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The Bill Barnwell Show

NFL Coaching Musical Chairs

The Bill Barnwell Show

ESPN

Sports

4.4 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of the Bill Barnwell Show, writer Dan Pizzuta joins to discuss the latest news, including Bengals’ offensive coordinator Brian Callahan to be named the Titans’ new head coach, the Chicago Bears hiring former Seahawks OC Shane Waldron, and the Jaguars hiring Falcons’ defensive coordinator Ryan Nielsen. Plus, they discuss the next move for Mike Vrabel, who the Eagles should hire next as defensive coordinator, and the challenges Dan Morgan will face as the new Carolina general manager.  1:48 Callahan to be named new head coach of Titans  10:42 Shane Waldron is named the new Chicago Bears Offensive Coordinator 17:39 Jaguars hire Falcons’ Defensive Coordinator Ryan Nielsen 22:44 Eagles fire Defensive Coordinator Sean Desai  32:19 Carolina Panthers promote ex-linebacker Dan Morgan to GM role Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bill Barnwell Show.

0:08.8

I am Bill Barnwell.

0:10.9

Today, we have a lot of news to discuss from Monday.

0:15.5

Around 4 p.m., I was a little worried.

0:18.0

I felt like we didn't have a lot of stuff to discuss that hadn't been covered about the weekend games.

0:23.5

Thankfully, the NFL came through and decided to hire a bunch of people as we record Monday evening here.

0:30.4

Joining me to talk about some of that news, including whatever breaks as we record the show this evening,

0:35.3

is someone I respect someone who does great work

0:40.7

for several places, most recently for the 33rd team.

0:44.5

The excellent Dan Pizzuta joins me. Dan, how are you, sir?

0:48.3

I'm doing very well. Thank you for having me. I'm very excited to be here.

0:54.0

Awesome. Well, thankfully, I was just going to turn the show over to you and just be like, hey, break down these games because you do such a good job of breaking stuff down. But we have so much news to discuss that we don't even have to talk about the Saturday and Sunday games. We have coaching hires, coaching firings, some even a free agent

1:13.3

signing actually, strangely. But let's start with the most recent news we got about 15 minutes

1:19.5

before we recorded is the, we saw the head coaching carousel come to a stop very briefly.

1:26.3

And it wasn't the name I expected because I've

1:30.9

kind of felt like the carousel has been waiting for Bill Belichick and Jim Harbaugh to make

1:38.3

decisions. And I've sort of felt like the coaching, you know, choices were going to come after that.

1:43.3

But we did not see that happen.

1:45.2

We saw the Tennessee Titans go out and hire Brian Callahan, the offensive coordinator of the

1:52.4

Cincinnati Bengals to take over as their head coach. So Dan, what do you know about Brian Callahan?

1:58.7

And what do you think about the potential fit for what's

2:01.2

happening in Tennessee? It's interesting because I guess not as much as we know about some of the

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