{"id":1050832,"date":"2026-11-10T08:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1050832\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T08:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:27:30","slug":"titans-five-worst-decisions-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1050832\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans&#8217; Five Worst Decisions in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From a disappointing pass rush and an expensive cornerback gamble to Cam Ward&#8217;s costly interception, five decisions that have hurt Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>By PAUL KUHARSKY<\/p>\n<p>The Titans have made plenty of mistakes on their way to another disappointing season. Some were personnel evaluations, some were coaching choices and one was a quarterback&#8217;s split-second decision.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five that have been particularly costly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto d-block\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/SalehCrouch.webp\" alt=\"Robert Saleh\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" loading=\"lazy\" data-path=\"local-images:\/SalehCrouch.webp\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nRobert Saleh \/ Angie Flatt&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Pumping up the pass rush: When the Titans put together a group around Jeffery Simmons with John Franklin-Myers, Jermaine Johnson, Jacob Marin, Keldric Faulk, Femi Oladejo, Solomon Thomas and Jordan Elliott we were told they would be tone setters who would get to the passer with four.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/megaphone.webp\" width=\"120\" height=\"78\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  Continue reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"offer-kicker\">This story is for members<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kuharsky has covered the Titans since 1996 &#8211; longer than any active beat reporter. Full access to every story, film study and podcast for $7.50\/month or $81\/year. Cancel anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a disappointing pass rush and an expensive cornerback gamble to Cam Ward&#8217;s costly interception, five decisions that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1050833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,6,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":["post-1050832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennessee-titans","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tennesseetitans","tag-titans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117591201802455302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}