Titans @ Bills · Week 10 — SapphireSportz

WEEK 10 · FINAL

THE READ

Titans beat Bills, 31-17

Titans did what they needed to, 31-17. Cam Ward threw for Titans — 24/37, 306 yards, 2 TD, 2 INT. Jonathan Taylor did the work on the ground for Titans — 15 carries, 89 yards, 1 TD. Make it 4 consecutive games past 250 for Cam Ward. Total yards: Titans 440, Bills 308.

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THE WIDER PICTURE

Team	SRS	SOS	MARGIN	TO +/-
Titans	+2.6	-1.3	+3.9	+12
Bills	+1.5	-2.1	+3.6	+11

SRS is how many points a side beats an average team by once you account for who they played — beat a good team by 3 and it counts for more than beating a bad one by 20. SOS is how hard that schedule has been. Full table.

Bills — AFC #4 · division · 8-6 Titans — AFC #7 · 8-6 Playoff picture →

IN THE BOOTH

Nicole Santos Beat reporter

Tennessee's defense made Buffalo one-dimensional and it showed: the Bills ran 30 times for 174 passing yards while the Titans got 306 through the air and 440 total. Ward's 2 interceptions kept this from being a rout, but 5 sacks on Buffalo's line decided a 14-point game.

Charlie Kirkster Analyst · replying

Buffalo's real problem isn't what Tennessee did to them—it's that Buffalo's own turnover margin has carried them this far and it's about to run out. A 4-5 team that's only +8 in giveaways doesn't stay in the hunt long.

They only ever read the box score and this league's own numbers — none of them has a source, and none of them can report anything that did not happen.

Cam Ward

Titans

24/37, 306 yards, 2 TD, 2 INT

Jonathan Taylor

Titans

15 carries, 89 yards, 1 TD

James Cook III

Bills

17 carries, 83 yards, 1 TD

THE STORY SO FAR

🔥 Cam Ward has now cleared 250 passing yards in 4 straight games.

⭐ James Cook III has not had a better afternoon this season.

📈 Chimere Dike is in form: 95 receiving yards a game over his last three, against a season average of 60.

WHAT DECIDED IT

Total yards Titans 440, Bills 308 Titans

Through the air Titans 306, Bills 174 Titans

Pressure Bills 1 sacks, Titans 5 Titans

Giveaways Bills 1, Titans 2 Bills

THE ROOM Final. The recap is below.

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THE MATCHUP SCOUT every number below is counted from the export or read off the roster — nothing is inferred about playcalling

LEAGUE DATA counted by Madden, and arithmetic on top of it

Pass-heavy Pass 61% · Rush 39% · 25.3 scored, 21.4 allowed

7.8 yds/att 61.6% completions 4.8 yds/carry 333.4 yds/game 1.1 giveaways/game 8.3% sack rate last 5: 1-4

Primary weapon: Carnell Tate WR — 34% of the receiving yards · DEPENDENCY HIGH

SAPPHIRE METRICS QB efficiency 58 · Efficient Balance 89 Ball security 68 Back usage 35% QB runs 2.3/game

Most exposed: pressure -- sacked on 8.3% of dropbacks

PERSONNEL off the roster — unit averages, best starters only

QB 87 WR 87 TE 77 RB 90 OL 79 DL 90 LB 85 DB 86

Best: Jonathan Taylor HB 99 Fastest: Chimere Dike WR 94 SPD 5 at star dev or better

YOUR NOTEBOOK what you wrote about them — private, and never a Sapphire statistic

HOW THEY PLAY the man, not the franchise — only weeks the record attributes to him, this season

Ant

Bills · his last 8 games

Runs it Runs the quarterback

Pass / run55% / 45% Points for / against20.1 — 20.9 Margin-0.8 Giveaways a game1.5 Sacks taken7.8% of dropbacks Lead backJames Cook III · 13.2/g Top targetDJ Moore · 26% QB carries5.1 a game

BlackManJenkins

Titans · his last 8 games

Balanced One back Takes sacks

Pass / run59% / 41% Points for / against22.4 — 19.9 Margin+2.5 Giveaways a game1.0 Sacks taken9.1% of dropbacks Lead backJonathan Taylor · 15.4/g Top targetCarnell Tate · 27% QB carries1.8 a game

Counted from the weeks each man actually held his team — so a franchise that changed hands is not credited to whoever has it now. Nothing above is a playcall: the export does not carry those, and neither does this.

THE SERIES BlackManJenkins against Ant — the men, not the teams

BlackManJenkins leads it 1-0. BlackManJenkins won the last one.

1 meeting avg 31.0 — 17.0 biggest: 14 pts to BlackManJenkins

S2 · week 10 BlackManJenkins 31 — 17 Ant BLACKMANJENKINS

Only meetings Sapphire can attribute to both men are counted — a Madden export never says who owned a team last season, so the series starts where the record does.

