So he turned on the film to determine what went so horribly wrong.
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The former Ducks quarterback completed 13 of 16 passes for 209 yards and 4 touchdowns in Tennessee’s 42-14 stomping of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Shortening to season-specific projections, slightly more than half (23) of the 158.3 Club made the Pro Bowl in the season in which they hit the mark, including modestly notable players like James Harris, Bobby Hebert, Jeff Blake, Robert Griffin III (also a rookie when he hit the mark) and Nick Foles.
Online shop CarbonSports.ag initially opened the Browns as 1-point favorites for their matchup with the Titans on Sunday, but have since been forced to move that line to +1. The two touchdowns are halfway to his 2014 total and the receiving touchdown was the first of his career.
The Saints struggled last week finishing drives, scoring only one touchdown.
If it seems like I may be grossly overreacting to the season’s first game, I am. “No matter how good his first game was, he’s still a rookie quarterback, and there’s still growing pains he’s going to have to experience”.
Left tackle Taylor Lewan was short in his response about Marcus Mariota, but it was to the point when he said the everyone should have seen it coming.
As far as National Football League debuts for a starting quarterback go, the Titans couldn’t have asked for much more than what they got from Marcus Mariota.
“So what does James need to get better at?” In a results-driven business, they are on the clock to make things right for their respective teams. “That’s probably the challenging part, if you do get thrown in there”.
The Cleveland native found Miles Austin over the middle for 17 yards and he dumped off a short pass to Taylor Gabriel for 6 yards. He was sacked four times. “Hopefully when Sunday comes around, we’ll get to show him”. The combination of multiple injuries, lack of experience and a questionable scheme has worked out just as well as you would think. But the early turnover just hurt. We all know what we’re getting out of Andrew Luck. Just a bad decision. “You incorporate some of those things into what your plan is”.
In 1970, the Pittsburgh Steelers had a rookie quarterback named Terry Bradshaw.
“Now he has shown everybody what he can do in a real game and a lot of people will be surprised, ” said Titans receiver Kendall Wright, who caught Mariota’s first career touchdown pass. “But that’s the way he played all training camp and all of the preseason”.
“It’s a very humbling experience because the game could’ve gone either way”, Winston said.
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Meanwhile the Bucs’ defense had too many breakdowns. They connected again at the Manning Passing Academy and some Heisman festivities.
