Tennessee Titans Week 7 Snap Report

Written by Tom Gower on .

Pardon the delayed nature of this posting, but a trip out of town and more trouble posting than anticipated delayed coverage of Sunday's game. Here's your weekly report of the NFL's snap totals for the Titans.

Offense (64 total)
QB: Matt Hasselbeck 64
RB/FB: Chris Johnson 44, Quinn Johnson 24, Jamie Harper 10, Darius Reynaud 9
TE: Craig Stevens 40, Jared Cook 31, Taylor Thompson 18
WR: Nate Washington 51, Kenny Britt 44, Kendall Wright 30, Damian Williams 19
OL: Leroy Harris 64, Steve Hutchinson 64, Michael Roos 64, David Stewart 64, Fernando Velasco 64

Defense (61 total)
DE: Kamerion Wimbley 57, Derrick Morgan 56, Scott Solomon 7, Pannel Egboh 2
DT: Jurrell Casey 45, Sen'Derrick Marks 37, Mike Martin 29, Karl Klug 6, DaJohn Harris 3
LB: Akeem Ayers 56, Will Witherspoon 29, Tim Shaw 16, Zac Diles 9, Zach Brown 7
CB: Jason McCourty 61, Alterraun Verner 60, Ryan Mouton 53, Coty Sensabaugh 4
S: Michael Griffin 61, Jordan Babineaux 43, Al Afalava 18, Robert Johnson 12

Patrick Bailey, Beau Brinkley, and Kevin Matthews each only appeared on special teams. Mike Otto and Rusty Smith were not credited with an appearance.

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Titans-Bills inactives, gameday thread

Written by Tom Gower on .

The inactives are out for today's game in Buffalo between the Titans and the Bills, and here they are.

BUFFALO BILLS: DE Mark Anderson, OL Cordy Glenn, S Delano Howell, QB Tarvaris Jackson, LB Kirk Morrison, K John Potter, OL Kraig Urbik

TENNESSEE TITANS: CB Tommie Campbell, WR Lavelle Hawkins, QB Jake Locker, G Deuce Lutui, LB Colin McCarthy, RB Javon Ringer, OT Byron Stingily

Mike Otto makes his debut for the Titans, but overall there are no surprises here.

Feel free to use this thread to post during today's game or follow me on Twitter.

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Enemy Intelligence: Buffalo Bills

Written by Tom Gower on .

The Titans make another visit to Buffalo this weekend against the Bills. It seemed like the book was written on the Bills-a week after giving up 45 points to New England in the second half, they gave up 45 to the San Francisco 49ers in another blowout loss. Then, they visited Arizona and hold the Cardinals-granted, not a great offensive team, though I'd say they're not that much worse than the Niners-to 13 points and win in overtime. That victory improved their record to 3-3 along with everybody else in the AFC East.

For this post, I watched both the 45-3 road loss to the 49ers two weeks ago and the 16-13 overtime win in Arizona against the Cardinals last week.

 

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Buffalo Bills blogger's answers to questions from Total Titans

Written by Andrew Strickert on .

Joe Pinzone, who heads up the Buffalo Bills and Sabres blog Buffalo Wins, has joined us for this week’s question and answer exchange.  My answers to Joe's questions are on his site here.  Following are Joe’s answers to my questions.

 
Total Titans: How is this Bills team different from the one the Titans played last year? In what areas are they improved? Where have they declined?
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UFR: Jared Cook's play against the Steelers

Written by Tom Gower on .

In some ways, the most notable Titans player from last Thursday's game against the Steelers was tight end Jared Cook. After a great start to the season where he was virtually the only part of the offense that was working, his role had been minimized the last couple weeks. Part of that was due to injury, but Matt Hasselbeck admitting after the Vikings game he should have looked for Cook earlier than he did. Cook during the week then had an at times uncomfortable radio appearance in Nashville.

When Thursday rolled around, I (and many others) were expecting a larger role for Cook. He finished with four catches on as many targets for 54 yards, including a 25-yard grab that set up the game-winning field goal. Three of those four targets came in the two-minute drill at the end of either half, though, which seemed to put the lie the idea that the Titans were looking to actually feature Cook.

Still, given everything that's happened with him lately, I thought it would be worth taking a look at Cook's day against the Steelers in more detail. So, after the jump, what I saw from Cook.

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Titans fans, ask a Buffalo Bills blogger your questions

Written by Andrew Strickert on .

Total Titans will welcome Joe Pinzone of the Bills and Sabres blog Buffalo Wins in this week's question and answer exchange.  If you have a question or two about the Bills and this week's game against them, please leave them here and I'll send the best ones to him.

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Tennessee Titans Week 6 Snap Report

Written by Tom Gower on .

The NFL has started officially keeping track of player participation data and releasing that information to the media. Here's how the Titans lined up in yesterday's win against the Steelers.

Offense (71 total)
QB: Matt Hasselbeck 71
RB/FB: Chris Johnson 63, Quinn Johnson 23, Darius Reynaud 5, Jamie Harper 2
TE: Craig Stevens 46, Jared Cook 44, Taylor Thompson 15
WR: Nate Washington 55, Kenny Britt 45, Kendall Wright 31, Damian Williams 26
OL: Leroy Harris 71, Steve Hutchinson 71, Michael Roos 71, David Stewart 71, Fernando Velasco 71

Analysis: This is really the first time all year Craig Stevens has gotten significant playing time with Jared Cook healthy. Obviously that's partly a result of the game situation, but it's also the result of more multiple-TE sets. Chris Johnson's previous high was 50 snaps in a game; Javon Ringer's injury was a factor here. Kendall Wright's previous low mark was 34 snaps in the game against San Diego where the Titans only had 42 snaps. Britt's season high and fewer 3-WR sets mattered here.

Defense (64 total)
DE: Kamerion Wimbley 58, Derrick Morgan 55, Scott Solomon 11, Pannel Egboh 7
DT: Mike Martin 48, Sen'Derrick Marks 42, Karl Klug 15, Jurrell Casey 15
LB: Colin McCarthy 64, Akeem Ayers 58, Zach Brown 27
CB: Jason McCourty 64, Alterraun Verner 61, Ryan Mouton 37, Coty Sensabaugh 1
S: Jordan Babineaux 64, Michael Griffin 64, Robert Johnson 12, Al Afalava 3

Analysis: The Titans don't really believe in rotating their defensive ends. This is something I'm just taking as given going forward. Martin was the beneficiary of Casey's shoulder injury. Jerry Gray mentioned at this week's media session you'd probably see both Zach Brown and Will Witherspoon play this week. Not on defense. Al Afalava's snaps came at the expense of Robert Johnson in the Ruby package.

Other: Beau Brinkley, Tommie Campbell, Zac Diles, Kevin Matthews, Tim Shaw, Will Witherspoon each played only on special teams. Rusty Smith and Byron Stingily did not appear in the game.

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