Titans management

Basically, Reese controls the personnel (drafting, FAs, cuts, etc...) and Fisher controls the coaching and who plays. Reese is often willing to get what Fisher wants, but not all the time.

Underwood is now the team president and when Reese and Fisher disagree on something he can make the final decision (which is what Jeff Diamond used to do). And, of course, whatever Bud wants, he gets...

 

Fisher has input on what he wants and Reese generally tried to get it. But they have differing opinions at times, especially regarding the draft. Often they want 2 different players and Reese either takes the guy he thinks is best (like in the case of McNair instead of Kevin Carter) or he throws Fisher a bone.

As for Fisher's talent evaluation, I don't know how much of that he does. I'm sure he does some, but not to what extent.

 

I believe the talent is evaluated and info is given to fisher and he says who best fits the schemes.

 

Well...

In general, the coordinators decide which players are playing for what plays and who does what. It is their job to decide who starts, who plays nickel and dime in different packages, ect.

If Fisher did this for offense, defense and special teams, he'd be working many more hours than their are in a day. Since I'm not on the coaching staff of the Titans, I can't say for certain that Fisher doesn't decide explicitly who plays and who sits on offense, defense, special teams and all packages (of which their are a lot), but it is unreasonable to think he does the work of 3 coordinators as well as his headcoaching responsibilities.

For example, when Belicheck was the DC for the Giants and they were preparing their D for the Bills in the Super Bowl, Parcells didn't decide which players started and which ones didn't, Belicheck did. And that's saying something because Belicheck completely changed his starting personel in a way that NO ONE has ever done before nor after.

In general, the head coach discusses strategy with the coordinators so everyone's on the same page and Fisher would certainly have input, but he's not designing the schemes. We do know that he will interject a playcall here and there, but he also doesn't call the offense or defenses fulltime.

If the point of this is who is to blame for LT and others starting, I believe you point the finger at two people. JS for playing them and JF for not preventing them from being played. JF rubber stamps everything his coaching staff does so he can not escape blame.

However, JS could certainly have made adjustments to lessen the negative impact of the players exposed on our defense and he has not even tried to.

We can only hope the Titans find a good GM who will be able to manage the team better than Reese with regards to both talent and the cap. I hope he will also have some say over the assistants (be able to pressure JF to replace them) if they stink up the joint.

Gut