Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - THE TENNESSEE TITANS SUCK AT FOOTBALL, Cam Ward Struggles Badly & Jeffery Simmons Lone Bright Spot

Episode Date: September 28, 2025

The Tennessee Titans got smoked again by a division opponent, this time the Houston Texans. It is just another example showing that this team is the worst in the NFL and there is no hope for a victory any time soon. If this isn't enough to get Brian Callahan fired, I don't know what is. The worst part of it all is that Cam Ward looked terrible. Ward was off-target all game in a game where the offensive line wasn't as bad as what we expected. The issue is the offense didn't get any better with the play calling switch. Finally, Jeffery Simmons was a lone bright spot on the day and he absolutely dominated the Texans offensive line for most of the contest. Subscribe to the TicTacTitans Film Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@TicTacTitans TicTacTitans Merchandise: https://dixons-dream.square.site/shop/tictactitans-gear/C3AAPNWXSXA6SBYG3USV2I7R?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc Follow Tyler on Twitter @TicTacTitans Follow the show on Facebook @LockedOnTitansPod Subscribe to the Locked On Titans YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnTitans/videos  Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!5-Hour ENERGYEnough with boring, flavorless caffeine, it’s time to give your caffeine a flavor upgrade with 5-hour ENERGY®️ shots. Get the favorites you love or be bold and try something new in-store and online at https://www.5hourENERGY.com or Amazon today.PelotonLet yourself run, lift, flex, and push forward. Explore the new Peloton Cross Training Tread+ today at https://www.onepeloton.com.RugietReady to level up your confidence in the bedroom? Head to https://www.rugiet.com and use promo code LOCKEDONNFL for 15% off your first order. Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONNFL at https://monarchmoney.com/lockedonnfl for 50% off your first year. SquareTo learn more, go support your favorite neighborhood spot and see what Square has been up to in your neck of the woods. And then if you have extra time, check out https://square.com/go/lockedonnfl.PrizePicksDownload the PrizePicks app today and use code LOCKEDONNFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelRight now, new customers can bet just FIVE dollars and if your bet wins—you’ll get THREE HUNDRED dollars in bonus bets to use across the app.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

This is by far the worst Tennessee Titans football team I have ever seen. Brian Callahan must be fired. And gee, I'm tired. It's 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 Titans podcast. I am your host, Tyler Rowland.

Titans fans, what an absolute disgrace. 26 to nothing against the Houston Texans. This team absolutely sucks. Like, there is no way around it. I'm not going to class up the language. They deserve exactly how I am explaining things right now. this team sucks out loud. Like, this is the worst Tennessee Titans football.

I have been a Tennessee Titans fan for 25 years. I have covered this football team for seven seasons. This is the worst football I've ever seen. I mean, just an absolute disgrace. Brian Callahan's got to go. I don't even think that it's all entirely his fault but at this point he has left the team absolutely no choice whatsoever

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and I would imagine that a lot of you guys feel like I do right now like I am just out of energy to be mad at this team. Like, they have sucked my soul out of my body from watching this product every single week. Like, they have killed any enjoyment that I have to watch this football team. I mean, whether it be the absolute ineptitude on offense.

I mean, it's 3rd and 12, and we're running a run play from the 40 when we're down, Think right before the half again, the Titans decide to get conservative again, run, run, run, and then they miss a field goal. And look, you could say Joey Sly is broken. He sucks. All right, sure.

But I have always lived by the phrase, scared money don't make none. Scared money don't make none. And Brian Callahan coaches like a coward. He coaches like an absolute. Howard. And I would imagine that he probably is. That's probably just who he is. He is just a small, sniveling, scared guy.

Period. No way around it. Look at the way he coaches. Playing for field goals all year long. This team sucks, Brian. You can't play for field goals. You know why you play for field goals? You play for a field goal if you know that your team's going to be able to get touchdowns otherwise.

