"Would've been interested in this job": NFL insider reveals how Titans could lure Coach Prime away from Colorado

Deion Sanders, otherwise known as Coach Prime, is happy coaching Colorado. He said so Thursday on "Good Morning America." But there is an instance in which he'd be open to climbing to the professional ranks.

The 33rd team's NFL insider, Ari Meirov, spoke Wednesday of a discussion he had with someone in the league about that situation and how it could've materialized for Coach Prime with Tennesse, which owns the No. 1 pick in April's NFL draft. Sanders' son, Shedeur, figures to be one of the first players taken off the board.

"He basically told me, with the Titans having the No. 1 overall pick, maybe they should consider cleaning house, which they're not," Meirov said Wednesday on The 33rd Team podcast "NFL Spotlight with Ari Meirov." "But, if they were, I think Deion Sanders would've been interested in this job and taking that with Shedeur Sanders and having him with the No. 1 overall pick.

"It won't happen ... but if they were to fire the head coach, and they would've had a full reset, I think Deion would've been interested in that job and coaching his son there."

The Titans fired general manager Ran Carthon on Tuesday, two days after Tennessee finished 3-14. Coach Prime had an interesting reaction to the news.

Who would the Titans have to get rid of to get Coach Prime?

Brian Callahan remains the Titans' coach. Before taking that post before this season, he was the Cincinnati Bengals' offensive coordinator for five seasons. Under his direction in 2024, Tennessee ranked 26th in offensive yardage, 27th in points scored, and 30th in points allowed.

"Brian was one of the hottest candidates last year on the market, and we believe in Brian, and we want to give him the opportunity to grow into the head coach that we think he can be," Titans president of football operations Chad Brinker told the team's website. "He knows, and we've talked about it, that it wasn't good enough this year. And I think Brian is really self-reflective in that regard. ... It just takes time to build a program."

The Titans are 9-25 over the past two seasons despite playing in the AFC South, a division many believe to be one of the weakest in the NFL.

"It's impossible to ignore that our football team hasn't improved over the past two years," Tennessee controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk said in a team statement. "I am deeply disappointed in our poor win-loss record during this period."

Brinker is in charge of the search for the team's next GM. Brinker will also have "final authority" on Tennessee's roster, team president and CEO Burke Nihill told the team's website.

If the Titans are to change their mind, Coach Prime would likely bring a lot of excitement to a franchise that needs it.