What a wild run the Tennessee Titans took us on

The Tennessee Titans’ wild season has officially come to an end in Kansas City after losing in the AFC Championship 35-24 to the Chiefs.

If you would have told me that the Tennessee Titans would be in the AFC Championship when they were 2-4, I would have laughed in your face for days.

It turns out, that’s exactly where the Titans went after beating two great teams in the playoffs. All it took was Ryan Tannehill and a little momentum.

The Titans finished 7-3 with a final record of 9-7, and that includes a regular-season win against the AFC Champion Kansas City Chiefs.

After sneaking into the playoffs, the Titans went to Foxborough and took down Tom Brady and the Patriots in the Wild Card Round. Derrick Henry made a statement in the Titans’ first game of 2020 with 182 rushing yards and led the Titans to a 20-13 win.

Up next, the Titans traveled to Baltimore to take on the top-ranked 14-2 Baltimore Ravens. No chance the Titans escaped Baltimore with a win over Lamar Jackson and the Ravens.

Well, Henry carried the offense again and rushed for 195 yards and led the Titans to a 28-12 win in the Divisional Round.

That win sent the Titans to Kansas City for the AFC Championship. As expected, Arrowhead was loud, and the Chiefs came to play.

The Chiefs defense held Henry under 100 rushing yards for the first time since Week 16. Henry only had 69 rushing yards in the game and did not get one rushing yard in the fourth quarter.

All of a sudden, the main source of production in the Titans offense was invisible. That forced Tannehill to step up and produce, which I said all week could very well be the case.

Tannehill did show up, but it wasn’t enough. 20-for-28 passing with 200 yards and two touchdowns. Patrick Mahomes outplayed Tannehill for most of the game, and that’s why the Titans couldn’t outscore the Chiefs.

The season may be over, but there’s still a lot to be proud of. The Titans defied all odds and beat “The Dynasty” and then the number one seed in back-to-back weeks to get to the AFC Championship, somewhere no one thought they’d get.

Tannehill proved he may still have some juice left in the Titans’ run to the playoffs, Henry showed MVP potential in the last month of the season, and the defense shut down the greatest quarterback of all-time and this year’s MVP.

The defense dominated those two games. Two great offenses were shut down and only allowed one touchdown in each of those games.

In the AFC Championship, the Titans were trailing by 18 late in the fourth quarter but never gave up. They brought the lead to 11 but were unable to score again to bring the deficit to one score.

To say this season was a failure because the Titans didn’t make the Super Bowl is a dumb take. This season was a crazy, wild ride, and the Titans took us places we didn’t think we could get.

I’m proud of what these boys did this year. It looked like the Titans could get a top-five pick in the draft, and then a few months later, the Titans are in the AFC Championship.

Enjoy what the Titans did this year, but don’t forget what this team is capable of. A little help here and some improvement there and the Titans are back in the AFC Championship next year, and maybe the Super Bowl.

The boys fought their butts off. They earned the respect of a lot of people outside of Tennessee and proved they could be contenders this decade.