Titans' firing of Mike Vrabel is going to hit differently now | Estes

This isn’t a savvy organization. If we’ve learned nothing else about the Tennessee Titans during their steep slide of recent years, we've learned that. So many regrettable personnel decisions, and one that stands above others.

But even our lowly Titans , bless their hearts, were not foolish enough to fire an elite football coach for no reason other than their own foolishness. The rest of the NFL, slowly, is beginning to figure that out. The scandal raging in New England right now is a big problem for Mike Vrabel, and that makes it a big Patriots problem at a bad time – during the NFL draft.

It dang sure isn’t a Titans problem, though. If anything, for the first time since Vrabel started his second NFL head-coaching job, smirks in Tennessee’s direction are ceasing. Fewer people are asking what on earth the Titans could’ve been thinking when they fired Vrabel after the 2023 season.

Because those people can see it. I’m not just talking about the photos with NFL reporter Dianna Russini from the New York Post, which are becoming more numerous and more insistent about the possibility of a (long-standing) romantic relationship between her and Vrabel while each are married to other people. Estes: Mike Vrabel-Dianna Russini scandal black eye for NFL's 'insider' media culture I’m talking mostly about how Vrabel continues to mishandle the fallout from those photos.