Titans pass past Saints

For Titans rookie quarterback Marcus Mariota, that number now stands at one.

Sunday also marked Mariota’s return from a knee sprain that sidelined him for two games.

The New Orleans Saints take on the Tennessee Titans today in a game on the NFL football schedule which sees one team in the process of recovering from a bad start, and the other team off to such a bad start that its head coach just got fired in between games.

Mularkey, the interim coach, sent a clear message Wednesday that he believes he and the rest of the coaching staff can protect quarterback Marcus Mariota with adjustments in personnel and scheme. The fact that it came on the road in one of the toughest places to play was even sweeter. Newton earned NFC honours for the fourth time in his career after helping the Panthers (8-0) beat Green Bay.

With the injury to Andrew Luck and no team in the AFC South above.500, it’s not at all insane to think the Titans can move back to the head of the pack in the division. They brought a lot of pressure, and honestly I was trying to throw it away. “He went to OR and selected highly in the draft”. They are very inconsistent and not all that good. Both are big, strong, athletic and good at making decisions.

But what about Tennessee’s other eight plays that gained 20 yards or more?

Mariota is the first rookie in league history to twice throw four touchdowns and no interceptions in games in the same season. 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. Eli Manning had his biggest game of the season against the Saints. Those quarterbacks are Oakland’s Derek Carr, Eli Manning of the Giants, Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers and Ryan Tannehill of Miami.

“It’s about four weeks now we’ve had the play in and it looked exactly like it looked in practice”, Mularkey said. They’ve got blown out in a few games and have lost a few close games like the Buffalo Bills and Atlanta Falcons games. Obviously, there were times your ball has got to come out and these guys have a chance to get you. “That’s just icing on the cake”. While he hasn’t outright said so, you have to believe that the accumulation of injuries played a factor in his early retirement.

Newton has earned the nickname of Superman for his touchdown celebrations. The Titans rookie is satisfied with simply being called by his first name.

Never before has not putting enough on a throw turned out quite so well, but I’m sure the Titans will take it, as it allowed them to capture their second victory of the season.

The improbable win proved to be a fitting conclusion to a weird week for the Titans’ organization, beginning Tuesday with the abrupt dismissal of coach Ken Whisenhunt by controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk, who placed Mularkey in charge of a floundering 1-6 team.