Orchard, the Browns rookie linebacker from Utah, saw Mariota first-hand last fall when Mariota was running down the Heisman Trophy and almost every opponent the Oregon Ducks faced all except Arizona and Ohio State on their way to a 13-2 record.
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The Titans face the Browns Sunday at noon in Cleveland.
“To me, he will always be mismatched from a weight standpoint so he has to better with his pad level”, Pettine said. According to the NFL’s Next Gen Stats, Mariota was the fastest quarterback in Week 1, hitting a speed of 21.42 miles per hour. There were days where I was talked about good.
Rewind to the National Football League draft April 30. Still, the Browns entered the season counting on Solomon – the Titans’ seventh-round pick in 2011 – to get ample reps opposite Kruger. The Browns were far down the road at 12.
Rumors flew before the Titans eventually picked Mariota. If Brees can get him off to a hot start, he could be a top fantasy receiver for Week Two, and possibly carry that momentum through the rest of the season. Which duo will win more Super Bowls? And when quarterbacks don’t make good throws, bad things can happen there, too.
In retrospect one of the most impressive things about Mariota’s regular season debut was how much damage he did throwing over the middle. There were a lot of scenarios that were being placed out there.
The play of the day on special teams came from backup tight end Phillip Supernaw, a street free agent the Titans signed during the middle of the off-season as an afterthought.
It will be the second time Mariota has been on the cover since becoming a part of the Titans organization.
Still, the club of 44 single-game ideal passers is a fairly select group; by comparison, 127 quarterbacks have thrown for more than 400 yards in a game. The team was unable to manage any semblance of offense and our defense got carved up by rookie quarterback Marcus Mariota, who seemed to coast to a quarterback rating of 158.3, a statistical “perfect game”. Meanwhile, the Titans should have won last year’s game and stand as a better team than they were that day.
“We showed the mental toughness that we’ve been talking about – resiliency”, coach Mike Pettine said immediately following the game. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. They need to know pressures.
Griffin was Rookie of the Year in 2012, but shredded his right knee in a playoff loss to Seattle. We’re making some presumptive leaps here, but not insane ones. Tom Coughlin and his assistant coaches called a pass on third down in the most crucial situation of the game.
The last offensive player of the week for the Titans was Chris Johnson back in 2012.
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“We definitely don’t plan on being very vanilla with him this week”, Gipson said. “So those are two examples of plays that hurt us that Jameis has got to do better at”. “I mean we’re a different team”. “By the second half of the first game, I’m playing (because of injuries to Sam Bradford and Shaun Hill)”.
