Titans coach not fazed by fans calling for firing

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The vexation is gathering for Tennessee Titans fans aft different disappointing nonaccomplishment -- a 41-20 nonaccomplishment to the Indianapolis Colts -- enactment the team's grounds astatine 0-3.

Fans began to chant, "Fire Callahan," arsenic manager Brian Callahan and his squad went into the locker country down 20-6 astatine halftime. It was intolerable for Callahan not to perceive the chants accompanied by boos arsenic helium approached the tunnel. But Callahan said he's not fazed by it.

"I don't truly interest astir that to beryllium honest," Callahan said aft the game. "My absorption is connected trying to marque definite our shot squad is successful arsenic bully a spot arsenic imaginable and the remainder of that worldly is what it is. I don't deliberation astir those things, and you truly can't. I mean this is hard capable arsenic it is to enactment those different things and deliberation astir that. It doesn't bash anybody immoderate good. So, I conscionable spell to enactment and enactment arsenic hard arsenic I can. I enactment arsenic overmuch effort arsenic I tin into this and that is what it is."

Callahan, successful his 2nd play arsenic the Titans' coach, has a 3-17 record.

Callahan's discourtesy was facing a 4th and 1 astatine the Colts' 39-yard enactment with 46 seconds near successful the archetypal half. Indianapolis called a timeout to halt the timepiece truthful they could effort to adhd to their pb earlier halftime. Callahan was unsure if helium wanted to spell for it oregon footwear a tract extremity truthful helium called a timeout erstwhile play resumed.

The indecisiveness led to a hold of crippled punishment that outgo Tennessee 5 yards, stretching Titans kicker Joey Slye's tract extremity effort from 57 yards to 62. Slye missed the kick, and the Colts took implicit astatine the Titans' 38-yard line. Indianapolis drove 30 yards successful 37 seconds to acceptable up Shane Shrader's 36-yard tract extremity to implicit the six-point swing.

"I hadn't decided yet astatine the infinitesimal what we're going to do," Callahan said. "We were going backmost and distant and wanted a infinitesimal to deliberation astir it. I was going backmost and distant betwixt the 4th down telephone and the tract extremity and decided to spell instrumentality points successful that peculiar situation, and the operational portion of it to footwear it connected clip didn't happen."

The Titans person fired a caput manager oregon wide manager successful 3 consecutive seasons. Callahan is successful information of being the 4th if helium doesn't get things turned astir quickly. The Titans person 3 consecutive distant games starting with the Houston Texans adjacent week, followed by West Coast trips to look the Arizona Cardinals and Las Vegas Raiders. Former Titans manager Mike Vrabel, who was fired aft the 2022 season, volition pb the New England Patriots to Nashville the adjacent clip Tennessee is astatine home.

The Titans person present been outscored 94-51 done 3 games. Titans backmost Cam Ward has lobbied for stability, defending Callahan and said helium wants to play for his existent manager for years to come. Ward shares Callahan's unbothered attack to the assemblage reaction.

"I'm not truly excessively disquieted astir that," Ward said astir the boos. "We ain't bash that capable to triumph the crippled today. If I was them, I'd beryllium huffy too. I'm trying to triumph shot games the aforesaid arsenic them. So if that's what they're going to do, we've got to fastener successful arsenic a radical successful the locker country and proceed to motivate each other, propulsion each other, and effort to get a win."