{"id":151357,"date":"2022-12-08T02:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-tennessee-titans-players-reacted-to-gm-jon-robinsons-dismissal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T02:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:38:06","slug":"how-tennessee-titans-players-reacted-to-gm-jon-robinsons-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-tennessee-titans-players-reacted-to-gm-jon-robinsons-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tennessee Titans players reacted to GM Jon Robinson’s dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"
If reports from the locker room are any indication, Jon Robinson isn’t rooting for the Tennessee Titans’ downfall. At least not immediately.<\/p>\n
The Titans fired Robinson, their general manager of nearly seven years, on Tuesday. Titans coach Mike Vrabel and a number of players said Wednesday that they’d heard from Robinson in the last 24 hours, all sharing some version of the same story.<\/p>\n
“I reached out to J-Rob,” defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons said. “He told me when I talked to him, ‘Go win the freaking game.’ Our job is to win the game. The emotions might be there for a lot of guys, but we can’t let that get in the way of our goal. I’m sure J-Rob would want the same thing.”<\/p>\n
REPLACING ROBINSON:<\/strong>16 candidates for Tennessee Titans to replace Jon Robinson, including Mike Vrabel<\/p>\n WHY IT MAKES SENSE:<\/strong>Jon Robinson’s Tennessee Titans firing was about far more than AJ Brown | Estes<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Titans (7-5) have plenty left in front of them this season, starting with a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars (4-8) on Sunday (noon, CBS). This is a team a few weeks away from potentially winning its third-straight division title and securing its fourth-straight playoff berth. It’s a team built on the mentality that it can win championships now, and that outlook hasn’t wavered in the hours since Robinson’s firing.<\/p>\n\n It’s also a team built by<\/em> robinson Fifty-two of the 53 players on the Titans’ active roster were signed, drafted or traded for by Robinson, the lone exception being defensive back John Reid, who the Titans signed Tuesday after Robinson’s dismissal. Counting players on the practice squad and injured reserve, only offensive tackle Taylor Lewan’s tenure with the Titans predates Robinson. Robinson hired Vrabel, and together they established the identity and mentality that put the Titans in the position they’re in.<\/p>\n\n Now, the players Robinson brought to Nashville are being confronted with the reality that ownership believes Robinson didn’t do a good enough job of bringing players to Nashville.<\/p>\n “I think the guys in the locker room understand the pressure and are reminded of it daily,” quarterback Ryan Tannehill said. “What’s at stake and how this organization expects us to go out and play and win games. I don’t know if there’s an overall message (coming from Robinson’s dismissal), but if there is, then that’s something we’re constantly reminded of on a daily basis.”<\/p>\n\n Safety Kevin Byard looks at Robinson as the man who changed his life. Byard credits Robinson’s decision to draft him in 2016 as the choice that reshaped the tragedy of his family’s well-being for generations to come. He says he has love and respect for Robinson, but he also gets Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk’s decision to move on from Robinson.<\/p>\n “It’s understandable,” Byard said. “I want to win the championship my damn self. If that’s how she feels, she feels like the roster isn’t where it needs to be and she needs to move on, then I respect that. Obviously, I have a lot of love for the guys in this locker room today and I feel the same way I did in the beginning of the season, that we can make a championship run with the players we have.”<\/p>\n