The Los Angeles Chargers travel to Nashville, Tennessee this week to take on the Tennessee Titans. You would be forgiven if you have not spent a lot of time and effort on the Titans this season, so I'm going to do what I can to get you up to date.

The Record

The Titans are 1-7 this season, and 0-3 at home. Their lone win came against the 2-5 Arizona Cardinals and is as much to blame on Arizona as it is to credit Tennessee:

The Titans went 3-14 last year and seem destined to somehow finish with an even worse record this year. 

The Effort

It's not as if the Titans' poor performance and record is entirely a talent problem, it's also an effort problem:

Jim Nantz isn't wrong in pointing out the "pathetic" effort on this play, but players on the 1-7 Titans team probably feel like their season is already over and aren't ready to put their body on the line to try and get in the way of the 7-1 Colts, who were fresh off demolishing the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 7.

The Coach

In 99 games as the head coach of the Titans, Mike Vrabel led the team to a respectable 54-45 record in the regular season and a decent 2-3 record in postseason play. I give him credit for both because I never thought much of the rosters he was given. Sure, a lot of those teams had Derrick Henry and A.J. Brown, but his starting QBs while leading the team were perennial backups Marcus Mariota, Ryan Tannehill and Will Levis.

Despite that, and following back-to-back losing seasons, the Titans fired Mike Vrabel and replaced him with Brian Callahan. Callahan went 4-19 in a little less than a season and a half before being replaced by an interim head coach you know and love....

Mike McCoy, he of the 27-37 record in four seasons as the head coach of the Chargers, is trying to turn around maybe the worst team in the NFL. He'll have his hands full coming up with a game plan to beat his former team in Week 9.

What's Good?

I figured I could look through all of the Titans' stats and information and find some way in which they're not absolutely terrible. Something that the Chargers coaches can yell all week long to keep the players focused on this game instead of looking beyond it.

And, well, there might not be anything. They're the worst offensive team in the league by far, ranking below-average to terrible in pretty much every single category you can find. 

They're also probably the worst defensive team in the league, only ranking high in those upside-down categories where you don't want to rank highly (ex: "most rushing touchdowns allowed").

Screw it, let's use this time to remember one of the coolest college QBs of all time, current (and future?) Titans QB Cam Ward: