When the Tennessee Titans left for their two-game, west coast road trip, they were 8-4 and AFC South division leaders. Now that they have returned to Nashville, they are 8-6, trail the Jacksonville Jaguars by two games in the division and are clinging to the fifth seed in the AFC by tiebreakers.
It all went wrong in a different time zone, and the Titans have no one to blame but themselves; except for, of course, their own coaching staff. Following a loss against a sub-.500 team starting Blaine Gabbert at quarterback, the Titans needed to come away with a win in San Francisco to keep pace in the AFC playoff race.