Adam Schefter confirms report of Amy Adams Strunk’s significant involvement in Titans 2025 dumpster fire season

Schefter confirms what we’ve long suspected about Amy Adams Strunk.

Easton Freeze — Tennessee Titans Beat Writer
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Jan 8, 2024; Houston, TX, USA; Adam Schefter talks on a set before the 2024 College Football Playoff national championship game between the Michigan Wolverines and the Washington Huskies at NRG Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

Nobody was shocked when former Tennessee Titans head coach Brian Callahan didn’t last beyond 2025. But for his tenure to have ended after six short weeks? Now, that isn’t what we expected heading into the year.

ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter took to Nashville radio on Tuesday and echoed the local reporting on what transpired to send Callahan packing so early.

Adam Schefter explains what led to Brian Callahan’s firing

This Titans’ roster was in really tough shape at the beginning of the year and still is. In hindsight, it’s probably fair to say that any coach in charge of the 2024-2025 Tennessee Titans wouldn’t have survived these conditions — with this owner — unless they happened to be in that rare top 10% of coaches who are truly transformational. The Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay types. And Callahan, a first-time head coach and play-caller, didn’t prove to be one of those wunderkinds.

But that’s what this was: a decision by ownership — by Amy Adams Strunk — to go back on her messaging from the entire offseason. See, the Titans had spent all spring and summer preaching patience and process. They knew how important those things were, both historically and from a rookie QB’s perspective. They were determined to maintain stability, if for no other reason than to safeguard Cam Ward’s development.

That all sounds nice until you get punched in the face. And this is what happens with billionaire owners far too often. They like the fundamentals of a plan; they’re happy to parrot it when the games aren’t being played, and everything is just peachy.

Then, once the bullets start flying, they put on the fan blinders that amplify everyday emotions to the point that they drown out the plan, and they lose their patience. Their football people can only fend off the pain of embracing the suck for so long before a decree is handed down.

This is what happened in Tennessee this fall, more or less. It’s been reported on and talked about locally, and on Tuesday, Schefter reinforced that sentiment on the radio.

“You know, I think they actually wanted to keep him to be perfectly frank,” Schefter said plainly. “I think that they were hoping to ride out the season with him. And I think it got to the point where eventually the owner wanted to make a change. And when the owner wants to make a change, it’s time to move on. And I think basically that’s what happened. It’s her team, she gets to call the shots, and she decided that they would be better off moving on. I think honestly, like, they were going to go that direction at some point in time, it just happened sooner rather than later.”

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Adams Strunk decided Week 7 was the right time to do a 180 on the plan. She justified it as a decision to protect the development of her rookie QB. Pay no mind to the fact that the original plan of patience and stability was designed to protect the development of her rookie QB. After a month and a half of games, the inverse of their plan suddenly became true, you see!

In the grand scheme of things, Callahan and his staff were almost certainly going to be dismissed at the end of 2025. It wasn’t working, and this roster wasn’t going to magically become a juggernaut at the end of the season to save things. But the principles this ownership group continues to demonstrate (or lack thereof) are exactly how dysfunctional organizations stay dysfunctional.

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