It’s understandable, Titans fans, if many of you turned away at halftime — or even at the end of the third quarter — during Sunday’s 22-21 win at Arizona.
In recent years, the Titans have had all kinds of difficulty making up any kind of deficit, as evidenced by the 10-game losing streak they dragged into the desert.
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