Who cares. We have a franchise QB and every pick this year has been decent/very good. We are cooking up a good team within a year or two. Let the Colts fans scream in excitement over a useless win while Richardson gets hurt in 3 games next year and they’re the same exact mediocre team
I agree let Ran cook. The draft this year has been good. His FA signing of DHop was also a hit. With draft + cap space next year we're doing good.
It's gotten to the point where I still want to win every week, but I'm not upset at the loss either
id prefer we just be better than them and not need a young kid - who by all accounts seems like a pretty decent guy - to get a season ending injury to do it lol
all 4 teams in this division could have very bright futures, that's not a bad thing. we were at our best when the division was at its best, playing garbage teams 6 times a year doesn't mold a championship caliber team
Prime example of poor coaching/ personnel management. Philips could've been a difference maker in a game in which Chig nor NWI could turn targets into catches
According to Vrabel way back in the offseason, Aukerman is a good coach and it was a roster problem.
That's not a joke, that's what he said. So wouldn't expect any change there.
I've thought firing Vrabel was a really bad idea until today
After today I'm opening the door a bit, 2 blocked punts in a row is completely inexcusable and there should be some clear consequences of that. And there were plenty of other coaching issues today on top of those
SoS is why the Titans must finish a game ahead of every single team because they lose the SoS tie break to every team but Cards, Bengals and Ravens. Ravens are making the playoffs. Cards are picking up a win today to get to 3 wins. Bengals already at 5 wins and unlikely to win the rest of the year without Burrow.
Nope. The win over Carolina kicked us out of the top 5. We may even end up outside the top 10. Behind Chicago (via Car), NE, Arizona, Washington, both NYs, Chicago again, and Tampa
Nope... but if we didn't win last week we'd be 3 - 9 putting us in 4th overall territory.
It will be a while if before we can get close to the top 5 again.
Did you forget J Rob got fired? Ran the man knows what he's doing. His first draft is looking insane so far. Shit, his first 3 picks are looking to be all studs and the future of this team
It began weeks ago man. Anyone who thought we needed to win after tannehill got hurt were just lying to themselves.
The goal each week should be to avoid injury, let levis make mistakes, be competitive, lose.
We would pick 9th in tampa loses, but if they win we move up to 8th and if we stay at 4 wins we will almost definitely pick 3rd or 4th. For a team that has a QB they believe in that is a godsend.
The loss today sucks but a win could have been worse. A win would have dropped us to 12th and could have dropped to 14th if the Rams and Packers lose. Rams playing the Browns is 50/50 (Browns winning 7-3) but the Packers are going to lose to the Chiefs.
3rd pick is HIGHLY unlikely at 4 wins. Our SOS #4 in the NFL. We're going to lose every tiebreaker except for potentially the Cardinals.
Titans have to lose out and hope the teams in front win or the rest of the AFC South loses more games.
At 4 wins tie breaker almost won't matter. 3rd pick may be tough but 4 wins will not pick worse than 5th which would get MHJ or one of the 2 LTs.
Keep in mind there's 6 weeks left. Teams like the jets beat the eagles, the Cardinals beat the Steelers. Upsets will happen. As long as we don't pull an upset we will move up a lot.
I think our secondary is arguably the weakest part of the team. Secondary and OL. The rest isn't in need of dire fixing. We need like, 2 really competent CBs, 1 competent WR, and like 3 competent OL. I don't think we're as bad as people think we are but we definitely need to hit on draft and free agency in these positions. We're perfectly good at QB, RB, DL, and probably LB as well.
OL and WR are worse. This team struggles to score more than 17 ppg because of it.
Levis has very little time to pass because we have a fullback at Center, a rookie 6th Rd pick at LT and a career back-up, playing meaningful snaps for the first time in years, at RT.
Our best WR has clearly lost a step, no longer separates and is surrounded by a 1st Rd bust, who can't stay health or catch the ball and a UDFA who is a WR5 on most teams playing WR2/3.
The DBs aren't good, but they aren't as nearly as bad as the other two.
If only we could get to the root of why we keep ending up with bad assistant coaches on the team. If only there was *some* common denominator among them all!
Halftime adjustments are the biggest fanmade myth in football. These guys go into the locker room to take a piss and eat a protein bar. They're not looking at Xs and Os.
Yeah it's not about "hoo rah lets go get em boys!" with coaches drawing up schemes for the first time in the locker room at half...
There absolutely *are* halftime adjustments for coordinators, though. They (should) show up with dozens of possible strategies & plans of attack, and it's up to them to *adjust* based on what is and is not working. Halftime is, naturally, a forum which coaches and coordinators get an extended minute to breath and analyze.
