The Tennessee Titans came up short again in Week 2, dropping a 24-20 home game to the Philadelphia Eagles and missing out on their first win of the 2026 NFL season. It was a better showing than the team’s abysmal Week 2 performance against the New York Jets, but it still ended the same way: with Robert Saleh’s team leaving the field without a victory after Jalen Hurts found Darius Cooper for the go-ahead touchdown in the waning seconds.
Saleh didn’t try to dress up the result after the game. The Titans head coach made it clear that the loss carried no silver lining, even if Tennessee showed more fight against Nick Sirianni’s group.
"There's no moral victories," Saleh said. "There's going to be things that we've got to improve on.
Like I told our team, we're going to be sick when we watch this tape, because we should be 1-1 right now. But we're not, and that's credit to Philly.
They executed. It sucks."
He doubled down on that point when asked about the nature of the defeat. To Saleh, the scoreboard tells the whole story, whether a game slips away in the opening quarter or the final seconds.
"Whether you lose by 100 or in the last second, it doesn't matter; they all suck."
That final drive made the loss sting even more for Tennessee, which had put itself in position to leave with a win before the Eagles closed it out late. Saleh said the film session afterward would be painful because of what the Titans let get away.
"We're going to be sick when we watch this game," Saleh said after the loss.
When asked what message he delivered to his team, Saleh pointed to execution as the difference in the game. He said Tennessee did some things well, but the crucial moments went Philly’s way.
"We outplayed them, but lost the few key moments where execution reigned supreme," Saleh added.
The Titans now head to MetLife Stadium in Week 3 to face the New York Giants. For a new-look team still trying to settle in, the message from Sunday was blunt: the progress was real, but it wasn’t enough to change the result.
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