Tennessee Titans 101: What to know before talking about the team

Ryan Tannehill’s impact

Now, that may shock you a little bit but take a step back and look at why their codependent relationship is a good thing and not a bad thing. Look at his splits with and without Tannehill over a pretty decent sample size:

During Henry’s time in Tennessee without Tannehill including playoffs: 649 attempts, 2,893 yards, 4.46 YPA, 27 TDs, 4.2% TD rate

With Tannehill starting including playoffs: 273 attempts, 1,570 yards, 5.75 YPA, 14 TDs, 5.1% TD rate

The big difference is that Ryan Tannehill forced defenses to play more honest football so when they loaded the boxes to stop Henry, (and this is key) it would be Tannehill that audibled at the line of scrimmage.

Tannehill didn’t wait for the permission to audible, he just changed the plays and attacked the defenses where they were weakest, which was downfield.

As the Titans starting QB, Ryan Tannehill was incredible, and not enough people give him credit for how efficient it was.

This isn’t a small sample size either, this is 10 games during the regular season and 3 playoff games. We got to see nearly an entire season of Tannehill, and it was a season where he was thrown into the fire on a team that basically had to win nearly every game to make the playoffs.

Even when if you take out the best and worst season of Tannehill’s career and find the average of his other seasons, you still get this:

Now, I could get into how A.J. Brown was not only snubbed for offensive rookie of the year, but that his historical rookie season means that he should be a favorite for the Pro Bowl this season. However, this is just the 101 class and we need to cover a lot of ground.

Let’s talk about the defense.