{"id":215497,"date":"2025-12-29T00:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215497\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:34:07","slug":"smyth-instrumental-as-saints-turn-over-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215497\/","title":{"rendered":"Smyth instrumental as Saints turn over Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Smyth kicked two field goals and four extra points as the New Orleans Saints won their fourth consecutive game, defeating the Tennessee Titans 34-26 in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>The former Down footballer landed 56-yard and 57-yard field goals for the Saints, who had trailed 13-0 in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month the 24-year-old joined the team&#8217;s active roster on a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Tyler Shough passed for a season-high 333 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Shough completed 22-of-27 and one of his touchdowns went to Chris Olave, who finished with eight catches for 119 yards.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Charlie Smyth from 57 yards \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>A career long for the Irishman \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Saints<\/a> | \ud83d\udcfa: CBS <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6wGc2GiuFz\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6wGc2GiuFz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Orleans Saints (@Saints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Saints\/status\/2005370651071143953\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Juwan Johnson added four catches for a career-high 95 yards as the Saints (6-10) improved to 5-3 with Shough as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>Cam Ward had his fourth consecutive two-touchdown game, passing for 251 yards for the Titans (3-13).<\/p>\n<p>Titans Pro Bowl receiver\/return specialist Chimere Dike set an NFL rookie record for all-purpose yards, surpassing the 2,317 yards that Tim Brown had with the Raiders in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints received the second-half kick-off and drove to Shough&#8217;s 19-yard touchdown pass to Olave to get within 20-17.<\/p>\n<p>Joey Slye kicked a 28-yard field goal, but Smyth answered with a 57-yarder, leaving the Titans with a 23-20 lead at the end of the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Slye&#8217;s 58-yarder increased the lead to six points early in the fourth quarter, but Shough&#8217;s 10-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Austin Jr. to put the Saints ahead for the first time, 27-26 with 6:22 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Audric Estime, who rushed 14 times for 94 yards, had a 32-yard scoring run to push the lead to eight with 3:44 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Slye kicked field goals of 50 yards and 38 yards to give Tennessee a 6-0 lead at the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>On fourth and 2 Ward threw a 43-yard touchdown pass to Chig Okonkwo to increase the lead to 13-0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - DECEMBER 28: Charlie Smyth #39 of the New Orleans Saints kicks a field goal during the first half of the game against the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium on December 28, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Wesley Hitt\/Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0023adbf-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Saints got their first points when Smyth (above) made a 56-yard field goal, and Chase Young took the ball away from Ward while sacking him and ran 33 yards for a touchdown that trimmed the lead to 13-10.<\/p>\n<p>Ward threw a seven-yard touchdown pass to Elic Ayomanor with 13 seconds left in the second quarter, increasing the lead to 20-10 at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Smyth kicked two field goals and four extra points as the New Orleans Saints won their fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-215497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}