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At this point, it is a question of when, not if, the Tennessee Titans will fire Brian Callahan. There is a chance that it will happen this week. Firing Callahan probably doesn’t really help anything at this point, other than sometimes you see a little bump in performance when a coach gets fired. Of course, that also typically happens when a team gets a new play-caller, and we certainly didn’t see that with the Titans yesterday.
Connor Orr of Sports Illustrated wrote this morning that the Doomsday clock is already ticking on Callahan. There is no real reporting in that piece, just a member of the national media looking at what is going on here and drawing the logical conclusion. It’s only a matter of time.
When Amy Adams-Strunk has fired people in season before, it has typically happened on Tuesday, so maybe it goes down tomorrow.
There are plenty of indictments against Callahan at this point, but the one that is the most glaring after yesterday’s loss is the regression of Cam Ward. There were bright spots to point to in the first three losses for Ward. That wasn’t the case yesterday. He looked terrible.
We know AAS can make emotional decisions, but the front office combination of Chad Brinker and Mike Borgonzi has preached patience all offseason. Their patients will run out really quickly if they see Ward continue to regress in the coming weeks. That would be the perfect storm (in a bad way) for Callahan.
