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The Titans traded Amani Hooker to the Bills for a second-round pick. This might be the best move Mike Borgonzi has made that was not rooted in hope. A top-60 pick is four years of contractual control. Has he made a move that lopsided at the time of the trade? I do not think so. They overdrafted Cam Ward. The Seahawks trade on draft day was bad. Dre’Mont Jones was whatever.Also: Best Borgonzi moves at the time: Hooker for a second, and Dan Moore Jr. for four years and $82 million. The problem is this defense, which ranks 31st, is going to be absolute dog shit the rest of the way. I do not think he has done enough to justify a third season if the first two fail to reach nine wins. This feels like a bad move for the Bills. Desperate. Josh Allen is 30. He is going to be good over the next four years. Could the Titans go for Justin Herbert? Cam, their 2027 first, Buffalo’s second, and Chicago’s 2028 first. The trade deadline is one of three days where a team actually tells you what they think. Free agency opens, cut-down day, and the deadline. The Jags made a “f**k them picks” move for Jordan Davis. The Vikings turned to Kirk Cousins. The Colts did almost nothing. The Bengals are idiots. Peter Schrager’s show today was fine. Boring. More Schrager, less ESPN circle jerk. Straight talk with no filter.

AtoZ Sports reports Calvin Ridley was involved in an incident with an airport valet over the bye week. Robert Saleh acted like it was nothing. That is what Saleh does. This team has a bad culture. These things keep happening. And now Ridley has tanked any trade value he had.Also: The trade deadline is tomorrow. The Titans are not trading Tony Pollard because they are trying to make it work with Cam Ward. They probably are not getting anything for Ridley. Saleh said they were a couple of plays from 5-3 and he can see they are getting better. They are 1-7. 31st in offense. 31st in defense. Stop making me the bad guy for calling it out. Dianna Russini is returning. All signs point to her hosting The Russini Report Wednesday. I think she has to talk about VrabelGate if she wants to be taken seriously. Big Bad Vrabel is already wearing out his welcome in Foxboro. Straight talk with no filter.🔗 Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n91SNu-yNf4

Easton Freeze says the New York Giants are lying and that Mike Borgonzi’s trade of Jeffery Simmons was in good faith on three premises: The Giants have a leaky organization. The Titans could not afford to let Simmons know they wanted to trade him. The Titans would not have gotten a better offer from any of the other 30 teams — Giants included — so it is moot. The second part of the Florio story people are missing. Florio says Borgonzi will not engage on Tony Pollard. Saying you will not do a fifth for him is one thing. Not picking up the phone is something else. Do we believe that? Do we believe John Harbaugh is out to get Mike Borgonzi? Do we believe the Giants are less leaky, or less honest, than the Titans? Do we really think there was no way the Titans could have gotten a better offer somewhere else?Also:Straight talk with no filter.🔗 Watch the full video here: https://youtube.com/live/6GPmoeioV0AThis is clean and searchable for Megaphone listeners. Let me know if you want any tweaks.Give me a YouTube thumbnail imageWhat's the Megaphone format?Remove the second part about FlorioThink Harder

Big Jeff dominated Seattle. Should the Titans have seller’s remorse after only getting two first-round picks that probably will not be that good?Also: Way too many former Titans were out there balling for Seattle and Chicago last night. Why do these guys look so good the second they leave the Titans? Titans fans want to pump the “Sam Darnold stunk” angle. That is not true. The story yesterday was Simmons making the Bears defense look like the 1985 Bears. John Harbaugh defends his call to Amy Adams Strunk. Why did he go over Mike Borgonzi’s head? Business or personal? Straight talk with no filter.🔗 Watch the full video here: https://youtube.com/live/NLupbxCtJAA

Cam Ward played, by every metric, his best game as an NFL quarterback against the Bengals. Decisive. On time. On target. Most yards, most touchdowns, best rating, highest PFF grade. They put up yards and points.If this is Cam Ward, the conversation gets more interesting than “he’s a bust and you missed.” What this cannot become is the one outlier everyone points to when he reverts to the mean. Right now he is 2023 Will Levis. Moments. He proved he could. I have no idea if he will.Also: I have no problem saying he played well. The best thing for the Titans would be to have their quarterback. The Bengals defense stinks. Yesterday was more about that than it was about Cam. Credit to Robert Saleh. The team showed up after trading Jeffery Simmons. Can you really afford to trade Tony Pollard because of how important he is for Cam? The Predators traded Matthew Wood for Shane Wright. I just need something good to happen to that team. Straight talk with no filter.🔗 Watch the full video here: https://youtube.com/live/cw-JN3Sj4NE

The Titans lost 43-36 in overtime to the Bengals and fell to 1-7. Joe Burrow threw five touchdown passes in regulation and ran for the game-winner in OT.Cam Ward had the first 300-yard game of his career. He went 26 of 40 for about 340 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions. Tony Pollard scored twice. Amani Hooker had three interceptions. It was not enough. The Titans could not get a first down when they got the ball in overtime.Full postgame reaction.Straight talk with no filter.

