Through six games, the Tennessee Titans have been one of the most inconsistent teams in all of football.
When the team is rolling, it legitimately looks like a potential playoff team that could be capable of holding their own come January. When the Titans aren’t, they look like a team destined to pick inside the top 10 next April.
Tennessee’s defense, in particular, has been a major letdown this season, with the unit looking average, at best, for the most part.
Tennessee currently ranks outside the top 10 in points allowed per game (19.5) and yards allowed per game (339.0). While those numbers certainly aren’t horrible, advanced metrics aren’t being too kind to the unit at the moment.
According to Arjun Menon, the Titans’ defense is one of the few units that is allowing a positive EPA (expected points allowed) per play in both halves.
Defensive efficiency in 1st half (x-axis) and 2nd half (y-axis) of games this season. Jets D really turns into a monster in the 2nd half pic.twitter.com/16PJ1sgJ0g
— Arjun Menon (@arjunmenon100) October 19, 2023
This metric helps to measure how efficient the unit has been on a down-by-down basis, and the Titans have undoubtedly underwhelmed in this specific category.
This obviously isn’t going to get the job done for a team that was banking on having a high-caliber defense to put it in a position to win a lot of games this year.
With the offense severely struggling in its own right, Tennessee desperately needs its defense to get back to being a dominant unit that can suffocate the opposing offense for four quarters instead of just in spurts.
If not, it could end up being a very long second half of the 2023 season.
