{"id":255725,"date":"2025-08-02T10:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/255725\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T10:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:51:07","slug":"vince-young-leads-win-over-new-york-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/255725\/","title":{"rendered":"Vince Young leads win over New York Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are not here to bully Mathias Kiwanuka.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The best-played quarter in the history of Tennessee Titans<\/a> football came on Nov. 26, 2006 against the New York Giants<\/a>. Maybe not the most important or the most significant. But pure best? No question.<\/p>\n

It’s where we find No. 7 on The Tennessean’s<\/a> list of Tennessee Titans’ best moments.<\/a><\/p>\n

Some background: Eli Manning and the Giants led 21-0 at the start of the fourth quarter. After a Giants turnover-on-downs and a Titans punt, cornerback Adam \u201cPacman\u201d Jones intercepted Manning to get the Titans rolling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Quarterback Vince Young leads a nine-play, 46-yard touchdown drive. The defense forces a three-and-out. Jones chunks a long punt return. Young runs in another touchdown. The defense forces another punt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And\u2026 now we kind of have to bully Mathias Kiwanuka.<\/p>\n

For those who don\u2019t remember, Kiwanuka was a darn good football player. A two-time All-American at Boston College. A two-time Super Bowl winner with the Giants. Logged 38.5 career sacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But here, well, let\u2019s just say he should\u2019ve had 39.5 career sacks.<\/p>\n

Fourth-and-10 and 2:45 left.<\/p>\n

Titans backed up at their own 24-yard line. Young is buying time in the pocket. Kiwanuka spins out of tackle Michael Roos\u2019 grasp and right into Young\u2019s waist. He wraps Young up as cleanly as anyone\u2019s ever wrapped anyone up. Textbook. Game over\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2026if Kiwanuka finishes the tackle. Instead he just\u2026 kinda\u2026 lets Young go?\u00a0<\/p>\n

More: Tennessee Titans fans shouldn’t fret \u2014 yet \u2014 about Cam Ward’s growing pains | Estes<\/a><\/p>\n

Young scrambles around some more, pump fakes, builds speed and ends up maneuvering 19 yards upfield for the first down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then came a 20-yard gain. Then a 16-yard gain. Then a 14-yard TD to tie the score. Then Jones picks off Manning again. Two more Young completions. A 49-yard Rob Bironas field goal. The Titans win, 24-21, in regulation.<\/p>\n

Nick Suss is the Titans beat writer for The Tennessean. Contact Nick at\u00a0 nsuss@gannett.com<\/a>. Follow Nick on X, the platform formerly called Twitter, @nicksuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are not here to bully Mathias Kiwanuka.\u00a0 The best-played quarter in the history of Tennessee Titans football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[3689,247,265,433,952,318,5190,3724,3690,7,519,3688,20842,4959,206,1917,56,88,2321,2469,6,35196,245,537,530,9,266,678,3691,526,394,527,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-255725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-boston","12":"tag-boston-college","13":"tag-college","14":"tag-eli","15":"tag-eli-manning","16":"tag-enabled","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-giants","19":"tag-highlights","20":"tag-hub","21":"tag-manning","22":"tag-new","23":"tag-new-york","24":"tag-new-york-giants","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-newyork","27":"tag-newyorkgiants","28":"tag-nfl","29":"tag-nfl-hub","30":"tag-overall","31":"tag-overall-positive","32":"tag-positive","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-news","35":"tag-story","36":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","37":"tag-tennessee","38":"tag-tennessee-titans","39":"tag-titans","40":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114958793716555796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}