Terron Armstead\u2019s podcast<\/a> that he still has a great relationship with Vrabel and was happy for his success in Year One in New England, but also disappointed Vrabel couldn\u2019t help Simmons reach the Super Bowl in Tennessee.<\/p>\n\u201cWas I surprised?\u201d Simmons said. \u201cI think we all would be surprised if this guy, first year in New England, they go straight to the Super Bowl. First off, I\u2019m jealous as hell. Like what? I was just with you four years, and you couldn\u2019t get me to the Super Bowl? But I could call Vrabel right now and he\u2019d answer the phone. You build that relationship off the football field, and I think that\u2019s the thing with Vrabel. It\u2019s the same with Saleh, when you can build that relationship with players off the football field, and not just on the football field, they\u2019re going to play as hard as they can for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simmons said that as he watched Vrabel and many of the assistant coaches who were with him in Tennessee get to the Super Bowl in their first year in New England, it gave him high hopes for what the Titans can do this year with new head coach Robert Saleh.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was surprised. He took the whole Tennessee Titans staff with him,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cCoach Robert Saleh, first year? Why not?\u201d<\/p>\n
The Titans taking that kind of leap forward in Year One with Saleh would likely require the same second-year turnaround from Cam Ward that Drake Maye had last season. Simmons said he sees the hard work Ward is putting in, and is a believer that the Titans have the right people in place to make a big turnaround in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Titans defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons played his first five NFL seasons with Mike Vrabel as his head coach,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-748044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}