The Tennessee Titans stopped the Buffalo Bills in the ultimate game of Week 6 of the 2021 NFL season. That game had everything. It was also arguably the most entertaining game of the week and provided a great example of what a trap game is. With that said, here are three takeaways from that crazy contest that has everyone buzzing.
Titans takeaways from Week 6 win over Bills
3. Pyrrhic victory
There must be some mixed feelings for Titans fans who saw their team suplex Josh Allen and company Monday night. The Titans surely made their supporters happy, to say the least. The Bills entered that game as the overwhelming favorite to win, especially after the way they dominated the Kansas City Chiefs in a game where Buffalo raised its best reason why it is the team to beat in the AFC. A week later, the Titans gave Buffalo a dose of reality that nothing is ever sure in the NFL. Tennessee learned that the hard way too this season when it got tripped up by the New York Jets back in Week 4 (more on this later).
The Titans, however, would be savoring their crushing of Buffalo even more if they did not suffer injuries to some of their key players. Wide receiver Julio Jones was not able to finish the game because of a hamstring issue, while left tackle Taylor Lewan got carted off the field because of a possible concussion. Although the Titans scored a huge win, it feels like a Pyrrhic victory of sorts due to the damage to the bodies of two of their most crucial pieces. The hope for the Titans is that both Jones and Lewan will ultimately be fine and ready for Week 7’s showdown with the Chiefs, though it doesn’t look like that’s how things will unfold for the team in the coming days.
2. Derrick Henry is automatic
If you have Derrick Henry on your fantasy team, maybe don’t entertain any kind of trade from the other managers that would have you giving up the running back. Henry was basically all the Titans need to embarrass the Bills. The former Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback rushed 20 times for 143 yards and three touchdowns against Buffalo, which owns the best scoring defense in the NFL.
The Bills woke up on Monday as a top 10 team against the run, but Henry sent them back to sleep with a performance so dominant you’d have to wonder if it’s even fair for the Titans — or any team — to have a Derrick Henry in the backfield. His runs were neither stylish nor graceful. They were brutal. Henry was smashing through phalanxes of Bills defenders and giving Tennessee’s offense life every time it needed it.
Following the game, Titans head coach Mike Vrabel summed up what everyone who watched the game knew already, per Gentry Estes of the Tennessean.
“We continue to jump on Derrick's back,” Titans coach Mike Vrabel said. “And he's willing and able to carry us. It's something that you know that you have in your back pocket, front pocket. We pull it out, and we use it.”
1. Restoring respect
Remember when the Titans were beaten to the pulp by the Arizona Cardinals in Week 1 to the tune of a 38-13 score? The Titans recovered from that by beating the Seattle Seahawks in Week 2 and then the Indianapolis Colts in Week 3. And just when they were gaining control, the Titans got dropped by the New York Jets on the road in Week 4, 27-24. Granted that the Titans were missing both Julio Jones and AJ Brown in that game, they still shouldn’t have lost to the Jets and become Zach Wilson’s first victims of his NFL career.
New York was winless before that contest, each loss looking worse than the previous one. Well, the Titans have completely moved on from that with their win over the Bills. They actually bounced right back from their Jets debacle with a win against the Jacksonville Jaguars on the road in Week 5, but there was no way the Titans would let themselves lose to the Jets and the Jags back to back.
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