Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Munchak talks with players before an NFL football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Nashville.NASHVILLE – Mike Munchak will be back as Titans coach for another year, but chief operating officer Mike Reinfeldt is out after the franchise’s second 6-10 season in three years.
Munchak announced owner Bud Adams’ decision at his news conference Monday. The coach said Adams, who turns 90 on Wednesday, understands the challenges the Titans faced when Munchak took over in February 2011. Munchak said he knows his boss for 30 years wants a championship and realizes what the Titans faced in deciding to keep him for the third year on his four-year contract.
“He felt that move [firing the coach] right now wasn’t the right move to make, so hopefully I’ll prove him right,” Munchak said.
Adams put his team on notice after a 51-20 loss to Chicago on Nov. 4 and said after a 55-7 embarrassment in Green Bay on Dec. 23 he wanted answers from his front office and head coach on what went wrong this season.
The Titans routed Jacksonville 38-20 for their second win in three games to finish the schedule.