2008 Titans 30 - 2007 Colts 10

The forward pass? Eh, it'll never catch on. That stuff is for Fairies. Kerry Collins was 6 of 14 for all of 55 yards, yet the Titans won in a convincing 30 - 10 old school game. Chris Johnson ran for over 100 yards, though over half of that was on 2 TD carries. LenDale White added another 68, with 44 of that on one carry. In fact, the Titans offense was so ineffective most of the game that they managed only ten first downs. What they did do was play sound defense, and punt returner Chris Carr had an absolutely amazing day, averaging 35 yards on his five punt returns, with three of them over 40 yards. This made for a lot of short fields for the Titans, and that meant points. The Colts often moved the ball well, but Manning was picked in the end zone on a first quarter drive, and they failed on a 4th and one, and otherwise stuff just kept happening to their drives, apart from the fact that the Titans D is really quite good. The bad Colts coverage units had a hideous day, even by their standards, and that was the difference maker.

2007 Indianapolis 10, 2008 Tennessee 30
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	OT	Total
2007 Indianapolis	0	3	7	0	0	10
2008 Tennessee	6	7	0	17	0	30

Scoring Plays
Qtr	Clock	Poss	Scoring Description(Extra Point)	Score
1	9:30	2008 Tennessee	R.Bironas 35 yd. field goal	3-0 TNA
1	1:49	2008 Tennessee	R.Bironas 23 yd. field goal	6-0 TNA
2	6:26	2008 Tennessee	B.Scaife 10 yd. pass from K.Collins (R.Bironas kick)	13-0 TNA
2	2:42	2007 Indianapolis	A.Vinatieri 27 yd. field goal	13-3 TNA
3	2:54	2007 Indianapolis	P.Manning 1 yd. run (A.Vinatieri kick)	13-10 TNA
4	11:09	2008 Tennessee	C.Johnson 31 yd. run (R.Bironas kick)	20-10 TNA
4	7:39	2008 Tennessee	R.Bironas 40 yd. field goal	23-10 TNA
4	2:25	2008 Tennessee	C.Johnson 18 yd. run (R.Bironas kick)	30-10 TNA

Team Statistics
	2007 Indianapolis	2008 Tennessee
First Downs by Rush-Pass-Pen-Total	4-11-1-16	5-4-1-10
Third Down Efficiency	5-17-29%	3-14-21%
Fourth Down Efficiency	1-2-50%	0-0-0%
Red Zone Efficiency (pts-poss-pct)	10-21-48%	20-28-71%
Total Offense-Plays-Avg Yards Per Play	312-65-4.8	225-52-4.3
Total Net Yards Rushing	63	178
Total Rushes	24	36
Average Per Rush	2.6	4.9
Passes Completed/Attempted	21/38 (55.3%)	6/14 (42.9%)
Net Yards Passing	249	47
Avg Yards Per Pass	7.2	3.9
Sacked/Yards Lost	3/23	2/8
Punts/Average	8/43.4	7/42.3
Punts Received/Return Yardage	2/7	5/175
Kickoffs/Returns	4/94	3/82
Interceptions/Returns	0/0	2/15
Penalties/Yards	4/20	6/49
Total Fumbles/Fumbles Lost	1/1	0/0
Time of Possession	32 mins 38 secs	27 mins 22 secs
Average Drive Start	INA 24	TNA 42

Passing Stats
	Att	Comp	Yds	Comp %	Yds/Att	TD	TD %	INT	INT %	Long	Sack	Rating
2007 Indianapolis
Peyton Manning	38	21	272	55.3	7.2	0	0	2	5.3	40	3/23	56.0
2008 Tennessee
Kerry Collins	14	6	55	42.9	3.9	1	7.1	0	0	13	2/8	78.0