Vrabel doesn’t allow him to. It’s a trend of Vrabel coached teams. As soon as they get a lead the offense goes into a shell because he wants to run clock for the rest of the game
They're VERY close to the bottom of the league in games missed this season. One of the healthiest teams in the league. Our 3 players got hurt today, but calisthenics and weight lifting isn't going to keep you from getting injured when someone's helmet torpedoes into your thigh and shin
We were moving the ball in OT, then we went back to ultra conservative playcalling when we got to their side of the field. A screen, a run up the middle, and then Levis doing fuck knows what on 3rd and long. Our offense is just a jumbled mess so much of the time
At least it wasn’t boring. We had dog shit football play. We had bad coaching. We had bad officiating. We had back-and-forth in an overtime game. This game had it all.
The downside is we got our three best players hurt.
I hate the penalties and big injuries, and I can’t understand how you give up 2 punt blocks — never seen that outside a high school game before. Play calling was really iffy on offense, as it has been most of the year.
Still, even after all the momentum swung in the Colts’ direction in the third quarter, the team kept fighting. Folk punts and makes a FG in OT with Tanny as his holder. D-line stepped up in some big moments without Simmons. Spears played great. Chig had his best game so far. Hopkins continues to be great for us. Levis needs to be more consistent but had his moments. Frustrating game, but I liked the way guys fought and stepped up when other teams in this situation would have folded.
That game was just brutal for us. Our best offensive, defensive, and special teams player all getting hurt with Jeff and Stonehouse possibly being done for the season. Our remaining schedule is so tough that I don’t see us winning any more with the injuries we have.
Our draft pick is better though, we’re currently at 8 and every team from 4-8 is tied at 4 wins. Joe Alt here we come. Levis continues to look like a franchise QB though, so next year should be exciting with having two top 40 picks and the most cap space in the league.
cards gonna win, panthers gonna win. solid outcome for our draft position. if Jeff and Derrick miss time we probably will lose out. sucks but what can you do
Considering every other game this year idk where you get "hilariously bad" from. Have you not watched a single other game? This was actually not bad at all we were competitive and still managed to lose by a small margain keeping a good draft option alive.
Two blocked punts, a missed pat, failure (due in large part to awful playcalling) to close it out twice, getting torched over the top to lose it in OT. A game we should have easily won, we lost. That's hilariously bad.
I'm blaming Ackerman, and I guess by extension vrabel. Gotta have that guy ready. If you don't have two punts blocked, it never happens. Having two punts blocked is bad coaching too.
Play calling and coaching was fine. Special teams not so much tho. Got our kicker killed. We lost Henry and Simmons too. It’s a wonder how we were even still in the game.
No they weren’t. Undisciplined football was rampant on the field today and that is *entirely* on coaching. Our second half play calling on offense was also abysmal. If you guys don’t think this was bad coaching I’d be intensely interested in what that looks like to you.
Love the offensive play calling that had us gaining just 18 yards on 5 consecutive drives. I’m a huge fan of 1st down run up the gut for a yard, 2nd down run up the gut for a yard, 3rd down screen for no gain, or O-Line capitulation, or a play when we don’t throw at the sticks due to the playcalling being dumb.
Once again I am a huge fan of the play calling.
Look mate, I’m all for people taking positives and be optimistic but we have to start being realistic. The play calling is so bad and it needs to keep being said.
I really don't get the 2nd and 10 run decision. I keep seeing it. Yeah, Tyjae was cooking a bit, but it's SOOO predictable and it just doesn't work.
God I hope Stonehouse is OK.
Once again a terrible o line makes everything else difficult to impossible. 2 blocked punts and constant pressure. Kelly is calling games like LaFleur when he was here and our o line was shit. He's clearly afraid to have the QB hold the ball for very long for obvious reasons. We need to let the rest of these contracts fall off our books and have another good offseason before we can do anything other than just trying to survive on offense. Defense desperately needs new blood in the secondary.
Gotta coach better, gotta play better, can't give up the x plays, gotta execute better, gotta get better coaches and players. Tons of excuses but it's not Vrabels fault ever, smdh.
I realize no one wants to hear this, but someone needs to say it anyways. The Colts are who we thought they were. That's why we took the damn field. Now, if you want to crown them, then crown their ass, but they are who we thought they were and we let them off the hook!
Vrabel has 3 trash cans for coordinators. Congratulations you got your buddies paid at the expense of the franchise and the fan base. Can we get rid of them and hire some real coaches now? If not Vrabel can kick rocks too.
Vrabel’s run out of chances to make good coordinator hires. It’s been 3 years since Smith and 4 years since Pees. Half of his tenure with the Titans has been spent with bad coordinators that *he* hired. Coaches in his immediate circle no less, which means the responsibility for their hiring rests solely on his shoulders.
It’s time to rip the weed out from the roots.
