{"id":693473,"date":"2026-01-21T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/693473\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:21:14","slug":"tennessee-titans-lose-out-to-los-angeles-chargers-for-mike-mcdaniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/693473\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans lose out to Los Angeles Chargers for Mike McDaniel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 21, 2026, 1:19 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> hired Robert Saleh as their next head coach, but still have many questions to answer as he constructs his staff, and, unfortunately, one of the most highly sought-after candidates appears to be off the board: Mike McDaniel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Multiple reports on social media indicate McDaniel, who interviewed for the top job in Nashville, will take the offensive coordinator job with Justin Herbert and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-chargers\/357\" data-autotag=\"a419627d-6dfd-46c4-8ebe-6ca8a0506ea7\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>, and, according to Insider Mike Garafolo, will move Tennessee near the top of the list. He also mentioned Brian Daboll as a potential coordinator, who has a relationship with Saleh from their time in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">With McDaniel off the board, the big question is who Saleh is targeting to become offensive coordinator, and what he outlined in his plan for Cam Newton and 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\">Titans<\/a> offense. Multiple insider reports indicate that it was that detailed plan that helped sway Mike Borgonzi and the rest of the Titans&#8217; front office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">At this point, not much is known beyond speculation, but more information should begin to flow once interviews begin, and Saleh is introduced as the Titans&#8217; next head coach.\u00a0<\/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. 21, 2026, 1:19 a.m. ET The Tennessee Titans hired Robert Saleh as their next head coach, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[95878,241,7,1014,262,2444,2443,6,96009,96010,95882,96161,97085,95888,95895,95899,95975,95884,95883,95889,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-693473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-chargers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangeleschargers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnfltitans","17":"tag-sstsntitans","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagjustin-herbert","20":"tag-taglos-angeles-chargers","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagrobert-saleh","25":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-tagtennessee-titans","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115932593303716067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693473","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=693473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}