Coaches typically bristle at the suggestion that their team gave less than full effort.
But the Tennessee Titans’ effort was an in-bounds topic for Titans interim coach Mike Mularkey following Sunday’s 30-8 loss to the New York Jets.
“There were some loafs,” Mularkey said, using a term many staffs attach to less-than-full-effort plays. “Yeah, there was, I thought, which we’ll correct. But as far as effort, I thought it picked up in the second half.”
That’s great that things got better after halftime. But when they are so bad in the first half that you trail 27-0, a hard-working second half doesn’t mean that much.