Bloody Monday felt like sort of a nothing burger. I think what we may see is firings trickling out over the course of the week.
Starting with today: Ran Carthon out as general manager of the Tennessee Titans.
Under his supervision, the team went 9-25, including a 3-14 record in 2024, a season in which Carthon was said to have had final say over the team’s roster and personnel decisions.
The Titans, by the way, have the number one pick in the upcoming NFL draft. Also by the way, they are keeping Brian Callahan as head coach.
“I’ve loved the time I’ve spent with Ran. He’s a talented football mind, a great man, and friend to everyone along his path,” Adams Strunk said in the statement. “It’s impossible to ignore that our football team hasn’t improved over the past two years. I am deeply disappointed in our poor win-loss record during this period, of course, but my decision also speaks to my concern about our long-term future should we stay the course.”
Personally, I’d like to see Carthon, Callahan, Amy Adams Strunk, and every other person who was involved with the Titans wearing Houston Oilers throwback uniforms placed in stocks in front of the stadium and pelted with rocks and garbage.
ESPN.
Brian Schneider out as special teams coach of the San Francisco 49ers, who were 6-11 this year.
In San Francisco’s lost season, special teams’ errors seemed to happen nearly every week, including missed field goals, successful fake punts allowed, costly penalties, muffed return attempts and a middling punting unit.
Edited to add: ESPN is reporting that Antonio Pierce has been fired as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. This seems to be backed up by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, but that’s not a great newspaper, so I’m sticking with ESPN.
The Raiders were 4-13 this season: Pierce came on as an interim coach in 2023 (and went 5-4), and this was his first and only full season.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 7th, 2025 at 12:23 pm and is filed under Firings, NFL, Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.