Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans FIRE Ran Carthon, Directionless Franchise Strikes Again & Reasons For Optimism
Episode Date: January 7, 2025The Tennessee Titans have FIRED GM Ran Carthon after only two seasons in a move that makes little sense and makes the Titans look like the worst franchise in the NFL. This is another example of the Ti...tans having zero direction as a team and the statements released by the team following the firing make things even more confusing going forward. However, there is an optimistic way to view this and Tyler does his best to showcase it.Subscribe to the TicTacTitans Film Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@TicTacTitansTicTacTitans Merchandise: https://dixons-dream.square.site/shop/tictactitans-gear/C3AAPNWXSXA6SBYG3USV2I7R?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=ascFollow Tyler on Twitter @TicTacTitansFollow the show on Facebook @LockedOnTitansPodSubscribe to the Locked On Titans YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnTitans/videosSupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Turbo TaxReady for stress-free taxes and the most money back, guaranteed? Head over to TurboTax.com today and get matched with your Expert—who’s ready to take your taxes off your plate, so you can focus on your day. LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONNFL. Terms and conditions apply.PrizePicksDownload the app and use code lockedonnfl to win $50 instantly when you play $5. You don't even need to win to receive your $50 bonus, it's guaranteed! Prizepicks. Run Your Game.Click Here: https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/LOCKEDONNFLGametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your first purchase. Terms Apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelYou can start the season with a big return on FanDuel. New customers can place a FIVE DOLLAR bet and you’ll get started with TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS - if you win your first FIVE DOLLAR BET ! Visit FANDUEL.COM to get started.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)
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The Tennessee Titans have fired general manager, Rancar Thon, proving once again that they
are directionless and a clown franchise.
We'll discuss on today's edition of Locked on Titans.
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The Tennessee Titans have fired general manager Rancar Thon, which I think is an insane move
continuing the show that the Tennessee Titans have no direction as a franchise. We're going
to go over the move, my initial reactions to that move. Also, we'll talk about why the statements
that the Tennessee Titans put out with this
decision make everything
even more confusing, but at the
end of the show, to cap things off,
I will try to be a little
bit positive. With
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But with that being said, again, we get the news
that the Tennessee Titans will be firing Rancarth on something that we talked about on yesterday's
episode because it had been in the news. It had been in the reports over the weekend that
something like this could happen. And let me just say, what a terrible, terrible decision
from the Tennessee Titans.
What a terrible, terrible decision
for the Tennessee Titans to fire Rand Carthon.
And I literally talked about it
on yesterday's episode.
If you are going to fire Rand Carthon,
fire everyone.
If you're going to fire Rand Carthon
because he picked a bad coach,
how can you fire Carthon and keep the bad coach?
That doesn't make any sense.
I talked about Chad Brinker, and it looks like I was right about Chad Brinker.
This is why you guys listen to the show.
I told you on yesterday's show that I thought Chad Brinker would be the guy who wins
if Rand Carthon is fired.
It's not going to be the Titans hiring somebody from outside.
It's going to be them just giving more power to Chad Brinker,
which is 100% what happened.
But we'll talk about the confusing structure
that the Titans are going with here in a second.
But again, if you're going to fire Ran Carthon,
you should have fired everyone.
How can you fire Ran Carthon and keep Brian Callahan around?
It just makes absolutely zero sense because it's once again,
the Tennessee Titans forcing arranged marriages on their biggest players.
All right.
You had Mike Vrabel.
You forced Rancar Thawne on him instead of firing Vrabel and John Robinson
at the same time.
Then you fire Mike Vrabel because you picked Rancar Thawne.
You literally fired Mike Vrabel last year
because you wanted to roll with Rancar Thawne.
You chose Rancar Thawne to be the guy that you put your trust in.
And then a year later, fire Rancar Thawne?
It makes zero sense whatsoever.
How could you pick Rancar Thawon over Mike Vrabel last year?
And then literally a year later after letting Rancarthon pick a coach
and touting Rancarthon up as the leader of your organization
in the face of your franchise and all that,
and then decide that he wasn't the right guy.
In one year, you went from firing the second best coach
in the history of this
franchise because you believed in the GM to not believing in the GM anymore. In one year,
that's all it took. It's absurd. And at the end of the day, we have to sit back and say,
Mike Vrabel was right. Mike Vrabel was right to press the buttons. Mike Vrabel was right.
And if you remember, reports came out, Mike Vrabel did not think that Vrabel was right to press the buttons. Mike Vrabel was right. And if you remember, reports came out.
