Inside Mike McCoy’s Career

Inside Mike McCoy’s Career

We’re with new coach Mike McCoy here as we visit with him in preparation for the game against the New England Patriots. Mike, how much are you leaning on your past experiences this week? It’s going to help me tremendously. Um, you know, I think over the years since 2000, I’ve kind of been in a little bit in every role from a quality control coach to a quarterback coach and just kind of keep going up to a coordinator being a head coach and um been on a number of different staffs. I’ve been very fortunate the organization that I’ve worked for in the past. So, it’s going to help me tremendously moving forward. Who are the people that have shaped you, coach, that have helped you prepare for this situation? Oh, wow. That’s uh there’s so many people. I think it’s a a combination of everybody, but I was kind of raised in the business in Carolina um from Dan Henning and Richard Williamson. Uh so, my time in Carolina, there’s so many great coaches and you’re, you know, you’re a product of those people you’ve been around. And then just moving on, I got the opportunity uh to go to San Diego and work for great owners in the Spanos family. And Tom Plesco was the GM. Ed Maguire helped me tremendously in a number of things, not just the football side, but with salary cap, certain things like that. Um I was a young kid, so nothing can prepare you to really get into this position as a young coach as I was back then. But I’m very fortunate to be uh be around the people I’ve been around. And you’ve mentioned all the great quarterbacks that you’ve worked with through the years. Guys like Pton Manning, Trevor Lawrence most recently in Jacksonville. You had some great quarterbacks in Carolina, like Jake Delhomme. What do you think of Cam Ward? He’s got a very bright future. He wants to be great just like all the other quarterbacks you mentioned. I was very fortunate to be around so many great ones. Um, but that they all have a work ethic that it it’s unbelievable and they want to be great and you know, Cam’s got a really bright future. Last time you were a head coach, you had Philip Rivers as your quarterback of the Chargers. Coach, can you tell someone how to be an NFL head coach or do you just simply have to do you have to live it? You got to live it. Um, you know the X’s and O’s and that’s why you’ve got the job. You know, those great quarterbacks you just talked about, that’s why I’m where I’m at today. you know, you’re a product of all the players you’re coaching and the other coaches you’re working with. Um, good players make good coaches and some of the guys you mentioned there are some of the greatest that have ever played the game. The life of a head coach is very interesting. There’s so many things. It’s not just football. There’s so many things you’re dealing with on a day-to-day basis and there’s families involved and uh but but it hey I’m I’m so grateful for this opportunity to lead this organization. As a kid in the Bay Area, was this the dream to be in the National Football League, to be a head coach one day? And in the years since you’ve been a head coach, is it still the dream to get back and do this again? Well, I never really thought I was going to do this. I was always chasing a dream to play, but I always thought I’d run my own business or do something like that. And then I got Bill Musgrave called me uh when he was working for George Seaffort and I went and worked in Carolina and the rest is history. So, I kind of just as I never thought about being a head coach really until I kind of moved on in my career and I went to Denver with Josh McDaniels and then as we, you know, you start having some success, people start mentioning your name and you start thinking about it. It’s it’s an honor and a privilege to be in the position I’m in right now. And it’s because of all those great players you mentioned, all the great coaches, um the great organizations I’ve worked for. So, it’s I’m successful because of so many other people and I and I couldn’t do it without my family. Coach, finally, as for these last 11 games of the season, what do you want Titans fans to know about the 2025 Tennessee Titans? Well, you know, we’ve got to go out there and play complimentary football u for the next 11 weeks, but it starts this it’s it’s one week at a time, like we mentioned earlier, one week at a time, one day at a time. Um, but we want to go out and play hard, be a tough football team, and stick together. That that’s the big thing. And and we’re going to go out there and, you know, our players have busted their tails. You know, they’ve worked extremely hard. They deserve to win, but we got to go out and do it. And, you know, we’re going to go out there and and, you know, play our tails off for four quarters and do whatever we can to find a way to win a game. Thank you for this, coach. Thank you.

Titans Radio’s Taylor Zarzour sits down with Titans Interim Head Coach Mike McCoy to discuss his coaching journey and how the Titans are preparing for their Week 7 matchup against the Patriots for an exclusive interview.

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