NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Titans (2-8) have a right tackle problem. It doesn't take any expert analysis to figure that out. 

Whether it has been Nicholas Petit-Frere, Leroy Watson IV, Jaelyn Duncan, John Ojukwu, or even Isaiah Prince, Tennessee has had a revolving door of suck on the right side of the offensive line.

Tennessee right tackles have allowed 11 sacks, 30 hurries, 44 pressures, and been penalized 16 times this season (per PFF). 

That one position has single-handedly derailed drives and games for the Titans this season. It's a black eye for the front office and coaching staff that had plenty of money to fix the problem in the offseason had they sufficiently self-scouted the players this new coaching staff would inherit. 

Rolling into the season with Nicholas Petit-Frere as the unchallenged starter was a really questionable decision. But so is the constant rotating of bodies that Brian Callahan and Tennessee's coaching staff has been doing this year. 

Because of the obvious issues at right tackle, the Titans have tried five different players over there in 2024. On Sunday, Callahan was using Petit-Frere and Prince interchangeably and rotating them almost every other drive. 

Continuity is such a big part of having success on the offensive line. Chemistry and momentum can only come from playing together as a starting five. We've seen it this season with the left side of the Titans' line. Things were not always pretty for JC Latham and Peter Skoronski when the year started. But being able to work off one another week over week has now produced some really consistent play from two young players.

So why are the Titans seemingly disregarding the importance of continuity when it comes to right tackle? "We go back and forth with that and what is the best thing? Ultimately, nothing's been good enough. So you keep trying to find something to be good enough that you want to build on and give continuity to," said Brian Callahan during Monday's press conference. "Thus far, it hasn't really had that happen yet. I've not been a part of something that's been so hard to settle down and find some continuity and find some consistency. We just haven't been able to get there."

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This explanation makes a lot of sense. Why would the Titans give continuity to something that is so egregiously bad? It's like the inverse of the saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"….If we know it's broken, why not try to fix it?

Tennessee's situation at right tackle is different from what we saw on the left side of the line earlier in the year. While Skoronski and Latham had some work to do and some things to clean up, the bones of a really talented duo were always there. Even at its worst, the left side was not detrimental to the Titans' offensive success in the same way that right tackle has been. 

Callahan and Co. have been hoping someone…anyone would emerge as a viable option at the position. That hasn't happened. The rotation will likely continue until a solution is found, although I doubt that will happen before the end of the 2024 season.

I have to give credit to the Titans coaching staff for trying. It's much more refreshing than the complacency we used to get from Mike Vrabel's staff – We got 17 games of Dennis Daley and no changes were made.

But I still must be critical of the big miss that Callahan, Carthon, and the entire organization had in the offseason. How could they watch this group of right tackles and think they were good enough?

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