The Giants are hiring Titans linebackers coach Frank Bush, Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports reports.
Bush, 63, has spent the past two seasons as the Titans’ linebackers coach. He helped Cedric Gray rank fourth in the NFL with 164 tackles in 2025.
Bush has 33 years of NFL coaching experience.
He began his career with the team he played for, the Houston Oilers, in 1993. He has also coached the linebackers for the Broncos (1995-96), Cardinals (2004-06), Titans (2011-12), Rams (2013-16), Dolphins (2017-18), Jets (2019-20), Falcons (2021-23). He coached the secondary and special teams for the Broncos in 2000-03 and was a senior defensive assistant with the Texans (2007-08) before becoming their defensive coordinator (2009-10).
He was the interim defensive coordinator for the Jets in 2020.
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The Giants hired Matt Nagy as their offensive coordinator and another former NFL head coach is in the mix to be their quarterback coach.
Mike Garafolo of NFL Media reports that the Giants will interview Brian Callahan for that position on John Harbaugh’s coaching staff.
Callahan was fired by the Titans six games into the 2025 season. That was his second season as the head coach in Tennessee and he went 4-19 before being dismissed.
Prior to being hired by the Titans, Callahan spent five seasons as the Bengals’ offensive coordinator. He was the quarterback coach for the Raiders and Lions before landing that position and will have a role in helping to develop 2025 first-round pick Jaxson Dart if he lands the role with the Giants.
Titans head coach Robert Saleh said that he believes offensive coordinator Brian Daboll is the “perfect man to match up” with quarterback Cam Ward as the team works to continue developing the 2025 first-round pick after a strong finish to his rookie season.
Ward feels the same way, even if it means that he’s going to hear some blunt criticism from time to time. Ward said that Daboll “is going to let me know the real” whether it is positive or negative and that he’ll welcome hearing tough things because it will help him get to where he wants to go in the NFL.
“I like that he is a fiery coach,” Ward said, via the team’s website. “He is going to get on my ass when he needs to, and he is going to hold me to a high standard. And that’s the standard I want to be held to.”
The Ward-Daboll pairing will be crucial to Saleh’s success in his tenure with the Titans and anything that needs to happen to make it a successful one should be on the table as the team moves toward the 2026 season.
Gus Bradley is following Robert Saleh to Tennessee.
Via Paul reporter Paul Kuharsky, the Titans are hiring Bradley as the team’s defensive coordinator.
Bradley, 59, spent the 2025 season as San Francisco’s assistant head coach with Saleh the team’s defensive coordinator. After his stint as Jacksonville’s head coach from 2013-2016, Bradley has served as defensive coordinator of the Chargers (2017-2020), Raiders (2021), and Colts (2022-2024).
Unlike his first stint as a head coach with the Jets, Saleh said he plans to call Tennessee’s defensive plays in 2026.
Defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons went to the playoffs in his first three seasons with the Titans, but the last four seasons have not brought the same kind of success to Tennessee.
The team is 19-49 since the start of the 2022 season and they are starting over with their third head coach in that span. Robert Saleh is the new man in charge on the sideline and he’s got a fan in the team’s top defensive player.
Saleh talked about playing with speed and violence in his introductory press conference and Simmons said on Sunday “that’s how I like to play the game.” Simmons thinks his teammates will feel the same way about playing for someone with Saleh’s energy.
“We have a young football team, and I feel like we still have to figure things out,” Simmons said, via the team’s website. “And I think with Saleh coming him, with his style of coaching, I think it will be great for us, especially having such a young football team. I think the culture change will be good for us.”
Simmons won’t have anything to do with how the Titans fare on the offensive side of the ball, but sorting that out should keep the defense out of bad positions and set Simmons up for a chance to make impactful plays in wins rather than being the bright light of another disappointing defeat.
The Titans are betting that the second time will be the charm for Robert Saleh as a head coach.
