{"id":686124,"date":"2026-01-18T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/686124\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T09:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:54:13","slug":"titans-narrow-coaching-search-to-three-names-could-add-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/686124\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans narrow coaching search to three names, could add more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 18, 2026, 2:08 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" data-autotag=\"f9731e2d-52ac-46db-9b52-ab518dbe13b4\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> will head into Sunday with what appears to be the final interviews in the first round of their coaching search, with former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" data-autotag=\"c6331531-478d-4c7a-b93a-28f5b26af3f9\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> head coach Jonathan Gannon and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco-49ers\/359\" data-autotag=\"3d4aeb7f-6493-4c2a-8803-2439e4b64ee4\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> defensive coordinator scheduled to meet with Mike Borgonzi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But the big news is that the Titans are moving toward their second round of interviews, and a few names have trickled out. Just a couple of hours after breaking the news on the coaching search, Dianna Russini added a couple of other names to the list: Matt Nagy and Jeff Hafley.\u00a0Kevin Stefanski was hired by the Atlanta Falcons on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While Nagy was somewhat expected, and a name linked to the position since Brian Callahan was fired in October, Hafley comes in as a bit of a surprise. The former head coach of the Boston College Eagles and current <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" data-autotag=\"2b76aec5-0d77-4545-9a2a-f864de5488eb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> defensive coordinator has been a hot name in this cycle and is considered the frontrunner with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" data-autotag=\"22ef43a4-dc5a-43ce-87cd-912a7e348a81\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Miami Dolphins<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While no dates were given for Hafley or Nagy, and the team expected to add a couple more names, expect the second interviews to come early in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 18, 2026, 2:08 a.m. ET The Tennessee Titans will head into Sunday with what appears to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[95878,7,6,96009,96010,95882,95890,95957,95976,96540,97471,95951,95895,95899,96090,96177,95884,95883,95889,526,394,2411,527,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-686124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sstssportsnfltitans","12":"tag-sstsntitans","13":"tag-tagamerican-football","14":"tag-tagarizona-cardinals","15":"tag-tagcleveland-browns","16":"tag-taggreen-bay-packers","17":"tag-tagkansas-city-chiefs","18":"tag-tagmatt-nagy","19":"tag-tagmiami-dolphins","20":"tag-tagnfl-hub","21":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","22":"tag-tagsan-francisco-49ers","23":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","24":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-tagtennessee-titans","27":"tag-tennessee","28":"tag-tennessee-titans","29":"tag-tennesseetitans","30":"tag-titans","31":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115915500091695129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686124","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=686124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}