Tennessee Titans fire head coach Brian Callahan after 1-5 start
The Tennessee Titans fired head coach Brian Callahan on Monday after a 1-5 start to his second season in charge.
Tennessee Titans head coach Brian Callahan reacts on the sideline during the first half of an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
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(AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans fired coach Brian Callahan on Monday after a 1-5 start to his second season.
The lone win came during Week 5 at the Arizona Cardinals despite trailing 21-6 at halftime, after which the Titans lost to the Las Vegas Raiders, 20-10
Chad Brinker, the Titans’ president of football operations, said team officials had extended conversations with controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk and general manager Mike Borgonzi before meeting with Callahan on Monday morning to tell him that Tennessee was making a change.
“While we are committed to a patient and strategic plan to build a sustainable, winning football program, we have not demonstrated sufficient growth,” Brinker said. “Our players, fans, and community deserve a football team that achieves a standard we are not currently meeting, and we are committed to making the hard decisions necessary to reach and maintain that standard.”
— Tennessee Titans (@Titans) October 13, 2025
Callahan went 4-19, which featured a 10-game skid.
He becomes just the second coach fired during the season by this franchise since relocating to Tennessee in 1997, joining Ken Whisenhunt. Whisenhunt had a 3-20 record when fired in November 2015, with a stint including a 10-game skid to end the 2014 season.
The Titans had said they wanted to see improvement this season with Callahan going into his second season as a first-time head coach with a rookie quarterback in Cam Ward. Yet Callahan had to hand off play-calling duties after dropping to 0-3 and the offense struggling.
Even the change in play-caller didn’t help.
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Lol beating the Cardinals extended his job only one week.
And JG is definitely not far behind.. Petz NEEDs to be relieved or at the minimum have play calls taken away!
We’ve lost 4 in a row by a combined 9 Pts.. And loss was being VERY winnable!! And this is the maddening part..
We aren’t losing due to a lack in talent, or capability, or even injuries which have stacked up..
This 2-4 start is on Coaching.. Pure and Simple.
Petz crazy uber conservative play calling as a run first 13 personnel scheme is making us go backwards… Steve and a few others have mentioned very accurately.. We are regressing!
We can’t put together a complete game!!!
and we lost to this joke of a team.. what does that make us??? a JOKE. play to not lose, you are going to lose... so sick of this ultra conservative philosophy.