Saleh was 20-36 over three-plus seasons as the Jets’ head coach before being fired early in the 2024 season, but the Titans still tabbed him to be their next head coach earlier this month. They formally introduced Saleh at a press conference on Thursday and a lot of Saleh’s messages sounded the same as the ones he sent while with the Jets.
Saleh preached playing fast, violent football and broke out his “all gas, no brakes” motto, but also stressed that his experience with the Jets helped make him a different coach this time around.
“There is no handbook to a first time at anything you do,” Saleh said, via the team’s website. “The proper question would be: What didn’t I learn? There is so much to gain from any time you are in the chair as head coach, and there is so many learning experiences that I had. I could sit here and talk to you for the next four hours about all those things. But I can assure you there is tremendous growth from the opportunity I had as a coach and through that growth I think I am more prepared now than I’ve ever been to attack this position.”
One significant difference from his Jets time is that Saleh will be calling the defensive plays in Tennessee and the Titans hope that another will involve the kind of quarterback development that never took place when Saleh was working with Zach Wilson in his previous stop.
Robert Saleh’s second stint as an NFL head coach will feature one significant difference from his time with the Jets.
Saleh did not call defensive plays during his three-plus years as the Jets’ head coach and he said at a press conference on Thursday that he will be making those calls for the Titans. Saleh said he felt like the “timeout, red card” guy when he was not calling plays during a game and explained why he’s more comfortable taking on that responsibility.
“Calling plays, for me, is not necessarily about control, but it’s about connecting with the players,” Saleh said. “When you are a play caller and you are calling plays, you feel the strain you’re putting on them with each call. You’re feeling the connection, you’re feeling what each one is going through. I can feel the weight of the play call on individual players in those moments.”
The Titans will also have a former head coach calling offensive plays in Brian Daboll and the hope is that the pairing leads to a lot more winning than either experienced while coaching their home games at MetLife Stadium.
Among the areas where the Jets fell short during Robert Saleh’s tenure as their head coach was at the quarterback position and Saleh thinks he has the right guy to avoid a similar fate with the Titans.
Saleh hired Brian Daboll as his offensive coordinator this week and Saleh cited Daboll’s “history of developing young quarterbacks in this league and college” as the reason why he wanted him on the staff. The Titans have one of those quarterbacks in 2025 first overall pick Cam Ward.
“He is the perfect man to match up with Cam and maximize who he is,” Saleh said.
Ward threw for 3,169 yards, 15 touchdowns and seven interceptions while completing just under 60 percent of his passes as a rookie. He had eight of those touchdowns and and an interception in Weeks 14-17 and then opened 3-of-3 for 52 yards before getting hurt in Week 18. If all goes according to plan, Daboll’s presence will allow Ward to keep building off of that close to his rookie year.
The Titans have hired Greg Lewis as their new wide receivers coach, according to Jordan Schultz of the Schultz Report.
Lewis spent six seasons with Titans General Manager Mike Borgonzi in Kansas City.
Lewis joins Robert Saleh’s initial staff after three seasons as the Ravens’ wide receivers coach. He also coached the wide receivers with the Eagles (2016) and Chiefs (2017-20).
He was the Chiefs’ running backs coach in 2021-22.
Lewis played eight seasons as a receiver in the NFL.
The Titans are hiring Shea Tierney as their new quarterbacks coach, Mike Garafolo of NFL Media.
Tierney served in the same role on Brian Daboll’s coaching staff with the Giants, working with Daniel Jones, Jaxson Dart, Tommy DeVito and Russell Wilson, among others. His relationship with Daboll actually goes back to 2017 when both were at Alabama.
Tierney also worked with Daboll in Buffalo.
He is now charged with turning Cam Ward into the franchise quarterback the Titans expected him to become when they used the No. 1 overall pick on him last year.
Jordan Raanan of ESPN reports that offensive line coach Carmen Bricillo is also expected to follow Daboll from New York. Bricillo spent the past two seasons as the Giants’ offensive line coach and has also worked in that position for the Patriots and Raiders.
