Ryan Tannehill had an opportunity to address
the trade from six days ago. That shocked everyone when Brown was
sent to the Eagles during the first round of the draft.
Here's Tannehill.
On the loss of his top, receiver
Helen hurt.
You know, obviously
professionally it hurt, you know, top Target, you know,
heck of a football player made big plays for us consistently
over the last three years.
Personally. It hurt.
AJ is a good friend.
Have a lot of
great times, great memories on and off the field with him,
just not being able to see him. See him on a daily basis. Has
it's going to be different. It's going to be hard.
Honestly. I thought you were going to get it done. You know,
I thought it was, you know,
Everyone trying to play their leverage as part of the game,
you know,
you know, everyone's trying to get the best deal, two teams,
trying to do the best thing for, for the team, and
the players trying to do the best thing for the player. And
Just in my heart. I thought we were gonna
have a check here for a long time. And
unfortunately, it didn't work out. You know, we
had to do, what had to be done. But
it doesn't take the sting away. You know, I think I was
shocked. I,
when I first found out I'm like, you know, this isn't
real, this isn't happening. It's a rumor. And then talk to
AJ
found out. I was real and
s*** terrible at night and you kept thinking, like it's just
a bad dream, but That's where we're at.
And this is a guy that Ryan Tannehill has been much better
when he has AJ Brown. Then when he does not, look at those
differences in passing yards per game. Completion percentage
touchdown to interception
ratio. And most importantly, record, 11 and 2 with
1 in 3 without wow,
that is huge. That is a dramatic difference for a guy that
really going into this offseason. The average fan
wouldn't have said. Oh, AJ Brown is one of the best
receivers in the league. Oh, AJ Brown is going to turn
the market upside down to wage a Titans bird, take care of him.
He's gonna get traded.
I think numbers like those. Chris
should put people on notice.
That number one AJ, Brown is a pretty damn good player. Number
two, this experiment at the Titans have decided to perform.
It could go like Peter. Brady volcano, baby.
This idea of bringing in trail on Burks and saying play. It's
like going, it's like showing up at the showing up at a show
playing the role tonight of AJ Brown is Trail on Burks.
Yeah, a lot of pressure on trail on Burks. It's
a lot of pressure on everybody else
and
unfortunate for the Titans. Well, maybe fortunate, who
knows great test case. Can you move on from great receiver
backfill with great rookie
and hope that it works out just fine. Yeah. You're right.
I mean, it is, it's the, it's the ultimate, you know, right now
experiment that everybody's excited to see in the NFL. Hey,
I mean, you know, losing AJ, Brown. I'm gonna course. That's
not going to make the playoff loss last year. Any better
either
from Ryan Tannehill.
That's the other thing I think about like, yeah, that's that's
what you take home with your damn. This might be the last
time I get to play with this guy.
I'm sure that hurts Tannehill to not have AJ Brown. I mean,
I AJ Brown is a guy. We talked about all the time here. The
stats speak for themselves.
You see, I mean again, he's a guy, you could throw a five
yard out route and he breaks a tackle and runs up
the sideline, 80 yards for a touchdown. There's just not
a lot of people in football, the can do that.
So that's where he special
know and and you know
those stats of course are impressive. I would bet. Get
you some of those two. He missed some games. Last year
are also without Derrick Henry, right? So, it's like a double
whammy last year, without AJ Brown, and Derrick Henry to
make those stats. Look even more
worse for Ryan Tannehill, but Game Changer Mike. And it's
the guys we talked about all the time, the route Runners
all the caches, all, that's good.
But to me, it's these guys. It's, you know, how you talked
about, we talked about Jamar, Chase and demos Samuel. They're
just on a different level. In the fact of they can do
whatever Plus and That's where they're to me are special. Oh
wait, he's double covered. Downfield, whatever. We'll
throw it up. He'll catch it. Oh, he's running a slant route,
over the middle. He catches it, and break somebody tackle and
break somebody's ankles and takes off. I
mean that that to me is where he goes above and beyond and
separates himself from a lot of other receivers in the game.
And this is going to be a major challenge for a Titans team,
that now has a much different vibe to it. They had been
this this Beacon of stability and just kind of quietly going
about their business building. Their team overlooked
disregarded. Hey, they're the number one seed,
in a, in a sea of highly competitive franchises in
the AFC. They emerge as a surprise number one seed, and now it
just feels like it's all
kind of topsy-turvy with a
AJ Brown traded Julio, Jones long gone and that never worked out
and then they do
the thing. That puts Ryan Tannehill future into question.
Not short-term future but long-term future, the move to
get Malik Willis with third-round. Pick after he fell
out of Round 1 and round 2 and fell behind Desmond. Ritter
became the third quarterback. Drafted.