Chad Brinker kept going back to one central theme while explaining why the Titans became the first team to fire a coach in this 2025 season .

“We just felt like this was the right time to make a change,” Tennessee’s president of football operations said Monday after axing Brian Callahan. “We were looking for growth in this football team and that’s what this is about right now, is we’re not seeing enough growth from this football team. We’re 1-5, and we got to be better in this.”

As Brinker kept hammering home this point, though, some wondered why he — and not owner Amy Adams Strunk — delivered this message and answered questions about the franchise-altering move.

And it made for a rather awkward scene.

Brinker, who did most of the talking while sitting to the right of general manager

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