NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee rookie quarterback Cam Ward has talked a couple of times about wanting stability with the Titans like the NFL's best franchises.
Now the No. 1 pick overall finds himself with a new offensive play-caller going into his fourth game.
Luckily for Ward and the Titans, the rookie has spent a lot of time with quarterbacks coach Bo Hardegree, who will be calling the plays into his ear Sunday when they visit Houston (0-3). Ward said Hardegree was one of the first he talked with during the pre-draft process.
“I have a great relationship with him,” Ward said Wednesday. "I meet with him every day. He just knows where my mind is and how I feel space on the field. I just think he’s going to be a good addition for us.”
Coach Brian Callahan announced Tuesday that he was handing over the play-calling duties to Hardegree, who previously called plays as the interim offensive coordinator with the Raiders for nine games in 2023.
“Us making this change is not going to make a big difference on how we think as an offense, how we as a building, we’re just going to go play football,” Ward said.
The Titans are 0-3 and one of the NFL's six winless franchises. Worse, they have scored only three touchdowns to start this season, and Callahan's decision-making as head coach has been questioned in two games this month.
Tennessee ranks 31st in total offense, 28th in rushing yards and 32nd in passing. Ward has thrown for 506 yards, putting him 27th among quarterbacks in the NFL. Ward appeared on the injury report Wednesday for the first time limited by a calf and ankle issue at a walk-through.
Hardegree indicated Tuesday that he would stay on the sideline with offensive coordinator Nick Holz and senior offensive assistant Mike McCoy in the coaching box. On Wednesday, Callahan said Hardegree was still working through where he wanted to be during the game.
Being on the sideline does keep Hardegree close to Ward. The rookie said wherever Hardegree has the best view to call the best plays is all that matters.
“Whether if he’s in the box, I’m going to talk to him on the headset after every drive so it really won’t change my operation,” Ward said. “But I think it’s going to be what’s best for him and for us to help us score some points.”
RT JC Latham, who has missed two straight games with a strained hip, did not practice in the walk-through. RG Kevin Zeitler was limited with the injured bicep that kept him out last week.
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Tennessee Titans head coach Brian Callahan speaks during a news conference after the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Titans in an NFL football game Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward (1) runs off the field during the first half of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the Arctic island of Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it and suggestions that the U.S. could take it by force.
The island is a semiautonomous region of Denmark, and Denmark's foreign minister said Wednesday after a meeting at the White House that a “ fundamental disagreement ” remains with Trump over the island.
The crisis is dominating the lives of Greenlanders and "people are not sleeping, children are afraid, and it just fills everything these days. And we can’t really understand it,” Naaja Nathanielsen, a Greenlandic minister said at a meeting with lawmakers in Britain’s Parliament this week.
Here's a look at what Greenlanders have been saying:
Trump has dismissed Denmark’s defenses in Greenland, suggesting it’s “two dog sleds.”
By saying that, Trump is “undermining us as a people,” Mari Laursen told AP.
Laursen said she used to work on a fishing trawler but is now studying law. She approached AP to say she thought previous examples of cooperation between Greenlanders and Americans are “often overlooked when Trump talks about dog sleds.”
She said during World War II, Greenlandic hunters on their dog sleds worked in conjunction with the U.S. military to detect Nazi German forces on the island.
“The Arctic climate and environment is so different from maybe what they (Americans) are used to with the warships and helicopters and tanks. A dog sled is more efficient. It can go where no warship and helicopter can go,” Laursen said.
Trump has repeatedly claimed Russian and Chinese ships are swarming the seas around Greenland. Plenty of Greenlanders who spoke to AP dismissed that claim.
“I think he (Trump) should mind his own business,” said Lars Vintner, a heating engineer.
“What's he going to do with Greenland? He speaks of Russians and Chinese and everything in Greenlandic waters or in our country. We are only 57,000 people. The only Chinese I see is when I go to the fast food market. And every summer we go sailing and we go hunting and I never saw Russian or Chinese ships here in Greenland,” he said.
Down at Nuuk's small harbor, Gerth Josefsen spoke to AP as he attached small fish as bait to his lines. He said, “I don't see them (the ships)” and said he had only seen “a Russian fishing boat ten years ago.”
Maya Martinsen, 21, a shop worker, told AP she doesn't believe Trump wants Greenland to enhance America's security.
“I know it’s not national security. I think it’s for the oils and minerals that we have that are untouched,” she said, suggesting the Americans are treating her home like a “business trade.”
She said she thought it was good that American, Greenlandic and Danish officials met in the White House Wednesday and said she believes that “the Danish and Greenlandic people are mostly on the same side,” despite some Greenlanders wanting independence.
“It is nerve-wrecking, that the Americans aren’t changing their mind,” she said, adding that she welcomed the news that Denmark and its allies would be sending troops to Greenland because “it’s important that the people we work closest with, that they send support.”
Tuuta Mikaelsen, a 22-year-old student, told AP that she hopes the U.S. got the message from Danish and Greenlandic officials to “back off.”
She said she didn't want to join the United States because in Greenland “there are laws and stuff, and health insurance .. .we can go to the doctors and nurses ... we don’t have to pay anything,” she said adding "I don’t want the U.S. to take that away from us.”
In Greenland's parliament, Juno Berthelsen, MP for the Naleraq opposition party that campaigns for independence in the Greenlandic parliament told AP that he has done multiple media interviews every day for the last two weeks.
When asked by AP what he would say to Trump and Vice President JD Vance if he had the chance, Berthelsen said:
“I would tell them, of course, that — as we’ve seen — a lot of Republicans as well as Democrats are not in favor of having such an aggressive rhetoric and talk about military intervention, invasion. So we would tell them to move beyond that and continue this diplomatic dialogue and making sure that the Greenlandic people are the ones who are at the very center of this conversation.”
“It is our country,” he said. “Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people.”
Kwiyeon Ha and Evgeniy Maloletka contributed to this report.
FILE - A woman pushes a stroller with her children in Nuuk, Greenland, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Military vessel HDMS Knud Rasmussen of the Royal Danish Navy patrols near Nuuk, Greenland, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Juno Berthelsen, MP for the Naleraq opposition party that campaigns for independence in the Greenlandic parliament poses for photo at his office in Nuuk, Greenland, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Fisherman Gerth Josefsen prepares fishing lines at the harbour of Nuuk, Greenland, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A woman walks on a street past a Greenlandic national flag in Nuuk, Greenland, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
