Brian Callahan's Titans can help define what 'New Nashville' means
NASHVILLE — As Brian Callahan gets used to his new gig coaching the Tennessee Titans, he will eventually have time for he and his young family to get to know their new home. It will take Callahans no time at all to learn that Nashville feels like a city always under construction. Its football team […]
NASHVILLE — As Brian Callahan gets used to his new gig coaching the Tennessee Titans, he will eventually have time for he and his young family to get to know their new home. It will take Callahans no time at all to learn that Nashville feels like a city always under construction.
Its football team is, too.
What Callahan will also learn, if he does not already know, is that Tennessee's brand of football needs that refresh in the worst way. The product under former coach Mike Vrabel had become stale. Finishes of 7-10 and 6-11 in the last two seasons with offenses laboring to score (17.5, 17.9 ppg) has the Titans feeling stagnant for the first time since controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk took charge in 2015.
As Strunk prepares to break ground on a new stadium for the franchise her father founded on Feb. 29, she's made it clear that the product on the field could do with more than just a refresh.
Time to "New Nashville" the whole damn thing.
Stigmatizing the transplants (gulity), transpotainment and Nash Trash tourists is one thing. That cause is right and just. What the Titans are doing is embracing a new coach, a new system and modernized philosophical approach.
"We want to be great at detail in the passing game, route definition, route spacing," Callahan said in his introductory press conference. "Want to be able to complete balls at a high percentage. That's always going to be the goal. The run game, we still want to be physical. Don't get that part twisted. That's part of the Titans identity for a long time and it will continue to be. We'll be a physical football team, and we'll be able to run the ball the way we need to win football games."
Nashville is an entertainment city. Tennessee looks like they have something to build upon in quarterback Will Levis, who briefly caught football fans attention for moments in his rookie season. With Derrick Henry pending as a free agent, the Titans need to find ways to help Levis reach top billing on the marquis.
Tennessee has to do everything in its power as an organization this offseason to make sure it can keep this city's attention. Strunk and the powers that be understand that their fan base, like Nashville, is either growing or dying.
Callahan's small task is making sure that its the former of the two.
Brian Callahan’s Titans coaching staff has one very important theme
NASHVILLE — New head coach Brian Callahan has been hard at work hiring the staff that will lead the Tennessee Titans into the future. Callahan still has plenty of positions to fill out, but the primary pieces are in place. Tennessee will feature a first-time head coach, first-time offensive coordinator and first-time defensive coordinator on […]
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