Rushing Stats
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD	2 Pt Conv	Fumbles/Lost
2007 Indianapolis
Joseph Addai	15	47	3.1	21	0	0	0/0
Kenton Keith	8	15	1.9	6	0	0	0/0
Peyton Manning	1	1	1.0	1	1	0	0/0
2008 Tennessee
Chris D. Johnson	20	104	5.2	31	2	0	0/0
LenDale White	12	68	5.7	44	0	0	0/0
Kerry Collins	2	4	2.0	5	0	0	0/0
Quinton Ganther	1	3	3.0	3	0	0	0/0
Vince Young	1	-1	-1.0	-1	0	0	0/0

Receiving Stats
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD	2 Pt Conv
2007 Indianapolis
Reggie Wayne	6	70	11.7	23	0	0
Dallas Clark	4	64	16.0	40	0	0
Joseph Addai	3	19	6.3	7	0	0
Marvin Harrison	3	50	16.7	28	0	0
Kenton Keith	2	43	21.5	30	0	0
Anthony Gonzalez	1	9	9.0	9	0	0
Craphonso Thorpe	1	7	7.0	7	0	0
Ben Utecht	1	10	10.0	10	0	0
2008 Tennessee
Bo Scaife	2	16	8.0	10	1	0
Ahmard Hall	1	13	13.0	13	0	0
Alge Crumpler	1	4	4.0	4	0	0
Lavelle Hawkins	1	12	12.0	12	0	0
Justin McCareins	1	10	10.0	10	0	0

Field Goals
	1-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50+	Totals	% Made
2007 Indianapolis
Adam Vinatieri	0/0	1/1	0/0	0/0	0/0	1/1	100
2008 Tennessee
Rob Bironas	0/0	1/1	1/1	1/1	0/0	3/3	100

Punting
	No	Avg	Net	Tb	Inside 20	Long	Blocked
2007 Indianapolis
Hunter Smith	8	43.4	19.0	1	4	47	0
2008 Tennessee
Craig Hentrich	7	42.3	41.3	0	5	53	0

Kickoff Returns
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
2007 Indianapolis
T.J. Rushing	3	77	25.7	32	0
Craphonso Thorpe	1	17	17.0	17	0
2008 Tennessee
Chris Carr	2	64	32.0	33	0
Lavelle Hawkins	1	18	18.0	18	0

Punt Returns
	Ret	FC	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
2007 Indianapolis
T.J. Rushing	2	1	7	3.5	8	0
2008 Tennessee
Chris Carr	5	0	175	35.0	51	0

Individual Defense
	Tackles	Sacks	Fum Rec
2007 Indianapolis
Gary Brackett	9	0	0
Robert Mathis	5	1	0
Freddie Keiaho	4	0	0
Antoine Bethea	4	0	0
Tyjuan Hagler	4	0	0
Ed Johnson	4	0	0
Raheem Brock	3	1	0
T.J. Rushing	2	0	0
Bob Sanders	2	0	0
Kelvin Hayden	1	0	0
Marlin Jackson	1	0	0
2008 Tennessee
Keith Bulluck	8	1	0
Cortland Finnegan	7	0	0
Stephen Tulloch	6	0	0
Michael Griffin	4	0	0
Albert Haynesworth	4	1	0
Nick Harper	3	0	0
Jevon Kearse	3	0	0
Chris Hope	3	0	0
Tony Brown	2	0	0
Vincent Fuller	2	0	0
Chris Carr	1	0	0
Eric King	1	0	0
Jacob Ford	1	1	0
Kyle Vanden Bosch	1	0	0
David Thornton	1	0	0
Chris D. Johnson	0	0	1

Interceptions
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
2007 Indianapolis
2008 Tennessee
Keith Bulluck	1	0	0.0	0	0
Chris Carr	1	15	15.0	15	0

Game Story

Chris D. Johnson was fantastic as Tennessee bested Indianapolis by the score of 30 to 10. Johnson ran for 104 yards scoring 2 times. Tennessee controlled the ground game, out-rushing Indianapolis 178 to 63 yards. Tennessee was on top at the half 13 to 3. Peyton Manning threw 38 times for 272 yards for Indianapolis, but his effort went to waste.

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