For the first time since firing former general manager Jon Robinson, Tennessee Titans owner Amy Adams Strunk addressed the situation.
Adams Strunk made the shocking move on Tuesday but had yet to talk about it publicly outside of a statement that came alongside the announcement of the move.
On Friday, she sat down with Teresa Walker of the Associated Press to give her side of the story.
Interestingly enough, the Titans owner says she had her mind made up before the game against the Philadelphia Eagles and thought it would be better to make the change now as opposed to simply waiting for many reasons.
“Honestly, I had made the decision it was time to move forward,” Adams Strunk said. “There was no reason to go six, seven, eight weeks, however long we remain in the season.
“It was not fair to Jon, it was not fair to the team, it just seemed like the right thing. It gives us plenty of opportunity now to identify future candidates that we’re going to interview. To get to watch the internal candidates. I’m just not that person that’s going to sit on a decision like that.”
“I’d already made my decision,” Strunk added. “A.J. had a great game. More power to him, but that didn’t actually have anything to do with that.”
Story coming shortly, but I sat down this afternoon with #Titans owner Amy Adams Strunk to discuss her decision to fire GM Jon Robinson. Her mind was made up before loss in Philly. Why wait till season’s end: pic.twitter.com/gXlcVbfLC6
— Teresa Walker (@TeresaMWalker) December 9, 2022
Adams Strunk also went on to shoot down the idea that Titans head coach Mike Vrabel had given her some kind of ultimatum to spur on Robinson’s firing.
“This was my decision,” she said. “I saw on social media that ‘oh, Mike gave Amy an ultimatum.’ That’s so false, that never happened. People that say that don’t know Mike Vrabel. That would not be something he would say or do, and he actually had a great relationship with Jon, so I want to put that to rest right now.”
And lastly, Strunk’s only timeline for hiring a new GM for the #Titans is getting the right person even if that means waiting until after the Super Bowl: pic.twitter.com/GjGxtgkIWi
— Teresa Walker (@TeresaMWalker) December 9, 2022
Finally, Strunk reiterated that it has been her desire from the very beginning to win a Super Bowl, and to do everything she can to make that happen.
“I told the fans from the very beginning that I want to win it all and I want to be one of those elite teams that people are always scared of, and it’s my responsibility,” Strunk explained. “And eventually it’s up to me to make those kind of decisions that get us there.”