They are two teams with new head coaches trying to install big changes.

The Houston Texans are only 3-4, but it’s a mark that has them in second place in the AFC South.

The Tennessee Titans could pull even with the Texans with a win Sunday at LP Field.

ESPN Texans reporter Tania Ganguli and Titans reporter Paul Kuharsky got together to discuss the game.

Paul Kuharsky: Ken Whisenhunt’s culture change in Tennessee is a slow process featuring a lot of talk about things being a process. How do you rate the pace of Bill O’Brien’s impact with a similar culture-changing project?

Tania Ganguli: I think that's also a work in progress here. Players liked his style when he became their coach. He made some changes that gave them less freedom, but everything he did was with a purpose. He kept players in the team hotel for training camp and he arranged the trip to Denver, when the team spent a week together after training camp, both for team-building purposes. It's hard to change a team's mentality, though. I still heard a few players in the postgame locker room in Pittsburgh bring up last season after losing that game, and comparing the way they felt then to now. It seemed a bit ominous to me because those players forgetting all about last season's disaster is important so they don't fall into some of those same mental patterns of expecting something to go wrong.

Same question to you. You say Tennessee's process is slow, but are you seeing signs that the culture is actually changing? And what culture needed to change?

Paul Kuharsky: I think in a lot of ways guys have become immune to losing and content with gradual, incremental progress. The trade of Akeem Ayers to New England for next to nothing spoke to one issue. A guy in a contract year showed little fight and determination to change his standing with coaches, and the Titans were relieved to get him off the roster. Guard Chance Warmack isn’t a bad guy, but he hasn’t played up to his first-round pedigree and told me last week he’s not frustrated by the pace of his progress, that it’s a process at a developmental position. Too many guys think like that, and it doesn’t give off the sense of urgency for which Whisenhunt is looking. Yes, it’s a process. It’s a too-slow process so far.

J.J. Watt is a singular force, but The Wall Street Journal recently illustrated that his best work doesn’t correlate very well with wins. Just how much can he influence a good game for Houston? What’s the chance we see Jadeveon Clowney work with him in Nashville?

Tania Ganguli: His good games influence the Texans in a big way, but he can't do it alone, especially against capable quarterbacks. One thing quarterbacks consistently say about Watt is that he changes the way they have to play. He changes how quickly they have to get rid of the ball and how aware they have to be. Good quarterbacks and experienced quarterbacks are better at handling that and exposing holes in coverage and such than younger or bad quarterbacks, so Watt's impact tends to be greater against teams whose quarterbacks fall in the latter group. There's a decent chance Clowney will work with him in Nashville. I didn't expect him Monday night because he didn't practice basically all week and got his feet wet on Friday. He'll practice all this week.

So, do the Titans have a better chance with Zach Mettenberger than with Jake Locker or Charlie Whitehurst ?

Paul Kuharsky: Whisenhunt is making the bold move. There is certainly a nice upside with Mettenberger, and he fits the Whisenhunt quarterback mold. First and foremost, he will want to stand tall in the pocket and deliver passes, and he's got a giant arm. If it goes well, there is a new hope. If it doesn't, they can talk of working for the future. I looked at the upcoming schedule and saw reasons to be protective of the rookie. Having Watt working against struggling right tackle Michael Oher and average right guard Chance Warmack puts Mettenberger at some risk. But a rookie signal-caller playing for a bad team is going to face some brand of risk in virtually every game, and at some point a team simply needs to let him take that plunge. So we've reached that point. He'll probably get hit by those defenders. He'll also probably hit a big play or two against a team that's given them up.

Ryan Fitzpatrick was with the Titans last year and he threw too many picks. Ken Whisenhunt thought Whitehurst would be a better veteran backup. How’s Fitzpatrick run the offense and can we expect to see one of the younger alternatives starting this season?

Tania Ganguli: Fitzpatrick still throws picks. When he's not doing that, he's done some nice things. He's mobile enough to keep a play alive, he's tough and willing to sacrifice his body a bit. But that's a big thing to remove from the equation. His turnovers come at very inopportune times. A fumble against the Colts ended the Texans' comeback bid. He threw an interception against the Steelers during that 24-point hailstorm to end the first half. The way Texans coach Bill O'Brien explained that play was interesting. He said he and quarterbacks coach George Godsey expected that Fitzpatrick would have a checkdown available on that play, but because of some mistakes with routes the play didn't unfold as they had hoped. Of course, when your options break down, the only choice isn't to throw an interception, and that play really showed one of Fitzpatrick's limitations.

The Texans lead the league in forced turnovers, but only have a margin of plus-2 because they turn the ball over at a high rate. Will the Titans be able to take advantage of Houston's trouble with ball security? And will it help that they know Fitzpatrick well?

Paul Kuharsky: The Titans are right there with a plus-2. They had some significant takeaways in Washington, one that followed a terrible dropped interception, bailing out cornerback Jason McCourty. I don’t know that they have a big advantage facing Fitzpatrick, though a couple of guys such as McCourty and safeties Michael Griffin and George Wilson might have a special sense of something they can predict and jump. Everyone playing good defense should have chances against Fitzpatrick who the Titans know firsthand has a propensity for forcing it.