Tennessee Titans Week 15 Snap Report

Written by Tom Gower on .

The NFL this season has begun keeping track of snap counts on a weekly basis and releasing that information to the media. Here's now the Titans lined up in the Week 15 Monday Night Football victory over the New York Jets.

Offense (59 total)
QB: Jake Locker 59
RB/FB: Chris Johnson 58, Quinn Johnson 21, Jamie Harper 1
TE: Craig Stevens 59, Taylor Thompson 19
WR: Kenny Britt 52, Nate Washington 44, Kendall Wright 22, Michael Preston 15, Lavelle Hawkins 4
OL: Deuce Lutui 59, Mike Otto 59, Michael Roos 59, Fernando Velasco 59, Kyle DeVan 48, Kevin Matthews 11

Defense (67 total)
DE: Derrick Morgan 60, Kamerion Wimbley 53, Jarius Wynn 20
DT: Sen'Derrick Marks 53, Jurrell Casey 49, Mike Martin 14, DaJohn Harris 12, Karl Klug 3
LB: Zach Brown 63, Akeem Ayers 50, Tim Shaw 47, Will Witherspoon 22
CB: Jason McCourty 67, Alterraun Verner 67, Coty Sensabaugh 20
S: Michael Griffin 67, Jordan Babineaux 51, Al Afalava 19

Patrick Bailey, Brandon Barden, Beau Brinkley, Tommie Campbell, Ryan Mouton, Darius Reynaud, Byron Stingily, and Tracy Wilson each only appeared on special teams. Matt Hasselbeck did not appear in the game.

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Titans less-inept their way past Jets, 14-10

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Well, there's something to be said about a game like this one, that's for sure. The Tennessee Titans didn't do much right in their late-season prime time showing, but did just enough for eke out a 14-10 win over a New York Jets squad that earned their playoff elimination in a game filled with error after error, many of them by the New York Jets offense.

The first half lived up the billing you'd expect from a laughably bad Jets offense and a bad Titans team. The Titans got to their kryptonite, the red zone, on the opening drive, but a bad Jake Locker decision on a third down option call and a blocked field goal kept them off the scoreboard. The Jets then drove the field, but unforced errors on second and third down held them to a field goal. Chris Johnson had the one good play of the first half, taking advantage of the Jets blowing a gap to romp 94 yards for a score and a 7-3 lead that would last until late in the third quarter.

After a shanked Brett Kern punt when the Titans did nothing after being backed up put the Jets at the 35, a tight end burned the Titans again as Mark Sanchez found Jeff Cumberland over a seemingly-oblivious Tim Shaw for a 10-7 lead. For one of the few times in the game, though, Jake Locker looked like a competent quarterback on the ensuing drive, finding first Michael Preston, then Nate Washington, and finally Kendall Wright. In the red zone, Locker had his own number called on a QB sweep, and 13 yards later the Titans had a 14-10 lead.

After more Mark Sanchez fail, including his third interception of the night, a long Jets drive, including a third-down conversion on a roughing the passer call on Will Witherspoon, made it inside the Titans 25 before Sanchez just chucked another ball into coverage. The Titans ran three times into the line and punted, then another Kern punt while backed up gave the Jets great field position at the Titans 25. One bad shotgun snap later, though, Zach Brown had the ball and Jake Locker was taking a knee to end the game.

In terms of ugly games, this was one. Aside from CJ's big run and a couple throws on the second scoring drive, the Titans did very little right on offensive. CJ struggled to find yardage, and the Titans at times rightly showed very little trust in Locker's ability to throw the football, calling more designed runs. The Jets had intermittent success running between the tackles, but at crucial times just had Sanchez throw the ball with disastrous results. It takes a lot to get Michael Griffin an interception, as I've chronicled here in the past, but he had two tonight. in the end, a win is a win is a win, and while losing would have been better for draft position for a team with little to accomplish this year, I'll take it.

More on the train wreck later this week.

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Titans-Jets inactives, gameday thread

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The inactives are out for tonight's Monday Night Football game at LP Field between the Tennessee Titans and the New York Jets, and there they are.

NEW YORK JETS: CB Aaron Berry, DL Damon Harrison, WR Stephen Hill, TE Dustin Keller, QB Greg McElroy, G Caleb Schlauderaff, LB Bryan Thomas

TENNESSEE TITANS: LB Xavier Adibi, OT Daniel Baldridge, LB Colin McCarthy, G Mitch Petrus, QB Rusty Smith, DE Scott Solomon, WR Damian Williams

There are no big surprises on either inactive list; the starter-type names, like McCarthy, Hill, Keller, and Thomas, were all on the official injury report. Since I didn't mention Tim Tebow's name in Enemy Intelligence, I'll note that he's active tonight. He's worse than Sanchez at throwing the football, though of course teams that are terrible at that like the Jets might not care that much.

Feel free to leave your comments here during today's game. I'll be chiming in on Twitter, so feel free to follow and yap at me there.

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Enemy Intelligence: New York Jets

Written by Tom Gower on .

 

The Titans host the New York Jets on Monday Night Football. The Jets are 6-7 and still alive for a playoff spot if they win their last three games, so it's not two teams with nothing to play for. New York is coming off a 17-10 road win in Jacksonville last week where all of their points came in the second half.
 
After the jump, what I saw from the Jets last week and the others of their games I've managed to sit through.
 
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Titans fans, what are your questions about the Jets?

Written by Andrew Strickert on .

Our guest this time for our regular weekly question and answer exchange will be Buddy Crutchfield from Bloguin's New York Jets blog, Rex Sanchez.  If you have any questions about the Jets, Rex Ryan, Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow, Mike Tannebaum, or anything else Jets-related, please post them in comments and I'll send them along.

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Titans fail to hold halftime lead, lose to Colts 27-23

Written by Andrew Strickert on .

It's another sad day in a season which hasn't had many high points.  The Titans took a 20-7 halftime lead into the locker room at Lucas Oil Stadium.  When they exited, they left their game in the locker room and couldn't make their lead stand up.  Jake Locker threw a pair of costly interceptions in the second half which gave the Colts ten easy points.  Andrew Luck led the Colts to another come from behind victory.

 
These teams are inverse images of each other in several respects.  The Colts improved their record to 9-4 on the season while the Titans dropped to 4-9.  The Titans have lost three games in a row and the Colts have won three in a row.  The Titans have lost five of their last six, while the Colts have won seven of their last eight.  They're definitely two teams going in opposite directions.
 
I did see a few good things today, for those who may want to find something positive or even encouraging.
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Titans-Colts injury reports, inactives, and gameday thread

Written by Andrew Strickert on .

Here are the inactives and injury reports for the Titans and Colts.  Feel free to comment here with your thoughts throughout the morning and the game.  I'll have a game recap posted this afternoon.

Titans inactives:
T Daniel Baldridge, DT DaJohn Harris, WR Lavelle Hawkins, LB Colin McCarthy, G Mitch Petrus, QB Rusty Smith, WR Damian Williams
 
Hawkins, who was questionable, will be replaced on today's active roster by Michael Preston, who has looked like a good prospect in training camp and preseason for two years.  Preston was called up from the practice squad earlier this week.
 
Colts inactives:
RB Donald Brown, LB Mario Harvey, DT Kellen Heard, WR Nathan Palmer, G Joe Reitz, T Bradley Sowell, S Tom Zbikowski
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