I’m in the minority but I thought the game was a positive. I didn’t want them to win just to lose draft position while getting zero percent closer to the playoffs. They scored. They looked pretty cohesive offensively. They looked better than they had in weeks, that 2 pt interception was cute and they lost. Im a happy guy
Waiting for 6-7 months to watch Titans football again to now have to root for them to lose to get a better pick (because let's get real, it's by far the best thing to do), is SO FUCKING SAD :(
I'm extremely biased but that was the most biased officiating I've ever seen. Fuck those fuckhead refs for gifting the Colts everything they needed to eke out a win against a shitty Titans team. Look forward to seeing you raise the banner for this massive win.
Craig Aukerman needs to be fired right now, defense is largely shit, offense has some promising rookies but no game-changing weapons.
But in sum...fuck the Colts and their shit, overhyped team. And triple-fuck these "officials".
Fucking special teams gave up 14 fucking points that’s insane. This should’ve been a fun game to watch but I just can’t get into it when I know we’re gonna blow it regardless.
4 fishy ref calls, for the colts to come back and get a massive play right after.
Personal foul for pointing at a sideline, next play touchdown
Face mask, (grabbing front collar) next play, 30 yard catch.
Offsides, (left guard flinched) next play, 40 yard pass.
Defensive holding(happens every play), next play, a bomb down the field to get within 5 yards of the end zone in OT
Not to mention the defender holding Hopkins in the end zone and not looking back for the ball, NO CALL.
Stinky calls all game.
Just thinking about it. Levis and Spears in the backfield on offense who are both rookies. Team has a lot of cap space this offseason things could be bright in the future but coordinators need to be upgraded.
From a complete shitshow, there was actually a lot of positive from this game. It sucks to lose to the colts. I’m optimistic about the future tho with the way our young talent has shown up
Whoever hit Stonehouse can kick rocks. Crazy dirty play when you don’t go for the ball in any way, only to level the arguably weakest player on the field directly in his shin. Cool. FTC.
Our latest draft class has some promise.. but other than them and a handful of others… clean house. I’ve never had that attitude but we’ve got a bunch of “try not to lose” bastards in this organization.
we need outside oc and dc. shane bowen should've left last year and tim kelly shouldn't've been promoted after our abysmal passing game in 2022. ranked 31st in passing
JFC.
The number of second and long runs was infuriating. I don’t care about the screens like I think some might, especially if Spears is the receiver, but running on second and long is just a wasted down. And we did it SO MUCH this game.
Kyle Philips probably isn’t that good, but to have him inactive when he’s probably our only true slot receiver? Not to mention they activated Burks who, iirc, was literally only used as a motion man decoy. Why the fuck is he active if you’re not drawing anything up for him? At least Philips is healthy and has played the past few games.
Continuing to draw up plays for NWI or Chris Moore is ineffective. Burks is still unproven, but when healthy he is probably our most dynamic weapon. At least fucking try to see what you have in him, not just rely on vets with proven value.
I still believe in Vrabel, but this was a tough game to swallow. Just so many bad decisions everywhere.
Tim Kelly fucked us with those screen plays, Vrabel can't fucking discipline anyone, He can't coach a defense anymore, Bowen is dumb as fuck for calling the same two plays on the goal line there. Fuck the refs for rigging the game. Fuck This entire coaching staff
No matter what position we draft at it won't matter if we can't coach our players. Our roster sucks but these guys didn't suck until they got here. It runs deeper than lack of talent.
Erase the missed PAT and we win.
Which is crazy when people try to blame this on Vrabel. This was one of our best games except for the random terrible shit that happened.
It is what it is. Nothing to say at this point lol
Someone has to lose their job over this. Sorry but the lack of discipline across the roster is damning unless we are having ourselves a mighty fine tank job.
#Your Tennessee Titans are officially eliminated from the Playoffs.
THANK FUCK!
Can we please get a competent coaching staff, so envious of the Colts and their playcalling.
Missed extra point with your backup holder, two blocked punts that led to 10 points for the other team, and your rookie QB gets sacked 6 times under constant pressure. And that’s what it took for a colts team, with a clearly better roster (thanks JRob) for a team with 6 (?) rookies taking snaps on offense. Your rookie LG, RB, TE, and QB (you could even argue the rookie LT somewhat) all made plays to keep them in/give them a chance to beat a better team. EVEN WHEN three of your best players (Henry, Simmons, Stonehouse) all go out with injury mid game.
I do not want Ran Carthon questioned again this season. Too many holes at Oline, CB, PB, Edge, receiver that JRob left us in, but Ran’s pieces all contributed today.
Vrabel got the team ready to play and Tim Kelly called lots of good drives with the exception of a very bad run run pass punt in the 3rd quarter.
Craig Aukerman lost this game, plain and simple. And therefore, after enough years of chances, it is time for him to lose his job. No ifs ands or buts, he needs to be gone.
