If you want to know who to root for to improve the Titans' draft positioning, here's a quick guide.

Happy New Year, everybody.  The Titans will close out the 2010 season in their first game of 2011.  The inactives are coming out, and here they are:

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS
DB Al Afalava, RB Mike Hart, CB Kelvin Hayden, RB Javarris James, G Jacques McClendon, DT Dan Muir, LB Clint Session, G Jaimie Thomas

TENNESSEE TITANS
S Vinny Fuller, WR Justin Gage, DT Jovan Haye, S Robert Johnson, T/G Troy Kropog, TE Bo Scaife, QB Rusty Smith (#3 QB), LB David Thornton

For the Titans, Gage is a mild surprise.  I have to think he and Jovan Haye are both doubtful to return, while Scaife has no chance of returning.  With Thornton inactive again, he finishes a 0-game season.  I haven't seen word of any lineup changes, but I'm hoping for lots of Damian Williams at wideout.

Feel free to leave your comments here during today's game or follow me on Twitter, where I'll be chiming in from time to time. 

The Tennessee Titans (6-9) will cap off their disappointing 2010 campaign in tomorrow's season-finale against the Indianapolis Colts (9-6).

With losses in seven of their last eight games, the Titans have nothing to play for besides pride and perhaps Head Coach Jeff Fisher's job status in 2011. Meanwhile, the Colts will be in search of yet another AFC South Division crown with either a win tomorrow or a Jaguar defeat to the Texans.

Up next...a preview and a prediction for Sunday's Titans/Colts matchup.

As he did before the previous Titans-Colts game just three weeks ago, Nate Dunlevy of the great Colts blog 18 to 88 was kind enough to do a Q&A this week.  You can also follow Nate on twitter, and read my responses to his questions over at 18 to 88 here.

Total Titans: Was playing the Titans the cure for what ailed Peyton Manning, or is he still making uncharacteristic mistakes for no apparent reason?

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Sometimes you hear about a team that is just one player away from breaking through. Or a team that is missing just one piece of the puzzle. It would be nice if that was the case with the Titans, but it's not.

They're missing six pieces of the puzzle. Actually, more than that, but I think improving six positions is the most that can be realistically expected during the upcoming offseason. And this doesn't include an upgrade at the coaching position. This article focuses only on players.

These are the positions I'd like to see upgraded for next year, the six missing pieces. These aren't necessarily listed by priority. I've listed these starting with the offense, then moving across the line and finally ending up in the secondary. We'll take a look at these six positions after the jump.

It's been a season full of surprises for the Tennessee Titans. Unfortunately, the majority of the unexpected events have been of the negative variety, such as the team's promising 5-2 start being destroyed by losses in 7 of their last 8 games.

Two of the positive surprises for the team has been the performance of two unlikely candidates to have big seasons in 2010: 7th round draft pick Marc Mariani and journeyman DE Jason Babin. Due to their stellar efforts on the gridiron, both Mariani and Babin were the only two Tennessee Titans named to the Pro Bowl earlier this week.

Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz has his team going in the right direction while Jeff Fisher has the Titans going the wrong way.