The Tennessee Titans had one of the worst performances we’ve seen in quite some time in their Week 3 loss to the Cleveland Browns on Sunday afternoon.
Tennessee’s offense couldn’t even muster up 100 yards of total offense, as the offensive line was getting beaten all game long, especially in pass protection.
Buy Titans TicketsLeft tackle Andre Dillard stood out the most in the poor effort after getting torched by Browns star pass-rusher Myles Garrett all game long, who then gave Dillard pointers after the game.
Head coach Mike Vrabel didn’t mince words about his team’s Week 3 showing.
“In every phase, you can start with me and go all the way down,” he said, per Nashville Post’s John Glennon. “Whether it was coaching, whether it’s our pass rush, their pass rush, their O-line, their ability to hit some plays down the field, penalties, every category.
“It’s going to be the same thing for each one. It’s important for us to stick together. You play like that in this league, you coach like that in this league, you get your ass beat. Plain and simple.”
Keep scrolling to see what Vrabel, Dillard and the rest of the Titans had to say about their pathetic week 3 showing against the Browns, which resulted in them falling to 1-2 on the season.
HC Mike Vrabel
“(The Browns) are a good football team, give them credit,” Vrabel said, per Jim Wyatt. “They were much, much better than we were today – coaching, playing, the whole bit. We contributed to that. There were some things that we did that affected that, but they beat us today in every area.”
QB Ryan Tannehill
“It’s frustrating,” Tannehill said. “I haven’t been part of a whole lot of games here that ended like that. Not the way we wanted to go out and play on either side of the ball, and we have to be better.”
“We were in a situation where the ball had to be either in the end zone or out of bounds,” Tannehill said of the failed end-of-half drive. “It wasn’t a long-developing play we had called. [Garrett] got there pretty fast and made the play.”
LT Andre Dillard
“It’s never an easy thing,” Dillard said, per ESPN’s Turron Davenport. “You’ve got a lot of good players around the league and (the Browns have) some really good guys on there. Third-and-long they’re going to be coming and bringing the pressures and we’ve just got to do better as a unit, I’ve got to do better as an individual and sit down those pressures and those defenders.”
“I think I just need to do better with my hands and my sets and all that stuff,” Dillard explained. “I talked to [Garrett] after the game and he told me his inputs. I’m just trying to get better and so he kind of told me what he saw, what he liked about my game and what I could’ve done differently.”
“When you go through stuff like that, all you can do is just keep playing the next play and don’t let your head hang, because then it’ll just spiral and it’ll get out of control,” he said. “What you do from that is you just learn from it. You watch the film, you study it, take the constructive criticism and you just move forward, that’s all you can do.”
RB Derrick Henry
“You never want to lose like that,” Henry said. “It’s a tough loss, and we have to learn from it. We can’t go in the corner and cry about it. You have to hold each other accountable, be a team, play like a team.
“It is all about improving and getting better.”
S Kevin Byard
“We have to take these kinds of games on the chin, but at the end of the day, keep everybody together,” Byard said. “We still have all of our goals in the season, so we have to continue to move forward.
“And we have to figure out a way to win games.”
WR DeAndre Hopkins
“We’re competitors, so it’s always frustrating when you lose,” and the frustration is always at an all-time high when you lose,” Hopkins said. “We have to put this behind us and (play better).”
RT Chris Hubbard
#Titans tackle @C_Hubbard74 after Sunday’s loss. pic.twitter.com/YnLk7KKnvV
— Jim Wyatt (@jwyattsports) September 24, 2023
RG Daniel Brunskill
#Titans guard Daniel Brunskill after Sunday’s loss. pic.twitter.com/GfWt0w8AIZ
— Jim Wyatt (@jwyattsports) September 24, 2023
DL Jeffery Simmons
Jeffery Simmons on “coach better/play better.” #Titans pic.twitter.com/Jrw5dijLpK
— Paul Kuharsky (@PaulKuharskyNFL) September 24, 2023
Jeffery Simmons said the #Browns “didn’t just beat our tail.” #Titans pic.twitter.com/SW9NPpSZLm
— Paul Kuharsky (@PaulKuharskyNFL) September 24, 2023
