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

During a recent interview on "The Jaguars Hour with Brent & Austen," Mularkey confessed that he knew he was about to get fired despite leading the team to its first playoff appearance in nearly a decade. 

"He reported it. It was all over the country that I was getting a contract knowing that I was gonna get fired, but I just wanted to see the faces on the owner and the GM, who was out to get me," Mularkey said.  

"When I walked in the next morning, there wasn't a whole lot of conversation. It was like, 'All right, you're done.'" 

While Mularkey may have found joy in the moment, Rapoport wasn't laughing six years later.

"Those guys, yukking it up - pretty funny, for them, I guess, if you don't care about accuracy and taking someone's reputation and rubbing it in the mud," Rapoport said on the NFL Network Friday.

"Everyone said Mike Mularkey's a good guy - he always was to me. I liked him. Thought he was very respectable. That is not cool. That's not funny. I was a younger reporter then, and the amount of online hate and ridicule I got because Mike Mularkey thought it would be funny to get back at his old boss - it was not fun. 

"So, I don't have much to say. I don't blame Mike Mularkey, but I want to. And that was not cool, and that was not funny. And we should treat truth better than that."