{"id":198864,"date":"2025-10-13T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/titans-fire-coach-brian-callahan-after-calling-out-no-1-draft-pick-cam-ward\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:51:58","slug":"titans-fire-coach-brian-callahan-after-calling-out-no-1-draft-pick-cam-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/titans-fire-coach-brian-callahan-after-calling-out-no-1-draft-pick-cam-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans Fire Coach Brian Callahan After Calling Out No. 1 Draft Pick Cam Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Tennessee Titans have fired their head coach, <strong>Brian Callahan<\/strong>, just hours after he publicly called out their star quarterback, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/miami-qb-cam-ward-and-girlfriend-nailah-landons-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cam Ward<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Titans announced Callahan\u2019s termination on Monday, October 13, after a rough 1-5 start to the season. The organization has not announced an interim coach to replace Callahan, 41, at the time of publication.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAfter extended conversations with our owner and general manager, we met with Brian Callahan this morning to tell him we are making a change at head coach,\u201d Titans president of football operations <strong>Chad Brinker<\/strong> said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/titans\/3742670167638370438\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThese decisions are never easy, and they become more difficult when they involve people of great character. We are grateful for Brian\u2019s investment in the Titans and Tennessee community during his tenure as head coach. We thank him and his family for being exemplary ambassadors of the Tennessee Titans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The statement continued, \u201cWhile we are committed to a patient and strategic plan to build a sustainable, winning football program, we have not demonstrated sufficient growth. Our players, fans, and community deserve a football team that achieves a standard we are not currently meeting, and we are committed to making the hard decisions necessary to reach and meet that standard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Callahan\u2019s firing comes after he criticized the performance of starting quarterback Cam Ward after the Titans\u2019 20-10 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, October 12. The Titans drafted Ward, 23, with the No. 1 overall pick at April\u2019s 2025 NFL Draft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI am incredibly discouraged by the outcome,\u201d Callahan told reporters after the game. \u201cWe felt good coming into the game. To not be able to perform well on offense and not be able to score any points and then lose the game is disappointing. And we all gotta be better, Cam\u2019s a part of that too, Cam\u2019s gotta play better football as well. We gotta coach better, we gotta play better, all those things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Callahan added, \u201cIt\u2019s not all just him, but he is a part of it and we\u2019d like to be able to start seeing some more good football being played and we got to do a better job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Titans loss to the Raiders was their fifth in six games to start the season, also falling to the Denver Broncos, Los Angeles Rams, Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans. Their lone win of the season came against the Arizona Cardinals on October 5.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/lions-brian-branch-explains-why-he-started-sunday-night-football-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/lions-brian-branch-explains-why-he-started-sunday-night-football-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Lions\u2018 Brian Branch Explains Why He Started \u2018SNF\u2018 Fight, Dan Campbell Responds<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tDetroit Lions safety Brian Branch explained why he went after Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster on Sunday Night Football, which caused a massive tussle between the two teams. Branch, 23, struck Smith-Schuster, 28, across the facemask after the Chiefs\u2019 30-17 victory over the Lions at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, October 12. Smith-Schuster fell [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ward finished Sunday\u2019s game against the Raiders 26 for 38 passing with 22 yards and an interception. He also lost two fumbles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cReal disappointed, just as an offense, especially myself,\u201d Ward told reporters after the game. \u201cAny time you have three turnovers you are not going to have a chance to win the game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He added, \u201cI know I can\u2019t let it happen, but we have to keep going. At the end of the day, there\u2019s no excuses out there for us. We just have to be better, and I have to be better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Titans return to action on Sunday, October 19, when they host the New England Patriots.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/titans-fire-coach-brian-callahan-after-calling-out-no-1-draft-pick-cam-ward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Titans have fired their head coach, Brian Callahan, just hours after he publicly called out their star quarterback, Cam Ward. The Titans announced Callahan\u2019s termination on Monday, October 13, after a rough 1-5 start to the season. The organization has not announced an interim coach to replace Callahan, 41, at the time of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-198864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}