The Titans entered the game as one of three unbeaten teams in the NFL, while the Texans were riding the post-B.O’B. hype-wave with a win over the juggernaut Jaguars. The Titans proved on TuNF that they were still firing on all cylinders despite their COVID hiatus, and they came out strong again this week. They put up touchdowns on long demoralizing possessions on three of their first four drives and went into halftime up 21-10. Derrick Henry looked like a man among children blasting through the Texans defense who ranks in the bottom quarter of the league in DVOA.

The third quarter, however, saw the Titans crumble like dried-out pumpkin bread. The Texans scored 13 unanswered points while the Titans had a blocked field goal, a lost fumble, and a missed field goal on consecutive drives. HOWEVA, both of the Texans’ touchdowns came on great field position, and Tannehill still had shining moments mixed in, and while Henry completely disappeared, only rushing for 14 yards in the quarter, you can never count him out.

On the first play of Titans’ first drive of the 4th, down by two on their own 6-yard line, Derrick Henry broke off a NINETY-FOUR (94) yard touchdown run where he proved he’s not only stronger than the entire Texans team but also faster. And then they put salt in the wound with a two-point conversion. (This is also when Scoragami started getting interesting, jumping to 16%). Instead of rolling over, Deshaun Watson led the Texans on a two-play 75-yard TD drive. And then the defense that had just been embarrassed 3 plays earlier picked off a Tannehill deep ball, leading to a punishing 15-play, 7-minute touchdown drive to put the Texans up by 7. And then something weird happened. Instead of kicking the PAT to go up by 8, which would require the Titans to get a TD and two-point conversion, the Texans went for 2 and failed to convert. Now, Fairbairn did miss one extra point earlier in the game, and if they’d been able to go up by 9 that would have completely iced the game but it still feels like Romeo Crennel was daring fate with this one… and the Titans rose to the challenge. Driving 76 yards down the field, the Titans tied the game with only 7 ticks on the clock. ONTO OVERTIME (this is also where we lost Scoragami :disappointed:, it got to 87% which was thrilling).

Showing his versatility and maybe still feeling the sting of the third quarter, Derrick Henry turned a 2nd-and-long screen pass into a 53-yard gain and took the game into his presumably ginormous hands, and blasted a 3rd-and-goal direct-snap in for a touchdown.

The Titans front office looks prophetic in running this team back from last year with Tannehill at #4 in the Week 7 NFL QB index (we are praying for you @ChrisWesseling), throwing for 366 yards, 4 TDs, and only 1 INT, combined with Henry showing plenty of tread left on his tires with over 250 yards of offense and two TDs of his own. Titans play the only other undefeated AFC team later this week.