The 2000 Tennessee Titans season was the franchiseâÂÂs 41st season and their 31st in the National Football League (NFL). It was the teamâÂÂs second as the âÂÂTitans.â The team entered the season as the defending AFC Champions, having narrowly lost Super Bowl XXXIV to the St. Louis Rams.
TennesseeâÂÂs 13âÂÂ3 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 Titansâ first playoff game, however, they were upset by their pre-realignment division rivals, fourth-seeded Baltimore Ravens, who would go on to win the Super Bowl.
The 2000 Titans are best remembered for their elite defensive squad, which allowed a mere 191 points during the regular season, the third-lowest of any team in the 16-game season era from 1978 to 2021, after only the 1986 Chicago Bears, and the 2000 Baltimore Ravens, the team that Tennessee would fall to in the divisional round of the playoffs.
The 2006 edition of Pro Football Prospectus, listed the 2000 Titans as one of their âÂÂHeartbreak SeasonsâÂÂ, in which teams âÂÂdominated the entire regular season only to falter in the playoffs, unable to close the deal.âÂÂ
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The Titans defeated the Eagles for the first time in franchise history, as they were 0-6 against the team when they were the Houston Oilers. Houston's current NFL team is 0-6 against the Eagles as of 2024.
Despite having only 134 yards of total offense, six first downs, and two punts blocked by Chris Coleman, the Ravens broke a 10âÂÂ10 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.