Callahan gives playcalling to Hardegree (QB Coach)

[OILERMAN]

8 minutes ago, TheBukafax said:

This is one of the most “I WAS RIGHT!” moments lmfao, I can’t believe how quick the payoff was.

 

Hell, Oman above me parroting points I made a week or two ago lol.

 

I knew all along dummies, it was obvious.

 

Bring up your old posts. Callahan had not shown this level of incompetency managing games previously.  

 

And congrats on being early

 

Assuming you weren't just talking about play calling

[titanruss]

18 minutes ago, IsntLifeFunny said:

Next level shit right here. 

 

I promise you a consistent offensive scheme....with me running the play calls! 

 

He sold them on that and the consistency of a HC's Offensive  scheme being around for a decade... do you really think that someone calling his plays in his offense = a new offense???

 

 

Edited September 23, 2025 by titanruss

[tgo]

13 minutes ago, oldschool said:

 

I did this when @Jamalisms and crew were crying nepotism after the Cally/Holz hires. The fact is Holz's resume lines up fine with other guys who took first time OC jobs under a play calling HC. Whether he turned out to be a good hire or not, looks like not, is another matter.

 

Lines up fine? 

 

He was an assistant WRs coach as recently as 2021......

 

In 2021, Brian Callahan was an OC. When Callahan took the job with the Bengals in 2019, he had been the QBs coach for 3 different teams prior to that. 

 

Holz has spent his ENTIRE career up to 2022 before he got a Division 3 OC gig, being a quality control or offensive assistant type. He was Offensive Quality Control for Nebraska in 2007. Offensive Quality Control for the Raiders in 2020. 

 

In fact, Holz actually got DEMOTED from Assistant WRs coach back to offensive quality control when Gruden took over the Raiders. 

 

He is literally only here because he was best friends with Cally at De La Salle. Holz only got a job with Bill Callahan to start his career because he was best friends with Brian from high school. 

Edited September 23, 2025 by tgo

[rns90]

2 minutes ago, bondra316v2 said:

 

 

It's damage control time for the organization.  That's where we are.

3rd head coach in 4 years when 2026 starts is going to be a bad look and needs explanation.

 

That ontop of 3 GMs since 2022.  Hopefully they have found the answer in Borgonzi.

[titanruss]

1 minute ago, rns90 said:

3rd head coach in 4 years when 2026 starts is going to be a bad look and needs explanation.

 

That ontop of 3 GMs since 2022.  Hopefully they have found the answer in Borgonzi.

 

Amy was supposed to bring stability! Hahahahhha.

[VaTitan]

15 minutes ago, OILERMAN said:

I don't want Callahan making game decisions in a year or two when the Titans are playing meaningful games. I've seen enough. 

 

The sequence before halftime Sunday had nothing to do with play calling getting in the way. It's real simple, when you run the ball on 3rd down and get to 4th and 1 you already know what you're doing. The Colts took and a timeout then you took a timeout and then a delay. 

 

The evidence is in, he's an idiot. If you want to frame it he's indecisive or some nicer way then fine. 

 

As far as the rules. Remember when Donavon McNabb didn't know an NFL game could end in a tie? That's Callahan with some of these rules. You wonder how these guys can coast through their careers and not know this basic stuff. 

 

There is a tiny line in the NFL that decides wins and losses. It's a game of inches and managing the game the best way possible. 

 

We want Callahan to learn some basic rules and try and develop strategic ability on the job? Fuck that. 

Its almost like they wanted the anti-vrabel when they hired cally.  After years of Vrabel, Cally probably sounded like a playcalling savant.  He's now being done in at the one thing Vrabel was really good at....game management.

[reo]

1 minute ago, VaTitan said:

Its almost like they wanted the anti-vrabel when they hired cally.  After years of Vrabel, Cally probably sounded like a playcalling savant.  He's now being done in at the one thing Vrabel was really good at....game management.

 

They wanted that before Cally. It's what Ran preached too. Vrabel just wouldn't do it. 

 

I really think Vrabel is the reason the OL is the shit show it is. Gotta unlearn what he taught. Now they've replaced everyone but Skoronski and now the unit has to get healthy and jell.

[Mythos27]

1 minute ago, VaTitan said:

Its almost like they wanted the anti-vrabel when they hired cally.  After years of Vrabel, Cally probably sounded like a playcalling savant.  He's now being done in at the one thing Vrabel was really good at....game management.

I'm not great with irony but this seems ironic as fuck if it's how this all plays out. 

[TeamRamrod]

7 minutes ago, OILERMAN said:

 

Bring up your old posts. Callahan had not shown this level of incompetency managing games previously.  

 

And congrats on being early

 

Assuming you weren't just talking about play calling

Bro really went out on a limb with the “coach with the first overall pick” is bad analysis. Maybe I just missed the more insightful critique 

[TheBukafax]

6 minutes ago, OILERMAN said:

 

Bring up your old posts. Callahan had not shown this level of incompetency managing games previously.  

 

And congrats on being early

 

Assuming you weren't just talking about play calling

Ofc I wasn’t talking about play calling lol. He didn’t need to show this level for it to be visible that a man who’d grown up around the game would only make those minor mistakes if he was an absolute moron.

 

Start there and I continue on and on about the exact same things being spouted now Re: don’t want this when the team is good.

[Jamalisms]

13 minutes ago, oldschool said:

 

I did this when @Jamalisms and crew were crying nepotism after the Cally/Holz hires. The fact is Holz's resume lines up fine with other guys who took first time OC jobs under a play calling HC. Whether he turned out to be a good hire or not, looks like not, is another matter.

 

Whatever makes you feel better about it.

[NashvilleNinja]

27 minutes ago, Mythos27 said:

It's very disappointing because I saw some flashes of nice feel for play-calling last year early on. He really might just be a terrible multi-tasker where he can do both in theory but in practice his brain runs out of RAM and crashes both programs. Most people can rub their belly and pat their head just fine independently but doing both at the same time presents some challenges! 

 

Not everyone is cut out to be Andy Reid. Doesn't mean they can't be a good head coach.

 

There's not much evidence Callahan will ever be good at either, but that'll be the "fun" of these next 15 games. The finding out after the fucking around. 

[Jamalisms]

6 minutes ago, VaTitan said:

Its almost like they wanted the anti-vrabel when they hired cally.  After years of Vrabel, Cally probably sounded like a playcalling savant.  He's now being done in at the one thing Vrabel was really good at....game management.

 

They 100% overcorrected. The biggest highlight is the whole "collaboration" thing they kept repeating when they hired him. They wanted anti-Vrabel. The got it.

[VaTitan]

2 minutes ago, Mythos27 said:

I'm not great with irony but this seems ironic as fuck if it's how this all plays out. 

and this is why I was hammering "miss amy" when vrabel was fired.  Poor leaders overreact to certain scenarios and just "react", rather than set a strategy and stay the corse......  Cally has to own his failures, but I put all this at the feet of "miss amy".  She's improved many asppects of team operations, but has failed routinely at HC/GM.  Brinker better look over his shoulder, since he's presided over all this too....  He'll be next if this season bombs out.

[TeamRamrod]

1 minute ago, Jamalisms said:

 

They 100% overcorrected. The biggest highlight is the whole "collaboration" thing they kept repeating when they hired him. They wanted anti-Vrabel. The got it.

The collaboration stuff started when Vrabel was still here