Titans QB Cam Ward on OC Brian Daboll: 'He's Going to Hold Me to High Standard'

New Tennessee Titans head coach Robert Saleh — who was previously the head coach of the New York Jets from 2021-24 in between two stints as the defensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers — brought another former head coach with him to Nashville as his offensive coordinator: former New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll.

Quarterback Cam Ward is pumped to have Daboll in his corner.

"I had a good interview process with him throughout the draft season last year, and I think he's going to do a lot of things to compliment me. I think he is going to put me and the team in the best situation," Ward said about Daboll, who scouted Ward during the 2025 NFL Draft process on the Giants, according to the Titans' team website. "He is a coach who is well respected, and someone like me wants to play for a guy like that. I am for sure going to have his back, and he is going to have mine. I am excited to learn from him. …

"Having a coach like Daboll, who is going to listen to me, and give me feedback from the film room to the field and put his game plan in each and every week. That is why I am excited to be heard by him, and it is going to get some wins for us."

Daboll comes to Tennessee after being the head coach of the Giants from 2022-25 and the offensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills from 2018-21.

Beforehand, as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Alabama, Daboll was the playcaller for future NFL quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa on a 2017 Crimson Tide team that won the College Football Playoff National Championship. In Buffalo, now-superstar quarterback Josh Allen had Daboll as his offensive playcaller for the first four years of his career (2018-21).

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