Titans NFLPA Report Card: Player opinions of Amy Adams Strunk shift, returning coach is absolutely beloved, a recent addition is despised

The Titans’ NFLPA report card is out, and there are some interesting changes!

Easton Freeze — Tennessee Titans Beat Writer
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The NFL Players Association polls active players each year on a variety of workplace conditions, culminating in annual team reports cards. The way it’s worked for years is that during Combine week, the grades for each team are publicly released and we all react to them.

But after a hilariously misguided grievance filed by the NFL (sensitive owners), the NFLPA has been barred from publicly releasing these grades. they’re now privately distributed to members of the association… who promptly leaked them to the media when they came out this week. So now they get even more attention than before! I can tell the owners really thought this one through.

Let’s take a look at the Titans’ grades for 2026, and see what we can learn by comparing them to the past couple of seasons.

Grades that didn’t change

The following categories received grades that are basically the same as Titans players have given them the past couple of years:

  • Food/Dining Areas: B
  • Nutritionist/Dietician: B
  • Weight Room: B
  • Strength Coach: B

Grades we’ve seen movement on

These six categories have undergone some changes on the past few reports cards.

  • Treatment of Families: B+
  • Locker Room: D+
  • Training Staff: B-
  • Team Travel: C+
  • Head Coach: B-
  • Ownership: C

The Titans got a D+ on treatment of family in 2024, but have jumped up to a B+ the past two years. Anecdotally, I heard a Titans employee at the Combine rave unprompted about how delighted he’s been over the treatment of his family since joining the team. This was largely a family room complaint from players in 2024, when they lacked space for their families to spend time on game days. That has since been addressed, and the Titans plan on making another significant upgrade in this department in their new stadium in 2027.

Their locker room was a C+ in 2024, C- in 2025, and now gets a D+ in 2026. The training staff has generally trended in the opposite direction, going from C+ to B+, to B-.

Team travel got an F in 2024, but jumped to a B in 2025 when Brian Callahan put players in nicer seats. It fell to a C+ in 2026.

Head Coach has received a B+, A-, and B- since 2024. Players really liked Callahan in year 1, even though the on-field results were lacking. A blended result of Callahan and interim HC Mike McCoy received a lower mark in 2026.

Finally, Amy Adam Strunk’s grade has fallen from B+ to C in 2026.

New graded categories in 2026

The following categories are new to the report card this year:

  • Home Game Field: F-
  • Position Coaches: B
  • Offensive Coordinator: C
  • Defensive Coordinator: B-
  • Special Teams Coordinator: A+
  • General Manager: B+

Titans players absolutely despise the playing surface at Nissan Stadium, and I have a hard time blaming them. The Titans replaced the natural grass field in 2023 with a state of the art monofilament, natural in-fill turf. It’s a lot of things, but here’s what it isn’t: real grass. And players nearly universally hate turf.

Former OC Nick Holz graded the worst of the coordinators with a C, and DC Dennard Wilson edged him out with a B-. Neither were retained by Saleh. Special Teams Coordinator John “Bones” Fassell was kept, though, and it’s extremely easy to see why. He received an A+ from his players, who adore him.

Finally, it was a tad surprising to see GM Mike Borgonzi grade at the middle of the league-wide pack with a B+. Everything we’ve heard from players lately makes it seem like they have tremendous respect and belief in him. But he also shepherded this locker room through some difficult personnel decisions in-season like the trade of Jarvis Brownlee Jr. Those tough choices probably weren’t received perfectly by everybody involved. That’s an occupational hazard.

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