Tennessee Titans projected to fall short of over/under win total

Betting Pros recently asked 21 football experts about the site’s over/under totals for NFL teams, and those experts projected that the Tennessee Titans would fall short.

The Tennessee Titans are no strangers to negative projections in recent years, and the 2019 season is no different.

Betting Pros recently asked 21 football experts to make projections about the over/under win totals for NFL teams, which obviously included the Titans’.

Well, those experts believe that the Titans will fall short of their over/under win total of eight, with a 65 percent chance to hit the under. The consensus came in at 7.2 projected wins for Tennessee.

To compare to the rest of the AFC South, the Indianapolis Colts had the best chance to hit the over on their 9.5-win projection, with experts coming to a consensus of 10.1 wins. The Houston Texans came in second in the minds of these experts, with a consensus of 8.6 wins, just slightly above their over/under of 8.5 wins.

Even the Jacksonville Jaguars had a better consensus total, coming in at 7.6 projected wins, again just slightly higher than their over/under win total of 7.5.

So, bottom line: the expert consensus has the Titans finishing in last in the AFC South and missing the playoffs once again.

I’m not going to totally rehash why the Titans deserve more respect, other than to say that this team has finished 9-7 in each of the last three years and has been about as consistent a franchise as there has been in the NFL.

Sure, it hasn’t exactly equaled out to playoff appearances every year, but the Titans are putting a better team on the field in 2019 and it stands to reason that this team can improve its 2018 record of 9-7.

After all, the Titans were potentially one quarterback injury away from winning in Week 17 and making the playoffs instead of the Colts.

Thanks to a mostly tough schedule, tough division, and a slew of negative media narratives, people are down on the Titans this season.

But it must noted that some of these narratives have existed for years now, and whether it was the Texans on top of the division one year or the Jaguars on top in another, this division has remained fairly tough for a few years now.

And the Titans have remained about as consistent—if not more—than any of their division rivals through it all. I’d feel comfortable taking the over as a result.