Titans are No Fluke at 10-0
Head Coach Jeff Fisher says there still taking it one game at a time
Joe Brown
Issue date: 11/19/08 Section: Sports
The Tennessee Titans are out to a surprising 10-0 start, the only unbeaten team left in the National Football League. It was around this time last year when talk arose, with the New England Patriots 10-0, about going undefeated. The only time a team has ever gone through a season undefeated was the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who posted record of 17-0. They won all 14 of their regular season games, followed by two playoff games and Super Bowl VII.
The Titans have wins over some of the top teams in the league like the Baltimore Ravens (6-4), and the 2006 Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts (6-4). On Sunday, the Titans beat the Jacksonville Jaguars for their 10th win of the season.
Is it too early to talk about going undefeated? Tennessee right guard Jake Scott thinks so. "We've got 10 wins," Scott said Monday. "That's a lot. To go undefeated we'd have to win nine more. We're just a little over halfway. You're not even in that ballpark yet."
As the Titans sat at home and watched the Patriots take on the Giants in Super Bowl XLII last year, they saw how no team will simply give up to a foe that enters the contest without a loss.
"It definitely gives you that realization no one's going to lay down for you in this league," Scott said. "You can show up at the Super Bowl 18-0, no one's going to lie down and let you win the game. You have to earn it."
The Titans are only the 11th team since 1970 to record their first 10 games as wins, and the third to do so in the past four seasons. Seven of the first 10 reached the Super Bowl while five of those seven won. Scott played for the Colts when they started 13-0 in 2005, so he knows how you can't get too excited. After losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the playoffs, he recalled how the team eased up a bit too much after clinching the AFC South and home-field advantage in the regular season.
"We let some mistakes we made in that game slide by. ... It came back and kind of bit us. That's something you kind of have to watch out for at the end of the season when you're playing Week 14, 15, 16 and 17. You've got to still make sure you're evaluating your own performance honestly and make sure you're still getting better," Scott said.
The Titans have wins over some of the top teams in the league like the Baltimore Ravens (6-4), and the 2006 Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts (6-4). On Sunday, the Titans beat the Jacksonville Jaguars for their 10th win of the season.
Is it too early to talk about going undefeated? Tennessee right guard Jake Scott thinks so. "We've got 10 wins," Scott said Monday. "That's a lot. To go undefeated we'd have to win nine more. We're just a little over halfway. You're not even in that ballpark yet."
As the Titans sat at home and watched the Patriots take on the Giants in Super Bowl XLII last year, they saw how no team will simply give up to a foe that enters the contest without a loss.
"It definitely gives you that realization no one's going to lay down for you in this league," Scott said. "You can show up at the Super Bowl 18-0, no one's going to lie down and let you win the game. You have to earn it."
The Titans are only the 11th team since 1970 to record their first 10 games as wins, and the third to do so in the past four seasons. Seven of the first 10 reached the Super Bowl while five of those seven won. Scott played for the Colts when they started 13-0 in 2005, so he knows how you can't get too excited. After losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the playoffs, he recalled how the team eased up a bit too much after clinching the AFC South and home-field advantage in the regular season.
"We let some mistakes we made in that game slide by. ... It came back and kind of bit us. That's something you kind of have to watch out for at the end of the season when you're playing Week 14, 15, 16 and 17. You've got to still make sure you're evaluating your own performance honestly and make sure you're still getting better," Scott said.
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