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10/13 13:11 CDT Titans fire coach Brian Callahan after 4-19 record and 1-5
start to second season
Titans fire coach Brian Callahan after 4-19 record and 1-5 start to second
season
By TERESA M. WALKER
AP Pro Football Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) --- The Tennessee Titans fired coach Brian Callahan on
Monday after a 1-5 start to his second season.
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."
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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