The Titans are at .500 for the first time in 3 YEARS, despite only gaining 98 net yards of total offense and giving up 396 to the Jaguars. This was supposed to be the game to tell whether or not Vince Young was ready to be a starter in this league, but we didnt get to judge much, as the Titans only got  34 snaps of offense-15 passing and 16 rushing- as compared to 82 by the Jaguars. Vince finished with 85 passing yards and 4 yards rushing. He also got sacked 3 times, one resulting in a 20 yards loss back to their own 10 yard line. Rookie mistake.

     Travis Henry came into the game hoping to close in on 1,000 yards rushing for the season but came up short with only 37 yards rushing, 974 on the season.

     It’s hard to say that our defense had a good game, as we gave up almost 400 total yards of offense, but it also scored 21 of our 24 total points.

     The first touchdown came from PacMan Jones in the first quarter, scoring on an 83 yard interceotion return.

     The next came when the Jags were driving. David Garrard scrambled to the 12 yard line, only to lose the ball and have it picked up by Cortland Finnegan and run all 92 yards to the endzone. All Garrard could do was sit and watch it all happen before his eyes.

     And finally, Chris Hope topped it off with a 61 yard return for a touchdown. He also finished the game with 10 tackles.

     Arguably, the biggest coaching desicion of the day was a challenge by Fisher at the one yard line. Garrard had just thrown a lob pass to Lewis for a touchdown. Fisher challenged that he didnt have possesion and got it overturned. So what you ask? Well, the defense held Jones-Drew on 3rd and one to force a 4th down at the 1 yard line. Garrard decided to throw another lob pass, only to Matt Jones this time, and guess who… PacMan Jones broke it up and gave the Titans possesion.

      Well, I dont want PacMan’s return to go unnoticed. At the beggining of the second half, PacMan brought a 70 yard return down the the Jags 15 yard line, en-route to a Rob Bironas feild goal.

      So basically the story line is that the Jags owned the game but costly turnovers gave us the win. We’re now back to .500, in the playoff race, and winners of 5 straight. We travel to Buffalo next week where both teams are 7-7 and fighting for their playoff lives. It should be a good one next week.

~Caleb a.k.a. Ghost, TitansNation Sportswriter

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