Where Tennessee Titans general manager Ran Carthon is in his evaluation process
MOBILE — The NFL Draft process is in full swing and the Tennessee Titans are in need of a reboot. General manager Ran Carthon knows he has his work cut out for him after a little over two weeks on the job. Collaboration is key. "Just here working," Carthon told me at the Senior Bowl this […]
MOBILE — The NFL Draft process is in full swing and the Tennessee Titans are in need of a reboot. General manager Ran Carthon knows he has his work cut out for him after a little over two weeks on the job.
Collaboration is key.
"Just here working," Carthon told me at the Senior Bowl this week. "Getting a chance to meet these guys. Actually, just met a lot of (the Titans) road (scouts) for the first time. So, it was good to see them in their environment, really get to know them. Just another part of the process."
So, what is Tennessee's newest executive looking for in the next crop of Titans players?
New faces does not mean the overall Titans personnel approach is changing
That may sound counterintuitive to Tennessee fans reading at home.
When Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk parted ways with former GM Jon Robinson, part of her reasoning was that the club's current standards were not being met. Carthon knows that a team that has become accustomed to a certain level of success is still capable of achieving and surpassing the peaks (and valleys) it has seen in the last few years. Carthon said at his introductory press conference that his first priority was getting in sync with coach Mike Vrabel.
Vrabel's "type" has not changed when it comes to who he wants on his roster in Tennessee.
"I feel like me growing my relationship with Mike (Vrabel), said Carthon." "Me growing my relationship with his coaching staff will allow me to have a better understanding and allow our scouts to have a better understanding of what it takes to be a Titan. What that looks like on the field and allows us to go out there and find it."
Carthon spent the week "breaking bread" with the entirety of Tennessee's staff that traveled to Mobile this week for this first major offseason event.
The fruits of that relationship-building effort have just started, but are paying dividends in how the club seeks to reenergize itself in an effort to get back to its previously winning ways.
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