Carolina Panthers: 3 Lessons from Saints-Titans

The New Orleans Saints and the Tennessee Titans will fight it out at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana on Sunday in Week 9 of the National Football League 2015 regular season. But Mariota helped spark the second-half rally and delivered in overtime to give interim Titans coach Mike Mularkey a victory in his coaching debut. And he did so in a huge way, having a career game in the Titans’ 34-28 overtime win against the New Orleans Saints.

“I’m still shaking”, Mularkey said. “It’s been an emotional week for everybody on this team”.

However Morstead, while not holding in a game since 2010, his second season in the league, spends time on it each day in practice. Even though the Titans failed to pick up a first down, kicker Ryan Succop capitalized with a 51-yard field goal. The Saints totally lost him in the mix.

Mularkey said the Titans had practiced the play for two weeks.

“It’s obviously frustrating. We’re not doing a good enough job of coaching and we’ve got to get it cleaned up”. “So this is a big deal and we have a great future to look forward to”.

Byrd said there was no one to blame for the defensive gaffe, adding that the play was not comparable to a pop-fly in baseball in which fielders can communicate without concern for proximity of opposing players. Behind this unit, the Titans rushed for 112 total yards, and Mariota was sacked zero times.

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“Sometimes”, Mariota admitted, “it’s better to be lucky than good”. “They really believed in each other and for us moving forward that’s what we need”, said Mariota, who finished 28 for 39 for a personal-best 371 yards and four TDs.

But the Saints stalled offensively from there, and the Titans (2-6) ramped up. 500 with three consecutive victories.

Kai Forbath’s potential game-winning, 46-yard field goal attempt with 1:01 left was blocked by Tennessee cornerback Coty Sensabaugh.

“It’s hard to tell without seeing the film if the trajectory was low, if the hold was clean”, Payton said. “What we anxious about, we just never protected them”. “We have got to get that cleaned up”. After being sacked 19 times in four games, Mariota made a conscious effort to get rid of the ball more quickly, and he used his feet effectively to neutralize the Saints’ pass rush.

After Brees hit tight end Michael Hoomanawanui for a 1-yard score, the Saints led 28-20 with 11:32 left.

The Titans did not gain a first down on their first two possessions and gained only 29 yards on their first 10 plays, but Marcus Murphy’s fumble on a Saints punt return set up Tennessee’s first points on Succop’s 51-yard field goal. Delanie Walker caught two of the touchdowns, while Anthony Fasano and Justin Hunter caught the others. On Friday, the team announced five of the seven players who’d sit out versus the Tennessee Titans.

The Saints seemed to dominate the first half. His return to New Orleans, where he oversaw the worst defense in N.F.L. history in his lone season as the Saints’ coordinator, will probably haunt him for a while.