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Getty Images During postgame interviews at the podium Saturday night, Titans receiver Tajae Sharpe copied Mark Ingram‘s introduction of Lamar Jackson earlier this season. “Before we get started, I wanted to introduce to y’all – we have the NFL’s rushing leader [here]. Anybody got a problem...

Getty Images Chiefs linebacker Anthony Hitchens says the Chiefs know how to tackle Titans running back Derrick Henry. “Hit him low. All legal within the game, but hit him lower,” Hitchens said. When the Titans and Chiefs met in the regular season, Henry ran wild, gaining 188 yards. But...

Getty Images Tight end Travis Kelce was limited in practice all of last week due to a knee problem and then caught 10 passes for 134 yards and three touchdowns in last Sunday’s 51-31 win over the Texans, so Wednesday’s injury report might bode well for the Chiefs this weekend. Kelce remained a...

Getty Images Nashville finally “woke up” to the Titans. The Titans are the only team among the four remaining teams never to have won a Super Bowl, so they have their fans dreaming of a Lombardi Trophy. But to even get back into the big game, the Titans will have to win the AFC Championship...

Getty Images When the Titans beat the Chiefs in the regular season, Derrick Henry led the way. If the Titans are going to upset the Chiefs again on Sunday in the AFC Championship Game, they’ll be counting on Henry to get the job done again. Henry carried 23 times for 188 yards and two...

Getty Images It’s awards time for the divisional round of the playoffs. On Tuesday’s #PFTPM, MDS and yours truly named players, rookies, coaches, and calls of the week that saw the playoff field whittled from eight to four teams. The players of the week are Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes...

Getty Images When Titans head coach Mike Vrabel was discussing his team’s underdog status in a road game against the Ravens last week, Vrabel said it suited his team well because “there’s 20,000 of the other team’s fans” at their home games so it didn’t put them in unfamiliar surroundings...

Getty Images Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill will be welcomed into an exclusive club on Sunday, a club that Patrick Mahomes became a member of last year, and a club that has had surprisingly few members in recent years. That club is quarterbacks who have started the AFC Championship Game...

Getty Images With four teams remaining in contention to win Super Bowl LIV, the Chiefs are the favorites. And with 32 teams in contention to win Super Bowl LV, the Chiefs are the favorites to win next year, too. The current odds at Caesars Sportsbook have the Chiefs as 11-10 favorites to win...

Getty Images The Chiefs were able to win Sunday’s game against the Texans despite the absence of defensive tackle Chris Jones and they’re hopeful that they’ll have him on hand when they face the Titans for the AFC title next Sunday. Jones was scratched due to a calf injury. Head coach Andy...

Getty Images The NFL saw a slight uptick in TV viewership for the divisional round of the playoffs. The league says that average viewership for the four divisional round games was 33.2 million viewers, a 2 percent increase over the 32.6 million viewers that last year’s divisional round...

Getty Images Ravens right guard Marshal Yanda has thought about retirement in the past, but didn’t want to answer any questions about his 2020 plans after Saturday night’s loss to the Titans. He did want to talk about Titans rookie defensive Jeffery Simmons, however. Yanda told reporters after...

Getty Images The home teams are touchdown favorites in the AFC and NFC Championship Games. In the AFC Championship Game, the Chiefs are 7 or 7.5-point favorites over the Titans, while in the NFC Championship Game, the 49ers are 7-point favorites over the Packers. The home team is usually...

Getty Images Titans running back Derrick Henry has run the ball so well this postseason that he’s threatening to put together the greatest postseason performance for a running back in NFL history. Henry ran for 182 yards in the wild card round and 195 yards in the divisional round. That total...

Getty Images Saturday night’s playoff game was compelling, but a matchup of Baltimore and Nashville simply won’t generate the same eyeballs as an L.A. team versus America’s Team. Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Daily, the average audience for Titans-Ravens on Saturday night dropped by...

Getty Images The Ravens set the record for the most rushing yards in NFL history this regular season, but in their playoff loss, the Titans ran them over. Ravens coach John Harbaugh acknowledged that the Titans’ offensive and defensive lines took over the game on Saturday. “The trenches on...

Getty Images The question of whether a team with nothing for which to play should play to win in Week 17 has received another data point for when it inevitably arises again. The Ravens, who secured the No. 1 seed with a Week 16 win over the Browns, rested key starters for the regular-season...

Getty Images Titans running back Derrick Henry is breaking records while helping the team keep its season alive. Henry ran 30 times for 195 yards in Saturday night’s 28-12 thumping of the Ravens and that makes three straight games that Henry has gone for at least 180 yards on the ground. He’s...

Getty Images The Ravens were heavy favorites at home on Saturday night, but Derrick Henry and the Titans steamrolled them for a 28-12 win that leaves the NFL’s top regular season time out of the running for a Super Bowl. It’s the second straight year that the Ravens have lost at home in their...

Getty Images The combination of the Titans being such big underdogs, and winning so easily, made Saturday night’s victory in Baltimore a rare achievement in NFL history. The Titans were 10-point underdogs and won 28-12. To win by 16 as a 10-point underdog is so rare that it was only the third...