Thomas Davis just kept shaking his head.
Back and forth. No, no, no.
It was a polite correction to a (admittedly poorly-phrased) question I asked him in the locker room following a 34-27 preseason loss to Tennessee on Saturday afternoon: You guys executed at times on defense and ...
No, no, no.
“No, we didn’t execute. We didn’t do our job, in particular the first team defense. We hold ourselves to a higher standard than the way we played today,” he said.
A particularly egregious and momentum-shifting defensive lapse came in the first quarter, with the Titans in the red zone.