Mike Vrabel did not think that Rancarthon was ready to be a general manager in the NFL.
He said that the Titans needed to hire somebody above Rancarthon.
And then that's what the Titans ended up doing anyways.
Because you have Chad Brinker, who all the reports are coming out now.
Chad Brinker was always all the reports are coming out now, Chad Brinker was always over Rand Carthon.
How in the world are you going to fire Rand Carthon
one year, one calendar year,
after firing Mike Vrabel to go with Rand Carthon?
Again, we could talk about firing Rand Carthon,
firing the coaches, doing the thing,
but the big issue is that the Titans are a completely directionless
clown franchise that is the embarrassment of the NFL right
now. The entire NFL for the last year straight has been
laughing at the Tennessee Titans. They laughed at the Titans when they fired
Mike Vrabel, and they laugh at the Titans now, and throughout the gap between the two
events, people laughed at the Titans as they went 3-14.
It's just despicable.
This is a terribly run franchise, a terribly run organization.
And we can talk about coaches and GMs and players
and getting a quarterback and a right.
It just seems so minuscule to talk about the right tackle job.
When you have a franchise run this terribly,
this is the ultimate death sentence for any fan.
It's bad ownership.
That kills a franchise.
It's just insane that they fired Vrabel.
And I'm not saying that they shouldn't have fired Vrabel,
but to fire Vrabel
and a year later fire the guy who you picked over Mike Vrabel,
it makes zero sense whatsoever.
It is just rudderless, directionless, terrible.
And I'll tell you, the things that we heard from the Titans,
the statements that they released, they make it even worse.
The statements that they released here make it even worse because it makes
zero sense what the Titans are doing
right now
it makes zero sense whatsoever
just a terrible
terrible terrible franchise
run terribly
as well
now for what happens next
Chad Brinker is going to be
the guy running the football organization.
And what it sounds like is that was already the case anyways.
But, like, I don't know how you can have any faith whatsoever
no matter what the Titans do going forward.
No matter what decisions the Titans make going forward,
it is hard to have any faith in them whatsoever
based on what we've seen over the last two years with this franchise.
They have no idea what they're doing.
They have no idea how to set things up.
They have no idea who's in charge.
I mean, it truly makes zero sense what the Tennessee Titans are doing right now.
And again, how can you fire Rand Carthon?
Think about what Rand Carthon has done.
Now, has it been perfect?
No, it absolutely has not been perfect whatsoever.
But he drafted Peter Skowronski.
He drafted J.C. Latham, who both look like good players on the offensive line.
Will Levis didn't work, but he drafted Tavondre Sweat.
He brought in Tony Pollard.
He brought in Calvin Ridley.
He brought in Jarvis Brownlee Jr. in the draft.
Jerry Esteen and Lloyd Cushenberry both got hurt.
I mean, you could say those are bad moves,
but they both got hurt.
What Rand Carthon has done as a general manager,
the moves that he's actually made,
they aren't fireable.
They aren't great, but they aren't fireable.
The worst part of this football team was the coaching this year.
Like, how in the world can you,
I still can't understand, just like yesterday,
how can you fire Rand Carthon and keep Brian Callahan around?
And now, the next general manager that you hire
is going to be a guy with Brian Callahan around. And now, the next general manager that you hire is going to be a guy with Brian Callahan at coach
when he didn't hire that coach in the first place.
So it's another arranged marriage.
I mean, it just, it's just a cycle of garbage.
There's no other way around it.
It's a cycle of garbage for the Tennessee Titans,
and Titans fans should be 100% outraged
based on Rancarthon getting fired,
not only because of Rancarthon getting fired,
but what it means about the collective dysfunction
of this organization.
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Titans fans, let's continue today's edition of the Locked on Titans podcast, an emergency edition as as Rancarthon has just been fired as general manager.
I talked about my initial reaction and why I think it's a terrible move on its own.
It also shows incredible instability in the Titans organization.
And not only that, not only that, but what comes next is very, very concerning.
And, I mean, let's just dive into it.
I want to go over the statements that we got from the Tennessee Titans,
which make things very, very, very strange.
Chad Brinker said, quote,
speaking of a change of the general manager specifically,
Ran was hired into a very different job description
than the one that exists today.
Ran was hired for a general manager position
that was very specific to the circumstances at the time.
The forecasting was the general manager
was able to partner very closely with the head coach,
the existing head coach.
And as the circumstances exist today, the general manager position is different.
And so what Chad, who is leading the search, or this is from Berkna Hill, who is leading
the search we'll be looking for is a very different skill set for a very different job
description.
