Ahead of their Week 6 game in London, the Tennessee Titans and Baltimore Ravens have very different travel plans.
The Ravens revealed via social media that they were flying across the pond on Monday morning, with the obvious hope that leaving as early as possible would give players more time to acclimate to the time change.
Meanwhile, the Titans aren’t leaving until Thursday night. Head coach Mike Vrabel explained that he was pleased with how the team looked using the same approach in 2018 and decided he’d go that route again.
“Get over there, get adjusted, have a Friday practice, clean up a lot of the stuff that we did,” Vrabel said, per Jim Wyatt. “And then have our normal preparation for the game.
“I’ve talked to a lot of people who have done it both ways, and that’s how we did it the last time and I felt we were ready to go, it just didn’t end the way we wanted it to.”
The Titans ended up losing that 2018 game to the Los Angeles Chargers by a score of 20-19 after a failed two-point conversion attempt with 31 seconds left.
When asked what the Titans might do differently this time around, Vrabel joked, “we’re going to get the two-point conversion, that’s what we’re going to do.”
The Buffalo Bills used the exact same approach for their Week 5 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London and looked off. Let’s hope Tennessee doesn’t suffer the same fate.
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