Tennessee Titans coach Brian Callahan doesn't always get fired up in front of the media and the cameras in his regular availabilities.

But there is one topic that produced an impassioned response on Wednesday, and it had nothing to do with the quarterback status or 3-11 record.

In response to a question about the Titans being "soft" both mentally and physically, Callahan delivered a fiery and very long answer, Nick Gray of The Tennessean reports

"I mean, you really want to get me going today?" Callahan said. "Yeah, I think to be honest with you, that is complete and total (expletive), if you want my honest opinion. These guys are tough (expletive), man, and they go after it every day. They play hard as hell, and at no point have we put on tape at any point this season that this is a soft football team. I can't even wrap my mind around how that would even be a conversation. I mean, just because we don't win games doesn't mean we're soft."

"These guys play their ass off, they play hard, they play physical. You can ask any team that plays against us, when they come off the field, they know they played us. Yeah, that makes me relatively angry that that would be some presumption. That means you don't watch the (expletive), you don't know what you're talking about and you don't know what you're looking at. So, I'm not going to stand for anybody calling this football team soft. I think that's (expletive)."

"So if there are opinions out there that feel that way, then they don't know anything about NFL football. I'd like for you to walk in there and call one of these guys soft and see what happens, you know? This is not a soft football team at all, mentally or physically. And I think one of the things mentally that's really been impressive about the team is the way that they keep fighting through the way this season has gone. They've not shown at any point that they're not up to the task. They come out every day and work, they have . . . " Callahan continued to say before pausing and finally taking a deep breath.

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