Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Hypertz and I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig

We're Wilbeck and we are going over waivers after week six. All the players you should pick up for your teams after week six going into week seven we're going through that we're going through emails and going through a bunch of stuff but first we're going to hit Brian Callahan the head coach of the Tennessee Titans has been fired by the Titans I get it they suck they're kind of a joke DK I have like a lot thoughts on this, but I'm curious. What is your immediate reaction to Brian Kelly being fired? I mean, obviously it's a bummer because turnover for a rookie quarterback is probably never going to be a good thing for Cam Ward. But at the same time- We had a lot of bad turnovers. Ha! Yes, turnovers and coaching turnover is probably never good.

But I mean, if you just watch the Titans, it was kind of the writing was on the wall.

They were atrocious.

So, I mean, I felt like the team just felt they needed to make a change.

And it's been kind of like, there's been moments this year where people were kind of questioning whether like how prepared

Callahan was and you know there was like that he didn't know the rules thing that happened for a

couple weeks ago where they he thought the what would he say like one elbow doesn't equal two

feet or something like that which was like actually directly incorrect but you know things like

that I think just kind of contributed to it but at the end of the it's like they're scoring 13 points a game and they're terrible. I mean, I agree with what you're saying because it's at the end of the day, the Titans are a joke. And they're opening a new stadium in Nashville in two years. And Mike Vrable, who they fired, who's coming to town next week and was going to embarrass the shit out of them.

And you can't be embarrassing because they have a lot of tickets to sell at this new stadium in two years. You cannot be a laughing stock. And the truth is, Will Levis was really embarrassing. And the pitch was Cam Ward. Give me a quarterback. Give me an offensive line. Give me a special team's coordinator. I'll fix it. and they're worse this year than they were last year.

Yeah.

And honestly, Craig, I think this is a true sense of the word like a, like half we have

tickets to sell business, half we're super embarrassed that Mike Brable's coming to kick the shit out of us.

And we can't fire him after Mike Brable embarrasses us. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty embarrassing either way.

And having an interim coach coming in to face Mike Brable is also going to suck. I think the pitch to Titans fans is that this is the low point and now we will be like it now you can start turn a new chapter. You're probably going to have a top three pick in the draft. Hopefully you get a good coach in the off season and like this is the beginning of a new era with Cam Ward and you can bring in somebody in Mina Kimes tweeted Joe Brady who calls plays plays for the bills. Like, hopefully that this, like, I think what we've seen in the first six weeks is that the Titans are a disaster, but I think Cam Ward has something. And so hopefully you can find the right pair for him in the offseason and then Cam Ward's career can begin. Yeah, I mean, Cam Ward, I, you know, pro football talk had a thing this, you know, after the game, Jeffrey Simmons, the defensive tackle said that they actually had a terrible week of practice had already in the game and they lost this week. I just overall, though, I can't stress enough how bad the Titans have been. Like, they're awful. And I agree with what you're saying, Craig, where Kim Ward, obviously they're bad. They're a terrible team. But he hasn't looked worse than like Jared Goff looked in 2016. And Jared Goff's had a perfectly great career. There's still something about Kim Ward that gives me hope that he can work out if everything around him is better. And look, big picture, six of the last eight first round, first overall quarterbacks, their coach was fired that season.

And it's because the team usually sucks. And you look, and again, the Titans were just a joke last year with Will Levis. Think for a moment, take two seconds to remember how bad the Titans were last year with Will Levis. With that said, the Titans are worse this year. Like, if you just look at this season and the idea that they're supposed to improve from the laughing stock last last year, Tennessee this year, tied for lasting points per game, Tennessee's last in yards per game, Tennessee's last in first downs per game.

Tennessee is the only team in the NFL under four yards per play.

Tennessee is dead last and expected points added per play.

And I love this super advanced stat.

Touchdowns. Tennessee's dead last in touchdowns. They have like three? Six. Six and six games. The entire team has six touchdowns and six games. And I know this is a little simplistic. Mike Vrable, the Patriots, have 18. So the former Titans coach has three times as many touchdowns. And the other one that I think is underrated in this, Daniel Jones. The cults have 22 touchdowns this year. That is the division rival of the Titans. That is almost four times as many touchdowns for quarterback Daniel Jones that I am sure the Titans evaluated in free agency. And they probably informed the owner. That's not worth signing this guy, Daniel Jones. He's no good. And then the cult sign him, and they're like five and one. And I think that also goes into it. And I also absolutely think the emotions of Mike Vrable coming into town where the optics, whatever you want to call it, are involved, because this is also the team that fired the GM John Robinson who traded away A.J. Brown while they were in first place in the division because three days after AJ Brown scored two touchdowns

and had a buck 20 yards on the Titans.

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