Titans vs. Steelers NFL Game Capsule

by Jimmy on Oct 4, 2011 9:03 PM CDT in Tennessee Titans Previews

NFL game capsule information after the jump.

STATS

PASSING	Hasselbeck: 88-132-1,152 (3C)-8 (T3C)-3-104.7 (2C)	Roethlisberger: 85-138-1,148-3-5-80.2
RUSHING	C. Johnson: 69-199-2.9-0	Mendenhall: 58-173-3.0-2
RECEIVING	Washington: 23-320-13.9-1	Wallace: 25 (T2C)-454 (3L)-18.2-2
OFFENSE	347.3	359.3
TAKE/GIVE	+2	-10
DEFENSE	299.8	277.0 (2L)
SACKS	Klug (R), Morgan (R): 2	Woodley: 1.5
INTs	McCourty: 2 (T2C)	---
PUNTING	Kern: 41.2	Sepulveda: 50.0
KICKING	Bironas: 28 (10/10 PAT; 6/8 FG)	Suisham: 22 (7/7 PAT; 5/8 FG)

NOTES

TITANS: Seek 4th consecutive win…In past 2, QB MATT HASSELBECK has 5 TDs vs. 1 INT & 119 passer rating. Hasselbeck aims for 5th consecutive game with 100+ passer rating. Has 8 TD passes this season – his most in 1st 4 games of any of his 11 seasons as starting NFL QB…RB CHRIS JOHNSON (101 yards) record 25th career game with 100+ rush yards last week. Johnson (5,907) needs 93 scrimmage yards to reach 6,000 career…WR NATE WASHINGTON spent 4 seasons (2005-08) with Steelers…TE JARED COOK had career-long 80-yard TD rec. last week – longest TD catch by Titans/Oilers TE sinceWILLIE FRAZIER on 11/6/64 (80). TE CRAIG STEVENS posted 1st TD catch in ’11 last week…Defense allows NFL-low 14 points per game in ’11…LB BARRETT RUUD leads team with 27 tackles…DE DERRICK MORGAN has sack in 2 of past 3…Rookie LB AKEEM AYERS (2nd round, No. 39) recorded 1st career sack last week...S JORDAN BABINEAUX had 97-yard INT-TD return last week, 3rd-longest in franchise history…STEELERS: Club has won 4 of past 5 at home…In 3 career games vs. Titans, QB BEN ROETHLISBERGER is 2-1 & has completed 67 of 93 passes (72 pct.) for 910 yards with 5 TDs & 102.9 passer rating. Roethlisberger has 18-7 (.720) record as starter in Oct…RB RASHARD MENDENHALL has 6 rush TDs in past 7 games…WR HINES WARD (11,838) needs 67 rec. yards to surpass HOFerMICHAEL IRVIN (11,834) for 19th-most in NFL history. Has 100+ rec. yards (109, 103) in 2 of past 3 vs. Titans. WR MIKE WALLACE averages 113.5 rec. yards per game this season (454 total). Aims for 4th consecutive game with 100+ yards at home (102, 104, 126). 11 of WR ANTONIO BROWN’s 15 rec. have been for 1st downs (73.3 pct.) this season…TE HEATH MILLER (298) needs 2 catches to become 1st Pit. TE with 300 career…Defense allows 277 yards per game, 2nd-lowest in NFL this season (BENGALS, 275.5)…In last game vs. Ten., LB JAMES HARRISON had 2 sacks, 2 FFs & FR…S TROY POLAMALUhas 3 INTs in 5 career games vs. Titans.

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Have I mentioned how much I hate the Steelers??

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by StPrattrick on Oct 4, 2011 9:06 PM CDT reply actions

I concur

A victory over the steelers would be a magical thing.

by CJB Tennessee on Oct 4, 2011 11:01 PM CDT via iPhone app up reply actions

Nope or atleast i havent seen it

Best sig ever, reason 1, reason 2

by Ice0ne (CAJ) on Oct 5, 2011 1:08 AM CDT up reply actions

With the white-hot intensity of 1000 suns?

Me too.

Have I mentioned that I’ll be at that game?

by swells on Oct 5, 2011 6:40 AM CDT up reply actions

How can we be +2 in TO?

Hasslebeck has 8 TD’s to three pics, and Ringer has a TD. We’ve had four fumbles?

