Category: Titans schedule

Titans’ strength of schedule based on 3 different methods

How tough is the Titans’ 2024 schedule? We take a look using three different methods.

The Tennessee Titans’ 2024 schedule is officially know, but exactly how difficult will their slate be? For that, we take a look at strength of schedule using three different methods.

In what is the worst way to figure out strength of schedule, the Titans own the 10th-easiest schedule in the NFL based on the 2023 records of their opponents. We’re not a fan of this method because it doesn’t take into account how teams have improved or gotten worse.

The best way to calculate strength of schedule is using projected 2024 win totals from Vegas oddsmakers. There, the Titans own the sixth-most difficult schedule in the league, and the fifth-toughest slate in the AFC, according to Warren Sharp of Sharp Football Analysis.

The final way we’re measuring strength of schedule comes from Deniz Selman, who uses Super Bowl odds. With that method, the Titans own the third-toughest schedule in the NFL and AFC.

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Titans’ Jeffery Simmons not happy with 2024 schedule

Titans DL Jeffery Simmons had a few gripes with the team’s 2024 schedule.

The Tennessee Titans’ 2024 schedule was released on Wednesday night and at least one player, defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons, isn’t too thrilled with it.

Simmons’ frustration come from the fact that the Titans only have one primetime game, which can be perceived as a sign of disrespect. The only primetime game for Tennessee is a Week 4 Monday night game against the Miami Dolphins.

Simmons also voiced displeasure with the early bye in Week 5. Ideally, teams like byes later in the season to get a rest before the back end of the campaign. With a Week 5 bye, the Titans will have to play their final 13 games without a break.

On the bright side, the Titans don’t have to play any international games or Thursday night contests, both of which can create extra wear and tear for players due to travel and short rest, respectively.

Another negative with the schedule is the fact that Tennessee has a tough first half of the season, with matchups against Chicago Bears, New York Jets, Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions, all of whom are potential playoff teams.

We named seven total takeaways from the Titans’ 2024 schedule in a separate article. You can check that out right here.

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Titans’ 2024 schedule release video crushes it yet again

The Titans went back to the well with their 2024 schedule release video.

After being the talk of the 2023 schedule release, the Tennessee Titans went back to the well with their 2024 schedule reveal video.

Once again, the Titans went with the “man on the street” approach, but this time they used one of the women from the 2023 video who tried to guess opponent logos and had her quizzing people.

The script was the same: the woman went down Broadway and asked people to name the team based on their logo, and as was the case last year, the answers were hilarious.

Hey you know what they say: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Check out the full video below.

The Titans’ 2024 schedule features just one primetime game, which comes in Week 4 against the Miami Dolphins.

Tennessee will open its season on the road against Kevin Byard, Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears. The Titans’ home opener comes in Week 2 against the New York Jets, and they’ll have an early bye in Week 5.

You can check out Tennessee’s full 2024 slate right here.

How many miles will Titans travel in 2024?

A look at how many miles the Titans will travel in 2024 and where they rank among the rest of the NFL.

The amount of miles a team has to travel can often be overlooked as a factor in any given season. Granted, nobody is going to fully blame all issues on that, but a lot of travel can create extra wear and tear. With that in mind, it’s worth taking a look at how many miles the Tennessee Titans will have to travel in 2024.

Thanks to Bill Speros of Bookies.com, we know that the Titans will travel 13,311 miles in 2024, the seventh-fewest in the NFL, the fourth-fewest in the AFC and the second-fewest in the AFC South.

This is a decrease from the amount of miles the Titans traveled in 2023, when they went 17,022 miles, which was the 14th-fewest in the league.

Here’s a reminder of who the Titans are facing in 2024:

Home: Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, Cincinnati Bengals, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, New York Jets

Away: Texans, Colts, Jaguars, Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Chargers, Miami Dolphins, Washington Commanders

As we await the 2024 schedule to be officially revealed, we do know at least one game for the Titans. Interestingly enough, they will travel to Chicago to take on the Bears in Week 1, according to Jordan Schultz of Bleacher Report. Of course, that will be the debut of Caleb Williams, this year’s No. 1 overall pick.

Follow along with our tracker right here for all of the latest Titans schedule leaks.

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Bears’ Caleb Williams to make NFL debut vs. Titans, per report

Caleb Williams will reportedly make his NFL debut against the Titans.

Chicago Bears No. 1 overall pick and quarterback Caleb Williams will reportedly make his NFL debut against the Tennessee Titans in Week 1 of the 2024 season.

The news comes from Jordan Schultz of Bleacher Report. The Bears are one of the Titans’ away opponents this season, thus the game will take place at Soldier Field in Chicago.

What we don’t know yet is the date and time of the contest. There is still one primetime game that has not been announced — Sunday night — so there stands a chance it’ll be nationally televised.

As if this matchup wasn’t interesting enough, this will also be the first time the Titans face Kevin Byard since trading him to the Philadelphia Eagles last season. Byard signed with the Bears during the offseason.

The Titans own a 7-6 all-time record against the Bears and have won three of the last four meetings with the NFC North squad. They last met in 2020, when the Titans won, 24-17.

This is obviously quite a notable start to the season for the Titans, as the entire football world will have its eyes on the No. 1 overall pick. We’ll see if Will Levis can steal the show and outshine his counterpart.

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Tennessee Titans record prediction for the 2023 season

Shaun Calderon goes game-by-game and predicts the Titans’ record for the 2023 season.

