Jim Washburn on Leaving Titans: 'I Just Thought It Was About Time'

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As Jim Washburn saw it, the timing was just right.

Washburn, who spent 12 seasons coaching with Tennessee Titans, left the franchise this week to join the Philadelphia Eagles as defensive line coach. He told Jim Wyatt of The Tennessean he just needed "to get invigorated a little bit.

"It wasn't anything in particular, I just thought it was just about time,'' Washburn said. "It is no reflection on the state of the Titans or anything. As a matter of fact, the Titans having the troubles is the one thing that made me want to stay.

"It almost kept me here. I'd like to be with them to fight their way back to the top. So I don't want it to look like I am running out.''

Washburn, 61, told Wyatt he didn't want to offend anyone while leaving, and spoke highly of the Titans' organization.

"Everyone is trying to read different things into it, but I have choices and I feel good about it," Washburn said. "I have no buyer's remorse or anything. I am not going to be ugly about anything. I want to leave here with a clean break and don't want to have any sour grapes and I shouldn't. It was a really good 12 years, most of them anyway. Maybe one or two of them (stunk), but I enjoyed it.

"I was frustrated when we didn't play good. But my contract is up. So I don't understand how anyone could fault me. Life is about choices. No one is going to put me on a guilt trip because I went over there and worked as hard as I could every day and I enjoyed every minute of it. Now I just wanted to do something a little different.''

Washburn specifically told Wyatt he was happy with how Titans coach Jeff Fisher treated him.

 

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