Ben Maller Rips Titans Owner for Ducking the Media After Firing Mike Vrabel

BEN MALLER SHOW – Ben Maller reacts to Mike Vrabel being fired from the Tennesee Titans and expresses his disappointment with how Titans owner Amy Adams handled the firing.

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So if you didn’t hear about this and that means you weren’t paying attention at all you had other things going on so we learned that the Titans Remember the Titans they have whacked Mike Vel hang on fired his head coach no more V Rael 48 years old done done in Tennessee

After backto back stinko performances losing Seasons there the Tennessee Titans who had been so good for good stretch but the last couple years falling on Hard Times Titans 13 and 21 and they have said bye-bye to their head coach they were 41 and 24 the first

Four seasons of the Mike Vel regime and they were a team that did not have a quarterback but did contend with some of the better teams in the American Football Conference so let us discuss the question how did you how did you react to the Titans d pumping Mike Rabel

So I’ve got Demolition Man Wizard of Oz and Lou Brown and we will tie all of these things together and we are going to make a good country music song which they used to make a lot of those in Nashville back in the day all right so a

Some people I was kindy of getting the pulse of the room and some people seem to be genuinely surprised by this which I’m puzzled by uh I I am and I I realize that I’m kind of close to this whole thing because I spent every day obsessing with the

Stupid NFL news like who cares it’s pretty meaningless but I spent a lot of time worried about it because it’s kind of part of the job and I don’t understand if you were paying any attention why you would be surprised in the least that Mike Vel is out in

Nashville if you listened between the words if you followed the breadcrumbs from the Nashville hot chicken sandwiches the clues were smacking you across the forehead a marital breakdown had taken place Mike Vel wanted improvements he was tired of coaching a second rate roster he wanted to Tinker and improve

The team and have a chance have a chance now rather than just be David versus Goliath he wanted to be a little closer to Goliath now the Tennessee brass said screw you we want to do a full tear down bring in in Demolition Man demo demolition derby right demo the interior

Of the roster they’ve already done a lot of that break it down to the studs of course there won’t be any studs if you get rid of everyone and then remodel from the ground up you know top 10 picks and trading up in the draft for your

Star Quarterback they’ll do all that and then some but they’ll do it with a no-name coach because Mike Vel is out now meanwhile Mike Vel sitting off in the corner of the room with a Cheshire Cat smile from ear to ear on his face because Rael zooms to the VIP status in

The Cool Kids Club of coaching candidates and this coaching Carousel he’s on the biggest horsey on the coaching Carousel he’s got limited baggage Vel ran a conservative run first team that was able to make a Super Bowl run they didn’t get to the Super Bowl

But they made a run with Ryan tanah Hill who sucked he’s got warts all over him and Tennessee made a run beat Baltimore in the playoffs with Lamar Jackson if you remember a few years back but vabel becomes the Babe mag magnet man he’s he’s number one right at public

Courtship and you got to think Vel will end up if he wants with one of these other gigs around the NFL people connecting him to the Patriots but Bill Bell at this hour we’re we’re monitoring the highspeed sports wire if there was such a thing but bich hasn’t been let go

Go at this hour so he’s made it through Monday he’s made it through Tuesday we’re now in the overnight on Wednesday morning and belich has not been let go so I might be wrong on this I don’t know a lot I the overnight show but I’m

Pretty sure you have to get rid of belich in order to hire Vel although I guess it’s conceivable you could hire Vel as a coach in waiting and be the defensive coordinator it’s unlikely all right turn the page page two here the other part of this story which was very

Intriguing to me me the Tennessee Titans owner now the Tennessee Titans owner is not a household name but the owner of the Tennessee football team opted to do an inhouse interview rather than the traditional face the media right face the cameras and all that after dumping

Mike Vel Amy Adam Strunk which I’m told is the owner of the team she explained why the team decided to get rid of Rael she did that not to the traditional media as we said she did that to the Team cheerleader the playby playay announcer for the Tennessee football

Team Mike Keith who is literally played or literally paid I should say literally paid to poish turds right to celebrate the Titans and all that so what is your take on Tennessee ownership avoiding the traditional face the music with the media for a little chitchat with the in-house media for the team so

This is a Wizard of Oz situation it’s a Wizard of Oz situation instead of playing hard ball with the reporters the traditional hey you make a big move make a grown-up move you’re a grownup and you do what grown-ups do and whether you like the media or not the football media they’re

