Floyd Reese resigned from his General Manager's position with the Titans yesterday.
In other breaking news, the sun came up in the east this morning, and Saddam is still dead.
This change was expected. I posted, after the 0-3 start, a long-winded narrative on the Reese/Fisher situation; check it out if you like. But nothing much has changed ; Reese's goose was already cooked by then.
The dramatic improvemens from a losing 0-5 start to a 8-8 finish had nothig to do with Floyd Reese; those immediate changes are credited to Jeff Fisher...and Vince Young. A General Manager's work is not field operations, or play calling. You can't measure a GM over the course of a season's worth of games, or even a couple of seasons. He's a long-term fixture (which makes the Matt Millen non-firing in Detroit even less understandable).
So, what brought down Floyd Reese? Mainly, his two top priorities: drafting, and contracting.
Sure, he got a few good picks (The Tennessean mistakenly credits him with Vince Young; that was soley Bud Adam's choice). But he made some bad ones too...#2 last year was LenDale White, who hasn't showed us a thing. PacMan (well, the jury's still out...Ouch!), 1st round pick in 2004 (I wanted Antrel Rolle), if he keeps his nose clean during this long offseason, we'll be surprised; Woolfolk, 1st round pick in 2003...who?; Heinous Haynesworth (first round, 2002) gave major trouble this year, and will he stay a Titan?
And the contracts...wow. Every other team in the league was probably looking at the Titans like they had serious brain damage...especially after the McNair fiasco, and the bloodletting of marquee players to get under the cap. All while New England was winning 3 Super Bowls.
I'm not going to re-hash this old stuff. But I'm not going to cry over broken pieces, either...
