Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans RECORD PREDICTION for Rest of Season, Is a Playoff Push Possible for Will Levis & Company?

Starting point is 00:00:00 How many more games will the Tennessee Titans win, and can they make a playoff push? I'll give you my answer on today's edition of Locked on Titans. You are Locked on Titans, your daily Tennessee Titans podcast. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome to the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome to the Locked On Titans Podcast. I am your host, Tyler Roland, Titans fans. Today's edition of the Locked On Titans Podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. You can start the second half of the season with a big return on FanDuel.

Starting point is 00:00:39 New customers can place a $5 bet and get started with $150 in bonus bets. If you win that first $5 bet. Visit FanDuel.com to get started. On today's show, we're going to look at the rest of the Tennessee Titans schedule. I'm going to go through each game and tell you whether I think the Tennessee Titans will win or lose, and ultimately what their record at the end of the season will be. Also, could the Titans make a push for the playoffs?

Starting point is 00:01:06 Probably not so fast, my friends. But with that being said, before we dive in, do want to thank you for making the Locked On Titans podcast your first listen each and every day. Remember, Monday through Friday, Tennessee Titans content all year round, always for free. You're not going to beat that anywhere else. Make sure that you get subscribed. Stay subscribed.

Starting point is 00:01:25 It's your team every day. Speaking of every day, tomorrow, crossover Thursday, we're going to start our preview of this big game against the Washington Commanders. Last show of the week, I'll have my game plan preview. And if you listen to last week's game plan preview,

Starting point is 00:01:39 boy, were you ready for this matchup, including me predicting a Tennessee Titans upset. But, of course, I'll go live after the game on Sunday to break down all of the action. Again, you're not going to get this kind of content anywhere else. Speaking of great content, my Will Levis film breakdown is up on the Tic Tac Titans film channel on YouTube. The link for that is down below in the description of this podcast. Make sure that you go check out that full breakdown and some great stuff from Will Levis this week. But speaking of that great stuff from Will Levis,

Starting point is 00:02:09 is he going to be able to continue that going forward? And if he does, how many more wins will the Tennessee Titans get? Well, personally for me, looking at the rest of the schedule, I think the Titans win three more games this year, which would bring their record to 6-11. So the Titans are 3-8 right now. Got six games left. I think that they can win half of them. Now, looking at this first game against Washington, and I think it's funny, sometimes I get comments that if I change my pick from Thursday to Friday show, people get all up in arms. Well, sometimes I change my mind,

Starting point is 00:02:42 all right? And I'm allowed to do that. But right now, based on how I feel, I think the Washington Commanders do get this win. The Titans are on the road two weeks in a row. This was a big emotional win over the Houston Texans. Obviously, how important it was to Amy Adams-Strunk, the Titans owner, all the players, the coaching staff talked about how important this was. This was a monster emotional win for the Titans.

Starting point is 00:03:06 And oftentimes when you have a win like that, it sets you up to have a comeback down to earth when the emotions aren't quite as high. So to go on the road against the Houston Texans and then turn around and have to travel to Washington, D.C. and take on a commander's team who has lost three games in a row, but they are going to be hungry for a victory. They're going to go all out at home to try to get a win.

Starting point is 00:03:32 I just think that while the Titans have played improved football in recent weeks, I still think the Commanders are a good football team, and the mobility of Jaden Daniels and the explosive nature of the Washington Commanders offense, I think it's going to give Tennessee a little bit of trouble. So I think the Titans are going to lose this game against the Commanders right now. That's how I feel. But it's going to be a very, very close game, a very close game, going to be a one score

Starting point is 00:03:58 game, probably three or four points at maximum. And I think the Titans are going to score over 20 points in this game, and they're going to give themselves a good showing, and they're going to be proud of the effort that they put out on the field. But I think the commanders at home may be just a little bit too much for the Tennessee Titans, and that'll kind of end any conversations that the Titans would have about, you know, a wild card spot or anything like that, which I already think at this time is probably a little bit far-fetched. But after that, the Titans come home for two straight games. They take on the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, December the 8th.

