2000 Tennessee Titans season


The 2000 Tennessee Titans season was the franchise’s 41st season and their 31st in the National Football League. It was the team’s second being known as the “Titans.” The team entered the season as the defending AFC Champions, having narrowly lost Super Bowl XXXIV to the St. Louis Rams.
Tennessee’s 13–3 record was the best in the NFL in 2000, and earned the Titans a first-round bye and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. In the Titans’ first playoff game, however, they were upset by their division rivals, fourth-seeded Baltimore Ravens, who would go on to win the Super Bowl.
The 2006 edition of Pro Football Prospectus, listed the 2000 Titans as one of their “Heartbreak Seasons”, in which teams “dominated the entire regular season only to falter in the playoffs, unable to close the deal.”
Said Pro Football Prospectus of the 2000 Titans,
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Offseason

NFL Draft

Round PlayerPositionCollege
1 Keith BulluckLinebackerSyracuse
3 Erron KinneyTight EndFlorida
3 Byron FrischDefensive EndBYU
4 Bobby MyersSafetyWisconsin
4 Peter SirmonLinebackerOregon
5 Aric MorrisSafetyMichigan State
5 Frank ChamberlinLinebackerBoston College
6 Robaire SmithDefensive EndMichigan State
7 Mike GreenRunning BackHouston
7 Wes ShiversGuardMississippi State

Personnel

Staff

Roster

Schedule

Preseason

Regular season

Standings

Playoffs

AFC Divisional Playoff

Despite having only 134 yards of total offense, six first downs, and two punts blocked by Chris Coleman, the Ravens broke a 10–10 tie in the fourth quarter with Anthony Mitchell's 90-yard touchdown return of a blocked Al Del Greco field goal and then added seven more with a 50-yard interception return by Ray Lewis.

Awards and records