Usually pretty soft anyway but they’re a conduit to the fan the Tennessee owner said screw the fans I don’t care about the fans fans I’m going to play softball I I’m going to play Tiddly Winks is what I’m going to do and tell me you’re a chicken liver without telling me you’re

A chicken liver and the reason is a Wizard of Oz situation this is the epitome of the Cowardly line if I only had the nerve if I only had the nerve if I only had the nerve you had the balls to dump Mike Rael yet you chose to

Hide in a friendly bunker with state sponsored media a person who’s on your payroll was asking you question that is sad that is pathetic that is that is all of those things right that is all of those things now I a voice in my head I have

Voices in my head I guess I’m schizophrenic but a voice in my head tells me that we have a little audio of some of the reaction of the owner I believe we have that so let’s go to the audio tape it wasn’t a last night or a month

Ago or whenever it’s just kind of been All Season watching and it it was difficult but I thought it was time to make that change a coach’s contract you can’t trade them unless they’re a willing partner to that trade so yes we thought about it but at the end of the

Day with league rules the way they are it would have maybe put us back 3 weeks and you know honestly to to get the right head coach I was just not willing to to go to the back of the line and take a chance of missing out on someone we we really

Wanted do you realize how sad that is this woman is an embarrassment I don’t know who she is but she she’s obviously got in the right line to inherit the team but it’s pathetic right mark my words the Titans are heading to a deep dark place you’re telling me you can’t

Wait 3 weeks to trade Mike Vel cuz the next coach you hire will be fired before you you’re any good again so who cares who the next coach is you should put an online job posting for a new coach doesn’t matter hire a fan have a raffle

Hire a fan you’re gonna suck you’re gonna blow for the next several years you wouldn’t trade Vel for some graphics not that I love draft picks but just let him walk away and it’s such a weasle move and there are people that have more uh more hutzpah in in my business and

There’s few of them left but I used to work at a radio station the program director fired one of the popular hosts at the radio station and people were very upset that they got rid of this guy he was had pretty good ratings did pretty well and the uh

Didn’t get along with the PD so they fired him and the day of that he was doing an after afternoon Drive show the guy the PD sat in that chair sat in the talk show chair for four hours and took live bullets he took calls from Angry listeners who were furious with his

Decision and he sat there and he took every call and he listened and those that curs didn’t make it on the air but that’s leadership what the Tennessee Titans have is a marshmallow running their team that’s what they have a marshmallow and and not only you get the

Get the two mistakes vel’s a pretty good coach so you get rid of Vel I’m not saying he’s the greatest coach in the world he’s a pretty good coach and then you could have traded him when you’re obviously tanking that’s the move here to try to suck for the next few years

All right last word and you don’t even get any form so where do the Titans Go for their next head coach well I’ve already revealed my hand here this is what’s known as a starter job it’s a starter job so there’s only 32 of these

So it’s not that bad but in the context of the NFL it is a starter job and it’s like that classic scene from Major League the movie the old movie Major League the GM there Charlie Donovan’s on the phone hey how would you like to coach the Tennessee Titans this year and

Then you got the Lou Brown who’s working at a tire store uh gee I don’t know and then the GM there comes back on Charlie Donovan what do you mean you don’t know this is your chance to coach in the National Football League and then Lou

Brown comes back and says well let me get back to you there Charlie I got a guy on the other line asking for some White Walls uh that’s pretty much what this is right if you’re an aspiring coach you take the job but they’re going to hire some coordinator you’ve never

Heard of who has an agent who gets the football riters to slobber all over him this is a teenager getting a summer job at YMCA Camp that the Tennessee Titans job and you get the job you’re bedeviled you’re climbing a broken ladder and the ladder is not broken until you get to

The 14th story so good luck the deck is stacked against you now you still again take the job pays pretty well looks good on a resume so you got to take the job but what a mess it’s ownership announcing we are out of the winning business we’re done and we could not

Even wait a few weeks to get something in return for Mike Rael we’ll just let him go on and have success with this next team now that’s quality leadership and make sure I get only asked softball question I want to be tossed water balloons is what I want okay on a hot

Day A nice water balloon so if it breaks I don’t care because I get some some nice water to cool me off