The Tennessee Titans have started the season 0-2, and people are losing their minds. That’s pretty funny because it is exactly what every reasonable person expected to happen. The two teams the Titans have faced so far, the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Rams, are just flat-out better than the Titans.
It’s also funny to me that so many people are blaming Brian Callahan for the 0-2 start. Look, there were a couple of things that were bad in the Denver game. The playcalling right before halftime, when
the Titans were backed up against their own goal line was bad. The whole thing with not challenging the Elic Ayomanor play and his comments following was also bad. There is no way to defend that.
But with that being said, Callahan didn’t do anything to lose the game against the Rams. The Titans just lost to a better team. In fact, if Cam Ward doesn’t fumble, the outcome of that game could have been very different. That’s not on Callahan.
There is a lot of talk about the Titans being out-adjusted in games. The offense has repeatedly stalled in the second halves of games since Cally has been here, but how much of that is adjustments and how much of that is simply the better team making more plays down the stretch? I don’t know the answer to that, but it’s certainly possible.
There is no doubt that Callahan needs to produce better results. He is 3-16 as the coach here. If he doesn’t win more than 3 games this year, then I would have no problem with the Titans deciding to move on, but he deserves this season to prove whether or not he is up to the job.