When you have a team that would have more luck growing wings and flying, like I would believe that Cam Ward could jump off a building and glide to another state. Cam Ward could have jumped out of the plane and flew himself to Houston before I would believe that this team scored touchdown. When you have an offense that's that bad, you don't defer to the second half or you don't take the ball. to start the game like you did last week. That's what you do when you have a good offense, you have confidence in.

You don't surrender on 3rd and 12 with 30 seconds left in the half for a field goal. When you have a team that's down 6 to nothing and can't score a touchdown, you got past the 50 yard line. You got to go try to score. You have enough time. But you coach scared, and scared money don't make none. But it's not just that. I don't even have like the titan,

defense is balling out in the first half. They only give up six points despite their offense doing absolutely nothing. The defense is bawling out. But at the end, the defense breaks down. And I had people saying, tweeting me, hey, Tyler,

how long before the defense starts to break down? What year is this? Is it 2022? Is it 2023? Is it 2024? Is it 2025? Oh, Titan's defense has a good first half. Titans' offense is a disgrace.

Second half, Titans' offense, still a disgrace. Titans' defense starts to break down. And look, you could say the defense was terrible, and I would tell you, Legerius Neen-Namani Hooker were terrible. That's who was terrible in this game. Legerius Neen and Amani Hooker. They were despicably bad in this game. But look at the time of possession.

Look at the time of possession, 38 minutes for the Texans to 21 minutes for the Titans. And it was even worse at halftime. The defense is going to break down. The defense is out on the field for 40 minutes of a game. Like, and Cam Ward's regressing. The offense got 0% better with Beau Hardigree. Again, I tried to say this, when it happened. I told you guys. This isn't going to change anything on offense.

You know why? Because what people don't understand is that offensive play calling is a committee. It's not like Brian Callahan is just unilaterally calling the plays. He even said it this week. This coach is responsible for third downs. This coach is responsible for the run game. This coach is responsible for the screen game.

This coach is responsible for the red zone. That's how it works in the NFL That's how it works So it's not like Because Bo Hardegrees calling plays And Brian Callahan isn't That this terrible offensive scheme is going to get better

It's the whole coaching staff This team is bad The roster is bad But it's not this bad And I know some of you can't accept that and won't accept that But the roster is not this bad They have lost by a combined 47 points to division opponents when division games are supposed to be closer than normal.

That is not just a bad roster. This Titans team is worse this year than they were last year, and the roster is better this year than it was last year. Do the math on that. It's coaching. The coaching staff is a disgrace. And with that being said, again, I don't have the anger and the fire and the brimmy stone that I've had the last couple of weeks because I'm tired boss I'm tired

all right I'm just tired this team has sucked the anger right out of me I can't even be mad anymore I'm just distraught I'm just sad I'm depressed I got nothing nothing left

anger wise I've spent all my anger that money's gone I have nothing but disgrace at this point in time that's how I feel I am just disgraced embarrassed that I love this football team, sad that we have to watch this team the rest of the year?

Because you could fire Brian Callahan, and they're going to. Like, I'm sorry, you got to. You have to. He forced your hand. Brian Callahan made you fire him. The Titans didn't want to fire Brian Callahan. They wanted to give him a fair shot. They wanted to let him work out the season. They know the roster isn't bad.

They know that there's no miracle worker on this coaching staff who's going to come in as the interim head coach and change the outcome of this season. We are stuck in this hole all year. We're not getting out. This team may not win a football game all year no matter what they do with Brian Callahan. They can fire Brian Callahan right now,

leave him and Houston in a bus stop. They can fire him right now. It's not going to mean that they're going to win games. It's not going to help it. But Brian Callahan has forced their hand. They have no choice. but to fire him tomorrow. They have to.

And if you're listening to this on Monday morning, you're a trooper, bro. Shout out to you for being a loyal, locked on Titans fan. Every day, or shout out to you, I love you. I love you. Yes, you, I love you. But like, he has to be fired.

This team is a disgrace. This is the worst football team in the NFL, and they have just gotten run rough shot. And let me say this. Texans fans are going to be mad. The Texans suck. That football team sucks. Even the Titans' offensive line

had their best game of the year. The Texans suck. And they just drubbed the Titans and pantsed them. You have to fire the coach. You have to. You have no choice. The Titans have no choice now but to fire Brian Callahan.

