The Tennessee Titans have hired Matt LaFleur as offensive coordinator under Mike Vrabel.

LaFleur, who interviewed for the heading coaching job before Vrabel was hired earlier this month, joins the Titans after spending one year as the offensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams, who ranked first in the NFL in scoring and 10th in total offense in 2017.

“Matt brings an energy and an offensive diversity to our team," said Vrabel. "He is going to develop an offense that puts our players in position to have success. Matt has worked with some great offensive minds, helped game plan on those staffs and I am looking forward to seeing him take that next step as a play-caller.”

Prior to joining the Rams, LaFleur served as quarterback Matt Ryan’s QBs coach for two seasons with the Falcons.

The Tennessee Titans have hired Dean Pees as defensive coordinator under Mike Vrabel.

Pees was linebackers coach (2004-2005) and defensive coordinator (2006-2009) under Bill Belichick.

Pees, 68, had been defensive coordinator of the Ravens for the past six years before retiring.

After they each made a big play in the final minutes of Sunday's 24-23 AFC victory over the NFC, Delanie Walker and Von Miller were named MVPs of the Pro Bowl.

Walker caught an 18-yard touchdown pass from Derek Carr with 1:31 to play. Miller then strip-sacked Jared Goff and recovered the fumble with 37 seconds remaining to seal the win.

"I go all-out all the time," said Miller, who was playing in his sixth Pro Bowl.

In addition to the $64,000 that each winning player receives, Walker and Miller also get a luxury Genesis automobile for being named MVPs.

Mike Vrabel promised to develop franchise quarterback Marcus Mariota during his introductory press conference as the head coach of the Tennessee Titans.

"There's ways to win games in this league without a franchise quarterback," Vrabel said. "We got one, we're going to develop him. So I don't think that that's a critical factor. I think what it is is that it has to be the right fit."

Vrabel comes to the Titans after serving as the defensive coordinator of the Houston Texans.

"I believe in screens, I believe in play-action -- things that he does well. ... He's averaging 17 or 18 yards a completion in play-action. Those things scare you as a defensive coordinator, those are big plays that change field position. Those are things we believe in, but we're going to run the football and do it a few different ways," he said of Mariota.

"We never want to put him in harm's way. We don't want to sit there and run him for the sake of running him. But we want to make sure people know he's back there."

Mike Vrabel has been hired by the Tennessee Titans as head coach.

Vrabel replaces Mike Mularkey.

Vrabel spent the past four seasons coaching the Houston Texans, including the 2017 season as defensive coordinator.

"We want to build a culture around winning, competitiveness and toughness," Vrabel said. "Everything we do is going to be geared towards winning and being physical. We want to prepare our players so they know what to do, which will allow them to play fast and aggressive."

Tennessee general manager Jon Robinson and Vrabel spent seven years together in New England, from 2002-08, when Vrabel was a player and Robinson was working in the Patriots' scouting department. 

The NFL's television ratings for the divisional round playoff games were down 16 percent compared to last season.

The weekend's four games averaged 30.43 million viewers, off from 36.22 million the year before, the Nielsen company said. 

Last year's games featured the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys, which reached more than 48 million viewers.

While ratings were down, Saturday's game between the Patriots and Titans was only one million viewers behind the College Football Championship for the most watched program of the week.

Josh McDaniels is expected to accept an offer to become the next head coach of the Indianapolis Colts.

McDaniels is also a strong candidate for the Tennessee Titans' job.

McDaniels has been close to accepting head coaching jobs in recent offseasons.

McDaniels is in his second stint as offensive coordinator of the Patriots.

The Tennessee Titans have interest in Josh McDaniels after parting ways with Mike Mularkey.

McDaniels is also a candidate for the head coaching jobs with the Colts and Giants.

McDaniels was briefly a head coach with the Broncos between stops with the Patriots.

The Tennessee Titans and Mike Mularkey have mutually agreed to part ways.

Mularkey led the Titans to the playoffs and a playoff win at Kansas City. But the Titans had planned for fire Mularkey after Week 17 and then after the expected loss to the Chiefs.

Mularkey replaced Ken Whisenhunt as interim head coach during the 2015 season and then was hired as the permanent head coach in 2016.

The Titans have strong interest in hiring Josh McDaniels, who is also a candidate for the Colts.

Mike Mularkey will return as coach of the Tennessee Titans and is discussing a long-term contract extension with the team, according to a source.

Initial talks began last week after the team's opening round playoff win against the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Titans made progress in 2017, finishing 9-7 and making the playoffs for the first time since the 2008 season.