The Tennessee Titans sunk a little lower on Sunday when they were blanked 26-0 by the Houston Texans. To keep the bludgeoning in perspective, it was the Texans first win of the season.
Titan’s quarterback Cam Ward was pretty awful as the score might suggest. The No. 1-overall draft pick was a putrid 10-26 passing for 108 yards and one interception. He only had 108 more yards passing than I did and I didn’t even play.
After the game, Ward was pretty honest about his assessment of his team’s performance.
“If we’re keeping it a buck right now, we a–,” he said curtly. “We’re 0-4. At this point, we got nothing to lose. We dropped a quarter of our f—ing games and we’ve yet to do anything. We have to lock in, especially myself. From the offensive line to the defensive line to the special teams to all three phases, we have to play together.”
Cam Ward’s frustration with the Titans must be growing
The Titans are now 0-4 and they really haven’t been competitive. They were the worst team in the NFL last year and for some reason decided to keep head coach Brian Callahan around to cultivate their new draft pick and get the team turned around. That hasn’t remotely happened.
Ward – like everyone else – has noticed that the entire team seems to be dysfunctional.
“We have not played together this year yet and that’s just something, you know, we want to preach about it, ‘Everyday, everyday we gotta do better,’ and we’re doing that but it has to show up on Sundays,” Ward said. “It hasn’t showed up yet, but it has to show up next week.”
Failure to develop Cam Ward could lead in Callahan’s firing
Ward was bad today, the team was bad today and the quarterback spoke out about it today. This is all bad news for Callahan. You can’t fire the whole team and you certainly aren’t moving on from Cam after four games.
Sports Illustrated’s Conor Orr thinks that all signs are pointing towards a Callahan dismissal.
“Let’s first acknowledge that Callahan was hired by a different general manager than the one who currently occupies the seat,” Orr writes. “That is a check against him. Let’s acknowledge that one quarterback, Will Levis, already regressed under Callahan, necessitating the selection of another. Check.”
“Now, a rookie first-round pick—already tinder for seat-warming flames—has taken the postgame podium with all the wary, defeated energy of a parent at the Wednesday 6:30 a.m. bus stop, declaring the state of the team as “ass.” This, after calling the offense “mid” in training camp. Check. Cam Ward, by the way, is the most consistently pressured regular starter in the NFL after ownership wrote a massive check for a new left tackle in the offseason. (I’m not saying it was the right decision, or that this is Callahan’s fault, but … check.)”
It’s really not a matter of “if” but “when” Callahan gets shown the door. There really is nothing to be gained at this point by staying the course. Consult your local gambling app to find out what the odds are of Tennessee actually turning this thing around, but I’ll be they are…see: Cam Ward’s comments about the team.