Titans Start Slow, Fall 30-8 to Jets

Tennessee fooled the Jets for a touchdown on a trick play, when running back Antonio Andrews threw a 41-yard scoring pass to Mariota from a Wildcat formation. The Jets led 27-0 at halftime, and the lowly Titans (3-10) mustered only one second-half score. We are continually trying to get better in all three phases.

“Give credit to (the Jets)”.

“I think that [quarterback] is the most important position in the league”, Marshall said when asked about potentially keeping Fitzpatrick past this season. “It has to be corrected”. He was also sacked five times, and was under pressure throughout.

New York Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick (14) throws a pass… Titans interim head coach Mike Mularkey faced the Jets for the seventh time as a head coach.

“I felt like it was an opportunity for me to play, which in having been cut and having been released and traded and all the different things that I’ve been through in my career, you never know when opportunities are going to come”, he said after practice Tuesday.

“I completely thought I would not coach again”, Gailey said Wednesday. “They did a good job of holding us an as offense, and making plays”.

The Jets extended the lead to 20-0 on a 16-yard touchdown pass from Fitzpatrick to Powell, who broke four tackles on his way to the end zone. The Jets play two more conference opponents, while the Steelers play three.

TD Drives – The Jets have had better offenses than the 23.0% TD drive rate when Fitzpatrick’s at the controls, but not since 2008 when Brett Favre had a 24.1% rate or ’02 when Chad Pennington was at 24.4. These three teams are now two games clear of the pack with only three games left to play.

New York Jets running back Bilal Powell (29) runs past Tennessee Titans’ Perrish Cox (29) for a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015, in East Rutherford, N.J.

Mularkey said the Titans’ headsets went out on them, adding to the confusion.

“It was one of those games we wish we could have back and start it over”, linebacker Brian Orakpo said.

In the first half, the Titans managed only four first downs and struggled to do anything against the Jets vaunted defensive line.

Sure the Jets should have won this game. “He comes in and gets his work done and that’s the type of coach I was looking for”.

Mariota caught two touchdown passes in college at Oregon. I had some experience in high school playing receiver. “I think that pretty much changed the mojo and changed everything”.

Tennessee set the tone with cornerback Perrish Cox dropping a would-be interception on the fifth play for the defense.

In the contest, Delanie Walker broke Frank Wycheck’s record for most catches in a season by a tight end. Only three other teams had failed to produce a three-game winning streak since 2012: the Titans, Oakland Raiders and Rex Ryan’s new team, the Buffalo Bills – who, in an amusing bit of coincidence, have the longest drought since their last three-game winning streak.