Given that "alignment" has been the word of the offseason for the Tennessee Titans, it should come as no surprise that coach Brian Callahan is filling out his first offensive staff with assistants he already has a shorthand with.

The Titans are reportedly hiring Jacksonville Jaguars pass game coordinator Nick Holz as their offensive coordinator, former Chicago Bears receivers coach Tyke Tolbert for the same position and Cleveland Browns offensive line coach Bill Callahan to lead the trenches. Or, put another way: Callahan is hiring his high school classmate at coordinator, a receivers coach he worked with for five years in Denver and his dad to coach linemen.

Each of these coaches have qualifications beyond "knows Brian Callahan." The elder Callahan is a former NFL head coach and is considered one of the most respected line coaches in the business. Tolbert has coached NFL receivers since 2003, spending time with stars like Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith Sr., Demariyus Thomas, Odell Beckham Jr., and D.J Moore. Holz has 11 years of NFL coaching experience plus one year as a college offensive coordinator and has worked for renowned offensive-minded coaches like Jim Harbaugh, Jon Gruden and Doug Pederson.

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But it's easiest to view these hires as extensions of the Titans' push toward alignment, collaboration and one-mindedness throughout the organization.

Callahan isn't just hiring coaches he's worked with in Cincinnati trying to replicate the success he experienced there. And he isn't strip-mining a successful offensive coach's staff for parts like so many teams have done to coaches like Sean McVay or Kyle Shanahan in recent years. Those are the types of moves teams make when they're trying to recreate what someone else has done.

The Titans' moves, meanwhile, seem to be an investment in Callahan's vision, and an avenue to ensure Callahan has the people around him he's most comfortable with expressing that vision to and through.

Callahan will be the coach calling plays on Sundays. But, as he explained in his introductory press conference, he views play-calling as a product of a week's worth of collaboration being funneled through one voice. He intends to lean on his staff's various areas of expertise leading up to games to get input on what the team should do on third downs, in the red zone, in two-minute drills and situations of that ilk, synthesizing all those ideas into the gameplan rather than setting the gameplan himself and letting the ideas trickle down.

It's not exactly a revolutionary tactic. All staffs collaborate and divide responsibilities. But given Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk's expressed objective of unifying ideas across the franchise and general manager Ran Carthon's co-sign of that philosophy, it makes sense that the Titans' first batch of offensive assistants are people Callahan already has shorthand with and with whom he'll have an easy time sharing ideas and tactics.

These aren't hires designed to mask any perceived gaps in Callahan's plan. They're hires that accentuate who Callahan is and double-down on the plan he has for the Titans' offense.

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Nick Suss is the Titans beat writer for The Tennessean. Contact Nick at nsuss@gannett.com. Follow Nick on X, the platform formerly called Twitter, @nicksuss.

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