John Harbaugh TOP OPTION for Tennessee Titans Coach, Mike McDaniel Acceptance & Worst Options Left

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Tennessee Titans are now into Week 2 of their head coaching search and John Harbaugh remains the best candidate on the market. The only issue is, as more information comes it seems the Titans aren't one of the top two picks for Harbaugh and some historic factors make it less likely he picks Tennessee. That makes Kevin Stefanski, Mike McCarthy and Robert Saleh the next best. If the Titans can't pick from the top tier, looking at options like Chris Shula, Jeff Hafley and Mike McDaniel becomes the next step and while McDaniel leaves a lot to be desired, he certainly isn't the worst they could do. There are plenty of worse options available like Matt Nagy, Arthur Smith and the worst of them all, Lou Anarumo.

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0:00.0	John Harbaal is my number one available option for the Tennessee Titans head coaching job,
0:06.7	but I don't think the feeling is mutual.
0:08.7	I'll explain and give you my head coach rankings on today's edition of Locked on Titans.
0:18.9	You are Locked on Titans, your daily Tennessee Titans podcast, part of the Locked-on
0:25.1	Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:29.4	Welcome to the Locked-on Titans podcast.
0:32.8	I am your host, Tyler Rowland Titans fans.
0:35.7	On today's show, I am going to rank every single head coaching
0:38.8	candidate that the Tennessee Titans have been associated with. I'm going to give you my hype tier
0:43.4	like John Harbaugh is my number one option. I'll talk about the coaches that I would be happy with
0:48.6	like the young defensive coordinators. Also we'll talk about the coaches who I think would be an
0:53.1	outright disaster for the Tennessee Titans in my hate tier.
0:56.7	Before we get into all of it, do want to thank you for making Locked on Titans, your first listen each and every day.
1:02.4	Remember Monday through Friday Tennessee Titans content all year round, always for free.
1:07.2	Make sure that you get subscribed, stay subscribed. It's your team every day. Speaking of every day. Shout out to my everydayers out there. Tune in Monday through Friday. Couldn't do it without you guys. If you aren't an everydayer, you gotta be one. This head coaching search is about to really pick up. The Titans are going into week two of their interviews. They'll have their finalists by the weekend. They'll be making a hire before you know it and then filling out the coaching staff.
1:28.9	Free agency, the draft, roster decisions.
1:31.5	So much going on in the all season.
1:33.4	Make sure that you stay up to date, informed, and as entertained as a Tennessee Titans fan,
1:38.0	could be make sure that you're locked in to the Locked on Titans podcast.
1:42.3	But with all that being said, again, to start my head coach rankings, I'm going to have three tiers.
1:47.8	My height tier, my happy tier, and then my hate tier.
1:51.6	And at the very, very top of the rankings, my number one option is John Harbaugh,
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