Stafford threw two incompletions and the drive stalled into a 42-yard Matt Prater field goal. Stafford – who threw for 260 yards and had one TD and one pick – had to quarterback against a legit a defense, a defense that gave up no touchdowns in the Titans’ opener, a defense that limited the Lions to just one TD and just three points at home in the second quarter.
Advertisement
“We had a matchup with Andre on a linebacker”. Teams that start the season 1-1 have a better than 40 percent chance to make the playoffs while teams that start 0-2 make the postseason just 12 percent of the time. Look for hard-nosed players like Delanie Walker, Andre Johnson, and Murray to continue to be the ones making the big plays when they are needed for this up and coming Titans team. I wasn’t at the stadium and I wasn’t at a Titans watch party, but I unleashed a scream heard around the world when I saw that Johnson came down with that ball. “And he made a great play”. “That’s why he’s going to be in the Hall of Fame”.
This ended up being the game-winning score in Tennessee’s 16-15 win over Detroit.
“The guys felt like we were going to win”, Johnson said.
The Lions signal-caller scrambled during his Sunday game against the Tennessee Titans and absolutely dropped the boom on the Titans defensive back Perish Cox.
“Obviously, hindsight is 20-20”, Stafford said after the game. If the Lions can’t get any of their players back next week, Aaron Rodgers and Eddie Lacy could have big games in a Packers win next week. With a 16-15 win over the Detroit Lions today, the two-tone blue are looking to start a new era in Music City.
After the Titans lost on opening day to the Vikings, thanks to interception and fumble returns for touchdowns by Minnesota, Mularkey said his team handed it away.
He picked up 24 of those – the longest carry of since entering the league – on one run against the Titans on Sunday.
Johnson’s lone catch of the game on fourth-and-4 finished off a 13-play, 83-yard drive. “That’s the mood. You lose a game, the mood is bad”.
The Titans are already a third of the way to last season’s victory total, thanks to Marcus Mariota’s poise in the fourth quarter.
“When we watched the Colts film, we seen a lot of things that we thought we could take advantage of”, Walker acknowledged.
The Lions lost Ziggy Ansah, Kyle Van Noy, Antwoine Williams, and Ameer Abdullah during the game for the entirety, while Stafford, Ebron, Riley Reiff and potentially more also suffered injuries for Detroit.
Here in Week 2, Matthew Stafford has an easier task on hand against the Tennessee Titans, and Detroit is now up to a 9-3 lead. The Titans had linebacker Derrick Morgan (hamstring) inactive and rookie Kevin Dodd made the most of the opportunity to play more, sacking Stafford late in the first half.
Advertisement
Having a nice day defensively for the Titans was Brian Orakpo, who had a game high two sacks, and forced some pressure on Stafford, leading to some holding calls on the Lions offensive line.
