Updated Jan. 8, 2026, 6:25 a.m. PT<\/p>\n
While the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> are preparing for a playoff matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> on Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field, a few other teams are looking for the next men to lead their franchises.<\/p>\n San Francisco won’t be one of those teams looking for a new head coach when there season comes to an end, but they could be searching for a new defensive coordinator, as Robert Saleh is a candidate for multiple jobs.<\/p>\n After it was reported that the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> requested permission to interview Saleh earlier in the week, The MMQB’s Albert Breer shared<\/a> on Thursday that the Tennessee Titans and Atlanta Falcons have done the same.<\/p>\n Tennessee fired head coach Brian Callahan during the season, but they have a first-overall pick quarterback in Cam Ward and the fourth pick in the 2026 NFL draft which could be enticing to an incoming head coach.<\/p>\n Atlanta fired Raheem Morris, who previously worked with Kyle Shanahan in Atlanta and Washington, at the end of the season. They also have a first-round pick quarter in Michael Penix as well as Drake London and Bijan Robinson on rookie contracts. Those would be a few pieces for Saleh to build around if he was interested.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n More 49ers<\/a>: 49ers announce a slew of roster moves entering wild-card round<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Jan. 8, 2026, 6:25 a.m. PT While the San Francisco 49ers are preparing for a playoff matchup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[95878,223,254,2554,682,224,7,6,96189,96190,95882,95890,96193,95946,96194,95896,95888,95895,95899,95906,96191,95975,96192,96090,96177,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-664025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-falcons","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnflniners","17":"tag-sstsnniners","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagarizona-cardinals","20":"tag-tagbijan-robinson","21":"tag-tagcalifornia-gold-rush","22":"tag-tagmichael-penix-jr","23":"tag-tagnational-sports","24":"tag-tagnfl","25":"tag-tagnfl-hub","26":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","27":"tag-tagoverall-positive","28":"tag-tagphiladelphia-eagles","29":"tag-tagrobert-saleh","30":"tag-tagsan-francisco","31":"tag-tagsan-francisco-49ers","32":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","33":"tag-tagsports-news","34":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664025","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=664025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}