The Jeffery Simmons trade is done. How we remember it depends on what the Titans do with the picks. The real story is Mike Borgonzi asking for a second chance to build the team.He had his first chance. He drafted Cam Ward. He missed. He missed in free agency. They just traded the best player on the roster and got nothing that helps them win this year. With their actions, they admitted they blew it. Before November of Year 2.Albert Breer reports they studied the big rebuild trades and think they can add six to 10 young players. Would you let them? I would not.Also: This whole trade feels like a scheme to sell Amy another chance. She wanted to be the Rams. Then the Lions. Then the Packers. Adam Schefter says the Titans are behind Cam 100 percent. We all saw that press conference. What are we rooting for on Sunday? Prediction: Bengals 41, Titans 3. Straight talk with no filter.🔗 Watch the full video here: https://youtube.com/live/JSeTb8wa-y0

Mike Borgonzi addresses the media after trading All-Pro defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons to the Chicago Bears for two first-round picks and a 2027 fourth.I react to what he said. Did he sound like a GM with a plan, or a GM explaining a teardown he does not want to call a teardown?Straight talk with no filter.

The Titans are trading All-Pro defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons to the Chicago Bears.The return: two first-round draft choices and a 2027 fourth-round pick.I react to the deal. What it means for a 1-6 team. What it says about Mike Borgonzi. And whether this is the first real step toward tearing it down, or just another move in an unserious building.Straight talk with no filter.

A caller asked Paul Kuharsky if Robert Saleh is an “unserious” head coach. Paul said it is too early to tell. It is not. Unserious is the perfect word.Saleh’s press conference proved it. He is so full of it that he has no chance of getting anyone to succeed. He bet his job on Cam Ward the way he bet on Zach Wilson. Cam is a bust. The team sucks. Saleh is a clown. He has to go.Also: Cam got up today and said his footwork was “very good.” Enough. What is the point of a press conference if you are just going to lie? Charles Robinson talked to an NFL personnel executive who said college football is ruining quarterback development. The league still has to adapt. Straight talk with no filter.🔗 Watch the full video here: https://youtube.com/live/Occy6ij6hN8

The Colts are sellers ahead of the November 10 trade deadline. Titans fans are asking if Tennessee should sell too. Calvin Ridley and Tony Pollard are not bringing real picks. The real question is Jeffery Simmons. Pros and cons.Also: Robert Saleh is playing the Zach Wilson hits with Cam Ward. Why is this going to be any different? The Titans have set an NFL record for games without back-to-back wins, dating to that night in Green Bay in 2022. Almost four years. I am calling it the Jon Robinson Curse. Will Stein for Titans head coach? Chad Withrow thinks so. What I hear is Stein is more focused on Kentucky — NIL and coordinator pay — than a blue-blood job. I do not think he rules out the NFL. Straight talk with no filter.🔗 Watch the full video here: https://youtube.com/live/H0xUrttezw0

I watched the Browns game and walked away thinking Cam Ward was backup-level terrible. Zero special plays. Turnover in plus territory. Could not punch it in from the one-inch line. Missed a wide-open Daniel Bellinger. Under 200 yards again.Then PFF gave him a 77.8 passing grade. Robert Saleh could not say enough good things about Cam. So am I getting worked? Is this another Saleh sales pitch? I stand by Cam being a backup. I also cannot pretend the grade does not exist.Also: Saleh could not wait to put it on the defense. He calls the plays. Time of possession is 24:41. The 2025 draft is why Cleveland is 5-2 and Tennessee is 1-6. Pick 2’s haul had 333 yards yesterday. Cam had 186 total. John Franklin-Myers retweeted that the Jordan Elliott story was b******t. That was not an accident. Straight talk with no filter.🔗 Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l6HAREv0V0

The Titans lost 27-24 to the Browns at Nissan Stadium and fell to 1-6. Cleveland won it on Andre Szmyt’s 32-yard field goal as time expired, after Deshaun Watson hit Harold Fannin Jr. for 36 yards with 28 seconds left.Tony Pollard scored three touchdowns and rushed for 129 yards. Cam Ward went 20 of 31 for about 185 yards with no touchdown and an interception. The Titans tied it at 24 with 58 seconds left on Pollard’s third score. It was not enough.Watson threw for 308 yards. The Browns are 5-2.Full postgame reaction.Straight talk with no filter.

Robert Saleh won the court of public opinion yesterday. The story went from a player bringing a gun to practice to a kind, nurturing leader standing up for mental health. I did not buy it. A lot of people did. Tip the cap to whoever crafted that message. You get that once.Saleh can be a good man and a terrible coach. What makes him a terrible coach is the lack of a backbone.Also: What is up with Alontae Taylor? Buyers remorse. They paid an average slot corner big money. This is on Mike Borgonzi. Brian Daboll was asked about Cam’s improvement and went to coach-speak. Couple that with Blake Beddingfield. Daboll thinks Cam stinks. He is also trying not to get fired. Blaine Bishop is out at 104.5 The Zone. I react. Straight talk with no filter.🔗 Watch the full video here: https://youtube.com/live/WwWJbB7uPas

Easton Freeze’s scoop: Jordan Elliott got into it with JC Latham at practice, went to his car, and grabbed a gun. John Franklin-Myers stopped him from coming back in. A massively tragic situation was avoided. The Titans suspended him, then released him. That was the only move.Then look at the rest of it. Since camp: the quarterback goes viral at the podium, a credential gets yanked, three VPs get fired, an EVP hire with active litigation gets floated and pulled, a fan survey blows up, and a high-priced corner gets benched with no explanation.I have never seen more dysfunction. This starts with the owner. If Amy does not want the responsibility, she should sell.Also: Robert Saleh reacts. What it says about the culture. Blake Beddingfield says the Titans do not trust Cam Ward. Of course they do not. 104.5 loses the Marconi. WEEI won. What a joke. Straight talk with no filter.🔗 Watch the full video here: https://youtube.com/live/1FKZfFwtfTU