NASHVILLE — GM Ran Carthon and head coach Brian Callahan are well on their way to filling out the Tennessee Titans coaching staff for the 2024 season.

The Titans have already hired a widely coveted defensive coordinator candidate in Dennard Wilson, a respected offensive line coach in Bill Callahan, and hired an offensive coordinator with ties to their head coach in Nick Holz.

Those were some important decisions that are now checked off the Titans' to-do list. So what's next? Carthon and Callahan have another important decision to make that should be coming soon.

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Outside of the obvious risk involved with having a first-time head coach as a first-time play caller joined by a first-time defensive coordinator, the only other issue I have with the Titans' current coaching staff is the lack of continuity there is surrounding Will Levis. 

Tennessee understandably moved on from offensive coordinator Tim Kelly so that Brian Callahan could hire one of his own guys. Former Titans quarterbacks coach Charles London was then let go by the team this offseason, which I think was a mistake. Passing game analyst Pat O'Hara is also no longer with the organization.

Overall, I have been very impressed with the Titans' recent coaching hires. But the hiring of Nick Holz as the team's offensive coordinator is by far my least favorite of the offseason. Holz was the passing game coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars last season in a year that Trevor Lawrence and the Jags offense took a step backwards. Lawrence had less passing yards, less passing touchdowns, and more interceptions thrown in 2023 than he did the year prior.

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Holz doesn't have much experience working with quarterbacks. Especially pro quarterbacks. He was once the assistant quarterbacks coach at Stanford while Andrew Luck was there, but he's never even been a position coach in the NFL. That's a bit of a red flag to me.

It truly does feel like the preexisting relationship between Holz and Callahan (the two were high school teammates) is the reason he landed the job. Which is fine, by the way. There is something to be said about the head coach and offensive coordinator having chemistry and trust. Brian Callahan had that with Zac Taylor in Cincinnati and he's likely to have it with Holz in Nashville. But that means you've really got to get the quarterbacks coach right. I'd like to see someone with both experience and success dealing with quarterbacks in the NFL. 

That's the next important decision Brian Callahan and Ran Carthon will have to make and it could be coming soon. Who is the quarterbacks coach that you trust with the development of Will Levis?

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