The Tennessee Titans came off a close loss to the Los Angeles Chargers this Sunday, 27-20, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. The Titans are currently 0-3 under interim head coach Mike McCoy, and this is the first game in which the Titans didn’t lose by more than three possessions under McCoy.

Cam Ward has looked much better recently, with 658 passing yards and two touchdowns in those three games. With just three turnovers to show in those games, Ward is slowly getting better at keeping the ball, which hopefully will not be a problem moving forward.

Now with the Titans falling to 1-8, fans expected quite a few trades ahead of the deadline to prepare for the future, whether it was through draft picks or a salary dump. However, the Titans did neither as they stayed dormant on deadline day.

Tennessee traded just three players this year: Jarvis Brownlee Jr, Roger McCreary, and Dre’mont Jones. In return, Tennessee got multiple fifth-round picks and a seventh-round pick, but they gave up a sixth- and seventh-round pick in those trades.

In the end, the Titans ended up with one extra pick than what they started with and moved these later picks up by just a few rounds. It makes you sit there and wonder what the plans are going forward and why GM Mike Borgonzi is in charge. Three defensive players gone, including the best corner, and you have nothing to show for it.

This could have been the deadline where they dropped a decent-sized contract like Arden Key, or made a big move with L’Jarius Sneed, who just seems angry that he is stuck in Tennessee and constantly hurt. The team could have traded pending free agents for value like Chig Okonkwo, doing something to make this team better in the future.

Instead, Borgonzi is holding them till the end of the year, but what's the reasoning? If he plans to re-sign either Key or Okonkwo, why have there have been no extension talks with either party? It seems like the Titans are rolling with what they've got moving forward and looking towards the draft ... where they haven’t found much success in over the last few years. The Titans only have one current player from the draft classes between 2020 and 2022, and that is Okonkwo, who could be gone at the end of the year.

The only good news is that the Titans are projected to have $118 million in cap space for next season, the second-most in the NFL. Which is why it wouldn’t hurt to dump a few more contracts and add value moving forward with this team.

Any move Borgonzi makes from here on out needs to set this team up for the future. As of right now, he’s done a whole lot of nothing this year and has a lot to prove this offseason that he can assemble a decent team and coaching staff.

If the Titans can’t find the right coach and GM for the job, then plenty of news outlets will love to report once again about the revolving door that is the Titans' front office and coaching staff. For now, Titans fans can only hope to see some improvement going forward and hopefully salvage one or two wins to build momentum for next year.