Category: Titans

Watch: Joe Burrow hits Tyler Boyd as Bengals open up on Titans

Joe Burrow is doing quite well for the Bengals against Tennessee.

Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals have been showing promise while absorbing losses. The rookie QB from LSU and his team are on their way to putting it together, surprisingly, against the one-loss Tennessee Titans.

Watch as Burrow finds Tyler Boyd for a touchdown to give Cincinnati a 17-point lead in the fourth quarter.

Burrow has proven slippery and elusive, too.

CFL linebacker charged with attempted murder in Pittsburgh

Jeffrey Knox Jr. of the Toronto Argonauts is wanted on multiple charges.

A difficult story out of Pittsburgh on Sunday as current Toronto Argonauts linebacker — and former NFL practice squad player — Jeffrey Knox Jr. has been charged with attempted murder.

Knox, who went undrafted in 2014 after playing college ball at California (Pa.), is being charged with two counts of attempted homicide, two counts of aggravated assault, as well as endangerment and firearms violations.

Knox spent time with Tampa Bay, Washington, and Tennessee on their practice squads.

Per Thestar:

Pittsburgh police responded to 911 calls Oct. 23 for two men shot in the city’s South Side Flats area. Police reports say two men were discovered with gunshot wounds to their legs. Both were taken to hospital and were listed in stable condition.

Police also said video footage showed a verbal dispute between three men, with one man —whom they identified as Knox Jr. — striking one of the other men in the face.

Cara Cruz, deputy public information officer for Pittsburgh Public Safety, said the incident occurred in a bar/nightclub area popular with college students.

The Argos said they are “well aware of the charges” and “take these matters seriously,” but have not yet determined how to proceed.

“We are currently looking into it and determining the appropriate next steps for our organization,” the statement said.

The CFL season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

NFL reveals Week 8 announcer schedule

As we head into the eighth week of the NFL season, the feature attraction is the undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers against the Baltimore Ravens. That’s a great AFC North matchup. For the coverage map, click here. As for who is on the calls around the …

As we head into the eighth week of the NFL season, the feature attraction is the undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers against the Baltimore Ravens. That’s a great AFC North matchup.

For the coverage map, click here.

As for who is on the calls around the league:

Thursday

Atlanta at Carolina, FOX|NFL|Amazon 8:20 p.m.
Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Erin Andrews & Kristina Pink

Sunday

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, CBS 1 p.m.
Jim Nantz, Tony Romo & Tracy Wolfson

New England at Buffalo, CBS 1 p.m.
Ian Eagle, Charles Davis & Evan Washburn

Tennessee at Cincinnati, CBS 1 p.m.
Spero Dedes, Adam Archuleta

Las Vegas at Cleveland, FOX 1 p.m.
Kevin Kugler, Chris Spielman & Laura Okmin

Indianapolis at Detroit, CBS 1 p.m.
Andrew Catalon, James Lofton & Michael Grady

Minnesota at Green Bay, FOX 1 p.m.
Kevin Burkhardt, Daryl Johnston & Pam Oliver

NY Jets at Kansas City, CBS 1 p.m.
Kevin Harlan, Trent Green & Melanie Collins

LA Rams at Miami, FOX 1 p.m.
Kenny Albert, Jonathan Vilma & Shannon Spake

LA Chargers at Denver, CBS 4:05 p.m.
Greg Gumbel, Rich Gannon & Jay Feely

New Orleans at Chicago, FOX 4:25 p.m.
Joe Buck, Troy Aikman & Erin Andrews

San Francisco at Seattle, FOX 4:25 p.m.
Adam Amin, Mark Schlereth & Lindsay Czarniak

Dallas at Philadelphia, NBC 8:20 p.m.
Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth & Michele Tafoya

Monday

Tampa Bay at NY Giants, ESPN 8:15 p.m.
Steve Levy, Brian Griese, Louis Riddick & Lisa Salters

Steelers survive Titans’ charge as Gostkowski misses late FG

Stephen Gostkowski missed a late field goal that would have tied the game and Pittsburgh downed Tennessee.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are 6-0. The Tennesse Titans are 5-1 after a thriller in Nashville Sunday that saw Stephen Gostkowski miss a 46-yard field goal in the final minute as the Steelers held on for a 27-24 victory.

The Titans’ final drive had been set up by an interception of Ben Roethlisberger in the end zone.

Ryan Tannehill led the Titans’ drive, which was hurt by an intentional grounding penalty and 10-second runoff.

Gostkowski has been perfect from 50 and outside but has had issues inside that distance. It came back to bite him again as his kick slid right and sealed the Titans’ first loss.

Ben Roethlisberger seemed surprised.

 

It avoided the end of this amazing streak.

Watch: Ben Roethlisberger to Diontae Johnson for Steelers TD

Ben Roethlisberger was sharp as the Steelers scored first against the Titans.

