The Tennessee Titans fired head coach Brian Callahan on Monday after a 1-5 begin to the season.
“After prolonged conversations with our proprietor and basic supervisor, we met with Brian Callahan this morning to inform him we’re making a change at head coach, mentioned Chad Brinker, president of soccer operations, in a workforce assertion. “These choices are by no means straightforward, and so they change into tougher once they contain individuals of nice character. We’re grateful for Brian’s funding within the Titans and Tennessee group throughout his tenure as head coach. We thank him and his household for being exemplary ambassadors of the Tennessee Titans.”
Callahan, then the offensive coordinator of the Cincinnati Bengals, was employed in January 2024. The Titans have been 3-14 final season underneath Callahan, 41, and had “not demonstrated adequate development,” Brinker mentioned.
“Our gamers, followers, and group deserve a soccer workforce that achieves a typical we aren’t at present assembly, and we’re dedicated to creating the onerous choices obligatory to achieve and keep that commonplace,” he mentioned.
Brinker was a part of a brand new energy construction put in on the finish of the 2024 season, when the Titans fired basic supervisor Ran Carthon. Carthon stayed for one season following a call to not carry again head coach Mike Vrabel after two sub-.500 seasons.
As timing would have it, Vrabel will lead the visiting Patriots into Nashville on Sunday.
Between Brinker and the pinnacle coach underneath the Titans’ present, atypical energy construction is first-year basic supervisor Mike Borgonzi. Borgonzi is a first-time GM who spent 14 seasons in scouting with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
There was no official phrase from the Titans about an interim coach or the speedy way forward for Invoice Callahan, Tennessee’s offensive line coach and Brian Callahan’s father.
The Titans misplaced 20-10 to the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday.
Brian Callahan mentioned extra was anticipated from everybody on the workforce, together with rookie quarterback and No. 1 total draft decide Cam Ward. Ward and veteran defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons mentioned the workforce was missing in some fundamentals, particularly coming off their first win of the season in Week 5.
“At the moment was dangerous soccer,” Simmons mentioned on Sunday. “We did not play good right this moment in any respect.”
Simmons mentioned the workforce had a nasty week of apply.
“On this league, you need to learn the way to have the ability to stack wins and carry that momentum over,” he mentioned. “It began at apply. Simply being trustworthy, this was most likely considered one of our worst weeks of apply. We got here out flat Thursday. Generally issues carry over.”
Ward was not sharp on Sunday. The No. 1 total decide of the 2025 NFL Draft was 26-of-38 passing for 222 yards and a landing, however he was intercepted and misplaced two fumbles.
“We now have to attempt new issues, and if we’ll keep the course, we have to make the course work,” Ward mentioned. “It is actually simply each the gamers and training employees persevering with to both name out a play and execute the play, or on the finish of the day, we have now to do our job as a complete. On the finish of the day, the coaches, they’ll solely achieve this a lot. We as gamers need to do our jobs.”
On Sunday, the Titans host Vrabel and his New England Patriots (4-2) squad.
–Area Degree Media
