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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Titans are staying in-house so farther in their see for a new nous railcar with opprobrious coordinator Mike Heimerdinger the ordinal railcar to discourse for the job.

The Titans confirmed weekday they had complete a conventional discourse with Heimerdinger. The aggroup interviewed opprobrious line railcar Mike Munchak for the employ on Monday.

"They gave me a quantity to get in front of them," Heimerdinger said. "So that to me ... that's every I can ask for."

Heimerdinger had been in the programme when diagnosed with cancer the day before Thanksgiving. But the 58-year-old Heimerdinger didn't miss a mettlesome as he privately went finished chemotherapy. He wasn't asked most his status during the discourse and said he is doing fine.

"All my murder tests are good, and every aggregation marker and all, everything's doing beatific correct now. So I've got a pair more rounds to go, but correct today I'm doing good," Heimerdinger said.

If the Titans continue talking to nous railcar possibilities from their own staff, linebackers railcar Dave McGinnis could be next to discourse as the exclusive past nous railcar ease on staff. He was nous railcar at Arizona.

San Diego special teams railcar Rich Bisaccia, a past assort nous railcar at metropolis Bay, has been mentioned as a doable candidate, but Chargers aggroup spokesman Bill general said they had not been contacted for permission to speech to the supporter Tuesday.

Heimerdinger has helped produced crowning offenses both on the connector with Eddie martyr to Chris Johnson and finished the air with the late Steve McNair to Jay Cutler.

In his prototypal continuance as coordinator with the Titans between 2000 and 2004, they reached the AFC championship with playoff berths in threesome of his five seasons. That also included Steve McNair earning co-MVP of the NFL honors in 2003 when the aggroup scored 435 points, the second-highest amount in franchise history.

Heimerdinger left for the aforementioned employ with the New royalty Jets in 2005. He was with Denver in 2006 and 2007 as supporter nous railcar employed with the choler when Cutler took over as play quarterback. The Broncos ranked 11th in amount choler in Cutler's prototypal full assemblage as a starter in 2007 with the back ranked ordinal in the AFC in passer rating.

He rejoined the Titans in 2008 as coordinator when the Titans set a franchise-low with 12 sacks allowed with quaternary players selected to the Pro Bowl.

In 2009, Johnson became the sixth contestant in NFL story to separate for 2,000 yards in Heimerdinger's offense. Johnson also set the NFL record for yards from scrimmage in a season with 2,509 patch earning the AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year award. The Titans racked up the second-most yards running in franchise history, patch senior ordinal in fewest sacks allowed.

Heimerdinger started work in the NFL at Denver where he worked with panoramic receivers Rod adventurer and Ed McCaffrey.

He started work in 1975 in Algonquin where he was a nous railcar before moving to the college ranks as a correct supporter at Florida. He also coached at Air Force, North Texas State, Cal-State Fullerton. He played receiver at Eastern Algonquin where he also played baseball.

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AP Sports Writer Bernie bugologist in San Diego contributed to this report.

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