The Titans’ decision to fire Mike Vrabel as head coach in January 2024 hasn’t panned out all that well.

After parting ways with Vrabel — who coached Tennessee to the AFC Championship Game in 2019 — the Titans replaced him with Brian Callahan.

Callahan did little to reverse the Titans’ fortunes in the post-Vrabel era, going 4-19 before the team eventually fired him ahead of Vrabel and the Patriots’ arrival in Nashville this weekend.

While Vrabel could hold icy sentiment toward the coach who replaced him in Tennessee, the Patriots head coach said one of his first orders of business this week was to reach out to Callahan — who is in a similar position to what Vrabel went through just a few years ago.

“I don’t want to see anyone who shares a job with you to get let go,” Vrabel said on

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