| Team: | Tennessee Titans |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Record: | 13–3 |
| Division Place: | 1st AFC Central |
| Coach: | Jeff Fisher |
| General Manager: | Floyd Reese |
| Owner: | Bud Adams |
| Stadium: | Adelphia Coliseum |
| Pro Bowlers: | 7 |
| Playoffs: | Lost Divisional Playoffs (vs. Ravens) 10–24 |
| Pro Bowlers: | RB Eddie George T Brad Hopkins LG Bruce Matthews TE Frank Wycheck DE Jevon Kearse CB Samari Rolle S Blaine Bishop KR Derrick Mason[1] |
| Shortnavlink: | Titans seasons |
The 2000 Tennessee Titans season was the franchise’s 41st season and their 31st in the National Football League (NFL). It was the team’s second 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 pre-realignment division rivals, fourth-seeded Baltimore Ravens, who would go on to win the Super Bowl.
The 2006 edition of Pro Football Prospectus,[2] 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,
Pro Football Prospectus continued
| Additions | Subtractions | |
|---|---|---|
| WR Carl Pickens (Bengals) | T Jon Runyan (Eagles) | |
| LB Randall Godfrey (Cowboys) | LB Doug Colman (Browns) | |
| T Fred Miller (Rams) | LB Barron Wortham (Cowboys) | |
| LB Joe Bowden (Cowboys) | ||
| TE Jackie Harris (Cowboys) | ||
| S Anthony Dorsett (Raiders) |
See main article: article and 2000 NFL draft.
| Demario Brown | Running back | Utah State | |
| Kareem Clark | Cornerback | Arizona State | |
| Chris Coleman | Wide receiver | NC State | |
| Wade Davis | Cornerback | Weber State |
| Week | Date | Opponent | Result | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W 14–10 | 1–0 | |||
| 2 | W 30–3 | 2–0 | |||
| 3 | L 32–34 | 2–1 | |||
| 4 | W 34–28 | 3–1 |
See main article: article and 2000-01 NFL playoffs. 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.