when the titans played the teams in question the eagles were 5-5 and had just dropped 3 straight close games, 2 of which were to good football teams. the moneyline on that game paid out at somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-1, which would have made the spread heavily in favor of an eagles team that was, at the time, still considered one of the better in the nfc, record notwithstanding, don't forget mcnabb started that game and the titans were still creaming them when he was injured. the giants were 6-4 favored by a touchdown, and had just dropped 2 of their hardest games of the season, again no one gave the titans a chance, and the giants were still considered top tier in the nfc. and the colts were 9-1, and you know the story behind that, something like football gods at that point. If anyone had said that through this 4 game stretch, the Titans, with a rookie quarterback, would go 4-0. Then they would have been laughed out of the room. Going into the season it was most certainly looked at as the "meat" of the schedule, mainly because no other 4 game stretch looked as daunting, unless you backed it up a game and added Baltimore. Yes I do watch NFL football.