The Titans showed some spunk early.
At the end of an eventful week, the team scored on its first two possessions and put points on the scoreboard three of the first four times it had the football.
But the offensive success eventually dried up under interim head coach Mike McCoy on a day when the defense had all kinds of trouble stopping the Patriots.
The end result: A 31-13 loss to the Patriots, which dropped Tennessee's record to 1-6 on the season.
"We got off to a fast start, exactly what we wanted to do as a football team," McCoy said.
"It's disappointing the way the game went after the end of the first half...Offensively, we can't get shut out in the second half and do what we did...But we're going to stick together here, we're going to fight our tails off, and find a way to go wi