An old-fashioned pissing match broke out last week regarding the question of whether the Titans had contacted receiver Marvin Harrison.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter, on his first day on the job in Bristol, reported that they did. Coach Jeff Fisher claimed that they didn’t. We later learned that Schefter was right. (And some of you continue to think we’re full of something other than chocolate. As long as you type in the correct URL, we’re fine with that.)
Regardless of whether a call previously was made (and we think it was), the Titans won’t be calling Harrison now, even after cutting receiver Chris Davis and losing receiver Nate Washington, possibly beyond Week One of the regular season.
Per Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean, the Titans aren’t interested in Harrison. And Wyatt’s reasoning — grounded in preserving the ego and power of the mustachioed coach — makes perfect sense.
“Fisher has been adamant about his non-interest in Harrison,” Wyatt writes. “If the team made a run at him now, it would make Fisher look both powerless and clueless.”
Our guess is that an inquiry was made regarding Harrison’s potential interest in joining the Titans, and that once Tennessee heard the asking price, they opted instead to pretend the call was never made.
Though we’ve yet to learn the precise amount of the offer the Colts extended in an effort to persuade Harrison to stick around at a salary lower than the $9 million he was due to earn, we have a feeling that Indy’s best offer as of late February greatly exceeds the one-year veteran minimum ballpark in which teams currently interested in Harrison might be residing.
And so the last thing the Titans need is pressure from the media and the fans to spend some of the money that wasn’t devoted to keeping defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth in Nashville on a big-name wideout whose best days have faded into the rear view mirror at about the same rate of speed that Haynesworth drives his car.
For some reason, Marvin decided to leave our Colts for more money….certainly don’t look like that’s gonna happen unless we give him a call back due to a potential injury
Not a well-run franchise.
Before the week is over, the Eagles will have traded Reggie Brown to Tennessee for a 4th and 6th.
Florio, to be fair, I’ve always maintained that your full of a poo flavored chocolate, but not poo itself.
As opposed to a new fangled pissing match.
good call on michaael clayton mark dominic, all that guaranteed money, and a guy like marvin harrison who has more tds in one game that michael clayton has had in 4 years. prolly counting preseason 2. o wait thats right clayton is a great blocker , lol
Wow. You people in the media sure are smug, selfimportant bastards.
Do you really think, for even one flippin’ second, that Jeff Fischer–almost decade and a half tenured JEFF FISCHER–is going to lose out on a chance to get a better football player, because some jerkoff in the media is going to doubt him or call him bad names or imply he’s incompetent????
What a freaking joke. This story is dumber than Kyle Orton’s lazy, left-handed lob for an INT.
FLORIO!
Where will Chris McCallister and Matt Jones land?
I only call what flavor your poo is when you obviously distort either the truth or when you purposely don’t reveal all information.
However, I’m sure you have days when it’s all rosey and minty fresh. They have just been few and far between lately…
Love the idea of Reggie Brown for a couple of draft picks, just not sure they’re going to get all that for him unless demand swells. I did read that there is interest from the Jets and Ravens, curiously enough not from Florio. That would be too tasty a “rumor.”
So let the bidding begin!
Joe Mays does not breathe, he holds the air hostage!
You apparently haven’t learned anything from the last few weeks. Just because they say they have no interest, or get other to say it for them, doesn’t mean they have no interest.
Harrison disappears in the playoffs anyway. So does his old Q.B. Peyton (Mr. clutch in the playoffs) Manning.
Hahahahahaha Florio.
You’re an idiot, along with Schefter.
An “unamed source” thinks you two should stop making up stories.
Respect The Stache.
Harrison wouldn’t be a good fit with Tennessee. I keep remembering Yancey Thigpen for whatever reason.
As far as spending mo’ money on some better wideouts, Fisher doesn’t have that sort of control of the purse strings, or we would have had Jay Cutler and VY would’ve been a struggling Texan, which is just the way most Tennessee fans would’ve preferred that to play out. #6 Wonderlic indeed!
I predict we’ll see much improvement on the offensive side of the timeclock (compared to what we saw last Friday night) when the real deal hits the field in September. There was something ‘fishy’ going on with that demonstration, I’ll wager.