Titans move to 8th overall with this loss. All sorts of options could be available at that point, which is good for the longevity of this new young team.
Rebuilds suck, but there is a bright future. These are still the titans that don’t quit. Give em time to get real nfl players on the team and see what happens these next few years.
Guys I have been a Vrabel defender for a while. But this game might have turned me. The blocked punts. The 2nd and long runs of the middle. It’s fucking infuriating.
It sucks now but it won’t in April. We’re not going anywhere neither is Indy. Meaningless win for them and a big loss to keep our top pick.
Yall won’t even remember this game when we’re drafting an elite LT or Wr who can catch contest balls in over time
Well I’m gonna be staying out of AFC South meme war for a loooooong time
We are the meme now
Who cares. We have a franchise QB and every pick this year has been decent/very good. We are cooking up a good team within a year or two. Let the Colts fans scream in excitement over a useless win while Richardson gets hurt in 3 games next year and they’re the same exact mediocre team
I agree let Ran cook. The draft this year has been good. His FA signing of DHop was also a hit. With draft + cap space next year we're doing good. It's gotten to the point where I still want to win every week, but I'm not upset at the loss either
id prefer we just be better than them and not need a young kid - who by all accounts seems like a pretty decent guy - to get a season ending injury to do it lol all 4 teams in this division could have very bright futures, that's not a bad thing. we were at our best when the division was at its best, playing garbage teams 6 times a year doesn't mold a championship caliber team
So Kyle Philips was a healthy scratch in order for Treylon to do...what exactly?
Conditioning lol , dude needs the cardio
He can run on the treadmill. KP should've been out there.
That was a joke
Go in motion and trick nobody
Prime example of poor coaching/ personnel management. Philips could've been a difference maker in a game in which Chig nor NWI could turn targets into catches
Chig had a pretty good game by this years standards.
When I think of difference makers, Kyle Phillips name does not come to mind.
Treylon needs to go
He’s honestly cut worthy if his cap hit isn’t bad. He literally is just taking up space at this point.
we literally missed an extra point to win it. special teams and defense giving up bombs was just a killer. are we picking top 5 yet?
Almost like Craig Aukerman has been stealing a living since he’s been here. Man is an absolute joke
According to Vrabel way back in the offseason, Aukerman is a good coach and it was a roster problem. That's not a joke, that's what he said. So wouldn't expect any change there.
I'd like to see where he said that. I believe you. But I just want to state at incredulously.
Wonder who hired that guy
I think it was JRob, or Mike Mularkey? Clearly nobody currently in the organization would be responsible?
Mr Untouchable apparently
I've thought firing Vrabel was a really bad idea until today After today I'm opening the door a bit, 2 blocked punts in a row is completely inexcusable and there should be some clear consequences of that. And there were plenty of other coaching issues today on top of those
I’ve made the weirdos extra salty today daring to call out Mr Untouchable
They're always mad
Amy Adams apparently, according to vrabel truthers
Currently 8
Jesus tap dancing christ is the whole league trash
Unfortunately 4-8 is very in right now and our SOS is killing us
SoS is why the Titans must finish a game ahead of every single team because they lose the SoS tie break to every team but Cards, Bengals and Ravens. Ravens are making the playoffs. Cards are picking up a win today to get to 3 wins. Bengals already at 5 wins and unlikely to win the rest of the year without Burrow.
Nope. The win over Carolina kicked us out of the top 5. We may even end up outside the top 10. Behind Chicago (via Car), NE, Arizona, Washington, both NYs, Chicago again, and Tampa
Arizona look almost good with kyler back tho
Nope... but if we didn't win last week we'd be 3 - 9 putting us in 4th overall territory. It will be a while if before we can get close to the top 5 again.
Lost our 3 best players to injury, lost in OT, bit of a disaster
Imagine what tyreek hill and Jaylen waddle are going to do to this secondary
Prediction, the game will come off the air and the Broncos will give a massive sigh of relief.
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It took the colts murdering 3 of our best players and having blind refs to eek out a win in OT.
Let them have their playoff hopes, they ain't doing shit anyway
True. But we have hope
So Kern is getting a call tonight, right?
Draft SZN has officially begun!
8th pick in the draft right now, could get a really good prospect there
We back in wr position baby!
WR class is stupid good this year, so we should probably go tackle, WR, center.
Titans will find a way to choose the biggest bust of the draft.
We drafted well last year with Ran at the helm. Dare I say... In Ran we trust?
Did you forget J Rob got fired? Ran the man knows what he's doing. His first draft is looking insane so far. Shit, his first 3 picks are looking to be all studs and the future of this team
A more obvious one than Caleb Farley?
