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The Tennessee Titans have fired head coach Brian Callahan after just 23 games on the job. In The Loop's John P. Lopez, Reginald Adetula and Figgy Fig react to the news here.
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00:00the tennessee titans have fired head coach brian callahan he is indeed the first head coach fired
00:06in the 2025 nfl season and i will turn to our uh nfl head coach record uh correspondent figgy fig
00:15uh brian callahan in his just over how many seasons just over two seasons or just just over
00:20i think it was was it actually because he was rookie last year uh rookie head coach what was
00:25his record oh i want to say it was four and 18 or 19 i believe yes sir yeah yeah yeah yeah that's uh
00:34yep four and 19 as a head coach that is nasty i didn't realize the percentage uh is 0.174
00:43uh is scoring margin that ain't great negative 17 and that offense did not look good at any point
00:50they never had a real identity and he came in as an offensive coordinator right on the bank
00:55previously with the bangles uh which probably could have told you a little bit of something
01:00yeah to the but yeah man they to be fair not really a well-built team and honestly one of the things
01:06tangentially about that titans team is this weekend i started looking i was like huh maybe the idea of
01:13porting in offensive linemen was not going to be helpful however that was just super poor coaching
01:18all the way around because dan moore who they who they went and acquired this offseason hasn't
01:23looked great now he's been injured but the guy that uh i think i was very interested in coming from
01:27the lions um kevin zeitler hasn't looked all that great with them this year either so i was like oh
01:33maybe that maybe my priors on the idea of going acquiring free agent lineman was wrong now the
01:39titans are just bad like i feel like that's where i'll land more than anything however do you view this
01:44is good thing or bad thing just generally because he was bad and i think that was very clear but
01:49anytime that you get rid of a bad head coach there is an opportunity to get a good head coach yeah you
01:54you hit it on the head you know i wish they would have kept him as a yeah let's talk about it now are
02:00you sure that he was that bad i wish they would have kept him i'm serious as as come on amy what you
02:04doing you disappointed me again uh but listen give him a chance amy this is a true the king is dead
02:13long live the king you know because you you start to wonder the afc south if you haven't noticed
02:18already is tennessee what yeah you mean the five and one colts and the four and one jaguars i'll say
02:26this again what make sure you're sitting down the colts have the best record in the afc it still
02:31sounds wrong it sounds wrong but it's accurate uh the jaguars are are gonna be it's only been what
02:37like 10 years since look yeah that's right the jaguars and i've said it multiple times i was wrong on
02:42liam cohen apparently they're gonna be a bit of an issue they're not gonna jaguar it all the way
02:47down they're gonna lose some games but this is a division that's on the upswing the titans if they
02:53get it right this could be a problem this could be a big problem which leads to the question you know
02:58who who would scare you who would you love if they hired because i've already seen bill belichick
03:04please hire him please hire bill belichick i actually think i agree yeah with bill belichick and
03:10it's not because the unc thing i think he's failing at north carolina for a very particular
03:14reason which is a level of hubris with him and michael lombardi going to the college level and
03:18just not understanding the space that's one of those things that we've seen many a times people
03:22think oh well i've been at a higher level so i know no no no no this is an entirely different
03:26ecosystem you have to treat differently but even the nfl bill belichick was losing his fastball
03:31the thing that he did so well at the nfl level yes he had tom brady he was great at finding a
03:37market inefficiency and zigging when everybody was zagging yeah he was he was you know at the
03:42forefront of schematic advantage he was at the forefront of figuring things out and figuring
03:47other teams out game plan wise and he lost that in addition to being a bad personnel guy all of that
03:52sounds like it would be awful with the titans yes right they've been bad at personnel you bring a bad
03:57personnel head coach that's not going to help an inability to be effective um when it comes to
04:04schematics and being ahead of the curve especially with an offensive what i think will be an offensive
04:09bet if you're hiring a head coach because you have a young quarterback bringing in a bill belichick
04:13does not seem like it fits there but interestingly enough the name that scares me a little bit i don't
04:18know if it's i got one i wonder if it's the most yeah it's actually a defensive head coach and it is
04:24brian flores who is currently the dc with the minnesota vikings last time he was the head coach he was
04:30with the dolphins that dude can coach the hell out of some defense and i think that he knows how to run
04:35a program and i i'd be interested well i would not be interested obviously but i think that he is a hot
04:42name he's been very good as a dc i think that he could get their defense playing better football pretty
04:47quickly and then you talk about getting them to a place where they're not just an absolute you know
