The Tennessee Titans once again looked good at the beginning of the game. Linebacker Arden Key had two early sacks on Jared Goff for big losses, Mason Rudolph ran in one touchdown and threw another, and the offense actually put together a couple of competently run drives.
But that was the extent of what the offense did today.
The defense, in the absence of any kind of depth, simply couldn’t stop the Detroit Lions’ offense and special teams blocking was nonexistent on Sunday.
To that end, this week we landed on punter Ryan Stonehouse as the Week 8 Player of the Game.
Stonehouse punted six times for 296 yards, an average of nearly 50 yards per punt, and he landed inside the 20-yard line twice. It’s not his fault that the Lions were allowed to run back his punts to give the Lions good field position.
Stonehouse has one job: Put the ball at the opposite end of the field and give his team a chance to pin their opponent as close to their own end zone as possible. He does his job better than anyone else on his team.
Stonehouse is consistent, he’s reliable, and in Week 8, he was the only one who was successful.
