{"id":1819,"date":"2025-10-14T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/1819\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:07:07","slug":"titans-brass-explains-why-brian-callahan-was-fired-with-owner-no-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/1819\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans brass explains why Brian Callahan was fired \u2014 with owner no-show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chad Brinker kept going back to one central theme while explaining why the Titans became the first team to fire a coach in this 2025 season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just felt like this was the right time to make a change,\u201d Tennessee\u2019s president of football operations said Monday after axing Brian Callahan. \u201cWe were looking for growth in this football team and that\u2019s what this is about right now, is we\u2019re not seeing enough growth from this football team. We\u2019re 1-5, and we got to be better in this.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Brinker kept hammering home this point, though, some wondered why he \u2014 and not owner Amy Adams Strunk \u2014 delivered this message and answered questions about the franchise-altering move.<\/p>\n

And it made for a rather awkward scene.<\/p>\n

Brinker, who did most of the talking while sitting to the right of general manager Mike Borgonzi, said the owner was \u201cat her home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Titans president of football operations Chad Brinker (l) and general manager Mike Borgonzi (right) during their press conference Monday. @_jackmcpherson\/X<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m here representing her,\u201d Brinker said.<\/p>\n

For any Titans fan hoping for grand insights into the team\u2019s plan or why Adams Strunk has fired her second coach in the last three years, after previously dismissing Mike Vrabel following the 2023 campaign, they instead have to hope the team truly knows what \u201cgrowth\u201d is.<\/p>\n

Brinker made it clear the team felt that the Titans, and specifically No. 1 pick quarterback Cam Ward, had not been showing signs of progress.<\/p>\n

The team went 3-14 last year and began this season 1-5 following Sunday\u2019s listless 20-10 loss to the Raiders despite an uplifting upset of the Cardinals the previous week.<\/p>\n

Brian Callahan during his final game as the Titans\u2019 coach Sunday. AP<\/p>\n

Ward had an awful day Sunday, turning the ball over three times, and Callahan singled him out after the game in what proved to be an ominous sign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am incredibly discouraged by the outcome,\u201d Callahan said Sunday. \u201cWe felt good coming into the game. To not be able to perform well on offense and not be able to score any points and then lose the game is disappointing. And we all gotta be better, Cam\u2019s a part of that too, Cam\u2019s gotta play better football as well. We gotta coach better, we gotta play better, all those things.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not all just him, but he is a part of it, and we\u2019d like to be able to start seeing some more good football being played and we got to do a better job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Callahan got the boot after just 23 games leading the franchise, and the team will now turn to ex-Chargers coach Mike McCoy, whose background is on the offensive side.<\/p>\n

For McCoy to show he\u2019s worthy of sticking, he\u2019ll have to get Ward to play like a top pick.<\/p>\n

Titans owner Amy Adams Strunk. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Ward has thrown for just 1,101 passing yards, three touchdowns and four interceptions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a big part of this, as well. We drafted Cam Ward first overall,\u201d Brinker said. \u201cWe need to see him grow as a football player as well, so all of that is a factor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maximizing Cam Ward\u2019s talent is job No. 1 for the Titans coach. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Mike McCoy is the new Titans interim coach. Getty Images<\/p>\n

If McCoy is just a placeholder, though, the Titans could be in the market for a coach at a time when Adams Skunk has not shown patience.<\/p>\n

She moved on from Vrabel after back-to-back losing seasons, axed general manager Ran Carthon after two seasons and then moved on from Callahan after 23 games.<\/p>\n

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Coaches usually prefer spots where they are afforded time to build a program, but that hasn\u2019t been the operating standard with the Titans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis job will be attractive,\u201d Brinker said. \u201cI have no doubt about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

It all comes back to who the franchise sees as the one to lead that growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s growth opportunities throughout the roster, whether that\u2019s offense, defense, special teams. We need to see more from our players, from our coaches and we got to get better,\u201d Brinker said. \u201cThere\u2019s a standard we\u2019re trying to uphold here moving forward and we\u2019re just not meeting that standard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chad Brinker kept going back to one central theme while explaining why the Titans became the first team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,22,319,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-1819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}