Titans GM gives curious response when explaining team-building philosophy

Using a basketball metaphor, Carthon explained that high-scoring offenses are great during the regular season but don’t result in championships. He’s wrong, of course. Golden State, the NBA team he used in his metaphor, has won four championships since 2015, in part due to the team’s high-flying offense.

As for the football world, Warren Sharp looked at the last six Super Bowl winners and each finished in the top half of the league in pass rate, with five finishing in the top five. 

The idea that championship teams run the football, play good defense and don’t do “sexy” things like throw the football would have made sense in the 1960s and 70s but is a ridiculous assertion to make in 2023.

It might explain the team’s curious decision to trade star wide receiver A.J. Brown to Philadelphia last offseason, however. The move certainly made the Titans less “cute and sexy,” but curiously didn’t amount to better play during the colder months.

After beginning the season 7-3, Tennessee lost its last seven games and missed the playoffs.

The league is well past the point where it should be common knowledge that to win a Super Bowl, a team needs a strong passing game. A team like the 2015 Broncos winning a championship with a severely limited Peyton Manning is an exception to the rule.

Tennessee needs to adopt a modern philosophy if it wants to join the AFC’s elite. With their current thinking, they’ll turn to dust.