Titans 13, Jaguars 10: Chris Brown's Big Day

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You can't pin this one on the quarterback.

You can talk all you want about the Jacksonville Jaguars dumping Byron Leftwich for David Garrard, but Zeus could have come down from Mount Olympus to quarterback the Jags today, and it wouldn't have mattered, because Jacksonville's run defense failed them miserably. The Tennessee Titans gained 282 rushing yards, and Chris Brown had a career high 175 yards on only 19 carries.

Didn't the Jags allow less than 92 rushing yards per game last year? Furthermore, wasn't the Titans' run defense one of the worst in the game last year? Well, I guess it's not last year anymore -- not when Fred Taylor and Maurice Jones-Drew get held to 48 yards on 13 carries. Jeff Fisher has clearly emphasized the run game on both sides of the ball, and that emphasis has paid off.

All told, David Garrard didn't have that bad a game, really. He completed 17 for 30 for 204 yards and a TD. He should have had 2 TDs, but Matt Jones dropped six points in the corner of the end zone. Other passes were dropped as well. A late fumble by Maurice Jones-Drew, which was caused by his own teammate colliding with him, didn't help matters. Why do these freak accidents keep happening to the Jaguars against the Titans, anyway?

As for Vince Young, he completed 11 of 18 for 78 yards and an interception, and he only ran for 22 yards on 11 carries, so Merrill Hoge isn't going to lay off him any time soon, and nobody's going to quiet down about the Madden Curse just yet. If Chris Brown has more days like this, though, that won't matter. The Titans owned the day, and the Jaguars will have to pick up the pieces of their suddenly shattered running game and run defense and move on.