The Tennessee Titans’ best player, Jeffery Simmons, was blunt about the team’s latest depressing loss, a 20-10 shellacking at the hands of the Las Vegas Raiders, which came on the heels of their first victory last week.
“Today was bad football,” Simmons said on Sunday, via The Tennessean. “We didn’t play good today at all.”
The Titans had unforced errors on offense, with rookie Cam Ward turning it over three times, and the defense couldn’t come up with pivotal stops.
The dismal performance on the road wasn’t a surprise to Simmons, who said poor practices foreshadowed the loss.
“In this league, you have to learn how to be able to stack wins and carry that momentum over,” he said. “It started at practice. Just being honest, this was probably one of our worst weeks of practice. We came out flat Thursday. Sometimes things carry over.”
Added Simmons: “When you get in this league, you have to prove it every week and re-prove it. You’ve got to go out there and keep proving yourself that you can win in this league. We didn’t do that in all three phases.”
Simmons’ brutally honest quote doesn’t reflect well on an already embattled second-year coach, Brian Callahan, whose comment that he “felt good coming into the game” contradicts the player’s assessment of the practice concerns.
