The Tennessee Titans, previously known as the Houston Oilers, are a professional American football team based in

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, Tennessee. They are a member of the

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division of the

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(AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Tennessee Titans have had 18 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

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(AFL). The Oilers won two AFL championships 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. Head coach Jeff Fisher led the Titans to their only

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appearance in Super Bowl XXXIV following the 1999 season. He continued his success with playoff appearances in

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, and

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. His coaching career began to decline and, from 2004–2010, his only playoff appearances included

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and

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. In January 2011, it was announced that Fisher and the Titans had mutually parted ways. Fisher's tenure at head coach from 1994–2010 included six playoff appearances, one AFC Championship appearance, and one Super Bowl appearance. Following Fisher, the Titans promoted former player and longtime offensive line coach Mike Munchak to head coach. He missed the playoffs from 2011–2013 before being fired in January 2014. Ken Whisenhunt became head coach shortly after, and tied a franchise worst 2–14 record in

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, who was originally hired as tight ends coach in 2014 and promoted to assistant head coach in 2015, replaced Whisenhunt on an interim basis after a 1–6 start in

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. Mularkey was retained as head coach and led the Titans to two 9–7 seasons, including a playoff appearance in

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. Mularkey and the Titans agreed to part ways in January 2018. Former NFL player and coach, Mike Vrabel, was hired as head coach soon after and has had four straight winning seasons. He led the Titans to an AFC Championship appearance in

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, back-to-back AFC South division titles in

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and

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, and earned the #1 seed for the AFC in the

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. For his team's performance in 2021, Vrabel was named that season's NFL Coach of the Year.

Key

Coaches

''Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2021 NFL regular season.''

Notes

* A running total of the number of Oilers/Titans head coaches. Thus, any head coach who has two or more terms is only counted once. * Each year is linked to an article about that particular Oilers/Titans season. * Wally Lemm's full coaching record with the Oilers is 79 regular season games coached with a record of 37–38–4 and a W–L percentage of , and 3 playoff games coached with a record of 1–2 and a W–L percentage of . * Jeff Fisher's full coaching record with the Oilers/Titans is 262 regular season games coached with a record of 142–120–0 and a W–L percentage of , and 11 playoff games coached with a record of 5–6 and a W–L percentage of .

References

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