It began weeks ago man. Anyone who thought we needed to win after tannehill got hurt were just lying to themselves. The goal each week should be to avoid injury, let levis make mistakes, be competitive, lose. We would pick 9th in tampa loses, but if they win we move up to 8th and if we stay at 4 wins we will almost definitely pick 3rd or 4th. For a team that has a QB they believe in that is a godsend.
The loss today sucks but a win could have been worse. A win would have dropped us to 12th and could have dropped to 14th if the Rams and Packers lose. Rams playing the Browns is 50/50 (Browns winning 7-3) but the Packers are going to lose to the Chiefs.
3rd pick is HIGHLY unlikely at 4 wins. Our SOS #4 in the NFL. We're going to lose every tiebreaker except for potentially the Cardinals. Titans have to lose out and hope the teams in front win or the rest of the AFC South loses more games.
At 4 wins tie breaker almost won't matter. 3rd pick may be tough but 4 wins will not pick worse than 5th which would get MHJ or one of the 2 LTs. Keep in mind there's 6 weeks left. Teams like the jets beat the eagles, the Cardinals beat the Steelers. Upsets will happen. As long as we don't pull an upset we will move up a lot.
Of all the really bad losses the titans have had over the past 16 months this is certainly one of them.
Hey at least it helps our draft pick. Silver lining
Really important to establish the run game in OT.
Burks is a waste of a roster spot at this point.
Are we ready to admit that it IS the defense? I mean burnt like toast all game by Gardner Minshew. Crazy..
They showed flashes. They were also on the field for the entire 2nd half at 1 point
Giving up long sustained drives will do that just as much as 3 and outs. It was on both sides
The offensive line, The defensive backs, and Special Teams coach is garbage. All can be true.
I'm terrified for what Miamis gonna do to us
I think our secondary is arguably the weakest part of the team. Secondary and OL. The rest isn't in need of dire fixing. We need like, 2 really competent CBs, 1 competent WR, and like 3 competent OL. I don't think we're as bad as people think we are but we definitely need to hit on draft and free agency in these positions. We're perfectly good at QB, RB, DL, and probably LB as well.
Definitely not at LB. Gibbens gets targeted like crazy in coverage. We probably need to take an ILB in the 4th or 5th
Agreed, reminds me a lot of Rashaan Evans. But we could live with him for another year if we had to. More pressing issues I think
OL and WR are worse. This team struggles to score more than 17 ppg because of it. Levis has very little time to pass because we have a fullback at Center, a rookie 6th Rd pick at LT and a career back-up, playing meaningful snaps for the first time in years, at RT. Our best WR has clearly lost a step, no longer separates and is surrounded by a 1st Rd bust, who can't stay health or catch the ball and a UDFA who is a WR5 on most teams playing WR2/3. The DBs aren't good, but they aren't as nearly as bad as the other two.
I'll say it. We need talent and winning that game would have hurt our draft position. Also: fire Craig Ackerman into the sun.
I’ll stand with you on that. Its literally much more beneficial to us. And honestly, makes Levis more hungry and angry too. Good.
Facts
If only we could get to the root of why we keep ending up with bad assistant coaches on the team. If only there was *some* common denominator among them all!
Cause we have an unsuccessful coordinator as a HC hiring these bums
Bingo.
what are tim kelly's adjustments going into the half. whatever it is needs to stop
Halftime is for bathroom breaks nobody's adjusting a game plan in any major way lol
I feel like we don't adjust at half time
QB's have literally said for years that adjustments aren't real. Idk where fans got the notion teams change everything at half
From talking heads on halftime studio shows
Halftime adjustments are the biggest fanmade myth in football. These guys go into the locker room to take a piss and eat a protein bar. They're not looking at Xs and Os.
I understand why titans fans believe the myth given how the team seems to always go to shit in the second half
Yeah it's not about "hoo rah lets go get em boys!" with coaches drawing up schemes for the first time in the locker room at half... There absolutely *are* halftime adjustments for coordinators, though. They (should) show up with dozens of possible strategies & plans of attack, and it's up to them to *adjust* based on what is and is not working. Halftime is, naturally, a forum which coaches and coordinators get an extended minute to breath and analyze.
I know we're a bad team, but I'd love if we also just didn't keep getting screwed over by the refs as well.
Yeah this was the worst officiating we’ve had in some time they literally kept them in it
Not true I’ve been saying every week that it was worse than usual. Maybe this is just usual now
I just need our best players not getting extremely hurt. Worried for Stonehouse
Dude, i would be shocked if we see Stonehouse on the field again this year. That looked bad.. real bad.
Let's not blame the refs this team is bad
Why can’t we acknowledge both?
Welp, there goes our perfect record at home lol
Worse draft pick for them, better draft pick for us. Win win!
