 There is breaking coaching news in the NFL. Before we went to break, we had asked the question, would you give up draft capital to acquire Mike rabel to be your team's head coach? Turns out that's no longer necessary. And after tweeted the following, the Titans have fired head coach Mike rabel per sources. Michael led Tennessee to four consecutive winning seasons after arriving in 2018, but the Titans have experienced back to back frustrating seasons finishing multiple games under 500 both times. In Rappaport has also reported that the Titans have fired Mike rabel and he will not return in 2024 sources say as both sides will move on after six seasons that included one coach of the year nod for rabel. He's expected to be one of the top candidates available. And Ian adds fair to say, keep an eye on New England and what's next for Bill Belichick. This follows a report yesterday from Jordan Schultz that said if Mike rabel does shake free that he would be interested in returning to New England, isn't that the street the movie theaters on? Stop that. Stop that T bone. I love it T bone. All right, so back to money back to money with the with the Patriots. If you've got a free agent, which Mike rabel is now he's a free agent. And he's got to be he's one of the top guys on the market and you want to get you want to talk to one of the top guys on the market, but you still got a head coach. What are you going to do? You got to fire the head coach if you want one of the top guys and if he's one of the top guys now you got to pay him. So this is a lot of money here, but the Titans will also kick in some cash kick in his next stop. So it all kind of washes out. Okay. He'll be getting money from the Titans. You'll be paying money to bill wherever he goes. This is and this is also the NFL is such a small it really it's a big league. It's a small league. Think about this. Okay. Bill Belichick if he moves on is probably going to be replaced by one of his former players, either Mike Vrabel, who he signed or Geron Mayo, who he drafted. Mike Vrabel was fired by Rand Carthon, son of Maurice Carthon, who Bill Belichick and Bill Parcells coach with the Giants in here. And I wonder if Carthon, the son ran, I wonder if he fired Vrabel because of personality or the record. Nobody talks about the record here with Vrabel. Well, that's the thing too. Like when he took over at Tennessee, they had a massive offensive line, well schooled. The defense was young and on to come and you had a young Derek Henry and he made the critical bad decision at quarterback. It was a Mariota, Tannehill deal. Instead of going with Tom Brady to where they probably could have won a Super Bowl with Brady 2020 had an opportunity. That's four years ago, 2020. Just before and just before Brady made his decision, they re-signed Ryan Tannehill to a big contract. So they make, they have a decision between you, Tom Brady and Ronnie, Ryan Tannehill. And you, you pick Ryan Tannehill. You know what Tannehill made here when they did that 30 million, 30 million dollars you committed a year to Ryan Tannehill instead of Tom Brady. Because I felt like, because he did, he was bigger upside. He took over from Mariota and Mariota was, you know, talk about a bust. I mean, it was a second pick in the draft and just really never, he never got to win with Brady. Right. And I get that. So you made the decision. You know, Mariota, you bring in Tannehill and you start, you win some games, but you're never going to get anywhere. And which Vrabel found out, you're never going to get anywhere with Ryan Tannehill as your, as your starting quarterback. He's not going to be the reason you win games. Robert do it. Go get Mike Vrabel. Oh, you want Vrabel here? Go get Mike Vrabel and blow everybody out. What? There you go. Blow everybody out and start over with Mike Vrabel and a new GM and it can be someone with Patriot ties, but it's new and I would let him hire his offensive coordinator. And I would not hesitate. You mentioned his name earlier in the show, Michael to call the recently fired Arthur Smith in Atlanta. They worked together before put it back together. You give him the third overall pick, start building this thing. And these are all people that you should trust. Mike Vrabel, right? That's a guy that they trust and they like quite a bit. Isn't it? Yeah, man. I think they like them. Okay. They like them. Okay. And then you get Patriots Hall of Famer. Yep. It's got a red jacket, red jacket guy, red jacket guy. And then you figure out who your GM is going to be. That is going to work alongside Mike Vrabel as a team. But see now here's the problem. I like, I like what you were saying. Beatle until I just remembered something. See, it's all about relationships. I just remembered Mike Vrabel first job in the NFL. Who staff was he on? He was on Bill O'Brien. Okay. And so he's not going to blow out Bill O'Brien for Arthur Smith. He's not going to do it. They're going to do it for, they're going to blow everybody out. See, they're going to know right now this week, tomorrow, Wednesday, they announced we're letting everybody go. After all I've done for you in football, you didn't say you didn't, you didn't put in a good word for me. Then they're going