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05-02-2025
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Pacman Jones doesn't hold anything back on what he thinks is wrong with Tennessee Titans
Former Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones didn't hold back when discussing what he thinks is wrong with the team. "You got rid of the identity of the team down there which was the running back," Jones said from Super Bowl radio row, promoting his podcast 'The Pacman Jones Show.' "I don't understand that part. Y'all ain't got no receivers. Y'all ain't got a quarterback. And a sub-par defense. Titans need some help." Running back Derrick Henry left the Titans after the 2023 season. He rushed for 1,921 yards and 16 TDs in the regular season and added another 270 rushing yards and three TDs in the NFL playoffs. Jones was the Titans' first-round pick in 2005 and spent three years on the team, playing two and serving a suspension through the third. At his best, Jones was one of the league's most dynamic players. In 2006 alone, he intercepted four passes and scored four total touchdowns between defense and special teams. But legal and disciplinary issues also defined Jones' tenure, leading to a trade in 2008. Jones played another 10 seasons after his time with the Titans ended. The Titans finished the 2024 season with a 3-14 record and own the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. General manager Ran Carthon was fired following the end of the season and replaced by former Kansas City Chiefs executive Mike Borgonzi. Coach Brian Callahan heads into Year 2 with serious questions about an offense that turned the ball over at an unacceptable rate and a roster that has questions everywhere from offensive line and receiver to the pass rush. As Jones sees it, the Titans' issues are fairly simple. "I would start at the quarterback," Jones said when asked what he'd do to fix the Titans. "I don't think Will Levis, he's not a guy that can carry a team I don't think." More: The Titans were 'One Yard Short' in Super Bowl 34. What do Kevin Dyson, others remember? More: How Titans' Kevin Dyson, Rams' Mike Jones became friends after 'One Yard Short' Super Bowl 2000 When asked what he'd do to address the struggles at quarterback, Jones offered a wry answer. "Y'all got the number one pick, don't you?" he quipped. Nick Suss is the Titans beat writer for The Tennessean. Contact Nick at nsuss@ Follow Nick on X, the platform formerly called Twitter, @nicksuss. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Tennessee Titans: Pacman Jones gives his take on team's woes
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05-02-2025
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How Titans' Kevin Dyson, Rams' Mike Jones became friends after 'One Yard Short' Super Bowl 2000
Kevin Dyson found a friend in the lowest − and most unlikely − of places: The 1-yard line inside the Georgia Dome. His name is Mike Jones. Dyson, a former Tennessee Titans wide receiver, and Jones, a former St. Louis Rams linebacker, met there briefly and suddenly on Jan. 30, 2000, during the final play of Super Bowl 34 in Atlanta. Four seconds left on the game clock: Dyson caught Steve McNair's pass just inside the 4-yard-line and lunged toward the end zone. Three seconds left: Jones dragged Dyson down, his hands wrapped around Dyson's legs. The ball in Dyson's right hand was three feet short of the goal line and, potentially, a tie score. Two seconds, one second, no time left: Time ran out, along with the Tennessee's hopes of a Super Bowl 34 victory, as Dyson lay on his back on a play later dubbed both "The Tackle" and "One Yard Short." At the time, neither Dyson, who three weeks earlier scored the winning touchdown in the "Music City Miracle" playoff game against the Buffalo Bills, nor Jones knew how much they had in common. Nor that they would become friends a few months later. Save for the day after the game, Dyson didn't watch the final play of Super Bowl 34 again until 3½ months later. He was in St. Louis — with Mike Jones. The two broke down the final series together as part of a story done by "The Sporting News." "I can say we're friends," Jones told The Tennessean. "For how that game ended, you would think we'd be mortal enemies. "If Kevin Dyson didn't do what he did with that return (in the "Music City Miracle"), they wouldn't even have been in the Super Bowl." "Just kind of talked through it, the process of what we were both thinking at the time," Dyson said. "Over the years we have, somehow, some way, maintained contact." Three to five times a year, Jones said. "The wound's healed," Dyson said. "It healed a long time ago." Jones, perhaps more than most, understood Dyson's plight, understood being on the other side of a heartbreaking, last-second defeat. A little less than 10 years earlier, on October 6, 1990, Jones was a running back and a senior captain for Missouri. The Tigers fell to Colorado 33-31 that day in the infamous "Fifth Down" game, when the soon-to-be national champion Buffaloes scored victory on the last play after officials erroneously awarded them an extra down. "I wasn't even on the field for the fifth down," Jones said. "How ironic. We win the game on the last play to win the Super Bowl, and we lose to the national champions that year down in Columbia, two hours from St. Louis." The Titans scrimmaged the Rams in Missouri the season after the Super Bowl meeting. Dyson went into it with a "chip on his shoulder," but, thanks to Jones' words during a joint interview, left having released "that quote, unquote anger." "Mike's just a good dude. To hear how humble he was about it," said Dyson, who, like Jones, coached after he retired from the NFL. "He said it could have gone any way and he just happened to be the one that made the play. "That's how sports is. I've been on the other side of that (with the "Music City Miracle"), and I never thought about being on the side that I was on, what someone in that position is going through, and how they felt they may have let their team down." Paul Skrbina is a sports enterprise reporter covering the Predators, Titans, Nashville SC, local colleges and local sports for The Tennessean. Reach him at pskrbina@ and on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter) @paulskrbina. Follow his work here. 2025 NFL MOCK DRAFT: Expert projections if every QB-needy team picks a quarterback MORE: Tennessee Titans picking at top of 'weak' NFL draft QB class. How top prospects feel about label This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Super Bowl 34: Tennessee Titans WR Kevin Dyson friendship with Mike Jones
