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 normal 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 group assertion. “These selections are by no means simple, and so they develop into tougher after they contain individuals of nice character. We’re grateful for Brian’s funding within the Titans and Tennessee neighborhood 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 beneath Callahan, 41, and had “not demonstrated ample progress,” Brinker mentioned.
“Our gamers, followers, and neighborhood deserve a soccer group that achieves a regular we’re not at the moment assembly, and we’re dedicated to creating the arduous selections essential to succeed in 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 normal supervisor Ran Carthon. Carthon stayed for one season following a call to not deliver 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 beneath the Titans’ present, atypical energy construction is first-year normal 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 fast 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 group, together with rookie quarterback and No. 1 total draft choose Cam Ward. Ward and veteran defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons mentioned the group was missing in some fundamentals, particularly coming off their first win of the season in Week 5.
“At present was unhealthy soccer,” Simmons mentioned on Sunday. “We did not play good at present in any respect.”
Simmons mentioned the group had a foul week of observe.
“On this league, it’s a must to learn the way to have the ability to stack wins and carry that momentum over,” he mentioned. “It began at observe. Simply being trustworthy, this was in all probability certainly one of our worst weeks of observe. We got here out flat Thursday. Generally issues carry over.”
Ward was not sharp on Sunday. The No. 1 total choose 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 have now 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, now we have to do our job as a complete. On the finish of the day, the coaches, they will solely achieve this a lot. We as gamers must do our jobs.”
On Sunday, the Titans host Vrabel and his New England Patriots (4-2) squad.
–Discipline Degree Media
