Why the BYE Week couldn't come at a better time.

Let's just think about how the season has gone so far.

We opened with a shaky game on the road in Jacksonville, which was part lockout jitters and part Hasselbeck having to adjust to a new offense in an actual game situation. We lost because Hasselbeck didn't have his timing down, and our defense couldn't adjust to stop MJD.

The next game was the Ravens game at LP Field. After our performance in Jacksonville against a team with McCown as their starting QB, and the Ravens coming off a huge beatdown of the Steelers... the majority of us in the Titans fanbase felt like we didn't have a chance. We ended up having a perfect game and catching the Ravens being overconfident. Better redzone effiency, and that would've been a blowout.

After that, we played the Broncos at LP Field, and our team reverted back to Week 1 form (but honestly, coming off such a stellar performance against Baltimore, anything less than a perfect game would've been reverting). We killed ourselves with penalties, and our offense sputtered at times. We lost Kenny Britt for the season on an awkward play. However, we managed to come back from all of that and score what would eventually be the game-winning TD.

Then, we played the Browns in Cleveland, a team that was as shaky as we were. In this game, we came about and played at the level we saw in Baltimore. Poor McCoy kept getting fooled by our defensive schemes, with the announcers constantly commenting on his uncertainy in the pocket. And eventually, the Browns defense caved in. We blew them out.

After the Cleveland game, our team traveled out again to the land of the Steelers, who were coming off a letdown against the Texans and sitting at an unstellar 2-2 with their only wins coming against the Manningless Colts and the Bengals Seahawks. The Steelers used both their annually alloted 'practice in pads' leading up to the game against us. We were coming in at a surprising 3-1.

The Steelers did what we did to the Browns. The Steelers did what the Ravens did to them earlier in the season. They blew us out. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. Hasselbeck and the WR's weren't in sync and their confidence was quickly fading. When we started off the game driving down the field and our momentum screeched to a halt thanks to Polamalu disrupting a Nate Washington TD, it never truly got started again.

So now we sit at a still well-off 3-2. Our Titans have had two stellar games (Ravens, Browns), one "hit-and-miss performance" (Broncos), and two absolute stinkers (Jags, Steelers).

So... What exactly is the bright side to being blown out on the road and having our optimism stomped into the ground? Timing.

There really couldn't have been better timing for a loss like this. This gives Munchak and the coaching staff plenty of tape to review, and the players plenty of mistakes to learn from. Even better, this gives our team much-needed rest, and with the Raiders beating the Texans in a battle to see who could get a Heimlich Maneuver sooner, we're tied for the lead in the wide-open AFC South. The Texans are without Andre for a few weeks, and without their best defensive player for the year. And while we get to sit at home going over our mistakes and learning from them, the battered Texans get to go take on the rejuvenated Balitmore Ravens defense.

Then, we get those even more battered Texans after coming off the BYE.

Even after a blowout loss, good timing and good luck is still falling on the side of the Titans. If we lose to the Texans 2 Sundays from now, then we can really rightfully begin to panic.