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It’s anyone’s guess as to the mood in the Tennessee Titans‘ locker room. They are 0-4, the team objectively stinks, they’ve lost 10 in a row dating back to last year, the coach’s job security is a daily discussion and the rookie quarterback has given a blunt assessment of his team’s play.
Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
Cam Ward was the first-overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft and is the future of the franchise. He said he steps up and leads when he has to, but lord knows he got killed for doing that last week.
“I always assert it when I think the time is necessary, but we’re not doing our job as a unit,” Ward said.
“We’re not doing our job and at some point it’s got to change. I hope it changes next week. We’re going to try to change it next week, but that needs to be the message. We have to change it one play at a time. If it doesn’t change, we’re just going to keep on getting these same results. We have to win games.”
Titans’ Cam Ward says things simply aren’t clicking anywhere
In 2025, Ward has completed a paltry 51.2% of his passes for 614 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. He’s also been sacked 17 times. In four games. Read that again.
Ward says the lack of offensive production isn’t on any one person, it’s on everyone; the team just isn’t consistent.
“I’m watching the film on the sideline,” Ward said.
“It’s there. It’s just whether it’s a bad play by me or a bad play by one of the eleven, it’s just not clicking when it needs to click. It has to click every drive and it’s not doing that yet. The biggest thing is the urgency. I think up front, those guys, they were gritty today. The run game and the pass game, they went against a good defensive line up there. From an offense standpoint, we just have to be consistent. It’s four games and we’re 0-4. Why? Because we’re inconsistent.”
Cam Ward’s “we ass” comments rubbed many in the organization the wrong way
Yes, by now you’ve heard that Ward referred to the team’s overall performance this year in two words. Well, some teammates and coaches didn’t love it.
“Cam has the right to speak how he wants to speak to the media, but I had some advice for him,” defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons said. “I’ll keep that off the record. When these microphones are in front of you, they can blow up just one part of what you are saying.”
Linebacker Cody Barton also wasn’t pleased.
“We talked to him and he didn’t mean it, it came off bad,” Barton said. “We knew what he meant, but we just told him, you’ve got to be careful with your words, and that’s that. We’re with Cam, he’s one of our teammates, we all love him and so there’s no animosity or anything like that toward him.”
Head coach Brian Callahan did his usual pretend-like-this-stuff-isn’t-happening-because-I’m-about-to-lose-my-job routine.
“He’s a young player,” Callahan said. “He’s the No. 1 overall pick, he’s the face of the franchise, if you will. He’s got high expectations for himself, and we have high expectations around him, and we all want to meet those.
“His ability to be in that spotlight, in that moment is a growing process for him. He’s growing up, I think he’s starting to understand the weight of his words – what those things mean when he speaks and everyone’s listening and watching. And even though he follows up his commentary with a lot of the right things, it’s the one-liner that gets taken.”