"Munchak was just asked why we went for it instead of kicking the field goal: ’ I don’t want to be the same 3 point team we used to be.’"....WE WIN

by DuelDukes on Oct 4, 2011 9:14 PM CDT reply actions

TO is based on interceptions/fumbles for vs against.

Not TDs

Ain't no time for hesitatin'
All you got to do is groove

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by BonzosMontreaux on Oct 4, 2011 9:16 PM CDT up reply actions

ha jackass moment

my bad had a brain vessel pop or something

"Munchak was just asked why we went for it instead of kicking the field goal: ’ I don’t want to be the same 3 point team we used to be.’"....WE WIN

by DuelDukes on Oct 4, 2011 9:16 PM CDT up reply actions

Are you ok?

Best sig ever, reason 1, reason 2

by Ice0ne (CAJ) on Oct 5, 2011 1:09 AM CDT up reply actions

as I hit post I remembered that was the case

for some reason I was thinking about TO’s verse TD ratio which is also a telling ratio for a team. I think we’re doing pretty well in both categories, but we should be better then +2. Hopefully Big Ben and the -10 can help us out a little.

"Munchak was just asked why we went for it instead of kicking the field goal: ’ I don’t want to be the same 3 point team we used to be.’"....WE WIN

by DuelDukes on Oct 4, 2011 9:24 PM CDT reply actions

Pretty even statistical match

We have the edge in QB and they have it in receivers (which you’d expect comparing a #1 to a #2). Everything else is even except turnovers which are strongly in our favour but IIRC they turned it over 7 times against the Ravens so that may be deceptive. Factor in the home field advantage and the 6.5 point underdog doesn’t look like quite the insult I felt it to be at ;first glance. That said, this is very much a game the Titans can win IMHO; some key Steeler injuries aren’t reflected in the history and our defensive edge may be better than these parameters suggest. If Hasselbeck continues to get excellent protection and CJ continues to improve we can score on these guys.

Too soon to be talking about a Superbowl? Ummm... Ok

by Father of Zeus on Oct 4, 2011 10:03 PM CDT reply actions

Lordy, lordy

How I do hate the Steelers, yes I do,
Hates ‘em so much I could just poo,
I realize that’ll make a mess just foul,
but I have this handy yellow and black towel.

Yeah, I’m not quitting my day job. Hey, on another note, do you guys realize that our offense is still dangerous without CJ and Britt? Huh? How the heck did that happen? Am I in some alternate universe?

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by numbertenox on Oct 4, 2011 10:27 PM CDT reply actions

I liked the part about poo.

I had a signature here, but it got sacked by Karl Klug.

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R.I.P. Dinger

by fanoftheunderdogs on Oct 4, 2011 10:30 PM CDT up reply actions

A reply

I understand your hatred I do,
But let me pose one question of you,
What if this poo is not so foul?
This would not befit your plans for that towel.

May I suggest a secondary plan?
Fill Big Ben’s helmet with this BM so bland.
Surely this will disrupt his vision plane,
And further compound his shit for brains!

God I hope we beat the steelers…

by CJB Tennessee on Oct 4, 2011 11:19 PM CDT via iPhone app up reply actions

nicely done

Steelers, Patriots, Chargers, Ravens, Jets. My least favorite teams in the NFL. Weird how none of the teams in our current division get under my skin.

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by numbertenox on Oct 5, 2011 12:05 AM CDT up reply actions

I have the sincerest hatred of the Colts

Then I hate the Jags when they’re an ok team that everybody crowns as a great team… a lot like the Texans this year.

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NO REALLY I LITERALLY BLEED TWO TONE BLUE!!! That operation to dye my blood was the best $100,000 I ever spent

by Grimerz757 on Oct 5, 2011 7:03 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions

Steelers, Ravens, Cowboys, and Texans for me

I’ll give the Colts a break this year out of pity. Unless they get Luck. Then, fuck em.

"I wear tinted visor not to trick other players, but so hot girls in stands don't see me looking at them" - Alex Ovechkin

Follow!

by sami426 on Oct 5, 2011 8:44 AM CDT up reply actions

NFL.com had a great home page up now.

Hasselbeck on front page with talk of MVP

by Charr7188 on Oct 5, 2011 1:42 AM CDT reply actions

I just woke up and the Titans were in my dreams

And it wasn’t good. In my dream I was watching the game at this bar with some friends and the Titans were completely imploding on offense. Two pick-sixes, a safety, and a blocked punt had us down 23-6 at halftime… after that I had another dream or just woke up.. can’t really tell.

