That the Titans fell 20-12 to Denver in the teams’ season opener was hardly a surprise.

The host Broncos, after all, were 10-7 last year, advanced to the playoffs and entered Week 1 as the biggest favorite (-8.5 points) in the league.

The Titans, as we well know, were 3-14 and finished in the NFL basement in 2024.

Still, the way the Titans lost to the Broncos on Sunday — plagued by the very same self-inflicted negatives that coach Brian Callahan spent all offseason trying to eliminate — had to leave a sour taste in the mouths of Tennessee players.

On a day the Titans posted four takeaways — and turned the Broncos over on downs twice — Tennessee (0-1) was done in by its own mistakes.

The Titans were penalized 13 times for 131 yards, more penalty yardage than the team had suffered in an

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