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Week 2 Game Recap: Indianapolis Colts 22, Tennessee Titans 20
What you need to know
| Indianapolis Colts |
The Colts came into this game with three extra days rest since their resounding victory on opening night victory over the New Orleans Saints.
QB Peyton Manning threw for 312 yards with a single touchdown pass and a single interception. The interception was not his fault as WR Reggie Wayne simply stopped running on the play due to apparent leg pain.
The Colts made their way into the red zone on five separate occasions but only mustered a single touchdown on RB Joseph Addai's eight yard run. The other four trips ended up with FG attempts by PK Adam Vinatieri, who went three for four on the tries. One kick was blocked but still bounced off the crossbar and through the uprights; another kick missed wide left.
QB Peyton Manning targeted his tight ends a total of 15 times for 12 receptions. The Titans' defense was determined to stop the deep routes and Manning took what they gave him. His only touchdown pass was for 22 yards to TE Dallas Clark.
RB Joseph Addai averaged just over four yards a carry and ended up with 87 yards and a touchdown on 20 attempts.
| Tennessee Titans |
The Titans managed a last second upset of the Colts last year and they were able to keep this match-up close but failed to come away with a victory.
QB Vince Young was once again elusive running the ball. As usual, he was very adept at causing defenders to miss tackles seemingly every time he stepped past the line of scrimmage. Young tried to spread the ball out with seven different players catching the ball. WR Roydell Williams pulled in four receptions for 72 yards and a touchdown.
RB Chris Brown failed to come close to his eye-popping Week one totals only carrying the ball 12 times for 34 yards. RB LenDale White picked up the slack managing 64 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries. CB Cortland Finnegan caught an interception deep in the Colts end which resulted in a touchdown from RB LenDale White.
WR Eric Moulds caught two balls early but wasn't heard from in the second half. WR Brandon Jones had a great chance to keep the Titans' last drive going but he let a ball bounce of his hands on third down.
What you ought to know
| QB Peyton Manning, Pass: 28 - 42 - 312 - 1 TD / 1 INT, Rush: 1 - -2 - 0 |
Manning spread the ball among his wide receivers and tight ends, generally taking what the Titans' defense would give. His only INT came on a play where targeted WR Reggie Wayne stopped running with some apparent leg pain. Manning targeted his tight ends a total of 15 times as the Titans tried to focus on stopping the deep routes.
He took a hard hit from Albert Haynesworth on the first play of the second quarter but appeared fine for the duration of the game. The Colts made five trips to the red zone but only came away with a single touchdown which was the touchdown run by RB Joseph Addai. The other four trips ended up in FG attempts by PK Adam Vinatieri. In the red zone in the third quarter, Manning overthrew WR Reggie Wayne in the endzone.
| RB Joseph Addai, Rush: 20 - 81 - 1, Rec: 2 - 6 - 0 (3 targets) |
Addai put up solid numbers versus the Titans' defense. He was targeted by Peyton Manning three times, but had a nice eight yard touchdown run in the first quarter. In the second quarter, he took a hard hit from Keith Bullock and was not on the field during the next play. He eventually returned to action.
| WR Marvin Harrison, Rec: 6 - 87 - 0 (12 targets) |
Harrison was targeted 12 times but only reeled in six of those passes. Late in the second quarter, QB Peyton Manning was drastically off target to Harrison as the two were uncharacteristically not in tune with each other.
| WR Reggie Wayne, Rec: 5 - 70 - 0 (6 targets) |
Wayne was targeted six times and hauled in five of those passes. In the third quarter, with the Colts deep in their own zone on a 3rd and eight, Wayne pulled up limping after some potential illegal contact. The pass ended up being picked off by the Titans, but Wayne returned on the next drive and did not miss any time.
| WR Anthony Gonzalez, Rec: 3 - 49 - 0 (3 targets) |
Rookie Gonzalez made the first catch of his career during the Colts' drive at the end of the first half. He held on to the ball despite being in the middle of some tight double coverage. His only other two receptions came during that same drive. He was not targeted in the second half.
| TE Dallas Clark, Rec: 7 - 69 - 1 (10 targets) |
Manning took what the Titans' defense gave him and targeted Clark ten times for seven receptions, 69 yards and a touchdown.
| TE Ben Utecht, Rec: 5 - 31 - 0 (5 targets) |
Utecht benefited from the Titans' focus on stopping the long ball. He was targeted five times and caught them all.
