October 22nd, 2025
By Stephen Juza
After a dreadful 1-5 start, the Tennessee Titans gave head coach Brian Callahan a pink slip, just six games into his second season. The Titans have since turned over the head coaching responsibilities to interim head coach Mike McCoy. McCoy previously was the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers between 2014 and 2016. Along with Callahan, two other coaches were fired: Bill Callahan (Brian’s father) and Tom Jones.
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What Caused This?
Titans fans have seen this coming for a little while. Callahan has consistently had the team under performing. Last season, the team had the 27th-rated offense in the league, and has regressed to 31st overall at the time of his firing. Only the Browns were rated lower than the Titans, a team who thought so poorly of their own starting quarterback they were willing to trade him to a divisional rival to be their starting quarterback.
While most coaches may be on the hot seat for that poor of an offense, it was also Callahan’s calling card when he was hired. Before the Titans, he was offensive coordinator for the Bengals for the last five years. During this time, the team had one Super Bowl appearance, two AFC Championship appearances, and twice finished in the Top-10 offenses in the league. However, outside of those two seasons, the results were less than spectacular.
Back in March of 2024, we originally had Callahan as the second best head coaching hire, thinking he would be key to help mold their young quarterback Will Levis. While he may have played better in 2024 compared to his rookie year, it certainly wasn’t enough to keep the team from drafting Cam Ward first overall in 2025. The team has not lived up to Titans fans hopes and dreams, leading to Callahan’s ousting.
So where does the team go from here?
The team has tapped McCoy to lead them for the rest of the season. As we wrote in a prior blog post about interim head coaches, McCoy will fit in the “caretaker” category. It has certainly been several years of pain for Titans faithful. The team only has two division titles going back to 2009, and during that stretch they have as many fourth-place division finishes (5) as second place finishes. The team will likely just want McCoy to get them to the end of the season, possibly win a few extra games, and plan an exhaustive search for a new head coach for 2026.
In our opinion, the team will need to bring in the right offensive staff to be able to work with Ward, who is dead last in passing accuracy in the league (34th of 34 qualified quarterbacks) and ahead of only Justin Fields and Jackson Dart as starting quarterbacks. While that’s not necessarily a sign to throw in the towel on a player, looking through the last few players that have finished last in the league does not inspire much hope for the future. The last few names that have finished last all lost their starting jobs for their original team shortly after (Anthony Richardson, 2024; Will Levis, 2023, Zach Wilson, 2021-2022, Drew Lock, 2020). While Ward put together his most accurate game of the season, there is still a lot of improvement he needs to show to give the team confidence into 2026.