What?
What does that even mean?
The general manager job when Ran was hired
was different than what the general manager job is going to be now?
How does that make any sense?
It's the general manager.
And it says in here, the forecasting was the general manager
would be able to partner very closely with the head coach,
the existing head coach. Well, at head coach, the existing head coach.
Well, at the time, the existing head coach was Mike Vrabel.
So you fire Mike Vrabel because he doesn't work well with Ran Carthon,
and now you fire Ran Carthon because the general manager
isn't supposed to collaborate with the head coach anymore?
I thought collaboration was the buzzword that we were all sold last year.
And then Chad Brinker talked about the general manager position of the Titans and he said,
quote, I think the GM position is unique to their respective organizations.
This particular job, what we'll be looking for is someone who has spent their career as a scout,
Rand Carthon has done that, is a top flight, top level evaluator who has spent their career as a scout. Rand Carthon has done that. Is a top-flight, top-level evaluator
who has spent the majority of their career
projecting college players to the NFL.
That's exactly what Rand Carthon got notoriety for.
They've had a major hand in setting the draft board
in a preferably consistent winning organization.
So, a career as a scout, Rankar Thon, who is also in pro personnel,
top flight, top level evaluator,
Rankar Thon was touted on his ability to find talent at the end of the draft.
That's what everybody was hype about.
They've had a major hand in setting the draft board
in preferably a consistent
winning organization.
Rankarthon came from San Francisco and the
Los Angeles Rams. Those are consistent
winning organizations.
Everything that Chad Brinker described
right there is
what Rankarthon was. So
how can you say that that's what we're looking for
in a general manager and that that job description is different than what you hired Rankarthon was. So how can you say that that's what we're looking for in a general manager
and that that job description is different
than what you hired Rancarthon to be?
It doesn't make any sense.
These quotes make everything more confusing.
And here is where you want to get real crazy.
Listen to what Chad Brinker said
about the new GM that they want to hire.
This is 100% a major shock at Rand Carthon.
Quote,
it is someone who wakes up every single day
and the only thing they think about is building a roster,
evaluating players, watching tape,
working with the coaching staff,
and not just someone who knows how to
collect talent, but someone who really understands how to build a team and how all the pieces fit
together that can work with not only in the short term winning today, but building for the future,
the long term, and understanding how those pieces fit together. If you make a decision here,
how it impacts a decision down the road and really
understands the full puzzle. So wait a minute. Chad Brinker said they want someone who wakes up
every single day and only thinks about building a roster, evaluating players, watching tape,
and working with the coaching staff, and not just someone who knows how to collect talent
and someone who really understands how to build the team.
So are you telling me that Rand Carthon did not wake up every single day and build the roster and evaluate players and watch tape
and work with the coaching staff?
That's what it sounds like to me if you're saying,
hey, this is what we want from the next general manager.
You're saying that's what you did not get from the previous guy.
That is shots fired, folks.
That is taking a major shot at Rancar Thon.
We want someone who wakes up every single day
and only thinks about building the roster,
evaluating players, watching tape, and working with the coaching staff.
Chad Brinker is telling you they think Rancar Thon was lazy and unfocused.
He's literally telling you. They put out a statement saying that R Carthon was lazy and unfocused. He's literally telling you.
They put out a statement saying that Rand is lazy and unfocused,
and they want somebody who wakes up every day thinking about building the roster.
You're telling me that Rand Carthon did not wake up every day?
And look, I'm going to bleed sports together here,
but I'm a Los Angeles Lakers fan.
This sounds exactly like what the Lakers said about their previous head coach,
Darvin Ham.
They were saying that Darvin Ham wasn't locked in.
He wasn't focused.
He wasn't devoted.
He wasn't working hard enough.
And the Titans come out and say the same thing about Rancarthon.
They're saying Rancarthon didn't work hard enough.
Rancarthon wasn't focused.
Rancarthon didn't wake up every single day and only think about building the
roster, evaluating players, watching tape, and working with the coaching staff.
They're saying that Rancarton only knew how to collect talent,
but didn't know how to put a team together.
They are literally blaming Rancarton and taking shots at him as a general manager.
Crazy.
So just to recap the three things that we just talked about.
Let's recap the three things that we just talked about. Let's recap the three things that we just talked about.
The Titans said that the new general manager responsibilities
are different than the responsibilities when Rankarthon was hired,
which doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Whatsoever.
And then they just said that Rankarthon didn't wake up every morning
focused on doing the job.
There are two things.
There is only one thing.