| PK Adam Vinatieri 3 - 4 FG, 1 - 2 XP, 10 points |
Vinatieri was good from 22, 39, and 20 on FG attempts, but was wide left on a 36 yard FG attempt in the fourth quarter. The 20 yard attempt was blocked but bounced off the crossbar and fell through the uprights. His first XP attempt in the first quarter was blocked, as well.
| IND Rush Defense |
The Titans 'offense managed 166 yards on the ground against the Colts defense. QB Vince Young proved elusive on a handful of plays causing numerous defenders to flat out miss tackles.
| IND Pass Defense |
The Colts held QB Vince Young to under 200 yards passing. The Titans averaged only 10.8 yards per reception. S Bob Sanders came up with 2.5 sacks and seven solo tackles.
| QB Vince Young, Pass: 17 - 27 - 184 - 1 TD / 0 INT, Rush: 5 - 53 - 0 |
Young ran and threw the ball effectively throughout the game. On their final drive of the game, he ran twice and completed two passes but the drive ended after Brandon Jones let the ball tip off his hands on third down. On the final offensive play of the game, QB Vince Young was swarmed by defenders. He tossed the ball back to OL Jacob Bell who fumbled while trying to lateral it. Young also pulled off a 21 yard run in the second quarter. He made three defenders miss tackles before going down.
On the Titans' second possession, he took a hard hit and laid on the ground for a few moments while holding his head before popping up and trying to fire up his team. With less than two minutes left in the first half, he ran out of bounds in the Colts end of the field. After the play he lightly tossed the ball at the gut of a Colts defender and was assessed a 15 yard penalty that effectively killed the drive.
| RB LenDale White, Rush: 15 - 64 - 1 |
White rushed for the bulk of the yards for the Titans. He averaged 4.2 yards a carry and rushed for one touchdown. He was the featured back on the opening drive of the game.
| RB Chris Brown, Rush: 12 - 34 - 0, Rec: 1 - 2 - 0 (1 targets) |
Brown did not repeat his week one performance. Instead, he rushed 12 times for 34 yards and was out gained and outshone by RB LenDale White. He added one catch for two yards.
| WR Brandon Jones, Rec: 5 - 57 - 0 (7 targets) |
Jones was targeted seven times by Vince Young. He ended up with five catches for 57 yards. On the last drive of the game for the Titans, Jones had the ball bounce of his fingers on a critical third down with time ticking away. The Titans ended up turning the ball over on downs and losing the game.
| WR Roydell Williams, Rec: 4 - 72 - 1 (5 targets) |
Williams hauled in four catches for 72 yards and a touchdown. His touchdown catch came on a nice diving effort on the side of the endzone as he came down with the ball before falling out of bounds.
| WR Chris Davis, Rush: 1 - 5 - 0, Rec: 3 - 17 - 0 (4 targets) |
Davis pulled down three balls but only mustered 17 total yards. He also fumbled the ball along the sideline after a catch in the third quarter when the defender's helmet dislodged the ball from his grasp.
| WR Eric Moulds, Rec: 2 - 18 - 0 (2 targets) |
Moulds caught two passes in the first quarter against the Colts but was not targeted again for the rest of the game.
| TE Bo Scaife, Rec: 1 - 8 - 0 (3 targets) |
Despite all of the talk that Scaife is QB Vince Young's favorite receiving target, Scaife only pulled down a single catch for eight yards over three targets.
| TE Ben Troupe (1 targets) |
Troupe was targeted only once during the loss and finished the game with no receptions.
| PK Rob Bironas 2 - 2 FG, 2 - 2 XP, 8 points |
Bironas was two for two on both FGs and XPs.
| TEN Rush Defense |
The Titans held Joseph Addai to just 36 yards in the second half, even stopping Addai for a loss on a key 3rd and one late in the game. Addai averaged just over four yards per carry against the Titans defense for the game.
| TEN Pass Defense |
The Titans managed one interception against QB Peyton Manning on a play where WR Reggie Wayne stopped running due to apparent leg pain deep in their own zone. CB Cortland Finnegan was waiting for the ball and gave the Titans superb field position.
The Titans defense was determined to stop the deep passes from QB Peyton Manning to his receivers. Instead of throwing deep, Manning targeted his tight ends 15 times for 12 catches and a touchdown. DL Albert Haynesworth and DL Kyle Vanden Bosch each had a sack.
