Twitter reacts to Titans Wild Card win over Patriots
As you can imagine, there were plenty of reactions on Twitter from the Tennessee Titans’ Wild Card victory over the New England Patriots.
The Tennessee Titans pulled off an upset against the New England Patriots on Saturday night by beating the defending Super Bowl champs 20-13.
While their respective regular season records would typically make this result an upset, former Titans safety Bernard Pollard wasn’t ready to call it that.
He makes a fair point. Despite their record, the Titans had been playing better football than the Patriots in the second half of the season. This game was ripe for Tennessee to win, and it did exactly that.
Former Titans running back Chris Johnson gave Derrick Henry a shout out for his monster performance that saw the Alabama product total 182 yards and a touchdown on 34 carries.
Former Tennessee defensive back Mike Griffin, who happens to share the same January 4th birthday with Henry, was happy he got a win as a birthday present from his old team.
https://twitter.com/MikeGriff33/status/1213676859889717248
Former receiver Marc Mariani thought this was the greatest game he had ever seen.
Former NFL defensive end Chris Long proclaimed the Titans the third-best team in the AFC, which means he thinks they’re better than the Houston Texans.
Bleacher Report wasted no time proclaiming the Patriots’ dynasty dead, as did others.
https://twitter.com/whitegusjohnson/status/1213676305385955329
Sam Stein of MSNBC and the Daily Beast was out there throwing shade at the Pats.
FS1’s Skip Bayless had a take that I actually agree with, which might be a first.
Oh, the burn on this next one.
https://twitter.com/EKCotter/status/1213678058823127040
The Titans will enjoy this win for a few days, but after that it’ll be back to preparing for what will be another difficult matchup against the No. 1 seed in the AFC, the Baltimore Ravens, a team that went 14-2 this season.
Regardless of what happens in that matchup, it’s safe to say this Titans season has been a success because of this win.