{"id":417629,"date":"2026-01-18T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/417629\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:06:08","slug":"nfl-rumors-on-titans-finalists-for-hc-job-after-kevin-stefanski-hired-by-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/417629\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Rumors on Titans&#8217; Finalists for HC Job After Kevin Stefanski Hired by Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Tennessee Titans are planning to interview Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley and Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy this coming week after Kevin Stefanski decided to accept the Atlanta Falcons head coach job, according to NFL insider <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/2012613239427785105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jordan Schultz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">ESPN&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2012899801717747732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Adam Schefter<\/a> reported that Hafley will interview with the Titans on Tuesday, after he interviews with the Miami Dolphins on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Schultz reported the Titans are zeroing in on their preferred candidates, though the list could expand in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Hafley is a popular candidate whom Schultz reported is also a &#8220;likely finalist&#8221; with the Browns, Miami Dolphins, Las Vegas Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Packers had a top-10 defense in both yards and points allowed in 2024, and the unit may have maintained that level this year if it had the benefit of Micah Parsons for a full offseason and regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">However, hiring an offensive-minded coach to pair with young quarterback Cam Ward would make perfect sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Nagy is the outlier in that it&#8217;s difficult to make a compelling case for him as a head coach in Tennessee, or anywhere else for that matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Few in the Windy City look back on his four-year run with the Chicago Bears all that fondly. A 12-4 record and playoff trip in 2018 wasn&#8217;t enough to outweigh all of the middling offensive play and an inability to make progress with Mitchell Trubisky or Justin Fields at quarterback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Nagy hasn&#8217;t done much in the interim to silence his skeptics, either. The Chiefs offense has steadily gone backward over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Titans fanbase is already frustrated by back-to-back 3-14 seasons, and firing Mike Vrabel only looks worse in retrospect. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">If Tennessee&#8217;s coaching search culminates in the hiring of Nagy, then the general atmosphere outside of the organization might get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tennessee Titans are planning to interview Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley and Kansas City Chiefs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-417629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}