Starting point is 00:04:32 And I think that is a win. And I think it's a decisive win for the Titans. One thing that I think really separates Brian Callahan's Tennessee Titans to me and makes me proud of this team compared to other teams that had similar records to the Tennessee Titans is that the Titans are playing hard and I think the Jaguars are a team

Starting point is 00:04:52 that's laying down and dying. They know that their coach is going to be fired. They know that there's going to be a ton of change. Trevor Lawrence is banged up. All of that I do not think that the Tennessee Titans are losing at home to the Jacksonville Jaguars. I think the Titans can win that game 27-13, 27-17, something like that. I think the Titans will get a pretty decisive win against Jacksonville in week 14.

Starting point is 00:05:15 And then week 15, the Cincinnati Bengals come into Tennessee. I think the Titans win that game. I think the Cincinnati Bengals are a better team than the Tennessee Titans. But does that always matter? I think the Texans are a better team than the Titans. But any given Sunday, baby, that's what football is all about. Listen, we just saw an emotional victory

Starting point is 00:05:41 from the Tennessee Titans. This game against the Houston Texans meant more to the Titans organization than other teams that the Titans play. The ownership cares more. The building cares more. It's a divisional matchup. Will Levis had never beaten the Houston Texans before. Will Levis hadn't got a win all year. I think there were a lot of emotional factors that made the Tennessee Titans victory over the Houston Texans mean more and give more motivation to the football team. And I think that's exactly, exactly what this Cincinnati game is going to be for the Tennessee Titans.

Starting point is 00:06:15 You have the connection between Brian Callahan and the organization. Not only that, but the Titans have had battles with the Cincinnati Bengals over the last couple of years going back to that playoff loss. And even the year before that, when the Titans went into Cincinnati and were up, and then Cincinnati came back and won. I was at that game. It was miserable. It was miserable. Let me tell you that.

Starting point is 00:06:39 The wind in that game, terrible. So between the battles that these two teams, the Bengals and the Titans have fought against each other in recent years, between the connection between Brian Callahan and Cincinnati, this is going to be one of those games where when the Tennessee Titans win against the Cincinnati Bengals, and look, I live pretty much in Bengals country. A lot of my friends are Bengals fans. A lot of the people around me in this area are Bengals fans, and I don't care. I'm saying it now. The Tennessee Titans are going to beat the Cincinnati Bengals. That is going to happen, and they're going to do it for their coach.

Starting point is 00:07:14 This week, everybody was saying, hey, we won this one for Miss Amy. This meant more to our organization, and we did it for our owner. That game, we're going to be coming out of it where Jeffrey Simmons is saying, we had to win this one for Coach Callie. Now, I had somebody say to me online earlier this week that Brian Callahan got hired by the Titans. It's not like he got fired by the Bengals. It's not like it's like a revenge game or something like that. Folks, this is professional sports. People find motivation in all of the craziest places that you could ever imagine.

Starting point is 00:07:46 Perceived slights, different things like that. And even if it's not a revenge game per se out of negative emotion, the Titans players have plenty of revenge against Cincinnati that still lingers in their mind. And at the end of the day, they are going to want to win this one for their coach. And I think the Titans will do it. So in the next three weeks, I think the Tennessee Titans go 2-1.

Starting point is 00:08:09 And I think we're thinking about this ball club in a totally different way. But how do they finish the last three games of the year? Big divisional matchups to end the season. We're going over that. And playoffs? Playoffs? I don't know about that, folks. Before we continue,

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Starting point is 00:11:26 They're going to lose the Commanders this week, beat the Jags, beat the Bengals in Week 15. Now we're going to talk about the last three weeks of the schedule with three division games to finish things out. Before I get into it, I do want to thank you again for making Locked on Titans your first listen. Make your second listen Locked on NFL. But also, I know, promo. I get it.

Starting point is 00:11:48 But you guys got to check out my Will Levis film breakdown over on the Tic Tac Titans YouTube channel. The link for that YouTube channel is down in the description of this podcast. Just click on it and watch the video. All right? I need the support. I appreciate the support. And you're going to want to see these amazing throws that Will Levis made on tape that I described on yesterday's show.