I guess Freud would say that this is just a manifestation of my subconscious fears that this team could blow up at any time. I certainly hope my subconscious is wrong.

Go Titans! Go Magic!

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by madhjsp on Oct 5, 2011 6:59 AM CDT reply actions

Interweb DVOA: +100%
Epistemological Police
#1 receiver = the open receiver

by rothbard on Oct 5, 2011 7:59 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

Yes, agreed rothbard

"You play to win the game!"

by TitanNDCClothing on Oct 5, 2011 10:11 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

WE WIN!

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7060207/houston-texans-andre-johnson-expected-miss-three-weeks-according-report

by Daniel Knick on Oct 5, 2011 9:22 AM CDT reply actions

Why do I hate the Steelers?

Because here is a guy complaining about James Harrison getting hit in the head during a block. James Harrison! And on a block that he very obviously saw coming!

http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2011/10/4/2469047/james-harrison-injury-duane-brown-nfl-week-5#storyjump

This game is probably not as important as next week’s game, but still, just for sheer STFU value, this is a game that the Titans desperately need to win.

DannoE

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by DannoE on Oct 5, 2011 9:42 AM CDT reply actions

In James Harrison's defense he seems pretty upbeat about the injury

He was talking on his twitter like “yeah dude totally wasn’t a concussion, friggin helmet messed up my eye no biggie” (sorta paraphrasing, especially since Harrison doesn’t talk like a surfer) but really dude, that injury sounds like you might lose your friggin eyeball if you’re not careful… The guy is tough we gotta give him that much

I Bleed Two tone blue...
NO REALLY I LITERALLY BLEED TWO TONE BLUE!!! That operation to dye my blood was the best $100,000 I ever spent

by Grimerz757 on Oct 5, 2011 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions

the fans... are always gonna whine about stuff though... so it's sorta meh

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by Grimerz757 on Oct 5, 2011 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions

I've have fractured my orbital bone before and it is no joke...

it feels like your entire skull is broken 24 hours a day (which is kinda is) as a result I had a sinus cavity collapse as well, which I still have problems with to this day. This is a really really shitty injury because there is nothing you can really do but heal with time.

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by StPrattrick on Oct 5, 2011 11:52 AM CDT up reply actions

oh wow

how is that man so friggin optimistic about that injury, i jammed my tooth into my face before (and suffered a mild concussion) and i seriously thought the swelling wouldn’t go down and i’d look like a freak, and the pain alone was enough to make me scream (until i got put on meds) I have always respected NFL players, but i respect Harrison just a lil bit more, hope he returns onto the field soon (if it’s against us, hope we pummel him into the ground lol)

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by Grimerz757 on Oct 5, 2011 11:57 AM CDT up reply actions

It is possible--and, in fact, easy--to respect a player but dislike his fans.

DannoE

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by DannoE on Oct 5, 2011 12:17 PM CDT up reply actions

Pros vs. Cons

Things to look forward to:

Hopefully Big Ben’s mobility is a little limited. I think that D-Line is licking it’s chops to hit the QB, whether it be Roethlesberger or Dixon.

James Harrison is definitely out, so that’s the good news.

Matty Iceberg is on a role, and Nate Washington should be motivated to go against his old squad. I expect those two to be factors

Jared Cook…see what you did the Scott Fujita last week? Do the same thing again if they keep trying to match LBs on you

Things to be afraid of:

Chris Johnson never runs well against the Steelers. I think I read somewhere that the Titans average 83 yards a game against them since he was drafted. That’s not near enough. CJ has got to top 100 again if we’re going to win.

All because Harrison is out, that doesn’t mean Lawrence Timmons can’t ball. Timmons has played against us before, and wrecked havoc.

Mike Wallace: The guy is a speedster and averages 18 yards a catch. Who matches up against him? Finnegan normally would I’d imagine, but when we go in the nickle, then who? McCourty? Verner? Who you gonna go with? Whoever it is, Griffin and Babineaux better be ready to help over the top.

Things to contemplate:

Does anyone know the extent of the injury to Craig Stevens? He’s slowly turning into one of my favorite players, as a guy who can do it all.

Best matchup:

For me, it’s going to be Michael Roos and David Stewart against whoever is blitzing for Pittsburgh. I believe that will determine the game.

Prediction:

Titans 21- Steelers 20

Optimism prevails!

by ndnpride8806 on Oct 6, 2011 12:51 AM CDT reply actions