WOW!!! Amazing first hand report of the GM search written by one of the candidates, Ted Sundquist.
How do you fix the Titans? You look for leadership"
http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/2610257-i-interviewed-to-rebuild-the-titans-and-heres-what-i-would-have-done
I don't disagree with the conclusion but that article was one long whine
Agree 100%. Good points or not, he's bitter.
I didn't think they lacked leaders except for the HC. He lost them in 2014 and I didn't feel like he got them back.
No one has really given much 'credit' to Locker retiring. You're selling this guy to the team as the new franchise QB, Whis is supposed to be able to 'fix him', he struggles, and boom he's done. How could that not affect guys in the lockerroom?
Mariota, Walker, Griffin, Wright/Douglas, Casey, Morgan, even Mett in the spring, I saw plenty of guys working with the younger ones being leader or MM just being 'the main guy' and leading by example.
Lebeau- countless articles of players praising him, respecting him.
Croom and Jefferson-who didn't get results- got plenty of nice comments from players even though they rode them.
Reporters questioned the GM, never heard players doing it. New GM seems respected but he's new
Team pres is called highly intelligent every other week in a positive 'he'll figure it out' vibe. Everyone notices how hard he's trying to improve things for the fans(he's not GM we're not talking team/players) concession, stadium, new seats, promotions etc.
All I notice is the ownership is highly questioned and Whisenhunt. I have my doubts about Mularkey but at the time of this...a new GM and new coach were setup well IMO with leaders.
I think it all goes back to Kenneth Adams IV and whatever happened between he and his sis to make him go from heir apparent, to no I'm stepping in. Problems ever since. He was Bud's boy in every sense of the word. A very successful corporate attorney, I can't help but assume alot of the times where we say 'this is stupid' would never have happened on his watch. He made his own millions too, we're not talking some chump that inherited daddy's money.
If you google him and see some old quotes and such, I almost guarantee you'll agree it would likely be headed in a better direction.