MATCHUP ADVANTAGES unit averages against each other — inside three points is a push

Titans receivers vs Bills secondary 87 v 88 EVEN

Bills receivers vs Titans secondary 86 v 86 EVEN

Titans line vs Bills front 79 v 86 BILLS

Bills line vs Titans front 80 v 90 TITANS

Titans backs vs Bills run defence 90 v 84 TITANS

Bills backs vs Titans run defence 91 v 89 EVEN

Titans passer vs Bills secondary 87 v 88 EVEN

Bills passer vs Titans secondary 99 v 86 BILLS

TOP PERFORMERS

Cam Ward QB Titans 306 pass yds

Josh Allen QB Bills 174 pass yds

Chimere Dike WR Titans 90 rec yds

Jonathan Taylor HB Titans 89 rush yds

James Cook III HB Bills 83 rush yds

Carnell Tate WR Titans 76 rec yds

Cooper Kupp WR Bills 63 rec yds

Elic Ayomanor WR Titans 52 rec yds

Jeffery Simmons DT Titans 1.5 sacks

Christian Benford CB Bills 1 INTs

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BOX SCORE

TITANS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
Cam Ward QB	24/37	306	2	2	1	52	86

BILLS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
Josh Allen QB	15/24	174	1	0	5	30	98.2

TITANS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	BTK	YAC	LNG
Jonathan Taylor HB	15	89	5.9	1	7	45	21
Nick Singleton HB	10	39	3.9	1	2	5	11
Cam Ward QB	3	6	2	0	0	0	5
Eli Finley TE	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Daniel Bellinger TE	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Carnell Tate WR	0	0	0	0	1	0	0

BILLS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	BTK	YAC	LNG	FUM
James Cook III HB	17	83	4.9	1	4	40	17	1
Ray Davis HB	8	24	3	0	0	0	6	0
Josh Allen QB	3	16	5.3	0	0	0	6	0
DJ Moore WR	2	11	5.5	0	1	9	14	0
Khalil Shakir WR	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0

TITANS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	DRP	LNG
Chimere Dike WR	6	90	15	0	14	1	24
Carnell Tate WR	3	76	25.3	1	54	0	52
Elic Ayomanor WR	3	52	17.3	0	10	0	24
Daniel Bellinger TE	3	33	11	0	13	0	16
Jonathan Taylor HB	5	26	5.2	0	23	0	13
Nick Singleton HB	3	20	6.7	1	10	0	11
Eli Finley TE	1	9	9	0	0	0	9

BILLS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	DRP	LNG
Cooper Kupp WR	5	63	12.6	0	15	0	30
Dalton Kincaid TE	3	34	11.3	1	0	0	24
Khalil Shakir WR	2	25	12.5	0	14	1	16
DJ Moore WR	1	25	25	0	2	0	25
Jackson Hawes TE	1	11	11	0	0	0	11
Joshua Palmer WR	1	8	8	0	0	0	8
James Cook III HB	1	4	4	0	0	0	4
Dawson Knox TE	1	4	4	0	3	0	4

TITANS

PLAYER	TKL	SCK	FF	CMP ALW
Kayvon Thibodeaux LEDG	8	1	0	0
Kevin Winston Jr FS	5	0	0	2
DJ McKinney CB	5	0	0	5
Jeffery Simmons DT	4	1.5	0	0
Keldric Faulk LEDG	4	1	0	0
Alontae Taylor CB	3	0	0	1
Anthony Hill Jr. MIKE	3	0	0	2
Joshua Williams CB	2	0	0	2
Cedric Gray WILL	2	0.5	0	0
DeForest Buckner DT	2	0.5	0	0
Ty Okada FS	2	0.5	0	3
Cor'Dale Flott CB	1	0	0	0
John Franklin-Myers DT	1	0	1	0

BILLS

PLAYER	TKL	SCK	INT	PD	CMP ALW
Marlon Humphrey CB	7	0	0	0	6
C.J. Gardner-Johnson SS	7	0	1	0	6
Terrel Bernard MIKE	6	0	0	1	2
Anthony Smith DT	5	0	0	0	0
Geno Stone FS	3	0	0	0	1
Ed Oliver DT	3	0	0	0	0
T.J. Parker REDG	3	0.5	0	0	0
Cole Bishop FS	3	0	0	0	5
Dorian Williams WILL	2	0	0	0	1
Christian Benford CB	2	0	1	0	1
Davison Igbinosun CB	2	0	0	0	2
Chidobe Awuzie CB	1	0	0	0	0
Greg Rousseau LEDG	1	0.5	0	0	0
Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy DT	1	0	0	0	0

TITANS

PLAYER	FG	XP	LNG
Maddux Trujillo K	1/1	4/4	22

BILLS

PLAYER	FG	XP	LNG
Tyler Bass K	1/2	2/2	26

RECENT FORM

Titans

W 35–3 vs Patriots WK 9

W 24–13 vs Panthers WK 8

W 21–14 vs Saints WK 6

Bills

L 13–24 vs Texans WK 9

L 17–27 vs Ravens WK 8

L 22–28 vs Giants WK 7

TEAM STATS

Titans		Bills
440	TOTAL YARDS	308
306	PASSING YARDS	174
134	RUSHING YARDS	134
1	SACKS ALLOWED	5
5	SACKS MADE	1
2	GIVEAWAYS	1
1	TAKEAWAYS	2

Bold is the side that won that line. Giveaways come off a team's own offensive rows and takeaways off its own defensive rows — two separate payloads, so they need not tie out against each other.

ALL-TIME HEAD-TO-HEAD

1 TITANS — 0 BILLS

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