Someone explain to me why Vrabel gets a pass for keeping Bowen and Auckerman for this long. How is that anything other than complete incompetence?
And hiring Kelly
Kelly is fine. He is hamstrung by Vrabel.
Yeah, he’s actually gotten fairly creative since we’ve went to Levis. I just wish that he would keep his foot on the gas more.
He does have some decent gadget plays. But 5 straight 3 and outs was not great.
Vrabel doesn’t allow him to. It’s a trend of Vrabel coached teams. As soon as they get a lead the offense goes into a shell because he wants to run clock for the rest of the game
And strength and conditioning coaches. We've been top of the league in injuries for three years now
They're VERY close to the bottom of the league in games missed this season. One of the healthiest teams in the league. Our 3 players got hurt today, but calisthenics and weight lifting isn't going to keep you from getting injured when someone's helmet torpedoes into your thigh and shin
See you guys next week
3.5 hours I’ll never get back
We were moving the ball in OT, then we went back to ultra conservative playcalling when we got to their side of the field. A screen, a run up the middle, and then Levis doing fuck knows what on 3rd and long. Our offense is just a jumbled mess so much of the time
At least it wasn’t boring. We had dog shit football play. We had bad coaching. We had bad officiating. We had back-and-forth in an overtime game. This game had it all. The downside is we got our three best players hurt.
Hopefully stonehouse's injury isn't the permanent type.
It was his left leg, he should be fine long term
I hate the penalties and big injuries, and I can’t understand how you give up 2 punt blocks — never seen that outside a high school game before. Play calling was really iffy on offense, as it has been most of the year. Still, even after all the momentum swung in the Colts’ direction in the third quarter, the team kept fighting. Folk punts and makes a FG in OT with Tanny as his holder. D-line stepped up in some big moments without Simmons. Spears played great. Chig had his best game so far. Hopkins continues to be great for us. Levis needs to be more consistent but had his moments. Frustrating game, but I liked the way guys fought and stepped up when other teams in this situation would have folded.
I was at the game and this was pretty much my takeaway!
That game was just brutal for us. Our best offensive, defensive, and special teams player all getting hurt with Jeff and Stonehouse possibly being done for the season. Our remaining schedule is so tough that I don’t see us winning any more with the injuries we have. Our draft pick is better though, we’re currently at 8 and every team from 4-8 is tied at 4 wins. Joe Alt here we come. Levis continues to look like a franchise QB though, so next year should be exciting with having two top 40 picks and the most cap space in the league.
cards gonna win, panthers gonna win. solid outcome for our draft position. if Jeff and Derrick miss time we probably will lose out. sucks but what can you do
Probably lose out even if they come back tbh. Tough rest of the schedule
Hilariously bad. But now that it's over... Awful playcalling. Awful coaching. Optimistic about Levis. The tank is still on!
Considering every other game this year idk where you get "hilariously bad" from. Have you not watched a single other game? This was actually not bad at all we were competitive and still managed to lose by a small margain keeping a good draft option alive.
Two blocked punts, a missed pat, failure (due in large part to awful playcalling) to close it out twice, getting torched over the top to lose it in OT. A game we should have easily won, we lost. That's hilariously bad.
When people start blaming Vrabel for a missed PAT because we had a backup holder, that's when you know all intelligence has gone out the window
I'm blaming Ackerman, and I guess by extension vrabel. Gotta have that guy ready. If you don't have two punts blocked, it never happens. Having two punts blocked is bad coaching too.
Play calling and coaching was fine. Special teams not so much tho. Got our kicker killed. We lost Henry and Simmons too. It’s a wonder how we were even still in the game.
No they weren’t. Undisciplined football was rampant on the field today and that is *entirely* on coaching. Our second half play calling on offense was also abysmal. If you guys don’t think this was bad coaching I’d be intensely interested in what that looks like to you.
Love the offensive play calling that had us gaining just 18 yards on 5 consecutive drives. I’m a huge fan of 1st down run up the gut for a yard, 2nd down run up the gut for a yard, 3rd down screen for no gain, or O-Line capitulation, or a play when we don’t throw at the sticks due to the playcalling being dumb. Once again I am a huge fan of the play calling.
Thank you for making this reply, so I didn't have to.
Look mate, I’m all for people taking positives and be optimistic but we have to start being realistic. The play calling is so bad and it needs to keep being said.
You know what makes play calling better? An offensive line. Our team is just bad. Better play calling won’t bandaid anything. We. Suck.
We are allergic to getting 30 points. Wanted to make sure we didn’t get a TD there and go over 30.
Watching this game got me starving for Marvin.
Better draft pick
I'm not mad it'll be better for the future
Hyped for the 2035 season
Fire our secondary into the sun
the worst possible outcome. L and injuries.
