According to the NFL’s official player participation information, here’s how the Tennessee Titans lined up in yesterday’s 26-10 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
Offense (49 total)
QB: Jake Locker 49
RB/FB: Dexter McCluster 33, Shonn Greene 8, Jackie Battle 5, Bishop Sankey 4, Leon Washington 4
TE: Delanie Walker 40, Taylor Thompson 9, Craig Stevens 7
WR: Nate Washington 46, Kendall Wright 42, Justin Hunter 41
OL: Andy Levitre 49, Michael Oher 49, Michael Roos 49, Brian Schwenke 49, Chance Warmack 49
Defense (80 total)
DL: Jurrell Casey 58, Sammie Hill 44, Ropati Pitoitua 41, Karl Klug 29, Al Woods 20, Mike Martin 17
OLB: Derrick Morgan 75, Kamerion Wimbley 56, Shaun Phillips 25, Quentin Groves 3
ILB: Wesley Woodyard 79, Zaviar Gooden 57
CB: Blidi Wreh-Wilson 80, Coty Sensabaugh 68, Jason McCourty 41, Marqueston Huff 6
S: Michael Griffin 80, Bernard Pollard 78, George Wilson 22
Akeem Ayers, Beau Brinkley, Taylor Lewan, Chris Spencer, Daimion Stafford, and Avery Williamson each only appeared on special teams. Charlie Whitehurst was active but did not appear in the game.
Notes:
1. Remember last week’s RB committee and offensive personnel variety? Never you mind this week, as the player participation stats make clear something I thought was the case during the game. Namely, the Titans spent the overwhelming majority of the game in 11 personnel with McCluster as the lone setback. The Titans still ran the ball roughly half the time when Greene was in their (5 carries on 8 snaps), and they ran the ball half the time with Sankey in there (2 carries on 4 snaps). A week after running the ball half the time with McCluster in there, he got 4 carries on 33 snaps. There’s a broader point there, one I hope to get to tomorrow since it doesn’t require me to re-watch the game to make.
2. Tight end usage was just what you’d expect from the dominant offensive personnel grouping. It’s too early to call this a re-emergence of what I called the Jared Cook Offense and the Craig Stevens Offense back in 2011, but I’ll be keeping my eye on things going forward (and the respective efficiencies there).
3. No snaps for Taylor Lewan this week. Steve White is probably not surprised.
4. The defense was on the field for a boatload of snaps-I actually counted 81, not 80 (76 + 5 negated by penalty), but either way it was a boatload. The increase in snaps let us get a better idea of how the workload might not be distributed. Takeaway: Jurrell Casey might be playing that much; after playing 79% of the time last week, he played 73% of the time this week. That’s up there with how much Calais Campbell and Darnell Dockett played in Arizona, while no Browns defensive lineman last year ended up much over 50%. The others are pretty much in line with what I expected. Fortunate decision, by the way, to end up with six defensive linemen up active they only had five up last week, though of course it’s not like it made a difference in the four-minute drill.
5. Akeem Ayers: 13 snaps on special teams, 0 on defense. Question answered. Also, Derrick Morgan playing almost every play is another question pretty much answered. Both answers are subject to change in the future, but I’m not necessarily expecting them to.
6. I’ll have to check on re-watch, but Zaviar Gooden 57 snaps + George Wilson 22 snaps is suggestive to me. I know, I could have paid more attention to this as the game was ongoing.
7. Coty Sensabaugh v. opposing WR3 snap watch is interrupted by Jason McCourty’s injury, plus the Cowboys rotated their WRs more than the Titans did anyway. Assuming JMac didn’t play any snaps after halftime (his 41 matches my Cowboys’ 1H snap total), Sensabaugh had 28 snaps at nickel in the first half.
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