And honestly, more than all the crap that we've talked about all year that Brian Callahan is ruined. The biggest problem for Brian Callahan is K.M. Ward is getting worse. Do want to let you guys know that today's episode is brought to you

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because they cannot get hard, go long, and stay confident. Those are three things impossible for the Titans right now. So maybe they should use promo code locked on NFL at Ruggiat.com. But again, the biggest problem for Brian Callahan now is that Cam Ward's getting worse. By each game that passes, Cam Ward is getting a little bit worse. And look, I know how this goes for you guys. You know, the coaching sucks. The offensive line is not great.

Nobody is open. I'm going to do a film project on that this week. Nobody is open. The play calling is vanilla. People are dropping the ball. All these different things are absolutely true. All of these things are absolutely true. So, when I tell you that Cam Ward did not play well,

and that Cam Ward is getting worse. That doesn't mean that the O-line was good, the scheme is good, the play calling's good, the coaching's good, the wide receivers were good, the run game was good. No, that's all trash too. All right, you don't lose 26 to nothing because these things are good

and there was just one thing that was bad. But we have to acknowledge the reality. Cam Ward is getting worse. He's missing open guys. his passes are off target he's under duress he's making bad decisions he's creating turnovers

like that throw to Elykoio Manor that turned into the interception that was a bad throw I hope you guys can be honest with yourself that was a bad throw they showed it on the broadcast it was clear as day it was a bad throw you could say oh hit his hands he should catch it

guys come on man It was a bad throw. Mrs. Ridley early, just like last week. Last week was his worst game so far. This game got worse. And now I'm not here to tell you that Cam Ward playing poorly is his fault. See, that's the opposite.

I am here to tell you that Cam Ward didn't play well, and it's because of the just trash that's around him. How can you play well with all this stuff going on? How can you expect a rookie to play well with all this stuff going on? But at the end of the day, you want to see Cam Ward continue to get better. And he's gotten worse the last few weeks. And my point of saying that, the reason that I'm saying that is because his coaching is just so, so,

bad. Just so everything is hard. Everything is difficult. Nobody's, they run the same simple, two-man concepts every game. The outside receiver runs a short in, the slot receiver runs a deep out. The outside receiver runs a deep in. The inside receiver runs a short sit-down out route. It's the same concept. every week and teams are driving on it the Titans don't counter off of it the Titans don't throw a double move and I'm sorry but it's just so frustrating to me

how the Titans just shoot themselves in the foot you're finally running the football on that second drive Tony Pollard breaks off a 5-yard run Tony Pollard breaks off a 15-yard run you have an offensive line going against one of the best pass rushes in the entire NFL and you run a flea flicker and then all of these slow developing run

plays with the back step by Tony Pollard and then go into the they're hitting too slow so it's a simplistic offense and let me say this this is something I said over the weekend I got to thinking I've seen a bunch of analytics over the last few days just a bunch of analytics over the last couple of weeks where, you know, it's like, point scored, EPA per play, but all these different axes and the Bengals and the Titans are at the bottom. And it makes me wonder.

And a lot of people in Cincinnati already think this and a lot of you guys probably already think this, so it's probably not a hot take to say this. But is it any... Is it not a coincidence? Or maybe it is not a coincidence is what I mean. that the Cincinnati offense is incredibly simple, but they just have elite weapons on offense

with Burrow and Chase and Higgins, and it works. But the moment one of those guys leaves, the stadium falls apart, or the stadium, I'm reading comments, seeing comments. The team falls apart, the offense falls apart. The Titans don't even have that level of talent, So that's why the offense looks so bad. The Bengals scheme is terrible and simplistic and vanilla and awful,

but they have such good players that it can work. The Titan scheme is terrible, awful, and vanilla, but they don't have good players, so it's the worst in the NFL. Do you see what I mean? It's no coincidence that that's the case. Cam Ward is getting worse. But it's because the coaching is so bad. And if you're Brian Callahan, all these bad things happening,

the worst thing that could happen is for Cam Ward to look worse. Because now you're taking the golden goose who everybody believes in and you're making him look bad, which makes the organization look bad. So, again, Cam Ward looked awful today. I don't think it's because Cam Ward is bad. I think it's because the coaching staff is the worst in the NFL. They are making him look worse. Even with the bad O-line, the bad weapons, all of that.

