Someone tag Bengal brehs we need intel
Someone tag Bengal brehs we need intel
He's a good, down to earth guy. Easy to talk to. Open minded. Grew up in a coaching household. Has worked with great QBs. Sees the game from their perspective. Has helped this offense transform multiple times and figure out their own weaknesses to become their strengths. They've scrapped their entire run games and rebuilt them on the fly. They've scraped half of their playbook when they under-center stuff wasn't working. They took much of the LSU offense for Burrow during the truncated offseason and got early results. They've morphed through each season to fit their roster and what defenses have done to take away their best plays. They've routinely showed the ability to be a completely different type of offense depending on the opponent. The players love him. He understands them and knows what to do to reset them and get everyone on board again. He's not the play caller, but everyone has a hand in what Taylor calls on Sunday. From game planning, building the offense, the playbook and the adjustments. He's the one leading that charge.
To be honest this is my first time hearing our OC would be a HC coaching candidate. I thought Lou our DC would be first. I will tel you this he’s great at scheming and our run game has always been good. So I think he could really help Henry. Also if he’s going I could see you guys throwing Tee a big bag to come with him that’s his hometown. Give your young QB a good weapon plus familiarity.I've was on Bengals boards earlier and half of em seem to be lowkey hatin'/salty saying that he isn't responsible for much and/or had some habits they didn't like & the other half give him props for holding it down with Browning after Joe went out and admit they don't know the day to day ops fr. So they know prob just as much as us lol. This shyt is mostly a crapshoot, especially for a mf like him who doesn't have a super ton of history besides being around the game vis a vis his pops.
I like the hire tho. Offensive minded (even tho that wasn't a deal breaker for me). All of history goes back to QB coaching or offensive quality assistant so one less thing to worry about like we had to with Mariota, Tanny with revolving door of OC's and their systems/terminology cuz he gon' determine that. I'm sure he gon bring his pops for the Oline which is gonna be a big help or maybe even bring Munchak back whon expressed interest. As always, u only as good as your staff so who he pick for OC and DC gonna tell us more too.
@JP_614 @duncanthetall @JordanwiththeWiz @Edub @Natiboi What say all? I know yall prolly more plugged in to the beat more than me.
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To be honest this is my first time hearing our OC would be a HC coaching candidate. I thought Lou our DC would be first. I will tel you this he’s great at scheming and our run game has always been good. So I think he could really help Henry. Also if he’s going I could see you guys throwing Tee a big bag to come with him that’s his hometown. Give your young QB a good weapon plus familiarity.
I honestly never really knew just how much input he had into play calling or whatever and that’s the truth for the vast majority of Bengals fans, so don’t listen to their bullshyt lol. I know Taylor calls the plays, which I’ve always felt pretty meh about. But people seem to have a lot of good things to say about the guy. Who knows how it’ll turn out. Guessing he’ll definitely want to call his own plays for once so get ready for a learning experience for him.I've was on Bengals boards earlier and half of em seem to be lowkey hatin'/salty saying that he isn't responsible for much and/or had some habits they didn't like & the other half give him props for holding it down with Browning after Joe went out and admit they don't know the day to day ops fr. So they know prob just as much as us lol. This shyt is mostly a crapshoot, especially for a mf like him who doesn't have a super ton of history besides being around the game vis a vis his pops.
I like the hire tho. Offensive minded (even tho that wasn't a deal breaker for me). All of history goes back to QB coaching or offensive quality assistant so one less thing to worry about like we had to with Mariota, Tanny with revolving door of OC's and their systems/terminology cuz he gon' determine that. I'm sure he gon bring his pops for the Oline which is gonna be a big help or maybe even bring Munchak back whon expressed interest. As always, u only as good as your staff so who he pick for OC and DC gonna tell us more too.
@JP_614 @duncanthetall @JordanwiththeWiz @Edub @Natiboi What say all? I know yall prolly more plugged in to the beat more than me.
I honestly never really knew just how much input he had into play calling or whatever and that’s the truth for the vast majority of Bengals fans, so don’t listen to their bullshyt lol. I know Taylor calls the plays, which I’ve always felt pretty meh about. But people seem to have a lot of good things to say about the guy. Who knows how it’ll turn out. Guessing he’ll definitely want to call his own plays for once so get ready for a learning experience for him.
Would be nice for y’all if you snagged his pops, but he’s got a pretty nice thing going on in Cleveland right now.
Someone tag Bengal brehs we need intel
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Monday was a good day for the Tennessee Titans. Very few qualify since the very bad day that started this franchise in the wrong direction.
That was Jan. 22, 2022, when the AFC No. 1 seed Titans, led by soon-to-be-named NFL Coach of the Year Mike Vrabel, welcoming back Derrick Henry from injury, were stunned 19-16 at Nissan Stadium by the Cincinnati Bengals in the divisional round of the playoffs. The Bengals had Joe Burrow quarterbacking, Zac Taylor coaching and Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill giving them the ball three times. The Titans have all but disintegrated since.
Imagine being told then that in two years to the day, the Bengals offensive coordinator would be hired to replace the fired Vrabel as Titans head coach. Would you have believed it? Could you have done the math on a plunge that dramatic? Could you have named the Bengals offensive coordinator?
