{"id":687036,"date":"2026-01-18T19:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/687036\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:28:23","slug":"jeff-hafleys-second-interviews-brian-callahan-a-candidate-for-oc-in-atlanta-and-other-nfl-coaching-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/687036\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Hafley\u2019s second interviews, Brian Callahan a candidate for OC in Atlanta, and other NFL coaching news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the Atlanta Falcons hiring Kevin Stefanski as their next head coach yesterday, two of the nine open jobs have been filled. The Tennessee Titans were once again left waiting for a meeting that never happened. They had planned to meet with John Harbaugh the day after he met with the New York Giants. They were also scheduled to meet with Stefanski today.<\/p>\n<p>Titans schedule second interview with Jeff Hafley<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Titans are reportedly scheduled to meet with Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley on Tuesday. He is scheduled to meet with the Miami Dolphins on Monday for a second interview. The Dolphins have not satisfied the Rooney Rule requirements yet of meeting with two minority candidates in-person. That means they cannot hire Hafley tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Callahan a candidate for Falcons offensive coordinator<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Albert Breer said this last night that former Titans head coach Brian Callahan is expected to be in the running to be Stefanski\u2019s OC in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If Callahan does get an interview there, it will be his third interview for an OC position in this cycle. Amy Adams Strunk is probably calling Arthur Blank to offer a glowing recommendation on Callahan because if he gets hired there, she doesn\u2019t have to pay him as much for the remainder of his contract with the Titans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There was a whole thing that went down on Twitter yesterday about who is on the Titans\u2019 finalist list. Easton Freeze initially called Mike McCarthy a finalist before changing his wording to indicate that while yesterday\u2019s meeting with McCarthy was the second interview, he is not technically on the finalist list yet. Not sure why that really matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Titans are scheduled to interview San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh virtually tonight. They could bring him in for an in-person interview this week now that the 49ers have been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy is still lurking as a presumed finalist as well. I\u2019ve said it 1,000 times, but I\u2019ll believe that Nagy is the guy until they hire someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Atlanta Falcons hiring Kevin Stefanski as their next head coach yesterday, two of the nine open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687037,"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-687036","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\/115917757349140305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687036","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=687036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}