So what to do on fourth down? Young threw a fade pass to rookie receiver Kenny Britt, who leaped high above Colts rookie cornerback Jerraud Powers to make the catch. Powers stuck his hands in and shoved. Britt landed out of bounds. Incomplete.
“I was just trying to compete with him and make a play,” Powers said. “I’m thinking, ‘That’s big. It stays a two-score game.’ “
Indeed, it was. And the Titans didn’t recover. Surprisingly, they never handed the ball to Chris Johnson in the four-play sequence.
Antonio Johnson considered the Titans’ fourth-down gamble a slight against the Colts defense.
“They are totally trying to disrespect us by going for it on fourth down,” he said. “They can call it what they want, but me personally, I do take it as an insult. I get gritty, really nasty down there.”
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