NASHVILLE – Titans head coach Mike Vrabel held his season-ending information convention Monday at Ascension Saint Thomas Sports activities Park.
Vrabel coated a number of matters that day.
Here is a take a look at probably the most notable themes shortly:
-Vrabel acknowledged that there can be modifications, and presumably he was referring to his teaching employees, and the staff’s squad. “Clearly, change is a part of this league, it is a part of skilled sports activities,” Vrabel mentioned. “I feel there can be conversations right here within the quick time period concerning the normal supervisor, and (wherever he goes), that particular person and I’ll have conversations. We may have conversations with Amy (Adams Strunk) concerning the scope of the change that we now have. I do not suppose it is one thing It will essentially occur in a single day, however there’s going to be a change.”
-Vrabel mentioned that he has not but made any modifications to his teaching employees. He was requested particularly about offensive coordinator Todd Downing. “Our offensive coordinator and Todd,” Vrabel mentioned, “can be a part of the dialog and will probably be a part of my analysis this week so far as the soccer staff is worried.”
-Vrabel on his last message to the staff: “I thanked you. I thanked the blokes who began this course of on April 18; they have been by rather a lot. I thanked them for the dedication. Aside from a number of video games that I felt possibly we had been outclassed, I felt that We competed. Sadly, we had been 5-6 in one-score video games, and that is one thing that had been a energy of ours up to now and wasn’t.” Vrabel mentioned he additionally advised his gamers to maintain in communication.
-Vrabel made it clear that fixing the offensive line is a giant precedence: “When you do not shield your quarterback, they get harm or lose the ball. We have now to do this … We have to discover guys who can shield the quarterback. “
-When Vrabel was requested about defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons, Vrabel recalled that “Jeff is underneath contract,” speaking about his one-year possibility. He went on to explain how essential he’s to the staff when it comes to his “management, accountability and efficiency.”
-When requested about quarterback Ryan Tannehill, Vrabel mentioned he desires Tannehill “to be as wholesome as attainable and be our quarterback and work out the issues that can assist us win.”
Vrabel mentioned he appears to be like ahead to working with Amy Adams Strunk on the group’s course of to seek out the following normal supervisor. “I’ll assist as a lot as I can,” Vrabel mentioned. “We have had good conversations about it. It is not like Amy has stored me in the dead of night concerning the course of and the way it’s going.”
-Vrabel spent a number of time speaking concerning the harm scenario in latest seasons. He mentioned the staff will handle it and proceed to analyze why it has been an issue. Vrabel mentioned the staff will take a better take a look at mushy tissue accidents. Vrabel mentioned staff practices, regeneration days and methods to check gamers to forestall accidents may even be thought-about. “We have had a horrible two years injury-wise,” Vrabel mentioned. “Earlier than that, I feel it was at a stage the place you might say it was within the regular vary.” Vrabel acknowledged that the Titans drafted some gamers with a historical past of accidents. “I do not know if that is at all times a predictor of the longer term,” Vrabel mentioned. “In some circumstances possibly it was, and in some circumstances it wasn’t.”
Vrabel mentioned his message to Malik Willis shifting ahead “is to proceed to enhance, to proceed to develop and to proceed to work on these issues that we have continued to debate” to assist him be a greater quarterback.
Vrabel mentioned he was happy with what he noticed of quarterback Josh Dobbs in his transient stint with the staff, and anticipates the staff may have a dialogue about his potential future with the staff. “I loved having him right here, and I feel he had an influence in a brief period of time,” Vrabel mentioned. “We’ll have these conversations and see the place we find yourself.”
-Vrabel was requested to guage himself after a season by which the staff ended a seven-game dropping streak. “We did not do a ok job, we misplaced too many video games,” Vrabel mentioned. “That self-reflection, no person would assess that they did a ok job as a result of we did not win… The quick reply is: it wasn’t ok.”
-Vrabel mentioned receiver Treylon Burks must work on bettering after his rookie season. “I feel he realizes what he can do,” Vrabel mentioned, “if he is match and able to play and he is large and wholesome. He labored rather a lot and had some unlucky accidents — he harm his toe, he had the concussion cerebral. However I am excited to work with him and I am excited for him and his future. He in all probability had a sluggish begin, however that is the way you study generally, going by it.”
-Vrabel mentioned outdoors linebacker Harold Landry, who suffered a torn ACL earlier than the season, “appears to be like good … and hopefully he’ll be able to play (subsequent season) and make a full restoration, and are available again.” to play like earlier than. He received injured”.
-When requested concerning the identification of his soccer staff, Vrabel mentioned: “The identical factor I at all times needed it to be: sensible, powerful and quick,” Vrabel mentioned. “(I would like it to be) bodily. I nonetheless suppose a level of physicality is required on this recreation in any respect ranges. Basically sound, play with method. However we now have to be sooner. We have now to be a sooner soccer staff. We’re hardly ever The quickest staff on the market.”
-Velocity is a giant precedence for the staff this offseason, as Vrabel closed in the present day’s 30+ minute press with this: “You need the quickest roster you possibly can (have),” Vrabel mentioned. “You need everybody to be quick: you need your d-line to have the ability to run, you need your corners to have the ability to run, receivers. It is a quick recreation, so that is what you attempt to do on a regular basis: discover guys which are quick sufficient that they will play soccer. as attainable”.