As we head into the regular-season opener on Sunday, the Tennessee Titans are largely being overlooked nationally — and that isn’t exactly a surprise, either.

Even when the Titans were legitimate Super Bowl contenders from 2020-21, people were talking about them as if they weren’t even the best team in their own division.

Needless to say, when the team falls apart the way it did at the end of 2022, it’s the perfect excuse for everyone to disregard them heading into 2023.

The most ironic thing about that is the fact that many of these people ignore the streak in the middle of the season when a healthy Titans team won seven out of eight games.

Yet, they act like there’s no logical explanation for why the team lost seven straight contests to end the year, when the reality is Tennessee was without what felt like a countless amount of starters, including its starting quarterback.

Personally, I’m not one of those who just assumes something bad is going to happen solely because things went wrong to end the 2022 season. Instead, I’m making my season prediction based on the talent and potential of this 2023 Titans roster and coaching staff.

With that said, let’s dive right into how I think the Titans’ upcoming season will play out.

Titans will face Saints without Alvin Kamara in Week 1

When the Titans take on the Saints in Week 1, New Orleans will be without running back Alvin Kamara.

When the Tennessee Titans hit the road to take on the New Orleans Saints in Week 1 of the 2023 season, the Saints will be without one of their best players, running back Alvin Kamara.

According to multiple reports, Kamara has been suspended for the first three games of the season for his role in a fight outside of a nightclub in Las Vegas back in February 2022 that violated the league’s personal conduct policy.

Kamara was originally facing a felony charge for the incident but reached a plea deal back in July for a lesser charge.

The 28-year-old has become one of the best all-around backs in the NFL since entering the league as a third-round draft pick in 2017. Kamara’s absence will no doubt make the job of the Titans’ defense easier.

The Titans have faced Kamara once during his six-year career, with the lone meeting coming in Week 16 of the 2019 campaign. Kamara rushed 11 times for 80 yards and two scores and added six catches for 30 yards in a 38-28 Saints win.

Veteran Jamaal Williams, who was a beast near the goal line in 2022 with the Detroit Lions, is expected to take the reins of the ground attack in Kamara’s absence, although he’s nowhere near as dynamic as the Tennessee product.

Rookie Kendre Miller figures to also be involved.

While the Titans were putrid against the pass last year (32nd), mostly thanks to an injury-riddled secondary, Tennessee did sport the league’s best run defense, a group that was one of the better units in the last decade, also.

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Ranking the RBs on the Titans’ 2023 schedule

Shaun Calderon ranks the running backs the Titans will face in 2023, from best to worst.

Today we continue our player rankings series by taking a look at the running backs the Tennessee Titans will face in 2023.

The Running back position is a bit of a polarizing topic of conversation in recent years. Some feel like the position is largely being disrespected with how replaceable every ball carrier is made out to be, while others believe running backs actually are.

Regardless of how you feel, having a true workhorse back can open up an entire offense and make the job easier for everyone involved, especially when you have a true superstar at the position who forces defenders to account for them on every single play.

Some teams on this list definitely have that, while others take the running-back-by-committee approach.

The Titans are set to face their fair share of potent ground games, so let’s find out where each team’s running back(s) ranked on our list.

CBS Sports lists one positive, one negative from Titans’ schedule

CBS Sports picks one good thing and one bad thing about the Titans’ 2023 schedule.

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With the unveiling of the Tennessee Titans’ 2023 schedule, we wrote an article listing our biggest takeaways from it.

Included in the article was the fact that the Titans have four home games in five weeks near the end of the season, and they will close out their campaign with a total of five home games over the final seven weeks.

We also pointed out how Tennessee has a three-game stretch of road contests from Weeks 9-11, although that is the only multi-game stretch the Titans have away from home.

In an article listing one good thing and one bad thing about the Titans’ 2023 schedule, CBS Sports’ John Breech basically pointed out the same things. Here is what he had to say:

One good thing for the Titans: Starting in Week 12 (Thanksgiving weekend), the Titans get to play five of their final seven games at home, which is something that coach Mike Vrabel probably likes.

One bad thing for the Titans: One rough patch for the Titans will start in Week 9 when they have to go on the road for three straight games to face the Steelers, Buccaneers and Jaguars. 

In all, the Titans have three instances on their schedule in which they’ll play multiple home games in a row, something that occurred just once during the 2022 season.

On the flip side, Tennessee played multiple stretches of consecutive road games, something that will only happen once in 2023.

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Titans’ 2023 schedule: Experts predict Tennessee’s record

A roundup of expert predictions for the Titans’ 2023 record.

After the Tennessee Titans’ schedule was revealed on May 11, experts from different media outlets have begun making predictions for what their record will be in 2023.

In my way-too-early game-by-game predictions, I have the Titans finishing with a 7-10 mark, which is fair considering the current state of Tennessee’s roster.

When we polled the fans, they were much more optimistic.

A total of 26.3 percent who voted believe Tennessee will finish with 10 wins. The most-voted-for choices after that were 11 wins (23.24%) and 12 or more wins (16.21%). Only 5.2 percent agreed with me on seven wins.

It’s certainly not out of the question for the Titans to finish with a better record than 7-10 and even win the division, but things will have to break right with injuries and players stepping up, which may be asking a lot.

Experts are just about as pessimistic as I am. Here’s a look at what they’re projecting for the Titans’ 2023 record.