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bttb...I believe Haslam got a good taste of what it's like to be the guy over the HC and GM...and he FAILED in the area of keeping the GM and HC working together. Haslam admitted as much and I believe he never wants that responsibility again.

Haslam hired Sashi to be the guy who keeps everyone working together. One of the rules to be a good owner is to know what you do not know.

IMO, getting Haslam further away from the big decisions is a step in the right direction.

Please, JUST SAY NO TO RAY HORTON! Damn, don't you all remember how pathetic our D was under this guy? C'mon man...

Did you ask him if he gave a crap?

j/c:

Pep Hamilton?

His only NFL coaching experience was in Indy. He took over for Arians and the offense has went steadily downhill under Pep. The offense did look better under Chud after Pep was fired.

A dud hire.

j/c:

Pep Hamilton?

His only NFL coaching experience was in Indy. He took over for Arians and the offense has went steadily downhill under Pep. The offense did look better under Chud after Pep was fired.

A dud hire.

I think Haslam is an owner who will inject himself when and where he wants too, and will never truly move away from that. His wife being on the selection committee says more involved not less.

If your the GM and HC and you have set out targets and then Jimmy shows up draft day and says I want JM he throws out any chance you have to progress in a measured way that is grounded in football knowledge.

I think we are in for more of the same I really do. I agree though he admits he was the problem. He will skate for a while then come back as soon as he thinks he has a better handle on things is my bet.

j/c:

Pep Hamilton?

His only NFL coaching experience was in Indy. He took over for Arians and the offense has went steadily downhill under Pep. The offense did look better under Chud after Pep was fired.

A dud hire.

I am so underwhelmed by the guys that Hue is reportedly chasing. Leslie Frazier was the only one worth a damn and he would rather take a positional job than DC for the Browns lol. Starting to get the feeling those 142 texts he got from coaches were from arena league.

I know I shouldn't say this cause it's not PC but it's what I see.
We will have the darkest coaching staff in the NFL. I don't care if we do or don't really. But I don't think any of the 142 text messages were from anyone white. Not saying hue is, but he should take into consideration some white coaches to besides just a special teams one. Not saying hue won't hire a white guy. Just not looking like it. Every time I hear a name and google it the guy is black lol.
Like a said I don't care. But it seems he is only interested in looking for minorities and others will take notice. Who wants to be the token white guy lol. You are limiting your search by half.
Sensitive subject to all the PC folk. But I'm only half white so I can say it!!!!

Yeah we need more white guys like Jim ONeil and Pat Shurmur.

hahaha!

Pep though? Come on. Is he a upgrade over shurmer? Defiantly not over Flip we just let go. I don't mind though because hue going to call plays. And I like the idea of hue calling plays. So the OC is just going to be Hue's puppet anyway. But Pep? Not saying hue looking at him because he is black, but that reason sounds better than picking pep because he is a good coach.

Anything upgrade over oneil, but Horton isn't really a huge upgrade. Honestly he is just a black version of Rob Ryan. Overhyped coach with crazy hair.

I'm getting really tired of the Joe Thomas talk. "Court" Joe Thomas? Every media outlet makes it sound like he can leave -h e may want to leave, but he cannot leave unless he retires. I agree to try and make him happy and buy in, but this nonsense making it sound like he has some sort of option to go drives me nuts.

As someone else pointed out when I said the same thing, he can indeed leave. He can retire.

Titans defensive coordinator Ray Horton will be let out of his contract and hired for the same position with the Browns, The Tennessean learned Sunday, a day after Horton was passed over for Tennessee’s head coaching job in favor of Mike Mularkey.

“They insulted him,” said John Wooten, chairman of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which promotes NFL minority hiring.

“The Browns had put in a request to interview him, and then Tennessee interviewed him (for the head coaching job Saturday),” Wooten said. “And they said that they didn’t know that he had any interest in being a head coach. Well, that’s an insult to the man. That is just an insult.

“And then when he got in the interview, they seemed shocked that he was as prepared and knowledgeable and everything else at that point,” Wooten said. “And they of course already interviewed Mularkey on Friday, and they gave the job to Mularkey.”

Horton has since requested to be released from his contract. Titans president and CEO Steve Underwood told Horton his request would be granted, and Horton will join Hue Jackson’s staff in Cleveland, Wooten said.

Horton had been the Titans’ defensive coordinator for two seasons, but was “overshadowed,” Wooten said, by the presence of Dick LeBeau, who was hired last season as assistant head coach/defense.

LeBeau has 57 seasons of NFL experience as a player and coach, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010, and is expected to remain on Mularkey’s staff.

Horton has played for or coached alongside LeBeau in 19 of his 32 seasons in the league and has been to five Super Bowls. Horton played safety for 10 seasons with the Bengals and Cowboys. Most recently, he was a Steelers secondary coach from 2004-10, the Cardinals’ defensive coordinator under Ken Whisenhunt from 2011-12 and the Browns’ defensive coordinator under Rob Chudzinski in 2013, prior to joining the Titans’ staff built by Whisenhunt in 2014.

The year before Horton's arrival, the Titans ranked 14th in total defense (337.9 yards allowed) and 16th in points allowed (23.8). After his first season, they ranked 27th in total defense (373) and 29th in points allowed (27.4).