to conduct the search. That's what they're going to do. So, so Mayo's out. So you would mail would not be the head coach in this scenario. No, he would, would you keep him? Would you keep him on staff? Do you think he would want to stay on staff as say Vrabel's DC coordinator? Maybe. Maybe that's the way they, they do it. I take it as a slight. I would mail. Of course. Yes. And you've been talking about it. Been grew me. I've been, we've been having these discussions. I turned down a head coaching interview. You told me to wait. I waited. Sure. I turn on a, sure. The guy turned down, but if you really move on from Bill, I'm ready to take over the reins. Like that's, I would take that as a slight. And again, to go back to a report in November, early November, Ben Voland reported that the Patriots internally viewed Mike Frabel as a home run choice to be their next head coach. That's a hell of a hall of fame weekend here. I was involved a lot of that stuff and they loved them as did Bill. Bill came and talked glowingly. Bill's at his best. I print a podium, tell him the stories. Mike Frabel now available fired today in Tennessee. I would take him in a hard beat. He knows how to run a program. He's a guy who connects with this generation of player. I'm hesitating and he's got experience, which I think is needed right now. I appreciate the experience advantage. What do you hesitate? I'm like, I'm hesitating. I a lot of people knows I've known him for a long time from the same hometown. I did not know that. Yeah, same hometown. I covered him in high school. Mike Frabel high school in high school. Yes. He did you wrong? Did he? He did not. He did not. He did. And he would say, and here's he was a great. He was a great high school athlete. Sure was a defensive end at that time. Defensive end Titan. Now became a linebacker and a prose, but he was a defensive end in college to great, great college player. You know, that's why he was drafted first Robert Smith. Now Mike Frabel, you are down on all your guys. No, but Mike Frabel a lot of respect for, you know, what he's done and his is football intellect, but I just go back to what he did with that team. How do we dismiss that? I just in other words, how do you say? Hey, Bill Belichick, the performance has fallen off and the development of the players has isn't what it's supposed to be. And then bringing a guy who has disappointed in Tennessee. I mean, they have they've slid to. Does he have any? Does he have any part of that? Is do you blame him for any of that? Or are we just to be honest? Are we still so smitten by the image of Mike Frabel coming in Tom Brady's last game at Gillette Stadium last game as a Patriot, Mike Frabel coming in and watching Bill Belichick lose his ish as he outcoached him down the stretch and just melted the clock. They had to change that rule. Yeah. No, 2020 in him. Pancing Bill on that clock rule and using his own tricks against him. How often do you see that? But that's half of his playoff victories in his career, right? Is he have how many playoff victories? He's got two victories, one against you. Yeah. With Ryan Tannehill is his quarterback. Okay. That's impressive. Two and five. I'm a glass half full kind of guy, Michael. I see you. Okay. All right. It's a look. He's a he's a strong candidate. It's not a no brainer for me. It's what I'm saying. Okay. If they wind up with Mike Vrabel is that an awful decision? No, may or Vrabel Vrabel. I don't know. You don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what I need to know what else is happening. Okay. And that in that ecosystem. I know I know they think I know what else is going on around there. I know they think down there. I think this is bad for mail. Oh, you think it's bad for him? I think this is the one they like. Oh, this is this is the one thing that could have popped up that you probably didn't think it was going to happen and pop up a little Jim Loutran around her. Hey, would you trade for Vrabel like this is before the news broke? Then the news breaks. Now it's like you got him. He's available. We got he's right there. It's only going to go now you get all the lawyer. Now you get everybody together. Now all you have to do is legal team unite. You have to write you have to figure out a way to move on from your head coach. Then you got to come up with a contract. You need to create you need to do that. You need to create this. I don't say farce of of we're going to interview a bunch of people. But that's kind of what this has come to, right? You know, and you got to get people in you got to talk to them. You got to respect the Rooney roll. You got to interview two minorities, even though you probably know that's your guy, right? You know. So I mean, still, it's Tuesday. It's gonna take time. It's gonna take time. First of all, to deal with bill if you want to move on and get all that stuff set up. Now you got to take a deep breath. Then you got to decide, okay, here's the crew. We want to interview now. We've got a statement from the Titans on this. We'll get to that. Also Nick Casario responding directly to the idea that he might leave Houston and go back to New England. You'll hear him in his own words on that. It's all in the way.