Music City Miracles
Brian Callahan is handing off the play-calling duties to Tennessee Titans quarterbacks coach Bo Hardegree. This is a pretty significant development considering Callahan has been calling the plays since he was hired before the 2024 season. It is interesting that the duties go to Hardgree instead of offensive coordinator Nick Holz. Callahan was asked how Holz took the news that they were skipping over him to go to Hardegree. Callahan said Holz is a professional and took it well.
Callahan said that Hardegree has called plays before on an interim basis. My assumption is that it happened in 2023 when Hardegree was with the Las Vegas Raiders after head coach Josh McDaniels and offensive coordinator Mick Lombardi were fired in October of that year.
Callahan had this to say when asked if he was disappointed with his playcalling:
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Callahan has certainly appeared to be overwhelmed this season with all of the decisions that he has to make throughout the course of the game. This takes a huge chunk of the responsibility off his plate.