Starting point is 00:12:06 But with that being said, last three games of the year, all division games for the Titans at Indianapolis, at Jacksonville, and home against the Houston Texans. Now, if things go real crazy for the Titans, let's say they win their next three games. Let's say that happens. And then they get to play the Colts, the Jags, and the Texans in week 18. I mean, if the Titans win their next three games, now we can have a conversation. Now we can have a conversation

Starting point is 00:12:39 about things. And we'll have that conversation here in just a moment about the playoffs and what's realistic and what's not realistic. But right now, the way I see it, the Titans are going to lose this week to the Commanders, win their next two games. But then they go up against the division. And at Indianapolis in week 16, look, this sucks. And I know because I don't want to get swept by the Indianapolis Colts.

Starting point is 00:13:04 Nay, I don't want to get swept by the Indianapolis Colts. Nay, I don't want to. But I think it's going to be difficult for the Titans to beat the Colts at home in Indianapolis. I think both these teams, the Colts and the Titans, are similar level football teams. Now, the Colts have a better record than the Titans right now, but I think their last game was 20-17. Will Levis had 93 passing yards and a bum shoulder. That loss is probably on Brian Callahan. I'll be honest with you there. I think the Titans win that game if Mason Rudolph

Starting point is 00:13:31 plays, and then Will Levis probably doesn't miss the next three games in a row. You know what I mean? Definitely had an impact on the season, and Brian Callahan deserves his blame for that, in my opinion. But I think that Indianapolis is very similar to the Tennessee Titans. I think that the Titans are going to struggle with some of their middle-of-the-field options like they typically do. I think an improved Will Levis will help this game be higher scoring than 20-17, but I think the Colts find a way to pull it off at home against the Titans in Week 16.

Starting point is 00:14:02 But then after that, at Jacksonville, the Titans are sweeping the Jags this year. Now, for the folks who are real worried about the draft pick, that may not be the best thing to your ears. I get it. You're worried about the draft pick, and Jacksonville is probably going to have the number one pick in the draft. But at the end of the day, I want to sweep the Jags.

Starting point is 00:14:21 I hate the Jags. I hate their fans. Not like personally speaking, but you know, from a sports fan perspective, I think the Tennessee Titans go into Jacksonville on December 29th and week 17 and they win that game. So for me looking at it, that's a month worth of games, Jacksonville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Jacksonville where the Titans go three and one. And I think that is important for this team going forward to kind of have that momentum to ride forward to prove themselves, hey, we can play winning football on a consistent basis.

Starting point is 00:14:51 For me, that's what I'm seeing. Now, is it impossible that the Titans will go in and beat the Indianapolis Colts? No, not at all. The Titans could absolutely go into that game and beat the Indianapolis Colts. But we have to have some realism here. We have to take a step back.

Starting point is 00:15:09 I know that this win against the Houston Texans was incredibly exciting. I know it was wind in our sails. Like, you cannot deny, no matter who you are, that watching the Titans take down the Texans for all the reasons that we talked about throughout this week, was awesome man and we needed it desperately we needed some positivity we needed something to be proud of something to be excited about so I'm not trying to poo-poo the excitement that everybody has right now but the reality still is the Titans have some major major weaknesses in this roster the Titans aren't going to beat the Texans and then all of a sudden become one of the best teams in the NFL. Like, I just don't think that is a reality. So

Starting point is 00:15:50 we have to be somewhat realistic about what this team can do down the stretch. And me having them at 500, three and three down the stretch, I think that is realistic. I think expecting the Titans to run the table and things like that. You're going to talk about the possibilities of that here in just a moment, but I want to keep it somewhat realistic. So if you look at the last six games of the year, you have to have at least two losses for the Titans if you're going to be realistic. And maybe that's Washington this week,

Starting point is 00:16:21 and maybe that's Houston in Week 18. They get their revenge in Tennessee. I could absolutely see that, but you're playing three division games back-to-back, two of them on the road, and I talk about emotional wins. And one of the big reasons that I think the Titans are going to lose this week against Washington is because they got an emotional win against the Texans, and then they have to go on the road. Well, after they get an emotional win against the Cincinnati Bengals,

