Tennessee Titans: Winners and losers from Wild Card win over Patriots

Winner: Titans O-line

I wasn’t in love with the way the Titans protected Tannehill in this game, but the group upfront made up for it in the run game.

It takes a group effort to run the football effectively, and Henry had the holes he did because of the offensive line. We’ve seen this group really come together in the second half of the season and the O-line answered the bell in run blocking when this team needed it most.

Who knows where this team would have been if it couldn’t run the ball as effectively as it did tonight.

Loser: Logan Ryan

I don’t want to make a huge stink about Logan Ryan, but he did make some mistakes on Saturday night that could have been costly.

The first of which came on the Pats’ final drive of the first half. He had a gift-wrapped pick-six hit him in his hands that he couldn’t hold on to in what was a play that we would have talked about for years to come had the Titans lost.

Later in the game, Ryan picked off a Tom Brady pass and returned it for a touchdown with nine seconds remaining in the game to give the Titans a seven-point lead.

Had Ryan just downed it the Titans could have kneeled and ended the game, but instead we all had to sweat through another kickoff and possible Hail Mary after Tennessee failed to make it a two-score game with a two-point conversion.