04:54bleep show that in and of itself uh in the afc south as you mentioned is there you know all the
04:59boats are rising that's a frustration if you're the houston texans so anybody else i have one that's
05:05that's just hit me like a ton of bricks in uh in the break there's a couple more but we can we
05:10bounce back and forth here play a little uh word tennis clint kubiak one of those for sure clint kubiak
05:16would be very scary to me uh for a number of reasons because i'd be mad first of all uh that a
05:23kubiak is uh is coaching uh the titans but i could see that i could see that connection from
05:28the titans perspective to the kubiak name and the kubiak family gary kubiak would still be some sort
05:33of advisor and be able to teach him and work him he's a really good offensive coordinator
05:38he's been with young quarterbacks uh and uh offensive minded head coach which you would i was
05:46actually just texting with a buddy of mine you would think that they might go with a defensive
05:49minded head coach because you know callahan yeah but i don't think that's going to be the case
05:53not with a young quarterback young quarterback you spend a number one overall pick on and he
05:58hasn't even given you much that would say he's not it he just hasn't been given a a platform you
06:03want to give him a platform yeah so i think kubiak would be a worry for me agree the only thing that
06:08i look at is he's really young in this yeah um now that's worked for teams got gary that's that yeah
06:14that also could be a stabilizing force uh so maybe maybe that is a way and i would i would
06:19obviously be concerned just because i think the schematics would be good there with clint
06:22in a similar vein with the dude who has a little bit more under his belt i am afraid of the
06:27possibility of joe brady who is the uh bills offensive coordinator i want the phrase falling up keeps
06:35coming to mind even though it's not accurate he just he seems to get stronger the higher he's gone up
06:40right obviously he was really great with that uh with that um lsu lsu 2019 team which is one of
06:47the best college football teams that i've seen with my very own eyes then he goes to he gets to
06:52the nfl level and he's looked better and better he took over for ken dorsey and somehow made that
06:57bill's offense took them to another level assuming that he has the chops to be a head coach and to
07:03organize things you know he can design an offense in multiple different facets that is the thing that
07:09gets me that that i go oh okay because they have some talented players uh but getting a quarterback
07:15in the right space helping him maximize what he does i think joe brady has done that would be very
07:21scary because if there's one thing that you look at an opposing team and you're like i don't want them
07:26to have is a quarterback that they know that they can build around everything else we can figure out
07:30if we got that quarterback that's one of the hardest things to get settled and if you get a joe
07:34brady who's like oh this cam ward thing we can make it go that's going to be a problem in the afc so
07:37let me let me ask one uh you about one that uh you're very familiar with and i don't know i don't
07:44say the one that i think i don't know if it's gonna scare me or not but i think it'd be a good
07:47transition offensive mind would have a good coordinator uh maybe a young coordinator to
07:53help him along the way has won a super bowl mike mccarthy god i hate him so much he
08:00i you say that would kind of scare me a little bit i don't think it should now when has he lost
08:09the scary portion of this well i mean he's had he's had a bad yeah some bad years he's had bad
08:14years but then he's also walked into pretty well established uh circumstances he's not had to build
08:18this necessarily sure for whatever that is worth um i think if he comes in and unless there's some
08:26level stated i think he would want to be the offensive play caller and his offense is from 2008
08:29i don't think he would i think that you know the stabilizing offensive mind that can work with the
08:34quarterbacks work with the offensive side and then bring in you know the the offensive coordinator or
08:38whatever those are the two that came into mind clink kubiak on one extreme mike mccarthy on the very
08:43yeah mike mccarthy now he he does seem to run a run an interesting ship like he seems to like have
08:49good processes to some degree i just really don't like him as an offensive as a play caller but you're right
08:55like right now anybody that will demonstrate a level of competence to not make is is interesting
09:02because of the way that the afc south has kind of taken a step up can i give you a couple of more
09:08ones that i'm just going to speed run these a little bit more so and see would this kind of would
09:14this be some level of concern for you or not not really if you're just joining us um bill callahan
09:20was fired uh he was the first head coach fire brian brian rather bill was i don't know if he's
09:25fired or not but brian thank you the son who was actually the head coach of the tennessee titans
09:29fired first head coach fired in this season all right so we're talking about who could possibly
09:34replace him in that role cliff kingsbury i saw i saw that i was looking online
09:41i don't know how i feel about that i don't either he's done it he's doing the right job right now yeah
09:48he's had a measure of success i think i might end up being a little happy if they hired him i think i
09:54might as well because i'm still not entirely sure that he has gotten this thing figured out of how