Starting point is 00:16:48 getting it for Coach Callahan, then to go on the road and play a tough divisional game against a Colts team that's very similar in talent, if not just a little bit better. Again, I just think that's a difficult situation for the Titans, so that's why I'm going to have them losing that game against Indianapolis. Jacksonville, though, I think the Titans are a much better team than the Jacksonville Jaguars. So I'm going to have the Tennessee Titans beating the Jaguars

Starting point is 00:17:12 and sweeping the Jaguars this year. And hilariously enough, if you remember the AFC South preview episode, that me and Tony Wiggins from Locked on Jags and Zach Hicks from Locked on Colts, I think it was Cody Davis who did the Houston Texans. Cody has now moved on. He's covering the Detroit Pistons. Shout out to Cody.

Starting point is 00:17:32 Miss you, but John Hickman and Big Sarge are doing a great job for Locked on Texans. But when we did this, I had Jacksonville finishing last in the division. I was not fooled. I did not believe in the Jacksonville Jaguars, and I still don't believe in the Jacksonville Jaguars, and I still don't believe in the Jacksonville Jaguars, and I think the Titans sweep them. So I would have the Titans losing to the Colts in week 16 on the road after an emotional win against the Bengals, winning against the Jaguars in week 17 on the road in Jacksonville, and then coming back and

Starting point is 00:18:00 the Texans getting their revenge at the end of the season. I'll have the Titans losing to the Texans in Week 18. Look, the Titans beat the Texans, but the Texans are still a good football team. I don't think they're as good as they were last year. I think the Super Bowl contenders that everybody was talking about the Houston Texans being, that's why I called them frauds after the Titans beat them because they are not Super Bowl contenders.

Starting point is 00:18:24 That's not a reality for the Houston Texans. But they're still a good football team, and they are going to want their revenge in a major way in Week 18. So for the last six games of the year, I have the Titans losing against the Commanders, winning against Jacksonville, winning against the Bengals, losing against the Colts, winning against Jacksonville again, and losing to Houston. That's 3-3

Starting point is 00:18:48 in the last six weeks of the year. The Titans go 6-11. A disappointing result from what we hoped for before the season, but I said the Titans floor was seven wins. For them to be one below that, I think that would be a great bounce back for the Titans, but

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Starting point is 00:20:18 Never waste a hunch. Make every moment more with FanDuel, an official sportsbook partner of the NFL. Titans fans, let's continue and cap off today's edition of the Locked On Titans podcast. We talked about the Titans record. I think they're going to go three and three the rest of the way, which would be a great finish to the season for the Titans, despite their tough start to the season. But this is kind of what I thought might happen. We talked before the season about the Titans getting off to a slow start with new

Starting point is 00:21:05 pieces and a new coaching staff. And then Will Levis gets hurt. And the tough part of their schedule is the middle part of their schedule where they had to play the Vikings and they had to play the Bills and they had to play the Lions. Like that's, that's a tough, think about the stretch that the Titans are in right now, man. Like think about it. Buffalo, Detroit, Chargers, Vikings, Texans, Commanders who are better than we thought they were going to man. Like, think about it. Buffalo, Detroit, Chargers, Vikings, Texans, Commanders, who are better than we thought they were going to be. Like, that's a difficult stretch. A very, very difficult stretch of games for the Titans. So, seeing them finish strong to the year would be big for the culture and for Brian Callahan going forward and the faith that this team has in themselves. So, three and three is what I am predicting the rest of the way.

Starting point is 00:21:47 Let me know what your prediction is for the Titans record in these last six games, either down in the chat on YouTube or hit me up on Twitter at TicTacTitans. Let me know what you think. But can the Titans make the playoffs? Listen, I kind of talked about it a second ago. I know that we are all very excited about the Titans win over the Houston Texans.

