Tennessee Titans would you rather: More Derrick Henry or more deep shots?
By Will Lomas
Why the Tennessee Titans coaches probably don’t think they can do both.
The most common complaints about the Tennessee Titans offense is that they aren’t taking enough chances and they aren’t using Derrick Henry enough.
Obviously the issue with those things are that they are diametrically opposed ideas. You can’t get Derrick Henry more touches AND take more deep shots down field. Well, technically you can but I’ll talk more about that issue in a second.
The question I want to ask is, if you had to pick between using Derrick Henry more and giving him true RB1 volume, or running an offense that uses more protection and deep passes to get chunk plays and to truly threaten a defense vertically, which would you choose?
And I know that the answer that most people will say is that the Titans should have the ability to do both depending on what the matchups call for. I get that, but I’m talking about the identity of the Titans offense.
This is the best I can come up with right now.