NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Titans' offense has posted a -80.04 EPA this season, meaning their offense has scored that far below expectations given its circumstances.
Peter Skoronski and Chig Okonkwo both said two days after the Titans fired Brian Callahan, that felt like time for a change, considering the state of the offense. Callahan was an offensive head coach who was the play-caller for 16 of his 19 games as head coach.
“I’m not really the decision-maker here,” Skoronski said. “I’m just trying to do my job and do the best I can. I will say, obviously, things were not working for us offensively, and so I think that change is not a bad thing with that. Because obviously, things were not working well.
“So whatever that is, I don’t know. I don’t get paid to do that. But obviously 1-5, not performing well, I think it’s valid to say in general, that we needed to change things a little bit, I think that is fair.”
Chig Okonkwo’s yards-after-the-catch have been one of the best elements of the team’s woeful offense, yet the team isn’t getting him the ball even four times a game. He’s tied for ninth with an average of 7 yards after the catch per reception.
With so little good going it, it seems as if he should be featured more.
Jeffery Simmons said he was shocked by the firing of Brian Callahan. Said he didn’t see it coming. That no one saw it coming especially this early. #Titans pic.twitter.com/4tgRU3uAog
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“We’ve been down for so long, in the NFL you can’t keep going with something that is just not producing the product,” he said. “You know how it is in this league when you lose so much. Change has to be made. I didn’t see it coming in terms of when it happened, but like I said, when you lose as many games as we did, it’s on the horizon.
It’s less clear what sort of changes there will be on defense, where McCoy will obviously be more involved now after serving as Callahan’s senior offensive assistant.
James Williams, special teamer and reserve inside linebacker, echoed Skoronski and Okonkwo.
“That’s ain’t my decision, I can’t speak for them, but I’m pretty sure it was time for a change and I guess it’s time for us to adjust,” he said. “We’ve got to play more complementary football. We’ve just got to eliminate our mistakes on the defensive side, and continue to play hard but play longer. We’ve been playing good, but we’ve got to play longer. Create more and make more plays for us to have a chance.”
Quandre Diggs said players feel bad about getting their head coach fired.
As for what’s next, he pointed to 2015 when he was a rookie with the Lions.
In short order near midseason, Detroit fired offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi and two offensive line coaches, then, after a 1-7 start, general manager Martin Mayhew and president Tom Lewand were dismissed
“We went on a streak,” Diggs said. “We were 1-7 and we finished 7-9. …We just locked in and we got on a roll. Once you start winning and you figure out how to win, those things tend to change the morale in the locker room, it changes the intensity, you get in those tight games, you learn how to win.”
