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See it: Vic Beasley liked tweet about Titans releasing him

Vic Beasley doesn’t seem bothered by the fact that the Titans are releasing him.

In case you didn’t get enough insight into how bad the short-lived Vic Beasley era was with the Tennessee Titans, look no further than this.

Beasley, who was told by the team that he’d be released on Wednesday, liked a tweet from ESPN’s Adam Schefter reporting the Titans’ planned move.

This is just the latest bizarre turn in the clown-show saga that was Beasley’s tenure in Nashville.

Tennessee paid Beasley a healthy $9.5 million upon signing him as a free agent this offseason, and he rewarded the Titans by showing up 10 days late to training camp, leading to him paying $500,000 in fines.

When asked what led to his no-show, Beasley was cryptic and didn’t really give a clear answer. At the time, we assumed this had something to do with Tennessee signing Jadeveon Clowney, but that has never been confirmed.

“I just had some things I had to work out. A little disagreement here and there. But I’ve moved on,” Beasley said after he finally showed up and spoke to the media for the first and only time.

After missing the first two games of the season, Beasley made his debut in Week 3 and went on to make zero impact in the five games he played. He finished his time with the Titans with just three tackles, one forced fumble and zero QB hits — a total bust.

So, the Titans will pay Beasley $9 million (yes, he gets to keep all of his salary minus the money he was fined) for doing nothing. This signing will forever be a stain on the otherwise mostly sterling track record of general manager Jon Robinson.

As for Beasley’s future, it’s anyone’s guess where he’ll end up; however, judging from this situation, it’s doubtful he’ll draw much interest considering it doesn’t look like he has any desire to play football and he isn’t worth the paper his contract is written on.

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Tennessee Titans to release OLB Vic Beasley on Wednesday

Beasley has been an absolute bust for the Titans in 2020.

The Vic Beasley experiment is coming to an end, as the Tennessee Titans have announced they have notified the outside linebacker that he’ll be released on Wednesday.

Beasley was signed by the Titans to a one-year, $9.5 million deal back in April but has had a myriad of issues since joining the team. He reported 10 days late to training camp and then missed the first two games of the season.

Since making his debut, Beasley has made zero impact and has failed to record a sack in five games. This move is general manager Jon Robinson admitting he made a mistake with the outside linebacker, who had questions about his commitment dating back to his days in Atlanta.

With Beasley gone, this will open the door for Derick Roberson to get playing time. Roberson has yet to play in a game this season due to injury, but he did total three sacks in three regular-season games in 2019.

Tennessee may also want to give training camp standout Wyatt Ray and veteran Tuzar Skipper a look. Both players are on the practice squad.

This move to release Beasley comes on the heels of the Titans also releasing cornerback Johanthan Joseph, who has struggled all season, and long snapper Beau Brinkley, who has struggled in each of the past two games.

The Titans have lost two games in a row and it’s clear that the time for patience and hoping that things will improve is over.

Titans’ Shane Bowen says pass rush from OLBs is improving

The Titans have gotten just 1.5 sacks from their outside linebackers this season.

One of the biggest disappointments for the Tennessee Titans this season has been the lack of sacks from their outside linebackers.

Of course, sacks don’t always tell the whole story, but you’d at least like to see some. Instead, the Titans have gotten just 1.5 sacks combined from Jadeveon Clowney (zero), Vic Beasley (zero) and Harold Landry (1.5).

In all, the Titans have seven sacks in six games, tied for the second-fewest in the league.

While things seem to be getting worse and not better — the Titans notched zero sacks in Week 7 for the first time since Week 1 — outside linebackers coach Shane Bowen apparently sees the glass as half-full.

He sees improvement but notes that the Titans need more consistency from the position and must do a better job of winning one-on-one matchups.

The Week 8 contest against the Cincinnati Bengals would seem like a perfect bounce-back spot. The Bengals are tied for the most sacks given up (28) this season and are dealing with multiple injuries up front.

Right tackle Bobby Hart (knee) has already been ruled out, and center Trey Hopkins (concussion) and left tackle Jonah Williams (neck) did not practice on Wednesday — and even when those players have been healthy, the protection for Joe Burrow has not been good.

If Clowney, Beasley and Landry don’t have a field day in Week 8, there will be even more cause for concern than there is now.

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Titans’ Vic Beasley explains why he reported late to camp

Beasley says a disagreement kept him from reporting on time.

For the first time since signing with the Tennessee Titans, outside linebacker Vic Beasley was available to the media on Friday, which is a good sign that he’ll make his 2020 debut in Week 3 against the Minnesota Vikings.

Beasley has seen a rocky start to his Titans tenure. After reporting late to training camp, the Clemson product was placed on the NFI list after failing his physical upon reporting and has yet to take the field for his new team.

Of course, one of the first questions the media asked Beasley was about why he reported late to camp. It seems he and the team had some kind of disagreement that kept him from reporting.

Beasley expanded a bit on that answer later on, but still didn’t go into specifics. He did note that things have since been worked out and his teammates welcomed him with open arms when he did report.