Starting point is 00:22:09 It was very exciting, really enjoyable, and I think the Titans are going to be a better football team in the second half of the season. So I don't think that it was entirely nonsense. I don't think it was just one lucky win, and the Titans are going to go back to being terrible again. I think the Titans have turned a little bit of a corner here and they're going to be a better football team down the

Starting point is 00:22:27 stretch. But the hole that they've dug themselves is just a little too deep in my opinion. So I don't think that it is realistic to say that the Titans could, you know, make a playoff push or be, I just think that's a step too far in terms of the optimism trail. Like, it's one thing to be optimistic. I think it's a whole nother conversation to be so optimistic that you're talking about the playoffs. Like, I don't think that, I don't think that's realistic.

Starting point is 00:22:55 But what I will do is, what I will do is I'll humor you. I will humor you. I will humor you optimists out there, you optimists. I'm much more a pessimist, if I'm honest. A realist, I would call it.

Starting point is 00:23:18 But I will humor you folks who think the Titans can make a playoff push. Look at the schedules of the Houston Texans and the Tennessee Titans. Think about it. The Titans don't even have to win out to make the playoffs. They don't even have to win out. And the Texans, the Texans don't even have to lose out. The Texans don't have to lose all their games and the Titans don't have to win all their games. What has to happen is the Texans have to only win one game going forward and the Titans can only lose one game going forward and they could still win the division. Now a wild card is completely out of the question. If you're somebody talking about wild cards, that's not happening for the Titans. The AFC is way too good for the Titans to think about a wildcard, but the division, the division. So right now the Titans are one and one in the

Starting point is 00:24:11 division. Conceivably, the Titans could, let's say the Titans lose to the Washington Commanders. Let's say that. They lose, okay? But then they beat Jacksonville. They beat Cincinnati. They beat Indianapolis. They beat Jacksonville and they beat Houston in week 18. Alright? So the Titans would go 5-1 the rest of the way. That would be 8-9 with a 5-1

Starting point is 00:24:38 division record. You look at Houston. Alright? Look at Houston. Right now they're 7-5. Okay? If Houston were to, this is their schedule. At Jacksonville,

Starting point is 00:24:52 they need to lose that game. They need to lose against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Then they play the Dolphins. And the Dolphins are playing better football than Houston right now. They could absolutely lose that game. Then they're at Kansas City. Loss. Home against the Ravens. Loss. Home against the Ravens.

Starting point is 00:25:07 Loss. Let's say let's even say the Texans beat the Dolphins at home. Let's go with that. They lose to Jacksonville. Beat the Dolphins. They lose to Kansas City. They lose to the Ravens. And then They lose to Kansas City.

Starting point is 00:25:26 They lose to the Ravens. And then they lose to the Titans in week 15. Their division record would be 3-3. Heck, they could beat the Jags. If they beat the Jaguars this week, or yeah, this weekend. If they beat the Jags and this week, or yeah, this weekend,

Starting point is 00:25:45 if they beat the Jags and then lose to the Dolphins, lose to the Chiefs, lose to the Ravens, and lose to the Titans, that means that their division record is 4-2 and the Titans' division record is 5-1. And both teams would be 8-9. Think about that. and both teams would be 8-9. Think about that.

Starting point is 00:26:10 I mean, while I think it's a tad unrealistic, it is not impossible by any stretch of the imagination. So the Texans could even win a division game. And still, the Titans could catch them for the division. Again, the wild card is out of the question, folks. But the division, I'm just saying. Now, like I've said all episode, I think that's asking a bit too much, but I will at least acknowledge for my optimists out there

Starting point is 00:26:38 that it is not impossible. It is not impossible. But with that being said, that is going to do it for today's episode. As a reminder, go watch my Will Levis film breakdown on the Tic Tac Titans YouTube channel. The link for the Tic Tac Titans YouTube channel,

Starting point is 00:26:55 my film channel, is down below in the description of this episode. If you're watching on YouTube live right now, immediately go watch the Will Levis film breakdown. It's about 24 minutes. If you're listening to the podcast, cue it up on your lunch break. Watch it when you get home.

Starting point is 00:27:10 Throw a thumbs up on the video. Throw a Titan up in the chat. Get subscribed. Stay subscribed. That's going to do it for me today, folks. As always, I am your host, Tyler Rowland. And this was Locked on tight.

Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans RECORD PREDICTION for Rest of Season, Is a Playoff Push Possible for Will Levis & Company?

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