JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Corey Davis called him a dog.
Taylor Lewan said Marcus Mariota’s game engineering at TIAA Bank Stadium amounted to “a wolf being a wolf.”
Attempts to elicit further animal comparisons were unsuccessful, through after the Titans 9-6 win over the Jaguars tight end Jonnu Smith did latch on to one of the two presented to him for his quarterback.
“Dog? Wolf? I’ll probably have to go with dog,” he said. “When I think dog, I think, by any means. Just got grit. I want like a pit bull, you know what I am saying? You give something to a pit bull and he locks on to it and ain’t letting it go. That’s who he reminds me off.”
The Titans pit bull came off the bench with 6:29 on the clock in the first quarter, after Malik Jackson was flagged for ear-holing Blaine Gabber, lowering the head to initiate contact and leaving Gabbert concussed.
And he did enough.
