The Tennessee Titans have found their next head coach.<\/p>\n
The Titans are expected to hire San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh as the team’s head coach, NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport, Tom Pelissero and Mike Garafolo reported late Monday night, per sources.<\/p>\n
Pelissero reported that Saleh was slated to meet with the Arizona Cardinals regarding their open position, but Tennessee closed the deal for their new head coach.<\/p>\n
Saleh, 46, is back at the helm after his second stint as the 49ers defensive coordinator. He previously spent three-plus seasons as the New York Jets head coach (2021-24) posting a 20-36 record as he dealt with issues at the QB position throughout his tenure.<\/p>\n
Before taking the head coaching job in New York, Saleh spent four seasons as the 49ers DC from 2017 to 2020.<\/p>\n
Saleh’s return in the Bay Area saw season-ending injuries to Nick Bosa<\/a> (torn ACL<\/a>) and Fred Warner<\/a> (ankle<\/a>), but he still guided San Francisco to the 13th-ranked scoring defense this past campaign.<\/p>\n Despite injuries on both sides of the ball, Saleh and the 49ers managed to go 12-5 in the regular season and had an opportunity in Week 18<\/a> to secure the NFC’s No. 1 seed. However, San Francisco came up short against Seattle in the final week of the regular season — and again fell to the Seahawks two weeks later in the Divisional Round<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tennessee Titans have found their next head coach. The Titans are expected to hire San Francisco 49ers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[10949,879,49,48,44,514,2208,948,82,1741],"class_list":["post-421003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports","tag-tennessee-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421003","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=421003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}