Even though there have been doubts about his desire to play after all that has transpired, Beasley made it clear he still loves football and is excited to play.

Beasley says he feels good physically and is good with the scheme from a mental standpoint. He’s hopeful he can make his Titans debut on Sunday.

While Beasley’s answer creates more questions, it appears everything has been ironed out now. All will be forgotten if the pass rusher can make the kind of impact the Titans were hoping for when they signed him during the offseason.

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Report: Titans’ Vic Beasley will not play in Week 2 vs. Jaguars

There was some hope that Beasley would make his Titans debut in Week 2, but that’s gone now.

Despite getting in a pair of full practices to finish off the week, it appears Tennessee Titans outside linebacker Vic Beasley will not play in Week 2 against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Per Titans beat writer Paul Kuharsky, Beasley will not be making his much-anticipated debut, and instead will be inactive for the second straight week.

Like last week, Beasley (knee) is on the injury report, however, unlike last week Beasley was a full participant in practice during the final session prior to the game, as opposed to being limited ahead of the Week 1 contest.

We can’t say for sure what’s going on, and at this point with everything that has transpired with Beasley, it could literally be anything.

An educated guess would be that Beasley simply isn’t ready to take the field, either because of a lack of knowledge of the defense, poor conditioning, or perhaps both.

Clearly it isn’t injury-related or else he wouldn’t have been full each of the past two days. Whatever the case may be, it looks like we’ll be waiting another week to see Beasley take the field in a Titans uniform.

Some potentially good news is that fellow outside linebacker, Derick Roberson, might make his 2020 debut after logging full practices the entire week. He’d be the fourth outside linebacker if he suits up and Beasley is inactive, which is one more than the team carried into Denver.

Tennessee also has an option on the practice squad in training camp standout Wyatt Ray, who is one of the team’s four protected players.

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Titans GM talks process of landing Jadeveon Clowney, his versatility

Robinson says he’s “super excited” to add Clowney to the Titans.

The Tennessee Titans put in “a lot of time and effort” to try and bring Jadeveon Clowney to Nashville, according to general manager Jon Robinson, but in the end it paid off after they were finally able to land him.

On Monday night, Robinson spoke about the addition of Clowney for the first time since the team made it official. He did so while appearing as a guest on head coach Mike Vrabel’s weekly radio show.

As one would expect, Robinson is “super excited” that the team was able to sign the former No. 1 overall pick, per Jim Wyatt of Titans Online.

“There was definitely a lot of time and effort that went into this one,” Robinson said of landing Clowney, a three-time Pro Bowler who ultimately picked the Titans over the Saints and Seahawks, among others. “We’re just super excited that at the end there, we were able to work with J.D. and come up with a contract and add him to the team. I know him and his family, they’re excited to get to Nashville. He’s excited to meet his teammates and ready to roll.”

Robinson went on to call Clowney a “disruptive player” and explained how he offers versatility to a Titans defense that he is already familiar with after playing under Vrabel when he was the Houston Texans’ defensive coordinator in 2017.

“I think he has proven that he is a disruptive player in this league,” Robinson said of Clowney. “He has played in coach Vrabel’s system, where he puts him in a lot of positions, moves him around so he can be successful, and we’ll do the same thing with him now that he is a Titan. We’ll try to put him in spots and match up with the guys that we have on the team to try and stuff the run and get after the passer.”

As Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reported on Tuesday night, Clowney’s one-year deal with the Titans has a base value of $13 million, but can go as high as $15 million with incentives. Among the incentives is a $1 million bonus should Clowney hit 10 sacks, which would be a career-high.

Despite all the waiting and effort the Titans put into the Clowney pursuit, it wasn’t until Saturday night that Robinson and Co. were able to seal the deal after upping their offer from a base value of $12 million to $13 million, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport revealed.

In the end, it was all worth it. The Titans entered the offseason with a huge need at EDGE after it was a big reason for their demise in last year’s AFC Championship Game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

That need became more dire after free-agent acquisition and outside linebacker Vic Beasley reported late to camp this year and missed all of training camp following his placement on the NFI list.

Now, the Titans have both Beasley and Clowney in the fold, which is a huge upgrade from 2019, and both players are expected to make their debuts on Monday night when the Titans take on the Denver Broncos in Week 1.

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Watch: First look at Titans’ Jadeveon Clowney, Vic Beasley at practice

We got our first look at Vic Beasley and Jadeveon Clowney in a Titans uniform at practice.

For the first time since they joined the Tennessee Titans, we got a look at outside linebackers Vic Beasley and Jadeveon Clowney in uniform at practice.

Earlier on Wednesday, Titans head coach Mike Vrabel said he expected Clowney and Beasley to be on the practice field, and that indeed occurred.

According to Erik Bacharach of the Tennessean, Clowney did a lot of work with outside linebackers coach Shane Bowen during the open portion of practice, while Beasley worked on a side field with Vrabel.

Courtesy of Bacharach, here’s a look at Beasley and Clowney during the stretching period, and then video of Clowney working with Bowen.

We also got our first look at kicker Stephen Gostkowski (No. 3).

