Well, we can go ahead and give Chandler Jones the Week 1 NFC Defensive Player of the Week award already.
The Arizona Cardinals’ star pass-rusher annihilated the Tennessee Titans in a 38-13 victory on Sunday in Nashville, recording five sacks and two forced fumbles. And he did all that in just three quarters.
Touchdown or Not, @chanjones55 is a PROBLEM 😤 pic.twitter.com/P3STX7DkPz
— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) September 12, 2021
Chandler Jones has 99.0 career sacks, and 63.0 in 70 career games in Arizona. pic.twitter.com/tMsKrxxu1u
— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) September 12, 2021
.@chanjones55 has three sacks and it’s only the first quarter 🔥 #AZCardinals
📺: #AZvsTEN on CBS
📱: NFL app pic.twitter.com/PJ77BIqrB1— NFL (@NFL) September 12, 2021
Putting on an absolute CLINIC 📝
@chanjones55 x #RedSea pic.twitter.com/CMRGf1a1pG
— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) September 12, 2021
What’s better than four @chanjones55 sacks? FIVE. #AZCardinals
📺: #AZvsTEN on CBS
📱: NFL app pic.twitter.com/SCqhTrdEFX— NFL (@NFL) September 12, 2021
Absolutely ridiculous. Ryan Tannehill is going to have nightmares of Chandler Jones.
Here are more tweets on the game-wrecking performance:
Chandler Jones is on pace to have 108.5 sacks this season.
— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) September 12, 2021
With 5.0 sacks (and counting) Chandler Jones has tied Haason Reddick for the most sacks in a single-game for the Cardinals since individual sacks became official in 1982.
He has the 3rd most sacks in a season-opener behind William Gay (5.5 1983) and Derrick Thomas (6.0 1998) pic.twitter.com/N9zBRDwrIE
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) September 12, 2021
Chandler Jones is so hot they've got people holding a full on stretcher over him to give him shade 😂 @chanjones55 @AZCardinals pic.twitter.com/JVVMWimq0w
— The Checkdown (@thecheckdown) September 12, 2021
I’ll say it again. CHANDLER JONES is going for DPOY!!!! My GOODNESS
— LeBron James (@KingJames) September 12, 2021
Jones would finish with five sacks, two shy of the absurd record of seven sacks in a game, set by Derrick Thomas in 1990.
The 31-year-old had 19 sacks in 2019, and perhaps he’ll top that incredible mark in 2021. He’ll look to continue his destructive ways against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 2.
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