For the first time in many years, the Tennessee Titans were a pretty good football team in 2016. They weren’t great, or even good, but they were pretty good. Pretty good was good enough for a 9-7 record that tied the AFC South champion Houston Texans, but pretty good was not good enough to win a playoff tiebreaker against the Texans.
The Titans showed many bright spots in their revival season, such as quarterback Marcus Mariota’s tremendous month of November, and the resurrection of running back DeMarco Murray’s career after a disastrous year with the Philadelphia Eagles. As many highlights as there were, however, there were also a handful of team weaknesses.