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00:00Yeah, and Black Monday is quickly turning in the years into Black Tuesday, and even
00:04Black Wednesday.
00:05And in the case of the Dallas Cowboys with Mike McCarthy, it may be Black next week because
00:09nothing seems to get done down in Dallas at the right and appropriate time.
00:13So we had Tennessee fire their general managers today, even though they're keeping their head
00:17coach, which is kind of weird, right?
00:19But yeah, if you're a head coach or a GM and you're the least bit concerned, you have to
00:25wait until Tuesday, today, tomorrow, maybe even the Thursday before you realize, okay,
00:29I'm going to have my job back for next season.
00:33Five head coaching vacancies at this moment, Scott.
00:35That includes the expiring contract exactly a week from today for Dallas' head coach in
00:43Mike McCarthy.
00:44We'll talk about who is in line to interview for those jobs around the NFL.
00:50But we also do discuss, Scott, what you just mentioned, the big news of this Tuesday morning
00:54so far, because we could see a slew of moves in this week that could be a Black week instead
01:01of a Black Monday around the National Football League.
01:04We start in Nashville, where after only two seasons in Tennessee, general manager Rand
01:09Carthan has been fired, spent a lot of time in the front office of the San Francisco 49ers.
01:16When things were going good by the bay, has been in Nashville for the past two seasons.
01:21And Scott, after only two years, he has now been dismissed.
01:25It wasn't an easy ride in Tennessee, of course, for the Titans.
01:31Rand Carthan, a part of significant decisions, however, did draft Will Levis back in 2023,
01:38expecting or hoping that Levis could be the face of the franchise.
01:42That of course did not pan out.
01:44The only redeeming factor is it wasn't the second overall pick of the first round.
01:49It was the second overall pick of the second round.
01:53But in the off season, they part ways with Mike Vrabel.
01:56After 2023, Rand Carthan hires a new head coach in Brian Callahan.
02:02He lets go of a staple of the organization in Derrick Henry and brings in a decent amount
02:08of offensive talent in Calvin Ridley and Tony Pollard, who he paid some rather big deals
02:13despite letting the king walk.
02:16And then it resulted in a 3-14 season and a 2-15 mark against the spread.
02:22Scott, the worst cover team in the history of the NFL, in the Super Bowl era, your 2024
02:29Tennessee Titans.
02:30So, at the end of it, Rand Carthan, now looking for a new job, fired as Tennessee's general
02:35manager.
02:36Yeah, you know, I actually like the moves they made.
02:38I mean, listen, Derrick Henry aside, right, that kind of blew up in his face.
02:42We knew that, you know, it wasn't necessarily a Derrick Henry thing.
02:46I don't know why.
02:47They just wanted to kind of change it, just clear house completely, Vrabel out, Tannehill
02:51out, everybody out.
02:52And Derrick Henry kind of got caught into that.
02:54Well, we knew he was going to be successful wherever he went.
02:57But other than that, Ben, I actually thought the moves that they made were halfway decent.
03:00I headed into this season saying to myself, you know what, they're a good quarterback
03:04away from being a really halfway decent team.
03:07And that's why I was surprised the GM got fired.
03:09Maybe it's the Will Levis draft.
03:11I wasn't happy about that.
03:12But it was second round, as you pointed out, it wasn't their first round pick.
03:16But other than that, I'm more apt to blame the head coach than I was the guy that brought
03:20some of these players in.
03:21I thought they vastly underachieved.
03:23They're not a playoff team by any stretch.
03:25But like I said, I like the moves that he made this past offseason.
03:29I think he did a halfway decent job of trying to keep that team as a competitive win now
03:33team.
03:34All right, maybe it backfires, but don't you get a second chance to now say, OK, we're
03:39not a win now team anymore.
03:40Now we're going to build through the draft.
03:41We got the number one overall pick.
03:42I mean, there's got to be more to this behind the scenes, I would think.