Ladies and gentlemen…it’s over. The Tennessee Titans, for the third week in a row, loss in inexplicable fashion. The team looked completely inept in 2/3 phases of football. At least they didn’t give up a blocked punt right? The Green Bay Packers completely outplayed the Titans and it wasn’t really close. The offense struggled the entire afternoon. Levis made another stupid mistake — surprise surpise. The offensive line looked completely out of their league allowing 8 sacks which ultimately led to Jaelyn Duncan replacing the human dumpster fire NPF…but hey, at least NPF can give solid fantasy advice on which defense to start each week!

The offense wasn’t the only one who deserves the blame. The defense is equal parts responsible as well. They allowed the Malik Willis led Packers to score 23 points after being labeled the “#1 Defense” by total yards allowed. However, the Packers were able to amass 378 yards with 275 of those yards attributed to Malik Willis who was traded to the Packers a few weeks ago. Earlier this week Jeffery Simmons made it a point that, “Nobody runs the ball on the Tennessee Titans defense,” except for well, Malik Willis of course. The Titans were completely gashed by Willis early in the game as he kept moving the sticks with his legs. After Willis got tired of moving the sticks with his legs he decided to turn into another GB legend in Aaron Rodgers as he picked up 3rd and 18 late in the 3rd quarter or hit a TD on a screen to Emanuel Wilson. Please bear in mind this is the same Malik Willis that the Titans discarded for nothing and deemed him worse than Mason Rudolph. Yet, he currently has better passing stats than Will Levis — 73.5 Completion percentage, 324 yards, 2 TD’s, no interceptions 122.7 QB Rating compared to 68.1%, 579 yards, 4 TD’s, and 5 INT’s 76.5 QB Rating. That’s utterly embarrassing for the Titans. It forces someone to wonder how Malik Willis was able to turn into a capable QB in the NFL and win 2 games coming off the bench over Levis who was deemed the starter all offseason and has yet to win a game this year.

Coach Brian Callahan and Will Levis are quickly losing this fanbase. Yes, Levis probably had his best game this year. No, that wasn’t enough. Late in the 1st quarter Levis predetermined his throw to DeAndre Hopkins on the boundary and Jaire Alexander read Levis like a book and made the interception to push the Packers lead to 17-7. The rest of the way Levis played fine — for the most part — often Levis found himself on his back. There were a few sacks you can probably place on Levis but overall the offensive line was once again not good enough. I wrote in my game preview yesterday that Radunz should be switched to RT and Brunskill back at his guard spot. Perhaps that is something to keep an eye on going into the Miami game or perhaps post bye week. Regardless the Titans can’t continue down this path. The Titans last year were the 5th most sacked team with 64 however, after 3 games they’ve given up 15 sacks. At this rate the Titans are set to give up 85 sacks on the year. That would beat the record by 9 sacks set by David Carr and the Houston Texans back in 2002. Bill Callahan was handed a much better OL roster than his predecessor. Yet, the Titans are struggling substantially to protect Levis. That trend cannot continue. The move to Jaelyn Duncan late in the game tells me the coaching staff isn’t blind to the protection issues. Unfortunately, the Titans are unlikely to bring someone new into the fold given how difficult it would be to find a starting RT caliber player riding the bench for another team. The Titans are also without much draft capital after trading for Sneed and Earnest Jones IV.

The season is essentially over at this rate. Only one team since the turn of the century has went 0-3 and made the playoffs, the 2018 Texans. I don’t expect the Titans to be that team. This season is now 100% about evaluating whether Levis and Brian Callahan are the future of the franchise. As terrible of a look it would be to hire and fire a coach after one year we’ve seen it happen often in the win now NFL. The Titans are just too talented to be 0-3 and not contending for the playoffs. This is a massive catastrophic failure that ultimately rest at the hands of Brian Callahan. Something big will be brewing come the end of the season if the Titans continue to squander the talent that is on this roster and reaping little rewards. As for now — start getting familiar with names like: Ewers, Sanders, Beck, Ward, Dart.

What’s Next

The Titans take on the Miami Dolphins in Miami on MNF yet again where they’ll be without Tua Tagovailoa and perhaps without Skyler Thompson as well. No matter, the Titans will probably find a way to lose the game and shatter the fanbase in an even more despicable way.