There's only one way.
There's only one way that we can interpret all of this.
Something was going on behind the scenes.
Something doesn't add up.
And here's something from Easton Freeze
who said, here's the dirty little not-so-secret about the Titans in 2024.
Chad Brinker has been the one in charge all along.
Rand had final say on personnel decisions,
but Chad did just about everything else.
Was involved in the football side as well.
So if Rand deserves to be fired because he wasn't actually doing much,
so be it.
Come out and say that.
But the decisions he rubber-stamped were far from fireable offenses.
So there you go.
So Rand Carthon was a patsy all along
who the Titans were not giving real decisions to.
Chad Brinker was really in charge the entire time,
but yet they're going to say that Rancor Thon was lazy and unfocused
and didn't take his job seriously and use him as the scapegoat fall guy?
Again, whether this turns out to be the right move or the wrong move,
more importantly and more upsettingly,
is this proves once again that the Tennessee Titans are a directionless
clown franchise that is stuck in poverty. And I don't know
if they're going to make it out any time soon. But these quotes,
these comments that we got from Burke Nehill and from Chad Brinker,
they are
insane. They are insane.
They are insane.
To say that the GM role has changed from when you hired Rand Carthon two years ago
to firing him now that the responsibilities are totally different
someone explain that to me.
How is that even possible?
What else could you be doing as a general manager
other than setting the roster?
And here's the thing.
Here's the final point I want to make here before I try to be optimistic to end the show.
I'm going to try to be optimistic.
But what good general manager would want to come to the Titans?
You just fired two general managers in two years.
You fired Mike Vrabel, who the rest of the league can't wait to hire right now.
You have Chad Brinker over the general manager.
Chad Brinker has full control of the roster.
Chad Brinker has full control of football decisions.
So why would any general manager candidate
want to come in and beat Chad Brinker's assistant
in a franchise that has done what the Titans have done over the last two years.
With a terrible roster and no quarterback
and a terrible head coach
and you don't even get to be the general manager
you're an assistant to Chad Brinker.
What good general manager
candidate would want to come into those
circumstances when they don't even have
full control of the roster?
What good general
manager candidate would want to do that?
So there's no way
that the Titans are going to hire
a good person for their general
manager role. Because what good candidate
would in their right mind
want to take the Titans general manager job
when you aren't even the general manager
Chad Breaker is?
It's just
a clown organization, man.
But I'm going to try.
I'm going to try to put this in the spin zone
and look at it optimistically.
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Titans fans, let's cap off today's emergency reaction edition to Rancarthon being fired.
Again, I think this is an insane decision by the Titans.
If they're going to fire Rancarthon, you need to clean house entirely
because now the general manager that you're going to fire a rancor thon. You need to clean house entirely. Because now the general manager that you're going to hire
who's under Chad Brinker, which doesn't make any sense.
Why would you need a general manager
if Chad Brinker has 53-man roster control
and has control of over all the football decisions?
What's a general manager for?
That's what a general manager does.
Why would you hire a general manager
when you already have Chad Brinker as president of football operations
and you've given him the general manager responsibilities?
It does not make any sense whatsoever.
But yeah, just the statements that we heard that I went over,
the move in and of itself and what it means for the Titans as an organization,
it's just despicable. It's terrible.
It's deflating.
It's depressing.
But, but, I'm going to try.
I'm going to try to spin this positively.
Just for a minute.
Just for a minute.
Like I said,
if you look at Rancarthon's track record,
if you look at what Rancarthon has done
as the general manager for the Tennessee Titans,
it's not great.
No, it's not great.
Absolutely not great.
But it's also not worthy of being fired.
Remember, I'll go through it again.
Skowronski, Latham, Sweat, Jarvis Brownlee Jr., good picks.
Calvin Ridley, Tony Pollard, Sebastian Joseph Day, brought them in.
Good pickups.
LeJarius Sneed got hurt.
Lloyd Cushenberry was looking good and then got hurt.
I'm not saying that Rancor Thon has done a great job as general manager,
but he hasn't done enough to be fired.
So, the only thing,
the only thing
that I can think of,
again, is something was,
yeah, the Ernest Jones trade was good as well.
Great flip.
The only thing I can think of is something was going on behind the scenes.
There's something here that we don't know.
It can't be measured or it can't be seen in signings, draft picks, trades,
hirings.
Something is going on
something has gone on
behind the scenes
that has nothing to do with things that we know about
we can look at
again who he traded for
who he signed, who he drafted
who he hired, we can look at all those things
but what we don't see is
we don't see the behind the scenes
how does he interact with his
co-workers?
