The Tennessee Titans are an unmitigated mess in this 2025 NFL season. They are 1-5 at this point and the only win came when the Arizona Cardinals were in the gift-giving mood.
Now, the Titans are in a coach-changing mood as owner Amy Adams Strunk had enough of Brian Callahan and relieved him of his duties on Monday following yet another loss. Rookie quarterback Cam Ward had developed a strong relationship with Callahan and while he understood the decision, he still empathy for what he was going through.
“You feel for him, because of what he has done for me to get to this point,” Ward said. “Just through the draft prep, through the offseason, training camp, how he helped me get to this point. So, I feel for him.”
In his place, the Titans hired former Los Angeles Chargers head coach and current senior offensive assistant Mike McCoy to take over the reigns.
Cam Ward knows his role and supports the Titans’ decisions
Ward said Wednesday that he’s supportive of the organization’s decisions (until he isn’t…but give it time) and just wants to do his job.
“My job is to play quarterback, and my job is to help lead this team to wins,” Ward said. “I am going to support whatever decision we make (as an organization), and the guys in the locker room are going to support it.
“At the end of the day, with coach or without coach, we are trying to win football games and that is the same message coach Mike (McCoy) is preaching. We just have to live by it and stay true to it.”
Mike McCoy’s top mission is to develop Cam Ward
As one could imagine, tops on McCoy’s to-do list is to make something out of the 2025 first-overall draft pick. Ward has been sacked a David Carr-like (sacked an NFL record 76 times in 2002) 25 times through six games, so I’d probably start there.
“Well, that’s going to be our number one focus is: How do we get Cam (Ward) to be more efficient and have more success?,” McCoy said. “But it’s not just him. There’s 10 other guys on the field with him that have got to do their jobs better, too. So we all have to do our jobs better, coaching, playing, everybody. But I think there’s the good and the bad. And as a young player, as a rookie, there’s going to be some bumps in the road. It’s going to happen. I mean, it doesn’t matter what position you’re going to play in this league, especially quarterback’s the hardest position to play.
“So, there’s some really good things and then there’s some things that you want to say, what are we doing? But the number one focus has got to be, okay, how do we minimize the mistakes and get more of the good, more production? But that’s all 11 on offense working together and being more efficient.”
Ward was asked how things are going so far with the new coach, as though three days is some kind of barometer.
“It’s been good,” Ward said of McCoy. “He was one of the first people to greet me once I came in on my 30-visit here. And he’s had a history with good quarterbacks, had a chance to work with Philip Rivers. And just the attitude he brings to the team, the building. He wants us to play winning football, and he is going to get that out of us.
“So, we just have to buy in, come in together with coach and make plays.”
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