Are the Titans lost?

When an NFL team falls on any given Sunday, their loss is always thrown under the microscope and dissected down to the chromosomes.

Weather. Injuries. Bad position matchups. Penalties. Turnovers. Girlfriend breakups. The list goes on. Sometimes, these are viable factors that do contribute, but there are also games when the team and/or players just simply have a bad day.

Then, there are those battles that scream the same message that the couple yelled at Neal Page and Del Griffith in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: "You're going the wrong way! You're going to kill somebody!!"

Minus 7 yards. No, I'm not referring to the result of a RB being introduced to Ray Lewis or a fumbled snap. This is the total number of throwing yards by QB Kerry Collins last Sunday vs. the Patriots after Tennessee was dismembered 59-0.

59-0? This is not just a loss. This is not just a beating. This undivided humiliation experienced by the Titans was a glowing message to coach Jeff Fisher and his staff, the players, the city of Nashville, and owner Bud Adams -- You're going the wrong way.

When you give up 691 offensive yards to your 186 and commit 5 turnovers and no takeaways...in the snow, then you better believe it's time pull off the highway and get out your atlas. This, of course, on the heels of having already lost the first five games of the season.

After this blowout loss, the 86-year-old Adams said, "Right now, it's as bad as I've seen it, and that's a long time. I've never had a team start out like this. We had the best record in the NFL last year. I can't understand it.''

Adams knows that the Titans are off course. He knows that someone missed an exit or veered into a muddy ditch after falling asleep.Usually, those kinds of mistakes are the responsibility of the head coach.

The Titans owner supports that theory. "That is one of our problems, the coaching staff.''

It's never a good thing when a team is only five or six games into a season, and you can already smell burning flesh from the head coach's rear end. Just ask Washington and Oakland. While these teams appear to be in far worse shape from top to bottom than Tennessee, this debacle in Foxborough has revealed some major flaws in the trip plan.

Titans coach Jeff Fisher said, "What we have to do is find a way to win a ballgame.'' Yeah, that's a great idea. Yes, this glowing revelation may seem elementary, but the common fan has no idea what one win means to a team that is stuck in idle with its hazards flashing.

Fisher is an icon in Nashville. He's as solid, moral, and unwavering of a man as you'll find patrolling the sidelines, and has always had the respect and support of Adams every minute of these past fifteen years. I believe he has what it takes to get this vehicle back on track and pointed in the right direction.

But, he and his staff better come up with a plan quickly or else Adams will find someone else to drive and leave them hitchhiking.