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Hello and welcome to the first entry in this year’s 32 Teams/32 Days series!
This post is for the Tennessee Titans’ 2024 season. The hub for the series can be found here, and while there aren’t any other entries over there yet, that’s where they’ll be posted as they come out over the next 32 days. Since these posts can often get very long, here’s a table of contents for this particular post:
Team Stats
General Season Review
Regular season game-by-game recap
Titans 2024 draftees, graded
Titans 2024 marquee free agent signings, graded
Titans 2024 trades, graded
Draft Needs Tier List
Conclusion
So without further ado, let us begin!
Tennessee Titans
| DIVISIONAL RANKINGS |
|---|
| Team | Record | Div. Record |
|---|---|---|
| Houston Texans | 10-7 | 5-1 |
| Indianapolis Colts | 8-9 | 3-3 |
| Jacksonville Jaguars | 4-13 | 3-3 |
| Tennessee Titans | 3-14 | 1-5 |
| STATISTICS |
|---|
| Stat | Number | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Total Offense | 5172 yards | 26th |
| Points Scored | 311 | 27th |
| Passing Offense | 3317 yards | 26th |
| Rushing Offense | 1855 yards | 19th |
| Total Defense | 5291 yards allowed | 2nd |
| Points Allowed | 460 | 30th |
| Pass Defense | 3014 yards allowed | 2nd |
| Run Defense | 2277 yards allowed | 26th |
| Turnovers | 34 | 31st |
| Takeaways | 18 | 16th |
| IMPORTANT ADDITIONS |
|---|
| Name | Position | Previous Team |
|---|---|---|
| Calvin Ridley | WR | JAX |
| L’Jarius Sneed | CB | KC |
| Lloyd Cushenberry III | C | DEN |
| Chidobe Awuzie | CB | CIN |
| Tony Pollard | RB | DAL |
| Tyler Boyd | WR | CIN |
| Mason Rudolph | QB | PIT |
| IMPORTANT DEPARTURES |
|---|
| Name | Position | New Team |
|---|---|---|
| Derrick Henry | RB | BAL |
| Ryan Tannehill | QB | N/A |
| Denico Autry | DE | HOU |
| Azeez Al-Shaair | LB | HOU |
| Sean Murphy-Bunting | CB | ARI |
| Mike Vrabel | HC | CLE |
| COACHING CHANGES |
|---|
| Position | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Head Coach | Mike Vrabel | Brian Callahan |
| Offensive Coordinator | Tim Kelly | Nick Holz |
| Quarterbacks coach | Charles London | Bo Hardegree |
| Running backs coach | Justin Outten | Randy Jordan |
| Wide receivers coach | Rob Moore | Tyke Tolbert |
| Tight ends coach | Tony Dews | Justin Outten |
| Offensive line coach | Jason Houghtaling | Bill Callahan |
| Offensive line assistant | Matt Jones | Scott Fuchs |
| Defensive Coordinator | Shane Bowen | Dennard Wilson |
| Defensive line coach | Terrell Williams | Tracy Rocker |
| Defensive line assistant coach/Pass rush specialist | N/A | Clinton McMillan |
| Linebackers coach | Bobby King | Frank Bush |
| Outside linebackers coach | Ryan Crow | Ben Bloom |
| Secondary/safeties coach | Scott Booker | Steve Jackson |
| Defensive quality control | Justin Hamilton | Steve Donatell |
| Special Teams Coordinator | Tom Quinn | Colt Anderson |
GENERAL SEASON REVIEW
It’s a bittersweet feeling when your team achieves the notorious honor-shame of the first overall pick in the NFL draft. No season ticket holder begins the season hoping their team finishes with the worst record in the league. Every single coach and player in the league doesn’t want the team they coach for or play for to do that. Terrible teams aren’t fun to coach, aren’t fun to play for, and, unless they’re really bad, usually aren’t fun to watch. And yet at the same time, a terrible team that’s more terrible than all the other teams is, funnily enough, given the best shot at making it so that doesn’t happen anymore. And given how the 2024 Tennessee Titans looked, I am very excited about that fact because I do NOT want to watch a team like this again anytime soon.
