When information broke that the Tennessee Titans have been transferring on from head coach Brian Callahan after a tough begin to the 2025 NFL season, all eyes turned to Cam Ward and the way this transfer would affect his future… apart from these belonging to Skip Bayless.
No, whereas discussing the Titans’ resolution to chop bait on the pinnacle coach halfway by Ward’s rookie season on Underdog’s The Area: Gridiron, Skip Bayless made a fairly bonkers assertion, that had Tennessee chosen Shedeur Sanders out of Colorado as an alternative of Ward from Miami first total, Callahan would possibly nonetheless have a job at this time within the Music Metropolis.
“So enable me to say another time, if that they had picked Shadur as an alternative of Cam, I do know you like Cam, however I like Shadur extra. I do not suppose this might have occurred. That is simply me,” Bayless declared. “That is how good Shadur is. He has the charisma issue, the it issue to vary the franchise and encourage the protection in addition to the offense. And I have never seen Cam have the ability to do this but.”
Now clearly, it is a fairly incendiary take that a lot of his fellow commentators like Aqib Talib took difficulty with, as wins and losses finally price Callahan his job – along with some weird playcalling through the years – not how charismatic his beginning quarterback is. Even when Sanders was in a position to make the protection play higher based mostly on respect alone, he nonetheless would have been tasked with executing the identical performs, throwing to the identical weapons, and going by possessions behind the identical offensive line.
Might the choice to maneuver on from Callahan finally affect Ward in a unfavourable means throughout his rookie season? Certain, continuity is essential to progress within the NFL, however to say Sanders, the third-string quarterback in Cleveland, would magically repair that state of affairs is the definition of a scorching take even on this, the new take period.
“He has the charisma issue to vary the franchise… I have never seen Cam have the ability to do this.”
Skip Bayless believes Brian Callahan would nonetheless be Titans coach if he drafted Shedeur Sanders 🗣️
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— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) October 13, 2025