The Patriots will be riding up and down Broadway to face the Titans at Nissan Stadium in Nashville on Sunday, looking for their first winning streak of the head coach Jerod Mayo era.
Coach Mayo’s team hopes to make it two straight victories by building on last week’s win over the Jets. Tennessee is currently one spot ahead of New England in the 2025 draft order at 1-6. The Titans are in a similar spot as the Patriots under first-year head coach Brian Callahan. With Coach Mayo being the second-youngest coach, Callahan, age 40, is the sixth-youngest head coach in the NFL. Callahan was hired to replace Patriots legend Mike Vrabel.
Callahan became a hot commodity by coordinating the Bengals offense over the last five seasons. He had a hand in developing star QB Joe Burrow while the Bengals offense stayed afloat in a 9-8 campaign despite Burrow playing just ten games in 2023. Cincinnati went 4-3 with backup quarterback Jake Browning last season. Furthermore, Callahan is a coaching legacy, with his father, Bill, being a coaching legend.
Along with two different stints as a head coach, the elder Callahan is one of the best offensive line coaches in NFL history. We’re proudly Dante Scarnecchia stans here. But young Callahan hired his father away from the Browns to coach the Titans offensive line, with the pairing chiefly responsible for the Tennessee offense.
“When I look at [the Titans], it’s a team that’s really in a similar situation as us. They have good players. They have a good scheme. They just haven’t been able to put it together as far as a record is concerned,” Coach Mayo said this week.
From a team-building perspective, these two teams have been competing for players recently. Both teams wanted to sign prized free-agent WR Calvin Ridley and DeAndre Hopkins over the last two offseasons. The Titans landed Hopkins and Ridley, RB Tony Pollard, C Lloyd Cushenberry, and CB Chidobe Awuzie on lucrative free-agent deals while…
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