Titans Ripped As 'Worst' NFL Team in Last 25 Years by Raiders Coach, 'A Total Mess'

Having lost five of their first six games this season after a 3-14 record in 2024 has people throughout the NFL trying to explain how far the Tennessee Titans have fallen.

Speaking to The Athletic's Michael Silver, one coach for the Las Vegas Raiders described the Titans as possibly the "worst" NFL team they have seen in more than two decades.

"That might be the worst team I've seen in the last 25 years," the coach said. "They don't have any difference-makers other than (defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons), and the whole thing was a total mess."

The Raiders coach knows from what they speak after Las Vegas defeated Tennessee 20-10 on Sunday. Neither team played well at all—there was a total of 451 yards and four turnovers between the two teams—yet the Raiders, who entered with a 1-4 record, never felt like they were in danger of losing.

Think of how bad a team has to be for anyone to consider them the worst of the last 25 years. That timeframe includes the 2008 Detroit Lions and 2017 Cleveland Browns, who are the only two teams in NFL history to go winless in a 16-game season.

There is also an argument for the 2009 St. Louis Rams, who went 1-15 with the fourth-worst point differential in NFL history, to be atop the ranking of the worst team in the past 25 years.

Some Titans players might not even dispute the assessment from the Raiders coach. Cam Ward described their play as "ass" after a 26-0 loss to the Houston Texans in Week 4.

Jeffery Simmons, who is one of the few remaining holdovers from the three-year stretch when they made the playoffs every season from 2019 to '21, told reporters after Sunday's loss that the Titans had "one of our worst weeks of practice" leading up to the game.

All of this shows just how far the Titans organization has fallen since playing in the AFC Championship Game in 2019 and being the No. 1 seed in the AFC in 2021.

The Titans did move on from Brian Callahan after losing to the Raiders, announcing on Monday they had fired the 41-year-old after a 4-19 record since the start of 2024.

While Callahan definitely didn't do anything to warrant keeping his job, the problems in Tennessee seem to extend beyond who is manning the sidelines.

The Titans have had four different general managers since the 2022 season if you include Ryan Cowden's interim stint after Jon Robinson was fired in December 2022.

In the NFLPA's annual survey that was released in February, Titans ownership received a respectable "B" grade. It was the same grade as the Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills, two of the most successful teams of this decade.

But the constant turnover in the front office at least indicates that the problems for the Titans start at the very top and have trickled down to every other area of the organization.

Making matters worse for the Titans is they will be hosting the surging New England Patriots, led by former Tennessee head coach Mike Vrabel, on Sunday looking for their first home win since Week 9 last season.