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Broncos vs. Titans score: Live updates, game stats, highlights for 'Monday Night Football' - CBSSports.com

Broncos vs. Titans score: Live updates, game stats, highlights for 'Monday Night Football' - CBSSports.com

Broncos vs. Titans score: Live updates, game stats, highlights for 'Monday Night Football' - CBSSports.com
Sep 15, 2020 2 mins, 33 secs

The Denver Broncos and Tennessee Titans squared off in the final game of Week 1, and things were predictably hard-nosed and low-scoring -- albeit thrilling in the waning minutes as Titans kicker Stephen Gostkowski redeemed himself with a game-winning field goal.

The laughingstock of the night after four consecutive (one an extra point attempt) missed kicks, Gostkowski sealed Tennessee's 16-14 victory following a successful comeback drive led by Ryan Tannehill and Derrick Henry, who each had their moments on a quiet night for both sides' offenses.

What really won the Titans the game was their ability to dominate time of possession.

Three out of the five Titans drives in the second half went for at least 12 plays and the game-winning drive was well-orchestrated by Tannehill.

Cooly and calmly, the Titans marched down the field 83 yards on 12 plays to set up Gostkowski for the game-winning field goal.

Thankfully, it was the one field goal he made all night.

Lack of offense in the second half.

Broncos fans may want to point to the fact that head coach Vic Fangio opted to go for it on 4th-and-goal on Tennessee's one-yard line and fell short in the second quarter, but the reality is that they had a whole other half to play, and they scored less points than the Titans did.

Apart from that nine-play, 75-yard drive, the Broncos acquired just one first down in the second half before the Titans' game-winning field goal.

Even when they had possession with four minutes left in Titans territory, they went three-and-out and used up just one minute of clock -- setting up the Titans for the game-winning drive.

The Titans certainly weren't offensive juggernauts in the second half, but neither were the Broncos, and just a couple more first downs could have been something that put this game away.

The rookie out of Iowa registered a couple of pass interference calls, but the most important one came when the Titans were facing a 2nd-and-10 from their own 49-yard line on what would end up being their game-winning drive.

With a fresh set of downs, the Titans entered field-goal territory and they weren't done yet.

Six plays later, Gostkowski hit the 25-yard field goal for the win.

This is the play Broncos fans will claim cost them the game.

Late in the second half, Fangio opted to go for it on 4th-and-goal.

As for the Broncos, they travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Steelers, who defeated Daniel Jones and the New York Giants during the first "Monday Night Football" game this evening. ?

The reason the Titans won this game.

The Broncos, remember, need to get the ball back if the Titans are bent on -- and succeed in -- getting in the end zone rather than kicking another FG

All I can think about is that the Titans are inching towards field goal territory

Titans driving into Broncos territory, down one point

.@Titans into Broncos territory at the two-minute warning, trailing by one

Now the Titans have the ball back with yet another chance at redemption

So it'll be Denver's ball once again

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