NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ken Whisenhunt’s inflexibility has been a theme during the Tennessee Titans’ dreadful season.

On Friday, in his weekly appearance on my Nashville radio show, The Midday 180, Titans general manager Ruston Webster explained some of the franchise’s rigid thinking.

“I think flexibility is a big part of being in this league. Whether it’s be or the head coach or the offensive coordinator or anybody. I think with a 53-man roster, you have to have some flexibility.

“I know he’s working to adapt to what he has…

“I want flexibility, in our coaches and our scouts and everybody because that’s important. It’s also important that they have a philosophy and a system. And my experience has been when a coach tells you, 'Just give me the player and I’ll make it work,’ it’s probably not going to work.

“You need a coach who has a stark philosophy that can give you guidance so that you can bring players into the building. It might not help you right now where we are in our current situation, as you said, but it is important going forward.

“I know that Tony Dungy was that way. He had a stark philosophy on defense; there wasn’t any bending when it came to the corner position. There would be players that could cover man to man all over the field but if they didn’t tackle, we didn’t want them [in Tampa.]

"So we knew exactly, when our scouts went on the road, exactly what we were looking for. We were looking for Ronde Barber. We weren’t looking for the ultimate cover corner. So I think that’s very important that we have philosophies offensively and defensively.

“When a coach tells me he’ll take whatever we have and make it work, then I get a little nervous…

“It’s so much easier to scout when you know exactly what you are looking for.”

Here’s the whole conversation with Webster.

That’s an interesting assessment that sheds some light on how they are thinking. And I will try to expand on it with Whisenhunt when I have the opportunity.