{"id":661713,"date":"2026-01-07T17:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/661713\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:58:12","slug":"titans-coaching-search-is-mike-borgonzi-leaning-towards-a-defensive-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/661713\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans coaching search: Is Mike Borgonzi leaning towards a defensive mind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After months of speculation, we now know who the Tennessee Titans will be bringing in for their first round of interviews. This list only includes coaches from teams that are not playing this weekend. You can keep track of everyone they are interviewing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musiccitymiracles.com\/tennessee-titans-coaching-staff\/63435\/titans-request-interviews-with-matt-nagy-and-vance-joseph\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our handy interview tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jeremy Fowler of ESPN wrote an article today about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47515440\/2025-nfl-coach-coordinator-hiring-firing-candidates-intel-buzz-32-teams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the NFL coaching carousel<\/a>. He mentioned that the Titans are intrigued by some of the defensive candidates on the market. The two he mentioned specifically were San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh* and Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator Chris Shula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The key, if they hire a defensive guy, as Fowler mentions in the article, is pairing that guy with an experienced playcaller on offense. That guy could come from some candidates they interview for the head coaching job. The interesting piece there is that so far, the only guys that fit that bill are Matt Nagy and Kevin Stefanski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If Borgonzi could land Saleh or Shula and pair that guy with Nagy or Stefanski, now that would be something to get excited about around here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">*Paul Kuharsky said on Robby and Rexrode this morning that he expects the Titans to interview Saleh even though they haven\u2019t put the official request out there yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of speculation, we now know who the Tennessee Titans will be bringing in for their first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,6,526,394,87013,2413,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-661713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-tennessee","11":"tag-tennessee-titans","12":"tag-tennessee-titans-coaching-staff","13":"tag-tennessee-titans-news","14":"tag-tennesseetitans","15":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115855117919659153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}