Tennessee rookie QB Cam Ward gets surprisingly candid about state of Titans: 'We ass'

Cam Ward isn’t used to losing. On Sunday, the Tennessee Titans fell to 0-4 on the season after suffering a 26-0 loss to the Houston Texans. After the game, the rookie quarterback didn’t bite his tongue when asked where the Titans can make improvements.

“Everything. From interception to a penalty to an incompletion by me — a bad ball — and then once you past the 50, we just not continuing to drive. So, I mean, we keeping it a buck right now, we ass,” Ward said. “We 0-4. At this point, we’ve got nothing to lose. We’ve dropped a quarter of our f***ing games, and we’re yet to do anything.

“We have to lock in, especially myself. From the offensive line, from the defensive line, from the special teams, to all three phases — we have to play together. We have not played together this year yet, and that’s just something that, we want to preach about it every day, everyday, ‘We gotta do better.’ And we’re doing that, but it has to show up on Sundays. It hasn’t showed up yet, but it’s gotta show up next week.”

In the loss, Cam Ward completed just 10-of-his-26 pass attempts for 108 yards and no touchdowns, while throwing one interception. The Texans sacked Ward twice.

Ward’s performance on Sunday was only his latest lackluster outing. Through four games, Ward has only completed 54.5% of his pass attempts for 506 yards and two touchdowns, compared to one interception.

In fairness, Ward is constantly under pressure. He’s been sacked 17 times already this season. The Titans’ struggles are nothing new.

Last season, Tennessee posted a 3-14 record with quarterbacks Will Levis and Mason Rudolph exchanging snaps. Ahead of the Titans’ game against Houston on Sunday, Tennessee head coach Brian Callahan revealed how he handles critics calling for his job.

“I never want any of it to ever be about me,” Callahan said. “It’s not how I want it to be. It’s not how it should be. I don’t want it be about good or bad. It’s always supposed to be about our players and what they’re doing and what they’re well and what we got to be better at.

“But yeah, the conversation about me is not one that I want to continue. It’s just the reality of where we’re at being 0-3 and everything is every single thing gets magnified. Some things haven’t worked out for us in those spots and they opened up to criticism and that’s the way it goes in the NFL.”

Unfortunately for Callahan, conversations around his job security will only pick up in intensity after the Titans’ loss on Sunday. Cam Ward and Tennessee will look to bounce back next week against the Arizona Cardinals.