{"id":382649,"date":"2025-09-20T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/382649\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T10:52:08","slug":"cam-ward-carries-titans-to-first-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/382649\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Ward carries Titans to first win"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tennessee Titans<\/a> are still searching for their first win of the season as the Indianapolis Colts<\/a> arrive to town for the Week 3 game on Sept. 21 at Nissan Stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cam Ward<\/a> looked better in the Week 2 loss to the LA Rams<\/a>, throwing his first career touchdown pass. But he and the Titans<\/a> offense slumped in the fourth quarter as LA took control.<\/p>\n

If Ward can put four quarters together, with help from the offensive line against a so-so pass rush, the Titans may be in line to record their first win of 2025.<\/p>\n

The Colts<\/a> offense looked good in two wins to open the season at home, with Daniel Jones<\/a> looking as comfortable throwing downfield as he ever has as a pro. And don’t forget about All-Pro running back Jonathan Taylor, who eclipsed 100 rushing yards in last week’s win over Denver.<\/p>\n

Here are the Tennessean’s Titans-Colts expert picks:<\/p>\n

Nick Suss, Titans beat reporter<\/p>\n

Colts 28, Titans 23<\/p>\n

The story on the Titans remains the same: Until this team can prove it knows how to play well late, it’s hard to pick them. Expect Ward and the offense to have some success against a defense that won’t pressure the quarterback as much. But those pesky fourth quarters keep burning the Titans, and that’ll be the case again.<\/p>\n

Gentry Estes, columnist<\/p>\n

Titans 19, Colts 17<\/p>\n

Just feels like each of these teams might be due one of those revert-to-the-mean NFL results. Plus, I can\u2019t pick the Titans to lose every week, right?<\/p>\n

Nick Gray, trending reporter<\/p>\n

Titans 24, Colts 20<\/p>\n

You can’t watch the first two games of the season for each team and think the Titans have a reasonable chance to win. But it’s not the worst matchup given Indy’s lack of a pass rush. (Plus, if not this game, then when for win No. 1?)<\/p>\n

Tom Kreager, Tennessean sports director<\/p>\n

Colts 27, Titans 17<\/p>\n

Danny Dimes does it again. The Colts have too much going for them right now. Meanwhile, the Titans can\u2019t help themselves with way too many penalties and disastrous fourth-quarter meltdowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tennessee Titans are still searching for their first win of the season as the Indianapolis Colts arrive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[247,265,240,2005,4143,2772,864,3203,7,1134,20842,2004,392,2381,1979,1753,1702,3198,239,58,677,679,246,88,6,35196,14607,8875,245,264,3197,424,9,266,8138,678,2355,526,394,3199,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-382649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-angeles","11":"tag-colts","12":"tag-daniel","13":"tag-daniel-jones","14":"tag-exclude","15":"tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-from","18":"tag-hub","19":"tag-indianapolis","20":"tag-indianapolis-colts","21":"tag-indianapoliscolts","22":"tag-jonathan","23":"tag-jonathan-taylor","24":"tag-jones","25":"tag-logic","26":"tag-los","27":"tag-los-angeles-rams","28":"tag-modular","29":"tag-modular-story","30":"tag-neutral","31":"tag-news","32":"tag-nfl","33":"tag-nfl-hub","34":"tag-nissan","35":"tag-nissan-stadium","36":"tag-overall","37":"tag-overall-neutral","38":"tag-paywall","39":"tag-rams","40":"tag-sports","41":"tag-sports-news","42":"tag-stadium","43":"tag-story","44":"tag-taylor","45":"tag-tennessee","46":"tag-tennessee-titans","47":"tag-testing","48":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382649","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=382649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}