NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans started this season knowing the franchise is rebuilding with lots of work required to become a good program.

Brian Callahan didn't produce enough growth six games into his second season, and that cost him his job on Monday, when he became the first NFL coach fired this season.

“We want to win as many football games as we can possibly win," Chad Brinker, the Titans' president of football operations, said Monday night. “But we preached and talked about the growth, and we just have not seen the growth with the team to this point.”

Brinker said he and general manager Mike Borgonzi met with controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk as usual on Monday morning before telling Callahan that Tennessee was letting him go. The Titans announced hours later tha

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