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The Tennessee Titans, previously known as the Houston Oilers, are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. They are a member of the South Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Tennessee Titans have had 16 head coaches in its franchise history. As the Houston Oilers based in Houston, Texas, the team began playing in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL). The Oilers won one AFL championship before joining the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger. The team relocated to Tennessee in 1997 and played in Memphis for one season before moving to Nashville. For two seasons, the team was known as the Tennessee Oilers before changing its name to the Titans in 1999.[1]

The Titans franchise has had 16 head coaches. The current head coach is Mike Munchak, who was promoted from offensive line coach on February 7, 2011[2] following the departure of Jeff Fisher on January 27.[3] Munchak has been almost continuously employed by the Oilers/Titans franchise since being drafted by the Oilers in 1982. He spent 13 seasons with the Oilers as an offensive guard, retiring in 1994, and eventually became the franchise's fifth player to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the first to have played only with that franchise.[2] After a season out of football, he was hired by the Oilers as a quality control assistant in 1996 and promoted to offensive line coach in 1997, serving in that position until his 2011 promotion.[2] Munchak's predecessor, Fisher, had been the longest-serving head coach in franchise history, coaching over twice as many games and nearly three times as many seasons as Bum Phillips. Fisher joined the Titans in 1994, when the team was called the Houston Oilers.[4] At the time of his departure, Fisher had the longest tenure as head coach with one team among active head coaches in the NFL.[3] Sid Gillman, who coached the Oilers from 1973 to 1974, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1983, becoming the franchise's only coach to be enshrined in that role.[5] The team's winningest coach is Lou Rymkus, who has a winning percentage of .611. Rymkus is also the team's first coach, who held the position from 1960 to 1961. Bill Peterson, the team's least winningest coach, has a winning percentage of .053. In 1961, after Rymkus left the Oilers, Wally Lemm briefly coached the team and led it to nine straight victories.[6] Rymkus, Lemm, and Gillman have won the UPI NFL Coach of the Year award.[1][5]

Key[]

# Number of coaches[N 1]
GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
T Ties
Win% Winning percentage
* Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
Spent entire professional head coaching career with the Oilers/Titans

Coaches[]

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2010 NFL season.

# Name Term[N 2] Regular Season Playoffs Achievements Reference
GC W L T Win% GC W L
Houston Oilers
1 Lou Rymkus 19601961 19 11 7 1 .611 1 1 0 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1960)
AFL Championship (1960)
[1][7]
2 Pop Ivy 19621963 28 17 11 0 .607 1 0 1 [8]
3 Sammy Baugh 1964 14 4 10 0 .286 [9]
4 Hugh Taylor 1965 14 4 10 0 .286 [10]
5 Wally Lemm 19661970 79 37 38 4 .493 3 1 2 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1961) [1][11]
6 Ed Hughes 1971 14 4 9 1 .308 [12]
7 Bill Peterson 19721973 19 1 18 0 .053 [13]
8 Sid Gillman* 19731974 23 8 15 0 .348 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1974) [5][14]
9 Bum Phillips 19751980 90 55 35 0 .611 7 4 3 [15]
10 Ed Biles 19811983 31 8 23 0 .258 [16]
11 Chuck Studley 1983 10 2 8 0 .200 [17]
12 Hugh Campbell 19841985 30 8 22 0 .267 [18]
13 Jerry Glanville 19851989 65 33 32 0 .508 5 2 3 [19]
14 Jack Pardee 19901994 74 43 31 0 .581 5 1 4 [20]
15 Jeff Fisher 19941996 38 16 22 0 .368 [21]
Tennessee Oilers[N 3]/Tennessee Titans
Jeff Fisher 19972010 224 126 98 0 .563 11 5 6 [21]
16 Mike Munchak 2011 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 [2]

Notes[]

  1. A running total of the number of Oilers/Titans head coaches. Thus, any head coach who has two or more separate terms is only counted once.
  2. Each year is linked to an article about that particular NFL season.
  3. The Titans were known as the Tennessee Oilers from 1997 to 1998 before being renamed to the Tennessee Titans.[22]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "History". Tennessee Titans. Archived from the original on 2008-01-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20080111142618/http://www.titansonline.com/history/. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Titans hire Mike Munchak as coach". ESPN.com. February 7, 2011. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6098619. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Jeff Fisher out in Tennessee". ESPN.com. January 27, 2011. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6066144. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  4. "Jeff Fisher". NFL. http://www.nfl.com/teams/coaches?coaType=head&team=TEN. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Legendary Coach Sid Gillman Dies at 91". Pro Football Hall of Fame. 2003-01-03. http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=651. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  6. "Woody Paige". The Hartford Courant. 2005-04-11.
  7. "Lou Rymkus Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/RymkLo0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  8. "Pop Ivy Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/IvyxPo0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  9. "Sammy Baugh Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/BaugSa0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  10. "Hugh Taylor Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/TaylHu0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  11. "Wally Lemm Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/LemmWa0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  12. "Ed Hughes Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/HughEd0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  13. "Bill Peterson Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/PeteBi0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  14. "Sid Gillman Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/GillSi0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  15. "Bum Phillips Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/PhilBu0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  16. "Ed Biles Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/BileEd0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  17. "Chuck Studley Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/StudCh0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  18. "Hugh Campbell Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/CampHu0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  19. "Jerry Glanville Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/GlanJe0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  20. "Jack Pardee Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/PardJa0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  21. 21.0 21.1 "Jeff Fisher Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/FishJe0.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  22. "Calm amid Turmoil". The Hartford Courant. 2000-01-29.
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