Titans’ Brian Callahan breaks silence on father joining staff
Tennessee finished 6-11 last season which was the bottom of the AFC South.
When Brian Callahan was hired to be the head coach for the Tennessee Titans, one of the first decisions he made in terms of his staff would be the addition of his father, Bill, as offensive line coach. He had previously worked with the Cleveland Browns, but let him our of his contract to be a coach for his son’s football team.
Because football and any sport for that matter is a business, it is rare you see an act of kindness like that from one team to another. Even Brian Callahan wasn’t sure if it could happen and is “appreciative” of Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski and the organization for letting that happen according to Myles Simmons of NBC Sports who got it from the Titans website.
“I wasn’t sure he would be, contractually allowed to,” Callahan said. “But they were aware enough to know the uniqueness of the situation and allow it to continue to go down that road. So appreciative of that perspective from them and allowing it to happen.”
Bill Callahan has been coaching in football since 1980 when he was just an assistant at the University of Illinois. Since he stepped into the NFL in 1995 with the Philadelphia Eagles, he has specialized as an offensive line coach. However, he has been a head coach before like with the then-Oakland Raiders from 2002-2003, then for the University of Nebraska from 2004-2007.