The Pittsburgh Steelers made the first statement in the battle of undefeated teams against the Tennessee Titans in Nashville on Sunday.

Ben Roethlisberger led a driver that lasted more than nine minutes. The QB was 10-of-12 for 84 yards on the march.

It culminated with a TD pass to Diontae Johnson.

How dominant was Pittsburgh in the first quarter? This dominant:

 

 

Report: Tennessee Titans hit with six-figure fine for COVID-19 violations

The NFL is going to hit the Tennessee Titans with a six-figure fine.

The NFL has come down on the Tennessee Titans — and come down hard — for their violations of COVID-19 protocols, according to a report.

Per NFL.com:

Sources say the Titans are expected to be fined either $300,000 or $350,000 for their infractions, which included instances of failure to comply with requirements on wearing masks, as well as insufficient clear communication regarding workouts outside the facility. No individual — including Tennessee general manager Jon Robinson and head coach Mike Vrabel — will face discipline. And despite 24 positive COVID cases that contributed to multiple disruptions to the league schedule, the Titans avoided more severe punishments the league has threatened in calls and memos to clubs, such as forfeitures or lost draft picks.

The final number for the fine will be $350,000.

The report says Tennessee was in total cooperation with the review process.

Next up for the COVID-19 police at the NFL offices are the Las Vegas Raiders, who have already had a number of violations and players that have been infected.

The Raiders now are in line for potential discipline after the NFL and NFLPA found that Brown had not been consistently wearing his Kinexon contact-tracing device and he and the other starting offensive linemen had been congregating without face coverings during practice, even though those are required because the team is in the league’s supplemental intensive protocols.

 

NFL Week 7: How to survive and advance in your knockout pool

NFL Week 7: How to survive and advance in your knockout pool

Watch: All 10 of Derrick Henry’s 50-plus yard touchdows

Check out 10 of Derrick Henry’s touchdown runs. All are 50 yards or more.

Derrick Henry should be known as Mr. Long Distance. The Titans’ running back has 10 scores of 50 yards or more and someone on the Internet managed to put together all of these plays in one video.

Take 2:05 of your day and enjoy watching the Heisman winner from Alabama as he destroys defense after defense en route to the end zone.

The man is an unstoppable machine. And he meets the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense Sunday in a battle of unbeaten teams.

Titans coach Mike Vrabel’s intentional penalty was pure genius

Mike Vrabel may have saved the Titans by getting a penalty called on his team.

Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel is proving to be this generation’s “Genius.” Vrabel showed he is as shrewd as they come during the final minutes of the fourth quarter as his Titans faced defeat against the Houston Texans.

How? He was able to get a penalty called on his team that gave the Texans a first down.

And that was brilliant? Yes, It was. Follow:

Per Broadwaysportsmedia:

Tennessee is trailing 30-29 with just over 3:00 remaining in the game. The Texans have the ball on the Titans 25-yard line and are methodically moving down the field as they had for most of the second half.

The previous play, a 1st and 10 pass to Brandin Cooks for 9 yards, has Houston set up with 2nd and 1. A run likely gives them another new set of downs just inside the 25. They’re already in field goal range.

So Mike Vrabel sends out Josh Kalu to take an intentional 12-men on the field penalty. How do we know it’s intentional? Well, first, Kalu had played 10 snaps on defense so far in 2020, with 7 of those coming in mop up duty during the Titans blowout of the Bills earlier in the week. Now he’s suddenly getting some run on a critical drive (he’d played zero defensive snaps in this game prior to stepping foot on the field here).

Second, just take a look at the video, specifically the interaction between Vrabel and Johnathan Joseph, followed by Joseph’s body language at the snap (he knows a play isn’t going to happen).

Vrabel had three timeouts but the prudent move was to save them and take the penalty because the Texans went from second-and-1 to first-and-10. If the penalty had not been called, Houston would have run clock, likely got the first down, and devoured more time.

Here’s how things played out. Texans throw an incomplete pass, bringing up 2nd and 10 (already a much better spot than they were in before and just 9 seconds had come off the clock). Then an 11-yard David Johnson run puts them in 1st and goal at the 9. They run it three more times and finally throw it in for a touchdown on 4th and goal at the 1.

During that stretch, the Titans use two of their timeouts, but just 1:13 comes off the clock, in large part, because of the penalty that effectively stole a down from the Texans and gave the Titans back either 40 seconds or a timeout (and possibly more).

Houston missed a 2-point conversion and led 36-29. The two-point conversion was a curious call by Romeo Crennel because the Titans would have had to go for “2” if they scored a TD.

Well, Tennessee did score a game-tying touchdown with 4 seconds left in regulation, and then win the game on the first possession of overtime.

This isn’t the first time Vrabel worked the refs and the clock. He did it in 2018 against the New York Jets.

And we have to wonder if Vrabel learned this in his time with Bill Belichick or if the student figured something out the professor didn’t have.