11:45am: The Titans have rounded out their group of executives who will participate in initial interviews, per Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer. A list that unsurprisingly includes Brinker and assistant GM Dave Ziegler. Vice president/football advisor Reggie McKenzie – a former Raiders linebacker and general manager – will also join, as will vice president of player personnel Dan Saganey.
10:35am: Titans owner Amy Adams Strunk announced a front office reshuffle in Tennessee on Friday, but she is expected to remain a part of the team’s search for a new head coach.
Both Mike Borgonzi and Chad Brinker are remaining in their respective positions as general manager and president of football operations, but Borgonzi will lead the hiring process in the coming weeks.
The Titans will conduct virtual interviews with about a dozen candidates, per Titans insider Paul Kuharsky. Strunk will not sit in on those interviews, though she may review them for in-person interviews of the team’s shortlist. Those she will attend.
This largely resembles the team’s approach to landing on Borgonzi last offseason. Brinker led that process, but Borgonzi received approval from Strunk before the hiring was made official. Similarly, she will give a “final blessing” for the Titans’ new head coach.
The extent of Strunk’s input on the Titans’ new coach remains to be seen. She has not been afraid to impose her will on the franchise when it comes to coaching and front office decisions, all the way down to specific moves regarding specific players. That was a source of friction with Mike Vrabel, who did a lot with a little in Tennessee, and ultimately led to his removal.
As a result, head coaching candidates may be wary of Strunk’s tendency to impose her will on the team. They may use their interviews to gauge compatibility not just with Borgonzi and Brinker, but Strunk as well.
If you didn’t already know her name that was a tough title to understand
Which retired HoF QB are they hiring for process, like Miami did?
It would have to be Warren Moon.
Bet Titans fans are relieved now that they know that. As Curly used to say Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk.
She owns the team, of course she should have final say and responsibility; just because she is not your typical while male billionaire doesn’t mean she should stay out of it. The fact the male coaches don’t like having to answer to a woman is not her problem. You write like a misogynist.
Doesnt take a misogynist to realize she cant run a team. As impetuous as her father, which is why the team isnt in Houston anymore.
The GM runs the team, the owner simply over sees everything. Her responsibility is making sure the GM is competent enough to “run” the team
She will go through GMs like underwear. She enjoys letting people know who’s in charge.
That is supposed to be how it works. Strunk does not work that way. If you have any doubts, you can see from the public that she made after each firing (except Callahan’s) where she identified herself as the decision maker.
Cal McNair was a problem until eventually he hired good people and we haven’t heard much about him ever since. David Tepper was a nightmare, now the Panthers are doing OK and I haven’t heard his name all season. Some owners are terminal problems, some eventually hire the right people and ease off.
She has failed miserably in her “oversight”. Final blessing? More like final curse.
How many teams, with owners that involve themselves in the operations, have successful teams? I get that these are toys for rich people, but most owners know squat about FB.
Her “final blessing” might be someone else’s “kiss of death”. Just sign the checks, Stunk.
I will be impressed though if she makes a run at Belichick. At least the extra headlines may help attendance for the new stadium. Whether he is a wash or not, he can at least get this defense in the right direction as Ward develops. Watching this defense last week was painful.
Getting a “final blessing” from Amy is the equivalent of getting the “last rites” from a member of the clergy 🙂
Brian is still drinking that Cheatriots Kool-Aid. Nobody wants a cheater who’s also a loser.
And to all the woman-haters out there, have you seen what Julia Koch’s money has done for the Giants?
Should she be immune to criticism because she’s a woman? At this point, Strunk has more defenders than detractors who cite her gender as some sort of criterion for evaluation of her abilities as an owner. The fact if the matter is that she is an owner, regardless of her gender, who is extremely active in her organization’s leadership and has has fired her general manager or coach four times in less than three years (Robinson – 2022, Vrabel – 2024, Carthon – January 2025, Callahan – October 2025), and five times in the last seven (Mularkey – 2018).
On top of that, she’s overseen major regime changes (off the top of my head, the Titans have at least three different people in charge of football operations in addition to the above named firings – Ryan Cowden, Chad Brinker, and now Mike Borgonzi). There is a game left in the regular season where another interim coach will be in charge who won’t have a chance at earning the top job. Tons of assistants in the front office and coaching staff have turned over.
Lastly, Strunk inherited the team after a drawn out and public power struggle with her siblings as she pushed aggressively to remove them from decision making power. I don’t recall ever seeing her in a press conference, she’d rather issue a statement and not face questioning on her decision making. Even if/when change is necessary, she surely must see her role as the leader of the organization and understand that, with its constant turnover, someone needs to answer questions-or be subject to the type of scrutiny and organizational drift that the Titans have experienced.
For all of the defenses of Strunk over the years, I have yet to see anything that she has done to positively impact the team-unless you count the massive deal for a new stadium that Tennessee will be helping the team with. The short resurgence of success in Tennessee is over, with all of those responsible in any way (Mularkey, Robinson, and Vrabel) all gone. The constant Byzantine web of power struggles and chaotic shifts of responsible can’t allow for any stability at all, and Strunk is the person who has had a direct hand in causing it. She deserves the criticism that she receives, and if you cannot offer any meaningful defense outside of attacking her critics as misogynists, you haven’t made any convincing points otherwise.
Basically they crapped the bed when they fired Vrabel and now they see the success he’s having with the pats and are having remorse getting rid of him. It’s called Karma, you have to lay in in crap for awhile
Tennessee also let Derrick Henry leave as a free agent — his final Titans game saw them knock the Jaguars out of the playoff picture when Jax were win-and-in.
She needs to learn from Jed York’s mistakes post Harbaugh. You’re the owner, not the football person. Stay the hell out of it. You already blew it with Vrabel, so learn your lesson
sheer brilliance.. can you imagine the death spiral the team would fall into without her seal of approval ?
One day every single sports franchise will be owned by a clueless silver spoon. Half of them are now.
No estate taxes and they can just borrow against the asset if they need cash.