Lingering questions, part 1: The Titans offensive infrastructure, Jordan Love's missing leap, and Marvin Harrison Jr.'s rookie season
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🗓️ 15 May 2025
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There's only so much time to indulge our curiosities during the NFL season. What that means is that a number of questions we have in the moment go unexamined because we have to, you know, pay attention to the games that are actually happening. May and June, though? That's when we can let our minds wander. And that's exactly what we're going to do in our Lingering Questions series on The Athletic Football Show. In episode one of the series, Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen ask and answer the following questions: What sort of offensive infrastructure is Cam Ward getting dropped into in Tennessee? Why didn't Jordan Love make the leap in 2024? Why did Marvin Harrison Jr. fall short of expectations in his rookie season?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.7 | All right, we've delayed this long enough. |
| 0:08.8 | I've been promising you guys the first episode of the lingering question series for like a week |
| 0:12.5 | now. |
| 0:13.1 | We finally did it. |
| 0:14.4 | Derek Klesson joined me to kick off our series of lingering question shows. |
| 0:18.7 | We did eight of these last year. |
| 0:20.0 | We did them for every single division. Thought that was maybe a little bit overkill. We did eight of these last year. We did them for every single |
| 0:20.9 | division. Thought that was maybe a little bit overkill. We're scaling it back a tiny bit. We're |
| 0:25.7 | going to do four episodes of lingering questions from the 2024 NFL season. Derek and I get |
| 0:32.0 | into this kind of how we're determining and defining these, but there's just no way to get to |
| 0:36.2 | everything. But especially when you're worried about the playoff teams and what the back half of the season |
| 0:41.3 | looks like in that final month, there are so many things that just fall through the cracks |
| 0:45.4 | because you don't have the time, bandwidth, or literally the amount of shows to hit them all |
| 0:50.6 | in December and January. |
| 0:52.2 | So we wanted to take some time now that the draft is over |
| 0:54.7 | and we're fully in offseason mode to just address some questions we still have |
| 0:59.6 | coming out of last season that we haven't had the time to address. Today, we got three of them. |
| 1:05.3 | One, what were the Titans last year? Like, what was the Titans offense and how should we feel about the |
| 1:12.2 | infrastructure of that Titans offense as it relates to Cam Ward, who was drafted with the number |
| 1:17.5 | one overall pick? If you'd say you watched the Titans last year and you were not a Tennessee resident, |
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