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Nearly six months ago, the Tennessee Titans front office and its coaching staff decided to blame the team’s abysmal defense on the players rather than the coaching staff when they announced Shane Bowen would be the Defensive Coordinator in 2021.
Due to a combination of the NFL’s reduced salary cap in 2021 and the historically bad defense, the team cut/chose not to re-sign: Kenny Vaccaro, Jadeveon Clowney, DaQuan Jones, Adoree Jackson, and Desmond King.
There is a great argument to be made that the poor coaching of Shane Bowen and Mike Vrabel were more to blame than the players, but that is a topic for another article (specifically this one).