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When Ken Whisenhunt was hired as the Titans’ head coach this year, he said he didn’t need patience because he thought his team was good enough to win right away. Now Whisenhunt thinks he may have spoken too soon.

The Titans have now been blown out three weeks in a row, and Whisenhunt is allowing for the possibility that he might have overestimated the quality of his team. Paul Kuharsky of ESPN.com has transcribed a question-and-answer from Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean to Whisenhunt at Sunday’s post-game press conference, in which Whisenhunt allowed that the team might just not be as good as he thought it was:

Q: “I know when you first got this job you said you weren’t necessarily asking for patience. Do you think maybe you overestimated the team that you have?”

A: “You know, I guess that’s the problem saying those kind of things. You go on a stretch where you have a couple games and you don’t play well, and those are the kind of things that, hey, I still believe that, I still believe we have a team that’s good enough, that’s better than what we are playing right now. But we have to look at what we are doing, how we are doing it. We have to look at everything. Maybe. Maybe, Jim.”

None of that is saying Whisenhunt doesn’t think he can turn his team around, but the reality is that the Titans don’t look like a very good team right now. Whisenhunt took over a team that missed the playoffs five years in a row, and turning this team around is going to take time. If Whisenhunt thought he could turn it around quickly, maybe he misread the hand he’d been dealt.