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Tennessee Titans: The 3rd preseason game mattered in 2016

ByWill Lomas|
NASHVILLE, TN - AUGUST 27: The Tennessee Titans line up against the Chicago Bears during the first half at Nissan Stadium on August 27, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TN - AUGUST 27: The Tennessee Titans line up against the Chicago Bears during the first half at Nissan Stadium on August 27, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)

I’m not worried, but the Tennessee Titans may need to kick it into high gear.

Tennessee Titans fans will say all week how the preseason doesn’t matter, and as a whole they aren’t wrong.

However last year the 3rd preseason game was a great indicator in who was going to be good.

Last year, 8 of the 12 teams that went into the post season won their 3rd preseason game.

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They were:

-Miami Dolphins

-New England Patriots

-New York Giants

-Pittsburgh Steelers

-Green Bay Packers

-Houston Texans

-Kansas City Chiefs

-Seattle Seahawks.

On top of that, 2 of the 4 playoff teams that lost in the preseason lost to eventual playoff contenders themselves:

-Miami Dolphins beat the Atlanta Falcons

-Dallas Cowboys lost to the Seattle Seahawks

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    • That means, just two teams made the playoffs after losing their final preseason game to a team that wouldn’t go on to make the playoffs themselves:

    -Oakland Raiders lost to the Tennessee Titans

    -Detroit Lions lost to the Baltimore Ravens

    That means that if the Titans were to repeat a similar fate they would have to be in vast minority unless the Bears went to the playoffs as well.

    Having said that, I don’t think this is necessarily a trend that will hold up as strongly as it has. However the preseason does test your depth and somewhat how well you can adjust in came with a limited play selection.

    It could be that the Titans do much better when they scout and gameplan for people during the season.

    Maybe Terry Robiskie stops playing around with Jet Sweeps and double screens and devises a plan that could actually work against an NFL defense. He has shown in the past that he can build great gameplans in his games vs the Green Bay Packers and Jacksonville Jaguars.

    Also, maybe Mariota trying to force the ball to Tajae Sharpe (which is clearly what he was told to do) prevented him from going through his progressions.

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    Again, another issue may be the fact that two star wide receivers in Eric Decker and Corey Davis weren’t in there. On top of that this was DeMarco Murray’s first game back from an injury and they clearly wanted him to take it easy.

    I don’t know, maybe it is nothing, maybe it is something. Either way though, the Titans need to be much better on offense if they want to make the playoffs and they have to find a way to force turnovers on defense.

    Here’s hoping that the Titans will do better with a gameplan and will look much more crisp with the big guns in there.

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