Remember the Titans?

BLAME GAME: Titans coach Jeff Fisher now has to deal with the inevitable frustration after an 0-2 start. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

It’s amazing what a difference a year can make in the NFL.

The Dolphins shocked the league last year by going 11–5 and making the playoffs as the AFC East champion just a season removed from a 1–15 campaign.

But as quickly as a team’s stock can rise in one season, it can also fall.

Just ask the Tennessee Titans.

After surprising their league in their own right by opening last season 10–0, the Titans finished the season at 13–3, winner of the AFC South, and the No. 1 seed in the AFC.

Getting bounced in their first playoff game was a tough pill to swallow for a team that had Super Bowl aspirations.

As the team looked to build off last season, they couldn’t have chosen a worse way to begin the season.

Tennessee is 0–2 and history says they only have a 13.7 percent chance of making the playoffs.

With the poor start, the blame game has started as players claimed coaches didn’t make the proper adjustments. But Head Coach Jeff Fisher did his best to nip it in the bud.

“When you’re a good football team and you start off a season 0–2, there’s going to be frustration and the only way you get out of it is avoid pointing fingers at anybody.

Everybody accepts the blame and you move on,” Fisher said after Sunday’s loss to the Houston Texans.

Fisher went on to say that adjustments were made, and players need to do a better job paying attention to what’s said on the sideline.

But Fisher anticipated his team’s frustration with the poor start.

“I would expect frustration from them and its okay to be frustrated. But you have to come to terms with it,” Fisher said. “You have to deal with it and move on.”

And the Titans will have to move on to the Meadowlands to face a Jets team that feels they can beat anyone in the league.

Tennessee is also playing against the same Rex Ryan defensive scheme that handed them that early exit in the playoffs last season. And the Jets have yet to allow an offensive touchdown this season while playing teams with much more prolific offenses than the one the Titans boast.

Tennessee will have to do a better job of sticking to its mantra of running the football and grinding out football games while playing good defense.

And that’s exactly what they plan to do.

“We’re an offense built on the running game. Our M.O. is to grind it out,” All-Pro center Kevin Mawae said.

“Take advantage of what they give us up front and push guys around and make yards on the ground. I don’t think that’s going to change because that has been Jeff’s [Fisher] M.O. since he’s been a head coach in this league.”

Running backs Chris Johnson and LenDale White need to be the architects of a Titans victory, as QB Kerry Collins works off play-action and manages the game. The defense needs to rattle Jets rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez.

While they face the possibility of going 0–3, the Titans aren’t in alarmed just yet.

“Nobody’s panicking,” Mawae said. “We know we have to go to work.”