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Titans tab Vrabel

Tennessee announced Saturday that Mike Vrabel has been hired as its next head coach -- a curious pick from some perspectives, not so curious from others. Vrabel has limited experience as an NFL coach, including only one season as a coordinator (the season that just ended, in which his Houston defense, albeit partly because of injuries it suffered along the way, was very bad). And if deposed Titans coach Mike Mularkey fell out with the team over his failure to develop QB MARCUS MARIOTA, well, the defense-oriented Vrabel alone would not seem to be the guy to fix that. But Tennessee GM Jon Robinson knows Vrabel from their time together in New England, and Robinson reportedly believes that an eye-to-eye relationship between head coach and front office is essential to building the "winning culture" that all teams aspire to. What Vrabel and Robinson do next, which will presumably include hiring an offensive coordinator in the near term, should be interesting to watch.

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