The coaching staff is so bad, it's making everything look worse. Brian Callahan and his coaching staff is a weight on this already not good enough roster. But this Titans roster is not the worst roster in the NFL. The coaching is the worst in the NFL. so again Brian Callahan has left them no choice he must be fired absolutely must be fired

let's talk about what needs to happen going forward let's talk about Jeffrey Simmons who my God Jeffrey Simmons was absolutely incredible I do want to let you guys know that today's episode is brought to you by five hour energy caffeine just got a flavor upgrade

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And even if I miss opening kickoff, Fandul allows for live betting action as well. So, what are you waiting for? Make sure that you visit fandle.com to download the Fandle app today and get started. Titans fans let's cap off this I know it's Sunday night for some of you watching live but it's going to be a misery Monday for a lot of the podcast folks on audio listening to this again I'm your host Tyler Rowland I've been a Tennessee Titans fanatic for 25 years I break down the tape I talk all the biggest talking points on Monday through Friday daily all year round always for free I've written for Sports Illustrated USA Today you know I've covered this team

as long as I could possibly imagine that I would have. And I've never seen a football team this bad. I've never seen a coaching staff this bad. I mean, these guys are making Ken Wisenhunt and Terry Robisky look like John Madden in my opinion. Like, it is despicable what we're seeing. Cam Ward's getting worse. The games are getting worse.

They're getting further away, not closer. I wouldn't be surprised if Brian Callahan is fired tonight. when the Titans arrive back to Tennessee after this game, they'll probably fire Brian Callahan. And we've talked about it. I spent an episode on it. We'll talk about it again.

But, in my opinion, you need to go with John Bones Fossil as the interim head coach. Let Bo Hart agree continue to be the offensive coordinator. There is no good answer. Maybe you let Mike McCoy do it after this. Maybe, you know, I don't know. I don't see how that helps anything.

To me, there's only two ways that you can go now because DeNard Wilson needs to be fired whenever Brian Callahan is fired. But he's definitely not going to be the interim head coach. So it's either Bones Fossil or Mike McCoy, who used to be a head coach for the Chargers. It's one or the other. But basically,

that's the only route that you can go. and like I said when they changed a bow hard degree it's not going to fix anything this coaching staff sucks other than Bones Fossil who is a great special teams coordinator this entire coaching staff is awful they got Calvin Ridley out there

and blind people sunglasses looking like daredevil using the blind stick to try to catch the football uh Bill Callahan has blocking sleds that costs more than Dan Moore's contract

don't matter I just cannot, man, I don't know. I just cannot believe that this football team is such a disgrace. They are the worst football team in the NFL. This is the worst Titans team I've ever seen. I just did not think that this was possible. And it's crazy to me, Legerius Sneed, who's Nico Collins?

Who? Like the Snoop Dog meme. Who? Actually, Legerius. Nico Collins is the player that you should be. guarding on 2nd and 35. Oh, he actually just ran past you for a first down on 2nd and 35. Good job, Logerius. Who?

Actually, who is Ligerius Sneed? Because I said at the beginning of the season that Sneeds a ghost. And let me just say, I shouldn't care as much as I do. You guys are right. But I am so sick of these other Titans content creators taking little shots at me.

doing their little sneak-dissing. Oh, this is the tape they don't want you to see. Oh, don't listen. Legerius Sneed played well this week. And it's multiple people. I'm not singling out any one person. But all these people like to take shots at me all the time. A little sneak-d-dises.