09:59to have an offense yes that builds and lead the program continues uh through the entirety of a
10:05season and you're right like be able to do that be the play caller get that effect while also leading
10:10the program now maybe maybe having done it once and then also now working under someone like a dan
10:15quinn gives him a better standpoint to do that i don't know that i'd be as afraid as afraid of some
10:20of these other names which funny enough haven't done it in the way that he has with cliff kingsbury
10:25uh do you even think this is a possibility with steve spagnolo uh oh yeah i even though he keeps
10:31saying no no no and he's had other offers and and options you know at some point maybe he's just
10:37going to kind of kind of see that there's a possibility there i think it's a possibility i don't
10:43think it's a very high possibility um the other name that that uh came to mind for me um is maybe
10:49you know we he's anytime there's an opening you just mention his name and maybe this is the job
10:57that gets his attention hello brand matt campbell oh uh matt campbell iowa state iowa state really
11:02bring the cyclones fully into the uh into the afc so yeah uh yeah i don't i don't know because i
11:08honestly have not really thought about what his he's so respected in the he's had so many
11:13opportunities to jump and he just doesn't yeah um how about this as a name because i think this is a
11:17dude who absolutely wants another head coaching job and so it is a retread of sorts robert sala
11:22robert sala would okay now we can go into the whole defensive minded guys uh sala would definitely be one
11:28that you could you could put there and i think i think he would obviously different environment than
11:34the jets you know obviously who knows what the ownership but he he would i think he's going to
11:38get interviewed he'll probably get interviewed yeah that feels like that'd be the case but yeah
11:43brian callahan no no longer the head coach with the titans i still haven't seen who the interim will be
11:49i see you three four six bobby have you heard of bobby slowick can i interest you in one bob
11:56just do david cully bring him back hey the first couple ones i was thinking about was bill o'brien
12:01and um josh m'daniels yes and yes josh m'daniels please please hire either or both of those guys
12:08bill o'brien getting all the love for jobs now uh today but yeah that that's a team that yeah i'm
12:15looking around and i go yeah the the thing that i mean if they make good head coaching hire are we
12:22sure that they will do the things to build the talent like admittedly they knew they were in a bad
12:27place so they cut back on some talent they've already kind of traded it's like remember talking
12:31we talked about brownlee the cornerback being traded early on in this i think by week three
12:36they had traded that guy which kind of indicated and intimated where they were and there's two guys
12:40on that team that i look at are really is really good how quickly we've seen in the nfl teams turn
12:46their fortunes around even talent wise i do wonder if they get the right head coach would they be able
12:51to also pair that coach with the talent necessary to compete no that that's the big question there
12:56um i do also think you know one thing that robert sala might have going for him is he might not mess
13:02with the offense and he knows the west coast offense which is probably something that cam ward could
13:07thrive at so it might be like a mini domico situation in terms of i'll run the defense i'm
13:13going to get in an offensive coordinator even though obviously domico is a little more involved now for
13:16obvious reasons get an offensive coordinator that can that can kind of run the show for a young
13:20court you have to have a with a young quarterback like that you i think you have to have an offensive
13:25mind robert sala might be the one exception because he'll sort of just let the offensive
13:29guy do it yeah so i mean if i had to put the one that i'm most afraid of the possibility of it's
13:34absolutely joe brady it's joe brady um i think after that clint kubiak absolutely up there just
13:41somebody that gets cam ward into a place where you go okay that's a guy that we're going to contend
13:46with for 10 years in this division like that's where it gets scary it gets scary when joe brady
13:51i agree with you uh clint kubiak is a little scary to me i think he's he's really really good
13:56uh and and maybe matt campbell if he was three would tough for me i like the bit that's happening
14:02here on the text line of like how can we sabotage like i wish i wish i would have known i would have
14:07started putting started putting down uh feelers up in nashville to try and saturday jeff saturday
14:13let's see can he jump back up here he doesn't have the same attachment as he does with the colts
14:17which is why that happened deon sanders greg olsen i said get eddie george eddie george's
14:22right now hey he got bold and green playing better football in college james franklin he is looking
14:29for a job that is fair um so yeah uh that way phillips since they they should lean into the history
14:37and just hire way phillips dude i wish you that would actually make me mad i know i wish you
14:41hadn't said that because now i'm thinking about it lean into the history man don't put his dad
14:45hat on good lord they're gonna end up hiring him yeah they are he probably tweeting about that job
14:51right now hey here we go this is the answer still here from the three four six times to hire john
14:57mcclain all right
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