New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll is a clear cardholder of the Toasty Buns club. He’s been a member for a while now, and starting 0-3 this season made it tough to justify him still being the guy in East Rutherford. But then rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart happened, delivering a 21-18 win over the LA Chargers — and Daboll’s job security stock ticked up, even if just a bit.
Tennessee Titans head coach Brian Callahan cannot say the same.
Unlike Dabs, Tennessee didn't win in Week 4 and fell to 0-4 on the season. To make matters worse, they're coming off a loss to the previously winless Houston Texans 26-0. The loss was so embarrassing that Titans rookie quarterback Cam Ward didn’t hold back when speaking to the media. He squarely put his head coach in the hot seat spotlight — and took it off Daboll — with a blunt, NSFW postgame quote:
"If we keep it a buck right now, we a**. At this point, we got nothing to lose — we dropped a quarter of our f***ing games, and we've yet to do anything."Cam Ward said after Week 4 loss
Not exactly a glowing endorsement for his coach, especially one who was already skating on thin ice coming into the season.
Cam Ward's postgame comments make Brian Daboll's seat look much cooler
Unfortunately for Callahan, he has no playoff appearance or Coach of the Year award to hang his hat on. Granted, he only has 21 games under his belt, but the 3-18 record suggests he's going nowhere fast.
Tennessee scooped up the 41-year-old in 2024 after five years as the offensive coordinator for the Bengals, where he was part of Zac Taylor’s braintrust that helped develop Joe Burrow into one of the league’s premier quarterbacks.
The hope was he’d bring those development chops to a Titans team that hadn’t sniffed success since 2021. But the organization did him no favors, handing him Will Levis and Mason Rudolph as his quarterbacks, resulting in an offense that finished 26th in total yards and 27th in scoring.
Callahan's disappointment awarded them the first-overall pick in the 2025 draft, where they selected Ward. To say this year was supposed to be better would be an understatement. They're significantly worse. Ward's team is dead last in total offense and points per game, a clear indictment of the coaching staff's inability to generate winning plays.
So yeah, it's no surprise the 23-year-old had such harsh words about his team's performance.
There’s no clearer hot-seat winner than Daboll. Callahan’s days in Tennessee look numbered — and that has to be music to Dabs’ ears. Just a week ago, another loss might’ve spelled the end for the 50-year-old in East Rutherford.
Turns out, Cam Ward might’ve bought Daboll more time than Jaxson Dart did.