HOUSTON \u2013 The Titans had a problem in Houston.<\/p>\n
While the defense tried to keep the team in it, the offense couldn’t get anything going.<\/p>\n
And, in the end, the defense eventually gave way, too, in an ugly 26-0 loss to the Texans.<\/p>\n
With the loss, the Titans dropped to 0-4 on the season.<\/p>\n
Quarterback Cam Ward completed just 10 of 26 passes for 108 yards in the contest, with an interception.<\/p>\n
Throughout the game, the Titans couldn’t make it interesting because the offense couldn’t sustain drives, or get close to the end zone. The Titans managed just 10 first downs in the game.<\/p>\n
A pair of missed field goals by Titans kicker Joey Slye in the first half didn’t help.<\/p>\n
This on a day when Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud completed 22-of-28 passes for 233 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n
It all added up to another frustrating, and lopsided loss.<\/p>\n
It marked the first time the Titans had been shut out since a 16-0 loss to the Broncos during the 2019 season.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the Titans fell behind 3-0 in the first quarter on a Ka’imi Fairbairn field goal, which followed a 41-yard miss by kicker Joey Slye.<\/p>\n
Another Fairbairn field goal, this one from 43 yards, made it 6-0 Texans with 13:28 in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
The Titans got into position for a field goal at the end of the first half, but Slye was off target on his 43-yard attempt on the final play of the first half and the Texans led 6-0 at the break.<\/p>\n
The Titans defense forced the Texans to try another field goal on their first possession of the second half, and this one sailed wide right to keep the score 6-0.<\/p>\n
The Titans had chances, but they couldn’t do anything with them.<\/p>\n
The Texans then stretched the lead to 12-0 on a 12-yard touchdown pass from quarterback C.J. Stroud to running back Woody Marks with 14:55 left in the contest.<\/p>\n
Ward was intercepted in the fourth quarter as the Titans tried to rally, and the Texans cashed that in for another touchdown \u2013 a 24-yard pass from Stroud to Jayden Higgins.<\/p>\n
The Texans then made it 26-0 on an 18-yard run by Marks.<\/p>\n
The Titans return to action next Sunday at the Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 The Titans had a problem in Houston. While the defense tried to keep the team in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[69740,7,17420,786,6,1018,526,394,68068,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-404436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-2025-09-28-postgame-stories-titans-at-texans","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-game-recap","11":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-team-football-news","14":"tag-tennessee","15":"tag-tennessee-titans","16":"tag-tennessee-titans-at-houston-texans-2025-reg-4","17":"tag-tennesseetitans","18":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115283727794213658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404436","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=404436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}