{"id":297318,"date":"2025-08-18T06:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/297318\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:20:37","slug":"titans-defeat-the-falcons-23-20-heres-how-fans-reacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/297318\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans defeat the Falcons, 23-20: Here&#8217;s how fans reacted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Titans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Titans<\/a> get the win 23-20 over the Falcons in 2nd preseason game and after 10 days on the road, the team is coming back home!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kayla Anderson (@KaylaAndersonTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaylaAndersonTV\/status\/1956540232981180791?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" data-autotag=\"f9731e2d-52ac-46db-9b52-ab518dbe13b4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> got their first preseason win of 2025, with a 23-20 victory over the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta-falcons\/323\" data-autotag=\"55e278ca-caf0-429b-8b4a-caeb78bff5ff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> in Week 2 preseason action.<\/p>\n<p>In what was a sloppy game marred by dropped passes, penalties, and turnovers, there were some positives to take out of this one. Cam Ward made a couple of plays, but overall was a bit erratic, finishing 2-of-7 for 47 yards, although his wideouts didn\u2019t capitalize on some quality throws.<\/p>\n<p>The starters that played did look solid, but the depth is shaky at best. Quarterback Brandon Allen bounced back after an early interception in relief of Ward and put the team on top. But turnovers, poor run defense, and uneven special teams play kept the Falcons alive.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how fans reacted on social media to the first win of the preseason.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FINAL: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Titans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Titans<\/a> win. Reply with how you feel about this momentous preseason victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Suss (@nicksuss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicksuss\/status\/1956540276291285178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks to a score from the defense, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Titans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Titans<\/a> scored more than their average 17 points per game. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TitanUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TitanUp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charles Johns (@LJ001_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LJ001_\/status\/1956540843466092717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Van Jefferson is the villain for the night <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/titans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#titans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JayPoppinsManagement \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@PoppinEmpire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoppinEmpire\/status\/1956540624590791048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Titans win a football game for the first time since November 24, 2024<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan (@titan_insider23) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/titan_insider23\/status\/1956541489884066112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;ve witnessed a Titans win wow thought that may never happen<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 . (@sbmx33) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sbmx33\/status\/1956541268911153290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I might be over analyzing this but that was pride game for the Titans and you can tell they wanted to come out and a win preseason or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ChaeBeezy\ud83d\udc51 (@iamCBeezy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamCBeezy\/status\/1956541051914654015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Titans Win it, 23-20 against the falcons. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TitanUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TitanUp<\/a> . Also it looks like Brandon Allen will be QB2.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 j shelly\ud83d\udc3a(Jason Shelton) (@Captainwoodboat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Captainwoodboat\/status\/1956540821521441173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"#Titans get the win 23-20 over the Falcons in 2nd preseason game and after 10 days on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[857,247,265,223,254,5199,8507,1603,224,7,20842,248,267,246,88,6,35196,245,264,1602,1610,9,266,526,394,2411,527,1604],"class_list":{"0":"post-297318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-allen","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-atlanta","12":"tag-atlanta-falcons","13":"tag-brandon","14":"tag-brandon-allen","15":"tag-breaking","16":"tag-falcons","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-hub","19":"tag-national","20":"tag-national-sports","21":"tag-neutral","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-nfl-hub","25":"tag-overall","26":"tag-overall-neutral","27":"tag-smg","28":"tag-smg-breaking-wire","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-sports-news","31":"tag-tennessee","32":"tag-tennessee-titans","33":"tag-tennesseetitans","34":"tag-titans","35":"tag-wire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115048325214414883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297318","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=297318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}