The Tennessee Titans (0-3) have outscored the Miami Dolphins (1-2) 62-30 of their final two matchups, however each groups enter Week 4 of the 2024 NFL season going through an identification disaster. With a mixed 1-5 report, each hope to show issues round below the Monday night time highlight.
Trying to find their first win of the 2024 season, the Titans topped Miami 28-27 in Week 11 on Monday Evening Soccer final 12 months. In that sport, they escaped defeat by erasing a 14-point deficit with lower than three minutes remaining.
After sacking quarterback Tua Tagovailoa 5 occasions the final time these groups met, two-time Professional Bowl defensive sort out Jeffery Simmons feels the battle within the trenches, beginning with former teammate and present Dolphins middle Aaron Brewer, is one the Titans protection hopes to win.
Jeffery Simmons mentioned be likes the #Titans probabilities with he and T’Vondre Sweat going in opposition to Aaron Brewer. Simmons mentioned Brewer is a fiesta participant however there are some issues he remembered from working towards vs him that present on movie now. pic.twitter.com/HwSWBr7xRJ
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“I practiced in opposition to Brew. I do know him. He’s fast going lateral. He’s a man that I be ok with our nostril sort out lined up over him, particularly together with his play strengths,” Simmons advised ESPN’s Turron Davenport. “I’ll have the ability to inform [T’Vondre Sweat] a pair issues all through the week that, after I practiced in opposition to Brew, that I noticed in Brew that we nonetheless see on movie.”
The Tennessee protection has recorded seven sacks via three video games, whereas the Seahawks sacked Miami’s quarterbacks six occasions for 46 yards final week. Nevertheless, PFF credit Miami’s offensive line with permitting simply 5 of the workforce’s 11 sacks via three weeks.
Brewer, a former Texas State Bobcat, has not allowed a sack and has solely given up three quarterback pressures since signing a three-year contract with Miami this offseason.
“Brew is a feisty participant — that’s the rationale why he’s on this league,” Simmons continued. “He’s good at what he does and he’s good at the kind of offense [the Dolphins] run — they run plenty of the surface runs.
“That’s what he does greatest — attempt get to on the surface, get to the linebackers and stuff of that nature.”
Given Brewer’s anticipated affect within the floor sport, a primetime matchup in opposition to a Tennessee protection permitting 124 speeding yards per sport could possibly be key to snapping Miami’s two-game dropping streak.