Prior to practice, Vrabel said the Titans would be monitoring both players’ conditioning in order to determine how much each player would be able to contribute in the home-opener against the Denver Broncos on Monday.

That evaluation will likely go through the rest of this week, with a final decision coming closer to game time.

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Titans’ Jadeveon Clowney, Vic Beasley expected to practice on Wednesday

Beasley and Clowney are expected to take the next step towards their preparation for Week 1.

For the first time since joining the Tennessee Titans, both outside linebackers Vic Beasley and Jadeveon Clowney are expected to practice with the team on Wednesday, as head coach Mike Vrabel revealed. What isn’t clear is exactly how much each player will do.

Of course, Clowney just recently joined the Titans after officially agreeing to terms on Sunday. The Titans were able to get him in the building for the first time on Tuesday and now he’ll begin the process of getting acclimated.

Meanwhile, Beasley has been on the team all offseason, but has failed to take part in a full practice yet after reporting late to training camp and spending the entirety of it on the NFI list before recently being removed.

Vrabel says the team will be looking at the conditioning of both players in order to better determine how much they can contribute in Week 1.

Right now, we expect Beasley and Clowney to play at least limited snaps in the season-opener against the Denver Broncos. Anything more than that would be a welcomed surprise.

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Grade for Titans’ signing of Jadeveon Clowney

The Titans hit a home run with the signing of Jadeveon Clowney.

The Tennessee Titans went into the offseason needing to bolster their pass-rush after it was the biggest cause of their demise in the AFC Championship Game against the Kansas City Chiefs last season.

They have now done so in a big way with the addition of Jadeveon Clowney, who will be added to what looks like an impressive group of pass-rushers at EDGE that includes Harold Landry and Vic Beasley.

While his sack totals (32 in 75 career games) aren’t exactly eye-opening, they don’t tell the whole story of just how disruptive the former No. 1 overall pick can be.

According to Next Gen Stats (per ESPN), Clowney finished fifth in the NFL in Pass Rush Win Rate (how frequently a defender beats his blocker in 2.5 seconds or less) last season, coming in at 24.8 percent.

Over the past two seasons, only one defender in the NFL has a higher mark than Clowney’s 26.5 percent Pass Rush Win Rate.

Adding to that, the 27-year-old is the kind of impact player who will draw extra attention from opposing offenses, which can open things up for the rest of the players around him.

His mere presence alone should make things easier for Landry and Beasley, and even defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons, all of whom could see more one-on-one matchups when Clowney is on the field.

But Clowney’s impact is more than just about his pass-rush ability; the Titans are also getting an elite run defender in the South Carolina product.

As Pro Football Focus noted, Clowney’s run defense grade of 91.6 since he entered the league in 2014 is the second highest among all EDGE defenders. He has notched an impressive 65 tackles for loss or no gain in that span, the fourth most in the NFL.

Versatility is also a big part of Clowney’s game. The Titans can deploy him at outside linebacker and along the defensive line, which will help cover for the team trading away Jurrell Casey.

As far as his contract is concerned, it’s a good one. Clowney will get a base salary of $12 million, but the deal could go as high as $15 million if he hits incentives.

That’s a pretty big victory for Tennessee considering reports had Clowney seeking anywhere from $15 to $20 million annually. He had also reportedly turned down multiple offers of $15 million or more from other teams.

Of course, injury history will always be a concern with Clowney, however the Titans aren’t taking on much risk here with the deal being for just one season.

So, if Clowney struggles and/or has injury issues, he’ll likely be gone after one season. If he dominates the way he did in 2017 when head coach Mike Vrabel was his defense coordinator, the Titans could bring him back for the long haul.

Another concern is his ability to get acclimated in time to be ready for Week 1. Thankfully, Clowney has experience in Vrabel’s system as we just noted, so he should be able to get up to speed rather quickly.

When you break it all down, Clowney is a major upgrade for the Titans’ defense, both in the pass-rush and against the run, and he’s working on a reasonable deal that doesn’t carry much risk. It’s hard to call this move anything less than a home run for general manager Jon Robinson and Co.

Grade: A

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Report: Titans’ Vic Beasley to be removed off NFI and activated to 53-man roster

Vic Beasley will reportedly be ready for the start of the 2020 season.

There was a lot of doubt about Tennessee Titans outside linebacker Vic Beasley being ready for the start of the 2020 season, but it appears he indeed will be.

According to Paul Kuharsky, Beasley is expected to be removed from the Non-Football Injury list and will be active on the 53-man roster.

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Beasley has been on the NFI list since he reported late to training camp and failed his physical upon his arrival. He has yet to practice with the Titans throughout training camp.

As far as what role Beasley will have in Week 1 remains to be seen. That will depend on how up to speed he is with the Titans’ defense after missing so much time.

Head coach Mike Vrabel has made it clear on many occasions that Beasley has been working hard to get acclimated even without practicing. His latest sign of progression was when he was spotted working with Vrabel 1-on-1 on a side field during a recent practice.

We’ll see just how acclimated he is when the Titans meet the Denver Broncos for the season-opener on September 14.

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