As we continue to sort through the aftermath of the Tennessee Titans firing now-former general manager Jon Robinson, ESPN’s Adam Schefter had an interesting note in one of his reports concerning the dynamic between Robinson and Titans owner Amy Adams Strunk.
Per Schefter, Adams Strunk was not happy about being excluded from “a lot of conversations,” which one would assume is personnel decisions.
“This is a situation where the owner was not particularly happy with Jon Robinson and she decided to make a change this morning,” Schefter said.
“I think everybody remembers the A.J. Brown trade. They saw the Eagles this weekend and A.J. Brown lit up the Tennessee Titans… I think the owner was not happy — not entirely happy — about not being included in a lot of conversations, and I think she felt like she wanted to go in a different direction, so they have appointed Ryan Cowden as the interim GM and they’ll wind up being in the GM market after this season.”
“I think the owner was not happy, not entirely happy, about not being included in a lot of conversations.”
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It isn’t clear what conversations exactly, but clearly we’re not talking about practice squad signings here if it was enough to get Adams Strunk upset.
If Robinson did make big moves — like trading A.J. Brown — without first going to the owner, that would be quite the gutsy play on his part, and it would be understandable for Adams Strunk to not be happy about it.
But, again, we don’t know exactly what moves Schefter is talking about.
Taking Schefter’s words into consideration with everything else, it’s clear this was something that was building for awhile now; Week 13 was just the final straw.
