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All Good Things Must End
After nearly 17 full NFL seasons as head coach of the Tennessee Titans, it’s time for Jeff Fisher and the Titans to part ways. This doesn’t have to be acrimonious and it doesn’t have to drag on forever. But it needs to happen soon. How? Since Bud Adams still has Jeff Fisher under contract as his head coach through 2011, but it’s clear that Fisher and starting quarterback Vince Young are finished. Fisher’s a smart head coach, he has marketability in the NFL. Surely Adams and Fisher can agree upon a job and work out a deal that allows the Titans to be compensated for Fisher and part ways amicably with the longest-tenured head coach in the league. 
Fisher may well win a Super Bowl somewhere else. I doubt it, because I think the game has passed him by, but he may. What he won’t do is win one with the Titans. He’s had 17 seasons to make that happen and where does the franchise stand? In the wake of Thursday night’s sixth consecutive defeat, a 30-28 loss to the Indianapolis Colts, the Titans are 5-8 and nowhere near a Super Bowl-caliber team.
Meanwhile Fisher hasn’t won a playoff game since 2003 and his best chances to win a title came at the beginning of the decade. He’s 141-115, after 17 seasons of coaching and has a winning percentage of 55 percent. That’s not good enough to justify him a coaching job for life, but it’s good enough to make him a marketable commodity.
It’s time for player and coach to split ways.
Let me be clear about this, I think Jeff Fisher is worth more not actually coaching the Titans than he is as the head man on the sideline. I’d ask for Fisher to resign to save the expense of his contract in 2011. If he wouldn’t do that, I’d make him sit on the sideline for a season and find another coaching staff in the meantime. Or, if you really wanted to be cruel, I’d make him return as Titans coach and have to play Vince Young as the starter at quarterback. You know, Vince Young, the player that Fisher got into a heated confrontation with after the Washington Redskins loss a few weeks ago. That fight and Young’s subsequent departure would have energized the team if VY had been the locker room cancer that Jeff Fisher wants us to believe he is. Instead, it’s done the opposite. Players on offense have openly sided with Vince Young in the dispute with his head coach, going 14 quarters without a touchdown before finally getting on the board just before the half Thursday night.
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Cancer Can Wait
Mike Heimerdinger will begin chemotherapy next week. But first, he’ll coach the Titans.
Heimerdinger, the Titans’ offensive coordinator, returned to practice on Thursday – a day after he was diagnosed with cancer. He will travel with the team to Houston and call plays against the Texans Sunday, Titans coach Jeff Fisher said.
“Doctors are going to wait to start his treatment until Monday,” Fisher said, according to Jim Wyatt of The Tennessean. “Obviously he feels good enough to finish up this week and to call the game. We’re very, very excited for that, to have him back and to keep him involved. We’re praying for him and it’s been a very, very emotional day, but it’s been great to get him back and the guys were happy to see him this morning.”
Wyatt reported that Heimerdinger politely opted to not speak with reporters Thursday.
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An Inevitable Split on the Horizon for the Titans and Vince Young
The guts of the NFL Titans’ titanic issue — the answer to whether quarterback Vince Young and coach Jeff Fisher have a working future here together — will have to wait for another day. Actually, for a few months.
But this is just a temporary delay. A thorny breakup looms down the road. An inevitable, enduring split.
Since Young’s thumb injury requires surgery and he will miss the rest of the Titans season, both Young and Fisher gained a reprieve on forcing an immediate answer. Titans owner Bud Adams said early on Monday morning to the Nashville Tennessean that he expected both men to work together and for Young to play ASAP.
Get this: Fisher called Adams to tell him that the thumb injury was season-ending. That was the sole focus of their conversation. Fisher called Young’s agent to tell the agent to tell Young the news.
As of late Monday afternoon, Fisher had still not talked to Young.
This after Young’s tirade and temper tantrum over getting hurt and not being allowed back on the field in Tennessee’s 19-16 loss on Sunday here against the Redskins . He caused a spectacle afterward, throwing his equipment into the stands and bolting from the locker room after a spat with Fisher.
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Vince Young and the Titan Receivers are read to take the next step
His quarterback is completing more tasks in practices, commanding more in preseason games and is looking fit and aware. But Jeff Fisher, the Tennessee Titans coach, always keeps this in mind.
“He’s young in this league,” 27 and enters his fifth NFL season. It seems, though, like he has been around longer. Big plays mixed with big troubles and a spotlight that has caught him in charitable ways but also in unsuitable incidents have made Young more familiar, more public, more prone to be kicked around.
But Young looks ready now. He looks primed for something big, something distinguishing this season. You could see it here on Monday night in his preseason game work against the Arizona Cardinals. It was evident here on Wednesday as the Cardinals stuck around for a joint practice. Read More >>
Steve McNair Already Coming up Short
Last Wednesday it was reported by Nashville police that former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was murdered by his mistress, Sahel Kazemi, whom then turned the gun and killed herself.
With a total of six shots fired including 4 to his head, and 2 more to his chest because she believed McNair was having a relationship with another woman.
“She told friends her life was so messed up that she was going to end it all,” Police Chief Ronal Serpas said. “She believed her relationship with Mr. McNair was unraveling. There is evidence she was spinning out of control.”
The Way of the Titans
With Vince Young back at practice, and being the franchise player will they end up sticking with Collins for now? Kerry Collins has been a key player with a 81.3 passer rating and managing the game without unnecessary risks it seems that Collins is the best guy for the job right now.
With limited time in during drills Vince Young was on the field for the first time this week since his knee injury on September 7th. Despite a great deal of support from teammates and friends it is said that Titans coach Jeff Fisher is going to stick with Collins as long as he keeps winning and with that said it should be noted that this is a franchise first 4-0 starting season so it is certainly an understandable decision.
Despite this Young practiced with a compression sleeve on his left knee including individual and 7 on 7 drills. Overall it is going to be important to continue to monitor hos progress through the week but it is possible that Young may be the number 2 against teh Ravens. Just looking to put thesea events behind them teammates and Young alike are looking forward to playing but is Collins looking to play a backup role again next season should that be the case? Collins even stated that ‘I’m going to have to make a decision’ and with his new found role and the end of his two year contract with the Titans ending this season he did mention that ‘It is going to be hard for me to go back to being a backup’.
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