Where's your Legerius Sneed tape now? Oh, yeah, because the analytics said Lageria Sneed played like trash. The film said Ligerius-Sneed played like trash. But you want to cherry pick a couple of plays and pretend that he didn't. And because everybody's so excited to have hopium, you're going to pretend that he played well. And then all the other Titans content creators that don't like me retweet everybody else's film like, oh, look, look, look, look.

Well, where are you at right now? Oh, looks like negative tie was right. Sneed sucks. He's played terrible all year. I try to tell people the truth. but because the truth isn't fun nobody wants to hear it and everybody pretends I'm wrong

hilarious hilarious this is the legarius need film that they don't want you to see so if you want truth and you got other people out here defending Brian Callahan you got shows out here saying

oh they're not going to fire Brian Callahan this year I think you'll get two more years You guys listen to that stuff? I'm not always right on my predictions. But as you guys know, predictions aren't why you come here. You don't come here because I can tell you the exact score of the Titans game this weekend. You come because when things go bad, I'm going to tell you the truth. I'm going to tell you exactly what is honest and what's real.

It doesn't mean that I'm right about every prediction, every draft player that I think every no you don't come here because I get my predictions right it's because I'm not going to lie to you when bad things happen I'm going to tell you the truth and that's why the Titans organization

doesn't like me either because they want everybody to do rainbows and butterflies all the time all over the place and I'm not going to do that to you guys I'm not going to get on here and purposefully lie to you and tell you oh Brian Callahan's scheme

oh the players are so bad oh the penalties That's not on the coach. Oh, the second half-time adjustments aren't real. That's not on the coach. Oh, Brian Callahan, my buddy. He's not doing such a bad job. What are we talking about?

What are we doing? I just can't take it. I just can't take it. I'm always the bad guy. But look at the team. Look at what's going on. How can you defend a head coach? How can you defend Legerius Sneed?

What are we doing? How do you trust that stuff? I don't know. I can't. But the reason that I wanted to do Titans content my whole life is because I felt like you guys deserve better. This team deserves a better class of content creator and I'm here to give it to you.

All right. Now, let me just say this because we got to finish on something positive. Jeffrey Simmons was a man possessed. Jeffrey Simmons was an absolute freak out there. Like, Simmons is by far the best player on this football team. And look, I know that the Titans could probably get pretty good draft capital from Jeffrey Simmons, but I'm sorry, there's no way that whoever they're drafting with those picks

is going to be more impactful than Jeff Simmons. It's not his fault that this team sucks. It's not his fault. Jeffrey Simmons literally did everything that a man could possibly do from his position to win that game. Jeffrey Simmons did everything. I wish that Jeffrey Simmons would grab Legerius Sneed

by the facemass and scream at him. Like, that's what he deserved. It's just insane to watch Jeffrey Simmons dominate a terrible offensive line. Dominate. And it just mean nothing. It just means nothing.

It's just hard to believe how bad this football team is. Again, my anger, my anger tank is on zero. I just, I don't have it in me to be that mad anymore. This team has just stolen my football loving soul from my body. I mean, they are, get over here. Or what is it? Shang-sung? Yeah, it's Shang Sung from Mortal Kombat that steals souls.

I did Scorpion. I don't know why. My brain isn't a tizzy. You got to give me a break on that. All my nerds out there give me a tizzy. I mean, we got people calling for Colin Kaepernick in the chat. We're down bad, folks. We are so down bad. Tough times.

All I can say is this. I love and appreciate all of you guys. I know that it's hard to be a Titans fan. I know that every Sunday is just a disaster. but we'll do this together, okay? We'll get through this together. We'll get through it together. But Brian Callahan has to be fired.

And when Brian Callahan gets fired tonight, I'm not going live. I'm not doing a whole full new show. I'm going to do a short video, a couple of minutes, tell you how I feel, because what else is there to say? He should be fired, he deserves it. What a disgrace. What an absolute disgrace this football team is.

I don't know. That's all I got to say. That's going to do it for me today, folks. As always, I am your host, Tyler Rowland. Hold your heads high. And this was Locked on Titans.