Jim Wyatt

jwyatt@tennessean.com

Bernard Pollard let off some steam during the Bernard Pollard Show on Tuesday. Anyone who watched the streamed broadcast at tennessean.com saw that.

He was still barking on Wednesday -- and challenging his teammates in the process.

"I could care less about me (ticking) you off. This is nine years for me, I have no time to waste,'' Pollard said. "We have to have the right mentality, the right culture. The teams here in the last 10 years, I don't want to say it has accepted things, but we've got to come out and we have to throw punches and we've got to fight. It doesn't matter if you come out with a bloody lip. So what, you've got 10 other guys fighting with you.

"If we're going to go down, we're going to go down fighting. We have to be a better football team, because our fans deserve better. This city deserves better and this organization deserves better."

The Titans (1-3) have three straight losses.

"I'm going to try to (tick) some people off,'' he said. "We have talent. We have guys that can take the roof off and guys that can be stars in this league. It's time for us to do that. We're a 1-3 football team. The first quarter was … horrible. We sucked butt. I say that again, and I mean what I say: We were horrible. But we have a shot at being a very good football team, and I'm going to try and pull that out of all of us. … Right now, we're doormats to a lot of people around the league."

The Titans face the Browns at LP Field on Sunday (noon, WTVF-5, 104.5-FM).

"I am pretty sure I've offended people, but I couldn't care less,'' he said. "We need to just show up and play. As far as saying we need the fans to show up and back us up, they've been backing us up since we've been here. You want to call them fair-weather fans and say they don't show up, rightfully so. I wouldn't root for this team either, because we're a team that comes out and shows greatness one time and then we come out and drop an egg. We can't do that."