Schefter’s premonition came true. Less than an hour after he made those comments, the Titans announced the firing of Callahan.
To be fair to Schefter, he left plenty of wiggle room in his comments. As he said, things change quickly in the NFL, and he did not definitively say that no coaching changes were coming. It’s safe to say, however, that the media’s top NFL insider did not see the Callahan move coming.
It is not necessarily that Schefter is poorly-informed. After all, he has made his fair share of decent predictions. When it comes to information, however, Schefter can only go off what he is told, and those within the league do have incentives to share or not share certain information.
Schefter is not perfect, and this news proves it. Some other coaches that he has suggested are fairly safe might be sweating a little harder after seeing Callahan lose his job despite similar public reports.
