NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Losing wears on everyone.

The Tennessee Titans just lost their fifth game in a row and ninth in the first 11 games of Ken Whisenhunt’s tenure as head coach.

“I have a sick feeling in my stomach all the time,” Whisenhunt said Monday. “Nothing changes that except when you win.”

The 27-24 "Monday Night Football" loss to Pittsburgh Nov. 17 allowed the Titans to feel they’d made some progress. Sunday’s 43-24 whipping in Philadelphia undid most of that.

In 11 games, in what areas have the Titans improved?

I asked Whisenhunt if he could offer examples.

“It’s probably hard to do that,” he said. “Because you’re seeing one week where you see improvement in an area, like last week where we don’t give up a sack. We go into a game (Sunday) and give up five sacks.

“I see a tremendous amount of improvement in Avery Williamson and what he’s doing for us. I think as far as the communication defensively and what we are doing in those areas, I’ve seen improvement. But then we have a game where we don’t tackle well, we miss some gap fits and it hurts us.

"It’s hard offensively to say we’re doing a lot of things very good other than the fact we’ve had a lot of chunk plays, a lot of big plays. I think yesterday we had eight plays of over 20 yards. That’s small solace when you can’t convert a third down or you can’t run the ball more effectively or you have penalties.

"I see players growing in certain areas, but I don’t see enough consistency as a group.”

I think it’s an honest answer and he didn’t try to sugarcoat it.

But the fact there aren’t a few well-defined areas where this team can say it’s gotten discernibly better over the course of three months is evidence extending well beyond the record of how bad things are.