Ryan Tannehill’s large day helps lead Titans to highway win over Packers

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Tennessee Titans dealt with enterprise Thursday on the highway in opposition to the Inexperienced Bay Packers in a 27-17 win at Lambeau Subject.

Regardless of red-hot rookie vast receiver Christian Watson hauling in two landing passes from quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Tennessee countered with two landing passes to tight finish Austin Hooper.

An enormous play put issues away as Titans rookie receiver Treylon Burks hauled in a 51-yard move that allowed the Titans to kneel out the clock.

Tennessee Titans

The Titans (7-3) introduced the struggle to the Packers. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill led the best way together with his greatest sport of the season going 22 of 27 passing for 333 yards, two touchdowns and an interception to supply stability to the offense.

Working again Derrick Henry rushed for 87 yards on 28 carries and a landing. He now has over 1,000 speeding yards on the season. Henry additionally had 45 yards on two catches, and he threw a 3-yard landing move to Austin Hooper. He joined San Francisco 49ers operating again Christian McCaffrey as the one non-quarterback to have a passing and speeding landing in a sport this season.

Promising pattern: The Titans’ receivers impacted the sport for the second consecutive week. Rookie Treylon Burks bought issues began with a 43-yard reception that arrange Tennessee’s first landing on the opening drive. Burks completed with seven receptions for 111 yards, each of which had been a profession excessive. Robert Woods chipped in with six catches for 69 yards.

QB Breakdown: Tannehill was ultra-efficient. Most of his large performs got here off of play-action, the place the Packers had been targeted on stopping Henry. He delivered excellent passes to Burks on the massive play and Chigoziem Okonkwo for an additional, and he threaded the needle between two defenders to Hooper for a 16-yard landing. Tannehill’s passes hit his receivers in stride, giving them an opportunity to achieve yards after the catch. It was his second consecutive sport with at the very least 250 passing yards and two landing passes.

Pivotal play: The Packers closed the hole to 14-9 on a 39-yard area purpose try by Mason Crosby. Tannehill discovered Okonkwo for a 31-yard completion two performs after the kick return. Okonkwo managed to haul within the Tannehill move and keep in bounds as he fell to the bottom after Packers security Darnell Savage bit on the beneath route leaving him vast open. The play flipped the sphere after Tennessee was pinned again at its 12-yard line.

Beneath the radar stat: Derrick Henry turned the fifth participant in NFL historical past to attain 10 speeding touchdowns in 5 straight seasons, becoming a member of LaDainian Tomlinson, Adrian Peterson, Shaun Alexander and Michael Turner.

Subsequent sport: vs. Cincinnati Bengals, Nov. 27.

Inexperienced Bay Packers

Goodnight Inexperienced Bay, there can be no encore. The great vibes across the Packers lasted all of 4 days after beating the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday to finish a five-game shedding streak.

With the Philadelphia Eagles up subsequent, this has the makings of one other shedding streak. At 4-7, the Packers is likely to be another loss away from this changing into a misplaced season. One of many few good issues to return out of this sport was the continued emergence of rookie receiver Christian Watson, who’s two landing catches put him at 5 within the final two video games. Watson completed with 48 yards on 4 catches and the 2 scores.

Eye-popping NextGen stat: Watson’s 14-yard landing catch was the very definition of a tight-window throw. In response to NFL NextGen Stats, Watson had 0.5 yards of separation from Titans cornerback Kristian Fulton. That is the least separation of any of Aaron Rodgers’ 55 landing passes over the past two seasons.

Describe the sport in two phrases: Defensive. Breakdowns. A busted protection in opposition to rookie tight finish Chigoziem Okonkwo for 31 yards, missed tackles on a 42-yard display move to Derrick Henry after which getting fully fooled on a leap move from Henry to tight finish Austin Hooper all occurred on the identical drive within the third quarter and led to a game-breaking landing. In some methods, breakdowns have been THE story of defensive coordinator Joe Barry’s unit a lot of the season.

Silver lining: The return of Randall Cobb made a distinction — and never simply as a receiver. Cobb had a time excessive in receptions (six) and yards (73), and he additionally returned punts and recovered an Aaron Jones fumble that helped the Packers to their first landing of the sport. Cobb had missed the final 4 video games whereas on injured reserve due to a sprained ankle. He was activated to the roster simply hours earlier than kickoff.

Beneath the radar stat: Thursday marked the fifth straight loss as a favourite for the Packers, which is their longest shedding streak as a favourite inside a season.

Subsequent sport: at Eagles, Nov. 27.