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When Will Levis threw a pick-six in the Titans’ Week 3 loss to the Green Bay Packers, continuing his propensity for turnovers to start the season, Brian Callahan wasn’t angry. Not like we saw during his outburst on the sideline after Levis’ unbelievable lost fumble in scoring position against the New York Jets, when cameras caught the rookie head coach yelling, “What the f— are you doing?” Or after Levis’ reckless, nail-in-the-coffin pick-six in the season opener against the Chicago Bears.
In Week 3, Callahan looked at Jaire Alexander’s 35-yard interception return as just a nice play made by an All-Pro-caliber cornerback. Alexander jumped the route perfectly after sitting on it, Callahan explained. He saw nothing wrong timing-wise between Levis and the intended receiver, DeAndre Hopkins.
“That wasn’t a stupid mistake at all,” Callahan said postgame.
“Will did some really good things in this game, I thought.”
Callahan’s perspective coming out of Week 3 should serve as a reminder of what should be the Titans’ overarching goal for this season: figuring out if Levis is the guy or not. That means riding with him for the full season, bumps and all, continuing Monday night against the Miami Dolphins.
The giveaways are impossible to ignore, of course. The disastrous ones are seared into the brains of Titans fans. Levis leads the NFL with eight turnovers, including five interceptions (tied for second-most) and three lost fumbles (tied for the NFL-high). He’s had multiple giveaways in each of Tennessee’s games to this point, including three in both Weeks 1 and 3.
That’s why, just three games into Levis’ second season, some league observers are already questioning his viability to be the Titans’ long-term quarterback.
“We gotta get it fixed,” Callahan said of the turnovers. “Whatever that looks like. However that looks, it doesn’t really matter. We can’t lead the league in turnovers at the quarterback position and expect to win a lot of games, so that part…
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