Obviously a lot has been made of the Titans opening the season with an onside kick yesterday. According to this post from the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, surprise onside kicks are successful 60% of the time. Those are pretty good odds, especially when you consider how big of a surprise this one was to everyone.
The surprise didn’t work, as you are aware. That led to this exchange between Mike Mularkey and Paul Kuharksy after the game about why the Titans weren’t able to recover the kick:
For the record, I like that Mularkey said he didn’t second guess the decision.