NFL insider rips ex-Titans coach for admitting years later to feeding him bogus story before firing

NFL insider Ian Rapoport called retired former Tennessee Titans caput manager Mike Mularkey aft Mularkey revealed much than six years aft his firing that helium fed Rapoport a bogus communicative to get backmost astatine his soon-to-be erstwhile employer. 

During a caller interrogation connected "The Jaguars Hour with Brent & Austen," Mularkey confessed that helium knew helium was astir to get fired contempt starring the squad to its archetypal playoff quality successful astir a decade. 

Tennessee Titans caput manager Mike Mularkey smiles connected the sideline during an AFC wild-card crippled astatine Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 6, 2018. (Imagn)

To get backmost astatine the organization, Mularkey called the NFL newsman to works a fake communicative that helium was alternatively getting a declaration hold contempt the wide content that helium was, successful fact, connected his mode out. 

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"He reported it. It was each implicit the state that I was getting a declaration knowing that I was gonna get fired, but I conscionable wanted to spot the faces connected the proprietor and the GM, who was retired to get me," Mularkey said.  

"When I walked successful the adjacent morning, determination wasn’t a full batch of conversation. It was like, ‘All right, you’re done.’" 

While Mularkey whitethorn person recovered joyousness successful the moment, Rapoport wasn’t laughing six years later.

NFL newsman Ian Rapoport connected the sideline earlier the Super Bowl astatine State Farm Stadium Feb. 12, 2023.  ( Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today Sports)

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"Those guys, yukking it up — beauteous funny, for them, I guess, if you don’t attraction astir accuracy and taking someone’s estimation and rubbing it successful the mud," Rapoport said connected the NFL Network Friday.

"Everyone said Mike Mularkey’s a bully feline — helium ever was to me. I liked him. Thought helium was precise respectable. That is not cool. That’s not funny. I was a younger newsman then, and the magnitude of online hatred and ridicule I got due to the fact that Mike Mularkey thought it would beryllium comic to get backmost astatine his aged brag — it was not fun. 

"So, I don’t person overmuch to say. I don’t blasted Mike Mularkey, but I privation to. And that was not cool, and that was not funny. And we should dainty information amended than that."

Tennessee Titans caput manager Mike Mularkey, right, watches a play during the archetypal 4th against the New England Patriots successful an AFC divisional playoff crippled astatine Gillette Stadium Jan. 13, 2018. (Robert Deutsch/USA Today Sports)

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Mularkey took implicit arsenic caput manager successful Tennessee halfway done the 2015 season. In his last play with the team, helium led the Titans to the playoffs with a 9-7 record. They defeated the Kansas City Chiefs successful the wild-card circular earlier being eliminated by the New England Patriots. 

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