Mike Mularkey

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Mike Mularkey fired after a playoff appearance with the Titans.

And, and the T- Titans opened the game with an onside kick.

Mike Mularkey was the coach, and they began the season with an onside kick, and it backfired.

The, the Raiders recovered, and four plays later, Derek Carr had them in the end zone.

And I think Tony had called two or three of the plays going down the field, and it just all, it all happened so fast.

She hired John Robinson.

She hired, she kept Mike Mularkey, which was the right move at the time.

Sure.

Then hired Mike Vrabel, which was the right move at the time.

But at some point, the next time there's a change, they gotta have two guys on the same clock.

Mularkey and, and Robinson were on the same clock, but Mularkey had a head start because he'd been the interim coach, you know? And, and Vrabel and Robinson were eventually put on the same contractual ta- ta- timetable, but Robinson had a two-year head start.

You need the guys to really be married, ideally coach, GM, quarterback all together so that nobody can say, "Well, he liked him first," or, you know, "This guy hasn't caught up to me," or any of that kind of stuff.

Now Paul, if they, if they don't win this game, they go down 0-5, and then you look at the remainder of their schedule, um, do you think then it will become this, "Okay, now we may need to look to move on from some veteran guys, even guys that we may have given contracts to, um, this off-season"? And, and I'm...

But it hasn't been that way with the Titans.

From one coach, it started with, um...

It started with Mike Munchak, and then Ken Whisenhunt, and Mike Mularkey, and I'm talking about everybody after Jeff Fisher.

Um, and then Vrabel, like I said, he was the longest tenured coach, um, in the building, and still is up until this point, outside of, um, Jeff Fisher, and I'm talking about Tennessee Titans, not Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans.

Ken Whisenhunt, '14 to '15.

Mularkey, '15 to '17.

Vrabel was the longest tenure, '18 to '23.

Then Brian, Brian Callahan, '24 to '25.

You gotta...

I can see if this was a veteran roster, and you were bringing a coach in, and you're like, "This team is on the verge of, of a Super Bowl.

And yes, we've been to the playoffs, and this coach just ain't getting it right." That's why they ultimately went from Mike Mularkey to Vrabel, 'cause they felt Vrabel was the guy that could get them over the hump.

And now I know there were some other things, you know, going on i- in regards to, you know, whether Mike Mularkey wanted to change offensive coordinators or not, but they felt Mike was the guy that can get them over the top.