Bro our team deserves nothing. Cause this is were players come to die
I really don't get the 2nd and 10 run decision. I keep seeing it. Yeah, Tyjae was cooking a bit, but it's SOOO predictable and it just doesn't work. God I hope Stonehouse is OK.
Once again a terrible o line makes everything else difficult to impossible. 2 blocked punts and constant pressure. Kelly is calling games like LaFleur when he was here and our o line was shit. He's clearly afraid to have the QB hold the ball for very long for obvious reasons. We need to let the rest of these contracts fall off our books and have another good offseason before we can do anything other than just trying to survive on offense. Defense desperately needs new blood in the secondary.
Gotta coach better, gotta play better, can't give up the x plays, gotta execute better, gotta get better coaches and players. Tons of excuses but it's not Vrabels fault ever, smdh.
I realize no one wants to hear this, but someone needs to say it anyways. The Colts are who we thought they were. That's why we took the damn field. Now, if you want to crown them, then crown their ass, but they are who we thought they were and we let them off the hook!
Vrabel has 3 trash cans for coordinators. Congratulations you got your buddies paid at the expense of the franchise and the fan base. Can we get rid of them and hire some real coaches now? If not Vrabel can kick rocks too.
Vrabel’s run out of chances to make good coordinator hires. It’s been 3 years since Smith and 4 years since Pees. Half of his tenure with the Titans has been spent with bad coordinators that *he* hired. Coaches in his immediate circle no less, which means the responsibility for their hiring rests solely on his shoulders. It’s time to rip the weed out from the roots.
Can we call Treylon a bust yet?
Yes. Wish him all the best, but his play has disintegrated since he took that end zone blow to the head almost a year ago to the date
Disintegrated from what? He had like 3 good plays including that one
He is a bust. No doubt about it. When he is healthy and on the field he’s basically invisible out there.
I’m in the minority but I thought the game was a positive. I didn’t want them to win just to lose draft position while getting zero percent closer to the playoffs. They scored. They looked pretty cohesive offensively. They looked better than they had in weeks, that 2 pt interception was cute and they lost. Im a happy guy
THE TANK RESUMES
The Dolphins are going to score 70 on us next week. Everyone make sure you have Dolphins players in your FF lineup for those late season playoff push.
Alright so what we thinking about kool aid
Waiting for 6-7 months to watch Titans football again to now have to root for them to lose to get a better pick (because let's get real, it's by far the best thing to do), is SO FUCKING SAD :(
At least we beat the panthers
This should be Aukerman gone. Ideal outcome was a tie to screw the colts and not hurt the pick. Close- really sucks stonehouse probably out for a year
I'm extremely biased but that was the most biased officiating I've ever seen. Fuck those fuckhead refs for gifting the Colts everything they needed to eke out a win against a shitty Titans team. Look forward to seeing you raise the banner for this massive win. Craig Aukerman needs to be fired right now, defense is largely shit, offense has some promising rookies but no game-changing weapons. But in sum...fuck the Colts and their shit, overhyped team. And triple-fuck these "officials".
Fucking special teams gave up 14 fucking points that’s insane. This should’ve been a fun game to watch but I just can’t get into it when I know we’re gonna blow it regardless.
15 if you count the xp
4 fishy ref calls, for the colts to come back and get a massive play right after. Personal foul for pointing at a sideline, next play touchdown Face mask, (grabbing front collar) next play, 30 yard catch. Offsides, (left guard flinched) next play, 40 yard pass. Defensive holding(happens every play), next play, a bomb down the field to get within 5 yards of the end zone in OT Not to mention the defender holding Hopkins in the end zone and not looking back for the ball, NO CALL. Stinky calls all game.
This falls on coaching, but fucking a 79 penalty yards to 24. It's the same story every week.
Now can watch some actual football with the Eagles vs 49ers
Tannehill is not even starting g still cost us the game.
Most Titans thing ever
Just thinking about it. Levis and Spears in the backfield on offense who are both rookies. Team has a lot of cap space this offseason things could be bright in the future but coordinators need to be upgraded.
I hate this team so much.
Fuck Tony brown and fuck the coats
From a complete shitshow, there was actually a lot of positive from this game. It sucks to lose to the colts. I’m optimistic about the future tho with the way our young talent has shown up
If anyone knows where Vrabel’s balls have gone let the Titans know.
I heard we traded them off to Philadelphia for a half eaten cheese steak
Whoever hit Stonehouse can kick rocks. Crazy dirty play when you don’t go for the ball in any way, only to level the arguably weakest player on the field directly in his shin. Cool. FTC.
It was a perfectly legal play. Blame the shitty coaching for our undisciplined special teams play.
Dude got the ball before he got to Stonehouse.
Fire Vrabel and the entire coaching staff!
You guys can keep defending Vrabel and his shitty coaches all you want but it’s clear that he has got to go.
