{"id":296508,"date":"2025-11-17T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/296508\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T06:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:05:09","slug":"jeffery-simmons-sounds-off-on-titans-false-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/296508\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffery Simmons sounds off on Titans&#8217; false starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Titans defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons has had it. He\u2019s tired of losing, and he\u2019s tired of the offense committing the same penalty repeatedly at home.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons approached his offensive teammates on the sideline after another failed drive Sunday. He explained to the media afterward that he was challenging the offense to play better complementary football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46992676\/frustrated-simmons-titans-false-starts-need-better\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I\u2019m tired of sugarcoating it<\/a>,\u201d Simmons said postgame, via Turron Davenport of ESPN. \u201cWe need to be better, especially at home. Can\u2019t have that many f&#8212;ing false starts. There\u2019s no way we should have that many false starts at home. I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m tired of saving feelings. I\u2019m tired of losing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Titans committed five false starts in the loss to the Texans, three of which were by right tackle JC Latham. Latham blamed it partly on a cadence issue, something Cam Ward acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons said the Titans offense had four false starts in Friday\u2019s practice. <\/p>\n<p>The Titans had nine penalties total, including a 15-yard unnecessary contact penalty on Simmons on a missed field goal try by Texans kicker Matthew Wright. The Texans, though, ended up turning it over on downs.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans lost 16-13 on a last-play field goal by Wright, dropping them to 1-9 on the season. It was Simmons\u2019 first game back after missing two games with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fought all the way back from injuries just because the team and this game means so much to us,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cEverybody has to take the same approach. We\u2019re grown men and have a job to do. We need to attack every day with a better attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Titans defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons has had it. He\u2019s tired of losing, and he\u2019s tired of the offense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-296508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}