Well it wouldn’t really be possible for Arthur Smith to be in higher demand right now. All six teams with head coach vacancies either already have or will request to interview the Titans offensive coordinator, sources told Adam Schefter of ESPN.com (Twitter link).
Those six teams, of course, are the Chargers, Jets, Jaguars, Lions, Falcons, and Texans. The Jags and Texans are both in the same division as Smith. Teams can’t prevent an assistant from interviewing for a promotion to head coach, so Smith can make the rounds if he so chooses. Still only 38, Smith has seen his stock take a meteoric rise in league circles the past couple of seasons even though just two years ago he was a tight ends coach who had never called plays before.
Smith joined the Titans as a quality control coach in 2011, and was so highly regarded within the building that he was able to survive multiple head coach regimes. After Matt LaFleur was hired to be the Packers head coach after the 2018 season, Mike Vrabel promoted Smith to offensive coordinator, and the rest is history.
Ryan Tannehill has had a sudden resurgence to become one of the league’s most efficient quarterbacks under Smith’s tutelage, and the running game led by Derrick Henry has been unstoppable at times. Whether it’s this year or not, it seems like only a matter of time before Smith lands a head coaching gig and becomes the next young offensive mind to lead a team alongside the likes of Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay, and LaFleur.
If a women makes herself this available to be “interviewed” she gets labelled a ___.
Huh?
Hard to argue w/ his results on Henry & Ryan T.
Tennessee’s offense is the Derrick Henry show featuring a few other minor characters. without him they aren’t in the playoffs.
I actually argued this same point somewhere else but Tannehill is more than just a minor character. At worse, Tannehill is the Robin to Henry’s Batman.
Jets: “So, uh, what did you do different from Gase with Tannehill? Also, can you do it again?”
I don’t think the titan’s have a good offense because of play calling lol
Not sure where the genius is in telling the QB to just give the ball to Henry.