How does he interact when there are
disagreements on what to do?
You know, there's gotta
be something, there's gotta
be something behind the
scenes here.
That we
can't see. That if we aren't in
the building, we can't know about.
And when you get the comments
that we've gotten here from the Titans
about how
they want somebody who's focused,
who wakes up every day focused on the roster,
trying to make things better, blah, blah, blah.
When you hear that
and you look at Rancarthon's track record,
it's like, okay, something's going on behind the scenes
that we don't know about.
And yeah, I'm seeing it, guys.
Jarvis Brownlee Jr. is tweeting out, this isn't good.
Deion Sanders tweeted out, wow, I don't think Shadur Sanders
is coming to Tennessee now.
Deion Sanders cannot be happy about Rand Carthon being fired.
So, if there's something going on behind the scenes
that we couldn't know about,
then maybe this is a good thing.
Then maybe it's something bad and we don't know about it.
Yeah, Drayden says Rand Carthon always slept in and was late to meetings.
Like, maybe it's something like that.
Maybe he was a poor worker.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm trying to make sense of this crazy thing.
Yeah, Deion Sanders came out and said he was shocked and disappointed.
There is no way in the world
that the Titans are getting Shadur Sanders now.
It's not happening.
So, the only thing that I can think of
is that there was something behind the scenes going on
in a workplace environment situation
that was not going well.
Let me also say this.
I will say this.
If Mike Vrabel said Rancarthon was not ready to be an NFL
general manager, when Amy Adams-Strunk
fired Mike Vrabel and restructured the
organization, she made Chad Brinker an
equal to Rankarthon. So what that tells
me is that Mike Vrabel didn't believe in Rankarthon,
and Amy Adams Strunk really didn't either.
Because immediately after she fired Mike Vrabel,
she made Chad Brinker an equal to Rankarthon.
And as I said on yesterday's show,
when I told you guys that I thought Chad Brinker would be promoted
and be given more responsibility if Rankarthon was fired, I literally told you this that I thought Chad Brinker would be promoted and be given more responsibility
if Rand Carthon was fired
I literally told you this on yesterday's show
that this would happen
then it's
probably logical that while
Rand Carthon was making those moves
she was
going to Chad Brinker and saying Chad was this
a good move? Chad what did you think
of this? This only happened because Chad Brinker told Amy Adams Chad, was this a good move? Chad, what did you think of this?
This only happened because Chad Brinker told Amy Adams Strunk that Rankarthon did something wrong.
Like, period. That is my belief.
So, let's just, I don't think this is right.
I don't think it's true.
But let's just be optimistic for a second.
If Rankarthon was not doing a good job, if Rankarthon is not ready
to be a general manager, yeah, and we're seeing it. Rapid
Reaction says Kaharski is reporting, report suggests that
Rankarthon wasn't a hard worker. If that's true, if Rankarthon
wasn't a hard worker and Rank that's true, if Rancarthon wasn't a hard worker
and Rancarthon wasn't doing a good job behind the scenes,
then why would you want that guy to make the first overall pick for you?
This is going to be a transformative offseason for the Titans
for good or for bad.
This offseason is either going to get the Titans back on the right track
or it's going to send them with a jetpack on the wrong track.
And if you don't believe Rancarthon's a hard worker
and if you don't believe that Rancarthon is right for the job,
then you probably shouldn't let him make the first overall pick.
You probably shouldn't let him lead this offseason.
So again, I don't believe this was the right move.
I don't believe that the Titans are
on the right track. I don't believe
that the Tennessee Titans are ever going to be a
well-run organization while
Amy Adams-Strunk is running the team.
It just seems like that is not going to happen.
But,
if they're all right about
Rand Carthon,
then this is probably a blessing in disguise for the Titans.
Obviously, I don't believe that,
but I'm just trying to find an optimistic way to look at this, guys,
because it just does not make any sense to me.
A lot of people are saying Brinker backstabbed Rancarthon,
and you know what?
Might be true.
Might be true. Might be true.
But with that being said,
tomorrow we'll probably look at some potential GM candidates.
Again, why would any good general manager candidate want to come over here
and truly be an assistant general manager to Chad Brinker?
Doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
But with that being said,
again, I'll be back with you guys tomorrow.
We're going to talk about general manager candidates.
I'm sure there will be more fallout from this decision,
more reports, more updates, all that.
We'll go over all of it.
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As always,
oh man, I'm just totally shocked by this.
But anyway, as I always tell you,
stay safe out there.
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