Winners and losers from Tennessee Titans’ win over Green Bay Packers on ‘Thursday Night Football’
Stout defense and a heavy dose of Derrick Henry has been the Tennessee Titans’ calling card the past few seasons – and the Green Bay Packers endured both Thursday night.
Playing in Green Bay, the Titans defense contained the Packers offense for most of the game and Henry produced 132 yards from scrimmage, one rushing touchdown and threw a touchdown in a 27-17 victory.
The Titans methodically beat the Packers and controlled the contest through four quarters. The win improved the Titans to 7-3 on the season and dropped the Packers to 4-7. Tennessee’s won seven of its last eight games.
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Here are the winners and losers from Thursday’s inter-conference matchup:
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Winners
Derrick Henry
Henry entered Week 11 as the NFL’s No. 2 leading rusher. Henry compiled 132 yards from scrimmage (87 rushing yards), one rushing touchdown and even had a touchdown pass.
The workhorse running back tossed a touchdown pass near the goal line, which was an excellent play call that had Green Bay’s entire defense fooled.
Thursday night was the premiere of “The Shop” and Amazon Prime teaming up to host an alternative feed for “Thursday Night Football” on Amazon Prime. LeBron James, Maverick Carter and Paul Rivera were the hosts and provided barbershop-style conversations during the game. Jamie Foxx, Jalen Ramsey and Rob Lowe were among the guest appearances.
Losers
Green Bay offense
Aside from a couple nice throws by Aaron Rodgers and a couple touchdown catches from Watson, Green Bay’s offense was pretty much contained by the Titans defense. Rodgers uncharacteristically missed a couple throws and had some miscommunication with receivers on a few plays.
The Packers only scored six points in the first half and were booed off the field. In the third quarter, the offense put together a 69-yard touchdown drive, but were forced to punt on their two ensuing drives and turn the ball over on downs on their third drive after the touchdown.
Green Bay was held scoreless in the fourth quarter.
The Packers managed 271 total yards in the loss. Tennessee produced 408 total yards in the win.
Packers’ NFC North hopes
The loss dropped the Packers to 4-7 this season. They are currently six games behind the Minnesota Vikings in the loss column with six regular-season games remaining. Green Bay can officially kiss its division title hopes good-bye.
Packers fans
The weather was below freezing for most of the game. The temperature was 25 degrees in the third quarter and dropped to the low 20s in the fourth quarter. The poor Green Bay fans witnessed their team lose in frigid temperatures.
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