HOUSTON — Eleven games in, the Tennessee Titans have seen and done just about everything.
One more loss and this Titans season will amount to nothing.
The Houston Texans came back from a quick 10-0 deficit Monday night at NRG Stadium to score the next 27 points and blast the Titans, 34-17. This puts the Texans — winners of eight straight — on the verge of the AFC South title, up two games on the Indianapolis Colts and three on the Titans with five to play. This means the 5-6 Titans essentially have to win their final five games to have any shot at a playoff berth, the final wild-card spot in an AFC race that’s as muddled as the NFL likes it.
It’s possible. Four of those final five games are at home, two of those against 3-8 teams including Sunday against the New York Jets and the road game against the 3-8 New York Giants. The finale at Nissan Stadium against the Colts is a game that could mean a lot.
But I doubt it. I think this season went poof on a fourth-down fullback dive to a tight end. I think we know what the Titans are now. The Titans that beat Dallas and New England to get to 5-4 have been lost in a haze of mistakes and line-of-scrimmage maulings — overmatched by this count in two games since: Division Opponents 72, Titans 27.
“I mean, those games really don’t matter, that was the past,” Titans safety Kevin Byard said of the good old days of early November. “We’re playing terrible right now.”
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