NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans are starting to show signs of improving in an ugly season.
Now if they could just stop hurting themselves by drawing far too many flags.
Only Baltimore has more penalties in the NFL than the Titans, who have been flagged 88 times for 630 yards with 213 more yards nullified. They were flagged a season-high 13 times in their 23-13 loss to Minnesota, including one that so infuriated coach Brian Callahan that he was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Callahan made clear that’s an area the Titans (2-8) must do better and called some of the penalties a matter of discipline.
“We can’t jump offside. You can’t do that. Those are things that we can control,” Callahan said Monday. “And we haven’t done a good enough job controlling the controlables, if you will. And those things have got to get cleaned up.”