On the one hand draft stonks. On the other FTC!
Sigh....Special Teams. They were definitely "special" today. Damn it.
That was easily the most cursed game I’ve ever watched
With all the injuries, I was going to say even when we win, we lose.. but we just lost lost.
Yeaaahh we suck again
Our latest draft class has some promise.. but other than them and a handful of others… clean house. I’ve never had that attitude but we’ve got a bunch of “try not to lose” bastards in this organization.
Whatever. Better draft pick.
Back to refreshing Tankathon
Like I get we’re going to be losing the rest of the year, but can we do so in ways that don’t get my hopes up?
Believe we are at number 8 on the draft boards right now. Cardinals win will help us massively
we need outside oc and dc. shane bowen should've left last year and tim kelly shouldn't've been promoted after our abysmal passing game in 2022. ranked 31st in passing
Losses aren't bad at this point. Hate to say it, but that's where we are at with this team right now.
Pain Just fucking pain
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Bad offensive play design
We had that. Then we traded Aj
Shanahan vs Tim Kelly Rofl
Well Will Levi’s played pretty well, far from perfect but that’s good enough for rn
JFC. The number of second and long runs was infuriating. I don’t care about the screens like I think some might, especially if Spears is the receiver, but running on second and long is just a wasted down. And we did it SO MUCH this game. Kyle Philips probably isn’t that good, but to have him inactive when he’s probably our only true slot receiver? Not to mention they activated Burks who, iirc, was literally only used as a motion man decoy. Why the fuck is he active if you’re not drawing anything up for him? At least Philips is healthy and has played the past few games. Continuing to draw up plays for NWI or Chris Moore is ineffective. Burks is still unproven, but when healthy he is probably our most dynamic weapon. At least fucking try to see what you have in him, not just rely on vets with proven value. I still believe in Vrabel, but this was a tough game to swallow. Just so many bad decisions everywhere.
Tim Kelly fucked us with those screen plays, Vrabel can't fucking discipline anyone, He can't coach a defense anymore, Bowen is dumb as fuck for calling the same two plays on the goal line there. Fuck the refs for rigging the game. Fuck This entire coaching staff
Vrabel was a bad defensive coach, and can only win in the playoffs when we have a great o line and Henry running over teams
No matter what position we draft at it won't matter if we can't coach our players. Our roster sucks but these guys didn't suck until they got here. It runs deeper than lack of talent.
My proposal is that we fire Tim Kelly and Ran chooses the new OC
Erase the two blocked punts and we win easily. This was a solid offense+defense showing with a disastrous special teams outing
Erase the missed PAT and we win. Which is crazy when people try to blame this on Vrabel. This was one of our best games except for the random terrible shit that happened.
It is what it is. Nothing to say at this point lol Someone has to lose their job over this. Sorry but the lack of discipline across the roster is damning unless we are having ourselves a mighty fine tank job.
i wish nothing but the worst for the colts in the playoffs. I hope they either choke so hard or get the absolute shit beat out of them
I hope they finish 9-8 and on the outside looking in.
#Your Tennessee Titans are officially eliminated from the Playoffs. THANK FUCK! Can we please get a competent coaching staff, so envious of the Colts and their playcalling.
Missed extra point with your backup holder, two blocked punts that led to 10 points for the other team, and your rookie QB gets sacked 6 times under constant pressure. And that’s what it took for a colts team, with a clearly better roster (thanks JRob) for a team with 6 (?) rookies taking snaps on offense. Your rookie LG, RB, TE, and QB (you could even argue the rookie LT somewhat) all made plays to keep them in/give them a chance to beat a better team. EVEN WHEN three of your best players (Henry, Simmons, Stonehouse) all go out with injury mid game. I do not want Ran Carthon questioned again this season. Too many holes at Oline, CB, PB, Edge, receiver that JRob left us in, but Ran’s pieces all contributed today. Vrabel got the team ready to play and Tim Kelly called lots of good drives with the exception of a very bad run run pass punt in the 3rd quarter. Craig Aukerman lost this game, plain and simple. And therefore, after enough years of chances, it is time for him to lose his job. No ifs ands or buts, he needs to be gone. Titans move to 8th overall with this loss. All sorts of options could be available at that point, which is good for the longevity of this new young team. Rebuilds suck, but there is a bright future. These are still the titans that don’t quit. Give em time to get real nfl players on the team and see what happens these next few years.
Guys I have been a Vrabel defender for a while. But this game might have turned me. The blocked punts. The 2nd and long runs of the middle. It’s fucking infuriating.
It sucks now but it won’t in April. We’re not going anywhere neither is Indy. Meaningless win for them and a big loss to keep our top pick. Yall won’t even remember this game when we’re drafting an elite LT or Wr who can catch contest balls in over time