was upgraded from the prior year. Whaley spent a lot of cap money adding McCoy, Clay, Incongnito (bargain $$$) and the organization was surprised with the unexpected level of play from TT. My point is that in Marrone's last year he outperformed Rex who had a better roster. Or to put it simply DM did more with less compared to the loquacious RR. Put aside the defensive scheme issue that is often a subject of discussion. It is apparent to me and most people that this Rex coached team was not a disciplined team, as exhibited by the number of penalties, it was not a mature team and a composed team. Those are hallmarks of a Rex coached team. Rex is coming back for the sake of continuity. But it won't be long before the issue of coaching is another issue that will have to be addressed by the owners. That is an obvious set back for a franchise that was steadily moving forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Biscuit97 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 What a joke for Titans fans. How can you get excited about this? Why does Mularkey get a third chance with a 31% winning percentage and someone can't get a first shot? Odds are a first time coach will do better than Mularkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunnerBill Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 What a joke for Titans fans. How can you get excited about this? Why does Mularkey get a third chance with a 31% winning percentage and someone can't get a first shot? Odds are a first time coach will do better than Mularkey. And he has had two and a half chances really. He had most of the season as interim HC and they sucked. If the Titans had really come on down the stretch I might say "right place, right time" but they sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 (edited) To me it looks like they picked the guy who Mariota felt most "comfortable" with. IMO a HC should be hired based on their ability to lead a team and a franchise, and not because of certain players on a team, even if it is the QB. Players come and go, players get hurt and can't play, etc. The HC needs to be a lot of things and the player situation on any team is too fluid IMO to hire a HC in large part because of the relationship with certain players, keeping the QB happy, fixing the QB, etc. Leave that to the QB coach and/or OC. Edited January 19, 2016 by YoloinOhio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Biscuit97 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 To me it looks like they picked the guy who Mariota felt most "comfortable" with. IMO a HC should be hired based on their ability to lead a team and a franchise, and not because of certain players on a team, even if it is the QB. Players come and go, players get hurt and can't play, etc. The HC needs to be a lot of things and the player situation on any team is too fluid IMO to hire a HC in large part because of the relationship with certain players, keeping the QB happy, fixing the QB, etc. Leave that to the QB coach and/or OC. Agree. I also thinking you are cheating MM by keeping Mularkey. There seems like there are much better offensive minds out there for a young qb. If the Titans has fans, they would probably be pissed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Wow - not great deal for Mularkey but not like he had other options Albert Breer @AlbertBreer 5m5 minutes ago Per @PaulKuharskyNFL, Mike Mularkey got a 3-year deal w/Titans, which gives team flexibility. Standard is 4-5 years. http://es.pn/1OC8t3h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFunPolice Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 (edited) Mularkey seems like a nice guy so I'll take no joy in his inevitable failure. If he proves the critics of the move wrong I'll be happy for him. I just don't get the hire. When (if ever) have you seen a team with a young, exciting franchise QB going into year #2 AND the #1 overall pick? That's a sweet position to be in. You can take a monster on D or a skill position player (or better yet) trade that #1 pick to a QB needy team for a boatload of goodies. Edited January 20, 2016 by TheFunPolice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Titans partying like it's 2009 @tnsports Titans name coordinators LeBeau, Robiskie and April http://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/nfl/titans/2016/01/20/titans-hire-robiskie-offensive-coordinator/79085356/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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