NASHVILLE – Titans fans are finding out more and more about Titans quarterback Cam Ward as the season continues.
This much has become crystal clear: Ward is all about winning, and he's not afraid to push everyone around him to be better.
Including himself.
"There's a way to win games and there's a way to finish out games," Ward said on Wednesday. "There's a standard that you've got to play with every game to give yourself the best situation to win. But the biggest thing is you've got to expect to win every time you step on the field.
"We played to a standard (this past Sunday) good enough to win. We didn't play to our best standard. At times of the game, we're sloppy. Offensively, I was sloppy myself. And then defensively, we were, so we just got to continue to emphasize the good and we got to be real critical on the bad."
The Titans beat the Browns 31-29 on Sunday in Cleveland, when Ward completed 14-of-28 passes for 117 yards and two touchdowns, along with an interception.
It was the team's second win of the year.
Next up for the Titans is a game against the San Francisco 49ers.
In 13 games this season, Ward has 2,468 yards with nine touchdowns, seven interceptions and a 74.9 rating. He's been sacked 48 times.
Ward feels like he's made progress during the course of the season, but he's striving for more improvement.
And he hopes it leads to more wins.
"I mean if you want to be a good player, you can't be satisfied with doing bad things," Ward said. "You want to be able to be a great player each and every play. And no matter how good the quarterback is or how bad—he's always going to have a bad play at some point within a game, whether it's a bad read, a bad pass or something. But the more you can limit it, the better position you put your teammates in.
"It's really more just about trying to take steps forward. And I think just the more—if you take a step forward or you go backward, you really stay in the same spot. So, our goal this week is to win a game, try to get on a little win streak. So the more we win, I think the more steps we'll take forward."
