“I never want any of it to ever be about me” – scrutiny on Titans coach Brian Callahan intensifies as critical game vs Houston Texans looms
NASHVILLE — No one expected the Tennessee Titans (0-3) to win many games in 2025. What has fans and pundits up in arms is how much head coach Brian Callahan and his in-game operation have marred the results. Tennessee has enough issues without adding Callahan and his staff’s blunders into the mix. Titans feel like […]
NASHVILLE — No one expected the Tennessee Titans (0-3) to win many games in 2025. What has fans and pundits up in arms is how much head coach Brian Callahan and his in-game operation have marred the results.
Tennessee has enough issues without adding Callahan and his staff’s blunders into the mix.
Titans feel like they are delaying the inevitable
The Titans are in Houston against the 0-3 Texans this week.
Ownership puts an increased amount of emphasis on this roadtrip every year. Controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk’s father, K.S. Bud Adams relocated the Houston Oilers franchise to Nashville in the late 1990s, eventually re-branding the club as the Tennessee Titans. That has stoked a rivalry between the two cities in the three decades since that is felt at every level of both organizations each time they meet in AFC South competition.
It also means that a loss to drop Tennessee to 0-4 could see Strunk fire Callahan in-season.
“Yeah, I never want any of it to ever be about me,” Callahan said this week. “It’s not how I want it to be. It’s not how it should be. I don’t want it be about good or bad. It’s always supposed to be about our players and what they’re doing and what they’re well and what we got to be better at. But yeah, the conversation about me is not one that I want to continue. It’s just the reality of where we’re at being 0-3 and everything is every single thing gets magnified. Some things haven’t worked out for us in those spots and they opened up to criticism and that’s the way it goes in the NFL. Yeah, I certainly don’t want it to ever be about me.”
This season is not about Callahan, it is about 2025 No. 1 overall draft pick Cam Ward.
Having a top selection at quarterback, however, does bring a bigger magnifying glass on the situation surrounding the player. Callahan’s Week 1 rule flub in Denver followed by a totally perplexing end-of-half situation that cost his team a chance at points against the visiting Indianapolis Colts (3-0) have anyone in the NFL paying attention to the Titans questioning if the current coach should keep his job. All the problems that have Tennessee winless so far this year will not be resolved by beating Houston this week.
Right now, all it can do is buy Callahan more time.
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