Colts wide receiver drops damning observation about the Titans team before the game even started

Now, this is interesting from an inside baseball standpoint, first and foremost to me. This didn't show up on the Titans' official transcript that was sent to the media, and I can't find any immediate record of it from any other media in the Colts' locker room on social media. But Gover is a reliable source, and he wouldn't tweet this if it weren't something Pittman actually said to him. So was it an aside? Did Pittman say it to Gover alone, in passing? I'm not sure.

What I am sure of is that this is as red a flag as I've seen from this team so far. If the Colts were truly able to sniff them out like this when they were doing pre-game introductions — the part of pregame that's supposed to be the most amped up anybody in two-tone blue in the stadium gets before kickoff — is a period where the Titans look noticeably flat, that's a big fat problem. That's a competitive fire problem. It's a faith in each other problem. It's a faith in the program problem.

The First Serious Red Flag

It's the kind of fundamental fraying of the team's social fabric that you have to look for as a sign of a team truly coming undone.

Ugly losses don't really indicate a team's loss of faith in each other or their coaches. It's their gameday behavior and body language. It's their snide locker room comments that subtly poke at or point fingers at others. Those are the subtle signs of a team that has big, big problems.

Am I saying this one account from a gleeful opponent is proof-positive of the Titans falling apart in September? No. But I am saying it's precisely the kind of thing you have to bookmark mentally as the potential start to a grand undoing of the locker room. It's nothing but bad news for a Titans team that has a lot of soul-searching to do this week.