It’s Brian Callahan and he’s the guy who has agreed to lead the Titans now, and that made Monday a good day for a franchise that has majored in depressing ones over two years. Not because a single win is assured under Callahan, but because he has followed a path similar to several of the most successful coaches in the NFL today. Because maximizing quarterback Will Levis had to be central to the process of replacing Vrabel, and Callahan’s history with quarterbacks in this league is strong.
And because everyone can move on now from two years of losing great players, choosing bad ones, watching most of them get injured, making enormous long-term commitments, going back on them in short order, and the general drama that can accompany 13 wins and 21 losses in two seasons. The Titans had enough of it.
Even if you were happy about controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk’s firing of Vrabel, and GM Jon Robinson a year earlier, you had to question coming to both conclusions so soon after both got extensions. You had to wonder what it meant moving forward.
Now you have to hope ownership moves to the place owners in this league can best serve their teams — the heck out of the way. And that Strunk’s instincts were strong in selecting Carthon as GM a year ago, and that the search he led for head coach turns out a success and a harbinger of player acquisitions to come.
After an awkward year of trying to make it work with Vrabel, Carthon is better positioned to make “collaboration” more than a buzzword at Titans headquarters. He and Callahan need to make it a reality and overhaul this roster quickly. That’s the only way Callahan, 39, will continue the trend of young offensive coaches — especially coaches linked in any way to Kyle Shanahan/Sean McVay — succeeding as head coaches in the NFL.
Callahan’s connection is through Taylor, who got the Bengals job in 2019 after one season as Jared Goff’s quarterbacks coach with McVay and the Los Angeles Rams. That one season ended in the Super Bowl, and at that point, NFL teams would have given a distant McVay cousin a quality control job at least, so Taylor took over in Cincinnati at age 35. He’s been terrific. And Callahan, then Oakland Raiders quarterbacks coach, has been with him the whole time.
Callahan’s reputation around the league is strong. His interviews are illuminating. He’ll crush his intro presser. But there’s always some haze around exactly how responsible an OC who works for a play-calling head coach is for that offense. Of course, people wondered the same thing about Mike McDaniel when he left Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers for the Miami Dolphins two years ago, and that’s worked out well.
That’s pretty much how things are going. The Green Bay Packers hired McVay/Shanahan best bud Matt LaFleur after his one season of so-so offensive coordinating under Vrabel with the Titans, and all he’s done is win big, navigate the Aaron Rodgers experience without falling into a darkness retreat and turn Jordan Love into one of the exciting young quarterbacks in the NFL.
Kevin O’Connell (McVay’s OC with the Rams, 2020-21) has been good with the Minnesota Vikings. Two young offensive coaches who aren’t part of the tree, Nick Sirianni (Philadelphia Eagles) and Kevin Stefanski (Cleveland Browns), have established themselves (late-season Philly collapse notwithstanding). The offensive hotshot doesn’t always succeed. Kliff Kingsbury didn’t work in Arizona. Josh McDaniels keeps not working. Vrabel disciple and LaFleur successor Arthur Smith couldn’t get it done in Atlanta.
But recent evidence supports going offensive coach, in part because if you don’t and your defensive head coach has a good OC, he’s about to lose that OC. It’s especially effective with the McVay/Shanahan seal of inspection, and especially important in the event of a young quarterback.
The defensive coaches in the McVay/Shanahan family haven’t been as successful — Brandon Staley fired and Robert Saleh counting on a Rodgers revival with the Jets next season — but DeMeco Ryans sure looks good after one season in Houston.
He was Shanahan’s defensive coordinator before the Texans hired him, taking over a franchise that was at the time well beyond the current-day Titans in terms of drama, embarrassment, upheaval and general aimlessness. That looked like the worst job in the NFL. Add a good coach, add a good quarterback, add several key players to a young roster and suddenly you’ve got an AFC South team with a promising future.
That has to be galling to Titans fans. Also, comforting. This league is designed for everyone to be pretty good, and a smart choice among a pool of qualified football people can clean up any billionaire’s spilled oil.
Callahan isn’t just here as a branch on the Taylor tree. He worked with Peyton Manning, Matthew Stafford and Derek Carr before Burrow. His early days in the league came in Denver under Shanahan pupil Gary Kubiak. Mike Shanahan, that is — Kyle’s father and the architect of the modern West Coast offense. The guy who had a staff in Washington 10 years ago that included his son as OC, McVay, LaFleur, McDaniel, Raheem Morris and Bobby Slowik.
Callahan’s father, Bill, got to the Super Bowl as head coach of the Oakland Raiders and would seem a prime candidate to leave his post as Browns offensive line coach and do the same thing for the Titans if that can be arranged contractually. Carolina Panthers OC Thomas Brown, a McVay pupil and a candidate for the job Callahan just got, is a natural candidate to be his offensive coordinator. So is Kentucky OC Liam Coen, who helped Levis turn into an NFL prospect in 2021.
The possibilities are exciting. They are much more fun to talk about than the communication gaps that helped end Vrabel’s tenure. Monday, the day Callahan agreed to take the next shot, was a good day in Nashville. Now Callahan is in charge of making it so April 28, 2023 — the day the Titans drafted Levis — is remembered the same way.