The Tennessee Titans are not the Baltimore Ravens — so you’re not just going to release Bernard Pollard and think it’s going to end on the best of terms.
The veteran safety said he wanted to “go out with a bang,” during an interview with the Tennessean on Monday following his release.
Pollard said there’s a systemic problem with the way the Titans are building their roster, and they’ll be hard press to ever fix it.
“I’m not going to say they can’t win here,” Pollard said. “I believe they can win. But they need more pieces. And they need more guys from winning organizations to help turn things around. When you bring in free agents from losing teams, they go from one losing team to another. So you are not changing things, because his culture is, ‘OK I have been losing every year anyway, so I am doing the same thing here.'”
The Titans’ 2014 free agency class included Dexter McCluster (Kansas City, 11-5), Wesley Woodyard (Broncos, 13-3, lost Super Bowl) and Shaun Phillips (Broncos) as well as players from the Ravens and Steelers, “both organizations accustomed to winning.”
Pollard is just salty.