This season, their second using a 3-4 defensive front and with LeBeau on staff, the Titans ranked 12th in total defense (342.2 yards per game) and seventh against the pass (229.9), but were still among the most scored upon units in the NFL, ranking 27th in the league in points allowed (26.4).

Mularkey, who guided the Titans to a 2-7 record as interim coach after Whisenhunt was fired Nov. 3, had long been considered the front-runner to land the permanent job.

Horton was one of four candidates and the last to interview for the position.

“He felt disrespected just because of the way – it’s really touchy,” Wooten said. “For them all to be in the same building and not to know what Ray Horton is about just tells you that, it’s like you don’t exist, like you’re invisible.”

Jaguars assistant head coach Doug Marrone and Lions defensive coordinator Teryl Austin were the only external candidates to interview for the Titans’ head coaching job.

Austin, also promoted by the Pollard Alliance, has interviewed for eight NFL head coaching jobs since last season.

The NFL’s Rooney Rule requires teams to meet face-to-face with at least one minority candidate for head coaching and general manager vacancies.

The Titans hired former Buccaneers director of player personnel Jon Robinson as GM on Thursday, the same day they began interviewing head coaching candidates.

They were the last of seven teams to name a head coach this offseason, after vacancies had been filled by the Bucs, Browns, Dolphins, Eagles, 49ers and Giants.

Jackson, who was the Bengals’ offensive coordinator before becoming Browns head coach, was the only minority candidate hired.

Titans defensive coordinator Ray Horton will be let out of his contract and hired for the same position with the Browns, The Tennessean learned Sunday, a day after Horton was passed over for Tennessee’s head coaching job in favor of Mike Mularkey.

“They insulted him,” said John Wooten, chairman of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which promotes NFL minority hiring.

“The Browns had put in a request to interview him, and then Tennessee interviewed him (for the head coaching job Saturday),” Wooten said. “And they said that they didn’t know that he had any interest in being a head coach. Well, that’s an insult to the man. That is just an insult.

“And then when he got in the interview, they seemed shocked that he was as prepared and knowledgeable and everything else at that point,” Wooten said. “And they of course already interviewed Mularkey on Friday, and they gave the job to Mularkey.”

Horton has since requested to be released from his contract. Titans president and CEO Steve Underwood told Horton his request would be granted, and Horton will join Hue Jackson’s staff in Cleveland, Wooten said.

Horton had been the Titans’ defensive coordinator for two seasons, but was “overshadowed,” Wooten said, by the presence of Dick LeBeau, who was hired last season as assistant head coach/defense.

LeBeau has 57 seasons of NFL experience as a player and coach, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010, and is expected to remain on Mularkey’s staff.

Horton has played for or coached alongside LeBeau in 19 of his 32 seasons in the league and has been to five Super Bowls. Horton played safety for 10 seasons with the Bengals and Cowboys. Most recently, he was a Steelers secondary coach from 2004-10, the Cardinals’ defensive coordinator under Ken Whisenhunt from 2011-12 and the Browns’ defensive coordinator under Rob Chudzinski in 2013, prior to joining the Titans’ staff built by Whisenhunt in 2014.

The year before Horton's arrival, the Titans ranked 14th in total defense (337.9 yards allowed) and 16th in points allowed (23.8). After his first season, they ranked 27th in total defense (373) and 29th in points allowed (27.4).

This season, their second using a 3-4 defensive front and with LeBeau on staff, the Titans ranked 12th in total defense (342.2 yards per game) and seventh against the pass (229.9), but were still among the most scored upon units in the NFL, ranking 27th in the league in points allowed (26.4).

Mularkey, who guided the Titans to a 2-7 record as interim coach after Whisenhunt was fired Nov. 3, had long been considered the front-runner to land the permanent job.

Horton was one of four candidates and the last to interview for the position.

“He felt disrespected just because of the way – it’s really touchy,” Wooten said. “For them all to be in the same building and not to know what Ray Horton is about just tells you that, it’s like you don’t exist, like you’re invisible.”

Jaguars assistant head coach Doug Marrone and Lions defensive coordinator Teryl Austin were the only external candidates to interview for the Titans’ head coaching job.

Austin, also promoted by the Pollard Alliance, has interviewed for eight NFL head coaching jobs since last season.

The NFL’s Rooney Rule requires teams to meet face-to-face with at least one minority candidate for head coaching and general manager vacancies.

The Titans hired former Buccaneers director of player personnel Jon Robinson as GM on Thursday, the same day they began interviewing head coaching candidates.

They were the last of seven teams to name a head coach this offseason, after vacancies had been filled by the Bucs, Browns, Dolphins, Eagles, 49ers and Giants.

Jackson, who was the Bengals’ offensive coordinator before becoming Browns head coach, was the only minority candidate hired.

“And then when he got in the interview, they seemed shocked that he was as prepared and knowledgeable and everything else at that point,” Wooten said. “And they of course already interviewed Mularkey on Friday, and they gave the job to Mularkey.”

After his first season, they ranked 27th in total defense (373) and 29th in points allowed (27.4).

This season, their second using a 3-4 defensive front and with LeBeau on staff, the Titans ranked 12th in total defense (342.2 yards per game) and seventh against the pass (229.9), but were still among the most scored upon units in the NFL, ranking 27th in the league in points allowed (26.4).

Does that mean we stay 3-4?

upgrade over oneil.

Ray is a southern storm. 2 downs of thunder and in a flash 3rd and 30 becomes 1st and 10 lol