Titans 2012 Season Inside the Numbers

[steelcityroller]

A closer look at some statistics.

Chris Johnson

On downs where they need 6 yards of less he had 52 carries for 173 yards and 3.3 yards per carry.

On downs where they needed +7 yards or more he had 224 carries for 1072 yards and 4.8 yards per carry.

On downs where they needed 3 yards or less he had 28 carries for 122 yards and 4.3 yards per carry. That doesn't look bad until you consider that he had 68 of those yards on 2 carries. Which means he had 54 yards on the other 26 carries which comes out to 2 yards per carry.

He had carries producing

Negative yardage (- yardage) 66 times

Short yardage (1-3 yards) 96 times

Mid yardage (4-10 yards) 86 times of which he had 54 against 6 teams (14 against Texans), (7 against Pittsburgh), (7 against Buffalo), (8 against Houston), (9 against Miami) (9 against Jacksonville) and 32 in the other 10 games.

Long yardage (11+) 28 times and breaks down (11,11,13 against Detroit), (13, 19, 15, 12 against Houston) (13 and 12 against Pittsburgh) (16, 83, 25 and 27 against Buffalo) (11, 14, 11 against Houston) (10,10, 80 against Chicago) (21, 13, 18 against Miami) (31 against Jacksonville) (26, 12 against Houston) (94 against New York) (19, 13 against Jacksonville)

So he had 162 carries of 3 yards or less.

So he had 653 yards on those 28 carries of 10+ yards. (23 yards per carry)

So he had 590 yards on the other 248 carries. (2.3 yards per carry)

Tennessee Titans In General

Against teams with a winning record they were outscored 278-107.

Derrick Morgan led the team with 6.5 sacks. Which puts him 45th in the league.

There are individual players in the league that had nearly as many sacks and interceptions as the Titans did their perspective groups. The entire Titans defensive line had 25 sacks (JJ Watt had 20.5) and the entire starting secondary had 11 interceptions (Tim Jennings had 9).

Nate Washington, Kenny Britt and Kendall Wright combined had 1961 receiving yards. Calvin Johnson had 1964 receiving yards.

Nate Washington led the team with 746 receiving yards. That is good for 48th in the league.

Out of all the receivers in the league with +90 passes thrown their direction Kenny Britt has the fewest receptions. He caught 45 of the 90 passes thrown his direction (exactly 50%). Nate Washington was only slightly better as well. You look at the top 20 receivers in the league and they are all up around +65% range.

Out of all the receivers in the league with +50 receptions Kendall Wright is the only one to average less than 10 yards per reception.

Chris Johnson had 13 drops on passes behind the line of scrimmage.

Damian Williams had the highest catch rate on the team pulling 66% of the passes thrown his way. Kendall Wright and Jared Cook both caught 61%. Nate Washington and Kenny Britt both caught around 50%.

[Espnking1021]

Hurts reading those stats. Defense concerns me more than offense obviosuly. Lack of offensive production points to three things....situational play calling, QB play and interior line.

Defense is young and inexperienced. I was really happy with our LB core this year. Our secondary, mainly our safeties were the reason to blame. Verner looked lost from time to time as well and Campbell was very inconsistent. Our tackes have high motors but no size to plug the middle. One double team and they are out of the play. We dont have that destructive force, no penetration. We have speed and agility, but thats it.

[steelcityroller]

Hurts reading those stats. Defense concerns me more than offense obviosuly. Lack of offensive production points to three things....situational play calling, QB play and interior line.

Defense is young and inexperienced. I was really happy with our LB core this year. Our secondary, mainly our safeties were the reason to blame. Verner looked lost from time to time as well and Campbell was very inconsistent. Our tackes have high motors but no size to plug the middle. One double team and they are out of the play. We dont have that destructive force, no penetration. We have speed and agility, but thats it.

Yeah the defensive line is very plain. If they had just that one guy that could command attention and be disruptive it would make everyone else on that whole line better as a result.

[Espnking1021]

I agree...thus making the secondary better too.

[joeman785]

Yeah the defensive line is very plain. If they had just that one guy that could command attention and be disruptive it would make everyone else on that whole line better as a result.

That's why IMO, they should go DL in the first round. Some good choices. Damontre Moore is my early favorite.

[Espnking1021]

Yea but they were saying the same things about Derrick Morgan 3 years ago...and the new pick wouldnt start unless possibly a DT. Why draft a rotational player when we need starters?

[steelcityroller]

Yea but they were saying the same things about Derrick Morgan 3 years ago...and the new pick wouldnt start unless possibly a DT. Why draft a rotational player when we need starters?

That is a big issue I have with this team especially on the defensive side of the ball. They rotate so many players. The good teams around the league don't rotate 8 or 9 guys on the defensive line. They don't rotate 8 or 9 wide receivers and tight ends. They have good players that stay on the field.

[steelcityroller]

Something interesting that I seen today that is telling about the team.

They went 6-10 this year

In the 6 games they won

9 rushing touchdowns
4 defensive touchdowns
4 special teams touchdowns
2 passing touchdowns

In the 10 games they lost

15 passing touchdowns
2 rushing touchdowns
1 defensive touchdown

It paints a picture of how bad the offense was this year. In the 6 games they won they got 8 touchdowns from special teams/defense and 11 touchdowns from the offense.

[Espnking1021]

Tom Moore will be our next offensive coordinator. Munchak wanted him all along.