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Tennessee Titans: Winners and losers from Week 15 loss to Texans

By Benjamin Mott

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - DECEMBER 15: Head coach Mike Vrabel of the Tennessee Titans signals during the second half of a game against the Houston Texans at Nissan Stadium on December 15, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - DECEMBER 15: Head coach Mike Vrabel of the Tennessee Titans signals during the second half of a game against the Houston Texans at Nissan Stadium on December 15, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images) /
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NASHVILLE, TN – DECEMBER 15: DeAnde Hopkins #10 of the Houston Texans runs the ball in the second half and is chased by Tramaine Brock Sr. #35 of the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium on December 15, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Texans defeated the Titans 24-21. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN – DECEMBER 15: DeAnde Hopkins #10 of the Houston Texans runs the ball in the second half and is chased by Tramaine Brock Sr. #35 of the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium on December 15, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Texans defeated the Titans 24-21. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images) /

Loser(s) No. 4: The Secondary

There’s really just not many positive things that you can say about the Titans’ secondary in this game. They played awful for the most part.

Granted, the Texans have one of the best passing games in the league, and the Titans are still missing Adoree’ Jackson due to his foot issue, but the secondary gave the team no chance to win, consistently allowing Deshaun Watson to find the likes of DeAndre Hopkins and Kenny Stills to go over the top for big plays.

Stills had two touchdown receptions over the top of defenders one-on-one, and at a certain point, they stopped double-teaming Hopkins, which led to him burning the Titans in the second half. That led to the go-ahead touchdown, and later a field goal to put the game away.

The Titans did come up with two interceptions, one being by Kenny Vaccaro on the opening drive of the game where he completely baited Watson into throwing to a seemingly wide open receiver. The other was by linebacker Jayon Brown off of a tip by Jeffery Simmons, so the secondary played no role in that.

With the Saints marching into Nashville next week, the Titans need Jackson to be healthy, and overall, they need to play much better than they did on Sunday.

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