It’s no surprise the 2025 Tennessee Titans’ offense, which punted 78 times, second-most in the NFL, spent plenty of time on the sideline.Players have various ways of dealing with their emotions. New England Patriots wide receiver AJ Brown was witnessed in January 2025 reading a self-help book to calm himself down when he was with the Philadelphia Eagles.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementTitans quarterback Cam Ward throws tablets.In a conversation with his personal quarterback coach, Darrell Colbert Jr., on the new season of the Netflix show “Quarterback,” which was released July 14, Ward revealed he threw eight NFL-issued tablets from the start of the season up through Week 14 against the Cleveland Browns.”Breaking that s— locks you in,” Ward said. “You get the rage out. You don’t take it out on a fan, you don’t take it out on nobody else but the iPad.”Ward isn’t the first NFL quarterback caught slamming tablets on the sideline. The NFL sent a warning and threatened fines to all 32 teams after Tom Brady, who played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the time, threw two tablets in the same game against the Saints in 2022.The NFL signed a reported five-year, $400 million deal with Microsoft in 2013 that provided each team Microsoft Service tablets to review film and replays through the Sideline Viewing System app. The deal has been renewed multiple times since, replacing the fax printouts coaches received through a printer.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe Titans open their 2026 season on Sept. 13 against the New York Jets at Nissan Stadium. The hope is that Ward spends less time replacing tablets and more time leading an offense that struggled to gain much consistency in 2025.This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Titans QB Cam Ward throws more than footballs. Here’s how many tablets he broke
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