If you have been paying attention at all, you already knew that Amy Adams Strunk was the one who fired Brian Callahan earlier this season. All of the messaging this offseason was that Chad Brinker and Mike Borgonzi were going to be patient this season. They knew the Tennessee Titans were facing an uphill battle this season due to the overall state of the roster. There was no reason to bring Callahan back this year just to fire him in early October.
Yesterday, Adam Schefter was on Cover Two with Zach
Lyons and Blaine Bishop on 104.5 The Zone here in Nashville, and more or less confirmed the order to fire Callahan came directly from AAS. So, after all of the talk about how she was going to take a step back and let her football people run the football operations, she once again got mad and made a rash decision. Was it the wrong decision? Well, that is up for debate. It was pretty obvious that Callahan was in over his head, but firing him during the season didn’t really help the team at all.
The more important question now is, what does this mean for Brinker/Borgonzi when trying to hire the next coach? Is a potential candidate going to look at this situation and not want to come here because the owner has a tendency to make quick, often irrational decisions?
A few years ago, AAS seemed like one of the best owners in the NFL. Then, Jon Robinson traded A.J. Brown, and the wheels came off. Of course, it’s not really that simple, but it’s hard not to trace it all back to that night.