The offseason began with a bang: Mike Vrabel would not be head coach of the Titans anymore. The true reasons behind it will only be known to the people involved, but there were plenty of things to point at. And yet these reasons were dwarfed by the laundry list of reasons to keep him around. But what had been done had been done, and the search for the next head coach of the Tennessee Titans began. Amy Adams Strunk, Ran Carthon, and the organization as a whole concluded their browse of Monster.com a little over two weeks later, hiring Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan to lead the team. His resume included plenty of references from successful quarterbacks who vouched for his acumen. Manning, Stafford, Burrow, Carr… Ben Olson? Patrick Cowan maybe? Regardless, the plan was obvious: maximize the upside on the hotshot young QB with the Hellmann’s commercial. Over the next several weeksit became clear that staff assembly was an important reason Cally was hired. They call him Cally by the way. Dennard Wilson, a hot commodity for DC vacancies around the league, picked Cally and the Titans. Bill Callahan, one of the elder statesmen of offensive line coaching, was allowed by Cleveland to come coach with his son. Tyke Tolbert, wide receiver coach of guys like Anquan Boldin and Demaryius Thomas, was brought on. Callahan’s head coaching tenure had barely started, but if he had this kind of pull among assistant coaches, things could get real interesting.
The next several months brought out some of that real interesting. First up, free agency. In the running back department, out went Derrick Henry (don’t cry don’t cry you can’t cry), in came Tony Pollard. Lloyd Cushenberry signed the biggest contract ever given to a free agent center. The defensive back situation went from Kristian Fulton and Sean Murphy-Bunting (gross) to L’Jarius Sneed and Chidobe Awuzie (oh hey now). The wide receiver room changed from DeAndre Hopkins and thoughts and prayers to D-Hop, Calvin Ridley, and Tyler Boyd. In April, the draft started with a couple very large men becoming Titans in offensive tackle J.C. Latham and defensive the-same T’Vondre Sweat. Cornerback Jarvis Brownlee Jr. joined the fold in the later rounds as well. In the blink of an eye it was preseason time, and the Titans rattled off one, two, three wins in a row. Sure it’s the preseason and sure the ‘08 Lions also went undefeated in the preseason but still, that little confidence boost to the new coach surely can’t hurt. Going into the first game of the regular season, there was a lot to like about this team. If enough things broke right, Will Levis turned into the franchise quarterback he’d shown flashes of, and Cally carried over that offensive magic he’d had in Cincy, we could be looking at a playoff team here. Then again, if nothing gelled like people were hoping, too many of the signings ended up duds, and the team sorely missed Henry and Vrabel, it could get ugly. But as they say, these games aren’t played on paper. On September 8, 2024, the Tennessee Titans’ regular season kicked off at Soldier Field. So how’d it go?
The team’s first three games of the season inspired very little confidence. Tennessee held Boy Wonder Caleb Williams’ offense to under 150 yards Week 1, kept Aaron Rodgers in check Week 2, and faced off against Malik Willis of all quarterbacks Week 3. And yet, all three games ended in losses, thanks to poor special teams play, poor quarterback play, and unforced errors all over the place. I wish I was exaggerating when I say that Packers game was one of the most embarrassing losses in Titans history. What also didn’t help was Will Levis contributing very liberally to the meme ecosystem with at least one boneheaded play every game. Thankfully they righted the ship enough in Week 4 to beat the Dolphins on Monday Night Football, and actually scored 30 points in a game for once in a while. While the energy going into the Bye was high, the energy coming out was not enough to beat a Colts team whose starting QB and RB were on the shelf with injury. A worse loss to the Bills in Week 7 certainly did not help matters, and since the top brass saw the writing on the wall for their 1-5 team, DeAndre Hopkins and Ernest Jones IV (a linebacker brought in via trade not even two months prior) were traded away. Then came an utterly putrid 52-14 loss to Detroit in Week 8. The special teams in that game might honestly be the worst I’ve ever seen from this team. So here the Tennessee Titans were at not-quite-halfway through the season, and what had been a promising beginning had fizzled into a 1-6 record. The quarterback of the future was struggling, the coaching staff had done very little to prove their mettle, and the fans were in the lowest spirits they had been since Zach Mettenberger played for this team. Was there some way, any way, to turn this thing around?
Uh well they could win 20-17 in overtime against a really bad Patriots team. That’s progress. That progress was halted somewhat by a 27-17 loss to the Chargers the next week and a 23-13 loss to the Vikings the following week, but I mean the season was already a lost cause, so. Oh and wouldn’t you know it, after sitting for a month with a shoulder issue, Levis was actually doing better, not making nearly as many stupid mistakes and protecting the football. Calvin Ridley was heating up, Tony Pollard was contributing steadily, and things actually started to click for the offense. And have we…
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