Titans head coach Brian Callahan announced today that he will stop calling the offensive plays after his team’s 0-3 start. But he says that doesn’t mean there was anything wrong with the way he was calling plays.
“I have zero disappointment in my play calling,” Callahan said. “I don’t have any disappointment in that at all. It’s just more so I can see the rest of it, see the big picture better, and do a better job of it.”
Callahan said there’s so much on a head coach’s plate that he wants to be able to focus on other things on Sunday and let quarterbacks coach Bo Hardegree handle getting the plays called.
“It’s more just so I can be a better head coach, and not just an offensive play caller. I think that’s the biggest thing. I think that’s what we need right now, and that’s my job, to make that decision and put myself in that spot to help us win football games,” Callahan said.
With a 3-17 record through 20 games as the Titans’ head coach, Callahan has to know he’s on the hot seat. If this change doesn’t help, he may not get any more opportunities to prove he can be a better head coach.
The Titans and Jets have reportedly agreed on a trade.
Per multiple reports, cornerback Jarvis Brownlee will go from Tennessee to the Jets in the deal. The Titans will also send 2026 seventh-round pick to the AFC East club while the Jets’ 2026 sixth-rounder will go back in return.
Brownlee was a 2024 fifth-round pick and he’s started 16 of the 19 games he’s played since entering the NFL. He had 75 tackles, an interception, and a fumble recovery as a rookie, and had 17 tackles in the first two games of this season. Brownlee did not play in Tennessee’s Week 3 loss to the Colts.
The Jets have Sauce Gardner, Brandon Stephens, Michael Carter, Azareye’h Thomas, and Qwantezz Stiggers as their other cornerbacks.
After an ugly start to the season, Titans head coach Brian Callahan has fired himself as the offensive play caller in Tennessee.
The team announced today that quarterbacks coach Bo Hardegree will call plays.
Titans offensive coordinator Nick Holz will remain in place, an unusual arrangement in which a team has an offensive coordinator but another assistant gets the play calling responsibility.
The Titans are 0-3, and first overall pick Cam Ward is struggling at quarterback, with a completion percentage of just 54.5 percent and an NFL-high 15 sacks through three weeks. That needs to improve, in a hurry.
Callahan went 3-14 in his first season as a head coach last year, and so far there’s little indication that the Titans are any better this year. Callahan surely has concerns that his job is in jeopardy if the Titans don’t get better, and he’ll hope that Hardegree can jump start the offense.
The Texans could use all hands on deck as they try for their first win of the season in Week 4, but it will be a little while before they know if cornerback Derek Stingley will be ready to go against the Titans.
Stingley injured his oblique in Sunday’s 17-10 loss to the Jaguars and head coach DeMeco Ryans gave an update on his status at a Monday press conference. Ryans said, via a transcript from the team, that Stingley is day-to-day as a result of the injury.
Ryans said that Stingley “tried to push through it” on Sunday, but wasn’t able to do so.
Stingley had one pass defensed against Jacksonville and had eight tackles over the first two weeks of the season.
Things are not going well for the Tennessee Titans, who are 0-3 and struggling through a nine-game losing streak.
On Sunday, Colts receiver Michael Pittman Jr. said that the Titans seemed like they didn’t want to play.
The man responsible for making Titans players want to play understandably disagreed with that assessment of his team.
“When you win a game and you win it the way they did, you can kind of say whatever you want,” Callahan told reporters on Monday afternoon. “I think if you watch the way that the team played, that certainly wasn’t the case, by any stretch. We played hard, and we fought in that game. We didn’t play well enough to win it. But it certainly wasn’t — I don’t think that was an accurate depiction. But again, when you don’t win, that’s just the way it goes. You can say what you want.”
Whether they wanted to play or not, the Titans lost. Badly. And it doesn’t bode well for Callahan, not with a new G.M. (Mike Borgonzi) and a new head of football operations (Chad Brinker), neither of whom hired Callahan.
Callahan gets his next chance to get his team ready to play — and to pursue the team’s first win since November 2024 — when the franchise that used to be the Houston Oilers returns to face the Houston Texans on Sunday.
