The Tennessee Titans and New York Jets face off on Sunday, Oct. 3. The game will be live streamed on fuboTV and Paramount+.
The winless Jets will look to stop the league’s leading rusher in Derrick Henry.
Henry is a 6-foot-3, 247-pound bulldozer with incredible power mixed with tremendous speed. That combination helped him lead the NFL in rushing the past two seasons, and the reigning AP Offensive Player of the Year has picked up where he left off with a league-best 352 yards on 80 carries in three games.
Despite the Jets’ 0-3 start, the defense has performed relatively well. New York ranks 10th in overall defense, including 14th against the run. But the Jets know Henry is quite a handful — and different from most running backs.
When is the Titans-Jets game?
The game between the Titans and Jets is set for noon (1 p.m. ET) on Sunday, Oct. 3.
Will it be live streamed?
The game will be live streamed on fuboTV, which offers a 7-day free trial. The most basic of plans is the “fubo standard” package, which comprises 100-plus channels for $64.99 per month. Like all cord-cutting alternatives, there are plenty of options, especially for sports.
It will also stream on Paramount+, which offers a 7-day free trial, and features more than 20,000 episodes and movies from ViacomCBS family, which includes CBS, Comedy Central, BET, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and more.
There are two tiers to the streaming service. For $4.99 per month, you get limited commercials. For $9.99 per month, there are no commercials. Both tiers come with the 7-day free trial.
What TV channel will broadcast the game?
The Titans-Jets game will be broadcast on CBS.
Preview
STRUGGLING WILSON: Zach Wilson’s NFL career has gotten off to a rough start. And that’s putting it mildly.
The Jets rookie quarterback has thrown just two touchdown passes and seven interceptions, which ties the No. 2 overall pick with Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence — the No. 1 pick in April.
Bad blocking, mistakes on routes, questionable play-calling by offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur and Wilson not getting the ball out faster have all been culprits in the Jets scoring just six points in their past two games.
“I feel like there’s light at the end of the tunnel as far as where we’re trying to get,” Wilson said. “You can’t put a timeline on that. It’s going to take time and we’re just going to keep working it. That’s why I feel so confident.”
SEARCHING FOR TURNOVERS: The Titans have forced one turnover through three games, becoming enough of a problem that coach Mike Vrabel added some work at practice for a reminder on how to strip, tip and rip out footballs.
Safety Kevin Byard has the only takeaway with an interception in the season opener, and he said sometimes it’s a matter of being in the right place at the right time with a quarterback throwing the ball to a defender.
Vrabel said there are certain things that can be coached and others that can’t.
“I go back to this, Bill (Belichick), God love him, never taught me how to strip-sack the quarterback,” Vrabel said of the Patriots coach. “Guys just have to go and were reaching for it, and we have to keep going. We are close.”
FAMILIAR FACE: Corey Davis spent his first four NFL seasons in Tennessee after being the fifth overall pick in the 2017 draft. But the Titans declined the fifth-year option on his contract and never offered him a deal to return this offseason, something the Jets wide receiver acknowledged bothered him.
“Yeah, I’m not going to lie,” he said. “A little bit.”
But Davis, who signed a three-year, $37.5 million contract with New York in March, insisted he won’t be seeking a measure of revenge Sunday when he faces the Titans.
“I’m not going to make it any bigger than what it is,” Davis said. “It’s another week and it’s a big week for us, honestly, so I’m looking forward to it.”
IMPROVED D: Tennessee came into this season trying to improve over 2020, when the defense ranked at or near the bottom of several categories. The Titans are showing signs they’re getting better.
They held the Colts to 265 yards, the fewest yards since giving up 260 to the Giants on Dec. 16, 2018. A unit that was last in the NFL on third downs a year ago allowed only three conversions on 12 third downs for a 25% rate that was their best since last November.
Even better, the Titans are allowing 37.8% conversions on third down through three games.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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