Nashville, TN – Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Munchak, in his 32nd season as a player or coach with the franchise, enters his third training camp at the helm. His total of 15 wins from 2011-12 was the third highest number in team history in a head coach’s first two full seasons.
Last year, the Titans fielded their youngest opening-day roster in seven years and then sent 16 players to injured reserve—their highest number in more than 20 years—en route to a 6-10 record and third-place finish in the AFC South.
Dowell Loggains was permanently named offensive coordinator, a post he assumed with five games remaining in the 2012 campaign. While Jerry Gray was retained as defensive coordinator for a third season, the team brought in another experienced hand, Gregg Williams, to serve as senior assistant/defense.
Williams arrives with 22 years of experience as a head coach and assistant coach in the NFL, including four years as Titans defensive coordinator (1997–2000) and a combined nine years working with Gray.
The 19-member coaching staff has five total new additions: Williams, running backs coach Sylvester Croom, tight ends coach George Henshaw, wide receivers coach Shawn Jefferson, and assistant special teams coach Steve Hoffman. In addition to Loggains, four other coaches will serve in a different capacity than they did with the Titans in 2012: special teams coach Nate Kaczor, linebackers coach Chet Parlavecchio, quarterbacks coach Dave Ragone and offensive line/tight ends assistant Arthur Smith.
Munchak, a Hall of Fame guard who originally joined the team as a first-round draft choice from Penn State in 1982, was promoted from offensive line coach to his current post in February 2011. He is the 16th head coach in coach in franchise history and the first who was a former player for the team.
