NASHVILLE – Rodney Dangerfield the Tennessee Titans aren’t.
Oh, they may indeed fully embrace the late comic’s signature shtick that they aren’t getting any respect heading into Saturday night’s AFC divisional playoff matchup at top-seeded Baltimore.
As Titans veteran Jurrell Casey noted Tuesday afternoon, “We know that everybody is going to count the Titans out. That’s this year. That’s any year.”
Added second-year head coach Mike Vrabel when asked about being 8.5-point underdogs to the Ravens – though that’s actually down from a 10-point gap, according to BetMGM – “I imagine we’re the underdogs every week. You go to our (home) games and there are 20,000 of the other team’s fans there.”
But they only said those things when asked. They weren’t conversation starters. It doesn’t appear to be their motivational tool of choice.