The Titans are in disarray after an embarrassing 59-0 loss at New England on Sunday. In the aftermath, club owner Bud Adams said that while he would not fire head coach Jeff Fisher or his staff during the season, he would consider making a coaching change at the end of the campaign if Tennessee, now 0-6, continues to struggle mightily.

"If we end up losing every game or don't look better, I'd have to look at that pretty hard, you know what I mean?'' Adams told The (Nashville) Tennessean on Sunday. "The way it is going, I don't know if we'll win any games, and that is unheard of in the National Football League. Right now, it's as bad as I've seen it, and that's a long time. I've never had a team start out like this. We had the best record in the NFL last year. I can't understand it."

Adams also told the paper that the coaching staff "is one of our problems," but he also noted that he wasn't going to ask Fisher to make staff changes during the season.

After the game, Fisher would not talk about the prospect of changing quarterbacks after the Week Seven bye, but Adams told the Tennessean he'd like to see Vince Young play instead of Kerry Collins, who has started the first six games.

"I have been wanting him to play Vince Young more because Collins has been having his problems out there,'' Adams told the paper. "I just think we need to find out how well (Young) can do. If you don't play the guy and lose all your games, it is hard for you to see what he can do if he is not playing. Vince has won a lot of games for us. But Jeff is the one making those decisions; they are playing for him.''

Fisher is in his 15th season as the Titans' head coach. He has led the Titans to a 128-108 regular-season record.

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You know a season is going down the tubes when the goals become smaller and smaller and the list of people whose jobs are suddenly on the line gets longer and longer. Such is the case with the Titans, who are just trying to win a game.

"You know, things have turned for the worst awfully quick for this franchise and it's my job to get it straightened out," Fisher said after the loss to New England. "And that's what I'm going to do and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

The question, in light of Adams' comments, is whether he'll have beyond the final 10 games of this season to try and get the Titans back on track. At the very least, short of a significant form reversal, Fisher, presuming he keeps his job after the season, could have to make some tough coaching staff decisions, with first-year defensive coordinator Chuck Cecil looking more and more vulnerable. The Titans are 31st in total defense after six games, and they are getting worse, not better, on that side of the ball. Injuries to CBs Cortland Finnegan and Nick Harper have left the secondary decimated, but the Patriots' ease throwing the ball in snowy, windy conditions Sunday was hard to believe. Time and again, QB Tom Brady found open receivers. New England had 436 yards and 20 first downs in the first half alone.

It was the type of loss that leaves an organization wondering where it is going. Adams' comments weren't unreasonable, considering how poorly Tennessee played, how flat it looked. As difficult as it will be, the Titans need to break down every aspect of the loss and see what went wrong, who carried out their assignments, who played hard.

Certainly there will be clamoring for Young to start the final 10 games of the season, but those who believe he'll jolt this team back to respectability aren't paying attention. The Titans' defense is abysmal right now, for one. And if Fisher thought Young could have saved the season, he would have made the move weeks ago. Recall that he pulled Collins after just three games in 2006, Young's rookie season. That's why the prospect of the QB change is tricky: if Young gets to play the rest of the season simply because the Titans want to evaluate him further, what message does that send to the rest of the team? Collins' struggles on Sunday (2-of-12 passing, minus-7 yards) could make a decision to go with Young a little easier, but it is still a complicated situation.

Young didn't even start the second half on Sunday, and he didn't enter the game until just before the end of the third quarter. He attempted just two passes in four drives on Sunday. One fell incomplete, and the other was intercepted. By contrast, Patriots backup QB Brian Hoyer, with the outcome no longer in doubt, attempted 11 passes in his four drives at the helm of the offense.

But now, the debate in Tennessee is starting to move to areas beyond the quarterback, and that tells you all you need to know about how bad things have gotten.