He will spend his off-hours assembling four-legged parlays

Once I finished the Bears piece, I had to read Tanier's takedown of the 2024 Titans.

Why Your Team Sucks 2024: Tennessee Titans:

Callahan also happens to be the son of Bill Callahan, the early-2000s Jon Gruden toady who autopiloted the Gruden-built Raiders to Super Bowl 37 but didn’t bother to change the team’s audibles after his mop-haired overlord left for Tampa, allowing Gruden’s Buccaneers to intercept six passes because they literally knew what was coming. Hiring Callahan the Younger is like hiring a night watchman whose dad thought the Joker could be trusted with the keys to Arkham Asylum.

Levis isn’t a serious quarterback of the future. The Titans are pretending he is, just as the Falcons did with Desmond Ridder and the Commanders with Sam Howell, for the same reason you may someday hand your spouse a jug of antifreeze, a plastic rose, and a box of Hostess Ding Dongs while wearing your most apologetic hangdog smile: procrastination and poor budgeting left them with no other options, and they need you to play along for the sake of their dignity.

Calvin Ridley, who came back from a one-year gambling suspension last year to catch 74 passes for the Jaguars, who then happily let him sign with the Titans for $50 million guaranteed. If you focus on the stats and speed while ignoring the dropped passes (six), the miscommunications, the eagerness with which the scuffling Falcons and Jaguars gave up on him, and the possibility that he will spend his off-hours assembling four-legged parlays instead of studying next week’s opponent, Ridley’s acquisition is a real coup.

Their regular uniform has the personality of a Nike Air Monarch and their logo looks like it was rejected by the Southwest's fourth-largest manufacturer of carpet tacks, so any change would spice things up a bit.

Ridley is blessedly talented and impossible to cover when his mind/body/spirit are in the same area code and his FanDuel app is disabled.

When the team announced they were building a new stadium, I asked my very conservative friend what he thought about taxpayer funds being used for the project. His response:

Build the dam thing already. I rather my money go to a new stadium than half the other bull it goes to already. TITAN UP I hate it here.

Written on August 06, 2025