Recently, ESPN ranked all 32 NFL teams’ coaching staffs and coordinators for 2024. The author, Ben Solak, did not consider special teams or position coaches, reviewing only head coaches and coordinators. After discussing his process and offering some considerations, the Tennessee Titans coaching staff was ranked 28th in the league.
This is the first year this coaching staff has been together, so it’s hard to say what they’ll really be capable of. As Solak says in the article, past performance is helpful, but it’s not the only consideration when making these rankings.
When it came to the Titans, the first thing mentioned was Brian Callahan’s success with Joe Burrow in Cincinnati and the similarity in air time and time-to-throw between Burrow and Will Levis.
If Callahan succeeds, he’ll have to find a blend between the offense he ran for Burrow and the offense Levis ran last season: tons of screens, tons of deep play-action bombs. The offensive cupboard got loaded with weapons in the offseason — Calvin Ridley, Tony Pollard, Tyler Boyd — and Levis showed some nice flashes, so a solid Year 1 performance is a reasonable expectation from this offense.
This defense is a different matter. Wilson is one of three new defensive coordinators from the Mike Macdonald tree, and I don’t really have any reason to believe in any one over the other. But his secondary background should shine here, where L’Jarius Sneed, Chidobe Awuzie, Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs have all joined a room already featuring a couple of exciting young players in Amani Hooker, Elijah Molden and Roger McCreary (put a star by that last name). The front seven deficiencies beyond Jeffery Simmons are tough to ignore, but Wilson should be able to run some of those crazy Baltimore coverages with this back end.
Perhaps the best thing about rankings is that they really don’t mean much. What this Titans coaching staff does this year is very dependent on who makes the final roster, who stays healthy, who gets hurt, and how well the players execute the game plan.
What the Titans really need to focus on is continuing their winning ways on Sunday at New Orleans.
