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Look at these numbers. you want to know why the Titans face so many 8 man fronts? The Titans make it easy for defenses to do so by being in 11 less than anyone else other than the Vikings (29%) last year. guess who else faces a ton of 8 man fronts? Dalvin Cook.

 

2020

11 - 38% (410 plays)

12 - 35% (373 plays)

21 - 10% (110 plays)

13 - 9% (100 plays)

 

Also let me throw the gauntlet down one last time. Here are the nextgen stats on rushing against 8 man boxes last year. Henry isn't even in the top 10 of percentage of 8 man fronts faced! Any other bullshit you guys want to spout?

 

https://nextgenstats.nfl.com/stats/rushing/2020/REG/all#percent-eight-defenders

 

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19 minutes ago, oldschool said:

Try thinking for yourself. Break down why if what SK claims, is playaction not drastically more successful out of 3TE? you can't because you have no idea what you watch each week other than Henry getting the ball and going off on defenses. That's your ceiling. 

3 TE formations? That’s some stupid shit. You are judging play action does with only 1 WR on the field? Get the fuck out of here…

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Just now, Starkiller said:

3 TE formations? That’s some stupid shit. You are judging play action does with only 1 WR on the field? Get the fuck out of here…

 

your stance is 8 and 9 man fronts make it easier to playaction. How do you think you get to 9 man fronts? 

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12 minutes ago, oldschool said:

Look at these numbers. you want to know why the Titans face so many 8 man fronts? The Titans make it easy for defenses to do so by being in 11 less than anyone else other than the Vikings (29%) last year. guess who else faces a ton of 8 man fronts? Dalvin Cook.

 

2020

11 - 38% (410 plays)

12 - 35% (373 plays)

21 - 10% (110 plays)

13 - 9% (100 plays)

 

Also let me throw the gauntlet down one last time. Here are the nextgen stats on rushing against 8 man boxes last year. Henry isn't even in the top 10 of percentage of 8 man fronts faced! Any other bullshit you guys want to spout?

 

https://nextgenstats.nfl.com/stats/rushing/2020/REG/all#percent-eight-defenders

 

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It’s hard to run block defenders out of 11 personnel down after down.

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8 minutes ago, oldschool said:

 

Lots of teams run out of 11.


Yeah but not run-first power football teams. I mean, obviously the Titans do sometimes and Downing even apparently runs it out of the spread from time to time! 
 

My point was simply that they are intent on running the ball as much as possible and teams know this, so the blocking scheme is hat on a hat. They want to give the ball to Henry come hell or high water. 

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My .0000002 cents...

 

If we didn't have Derrick Henry the play-action would be irrelevant. The offense overall would suffer. You don't subtract a back like Henry and not experience pains. Play-action is irrelevant to that and arguing about it is like arguing po-tay-toh or po-tah-toe. Henry isn't the reason play-action is successful. He's why the offense is successful.

 

Now run the same argument for Ryan Tannehill. The result is exactly the same. Great players make great offenses, not the other way around.

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14 minutes ago, Starkiller said:

You sure as fuck don’t have to go to 3 TEs. Teams stack the box against Henry plus 2 WRs all the time.

 

Do you know what 12 personnel is? 2WR/2TE. The Titans ran 38% of their plays out of this formation last year. That formation all but dictates an 8 man front unless one of the TEs is split out which happens on occasion.  Regardless, Henry was 17th in the league in 8 man fronts faced last year percentage wise. The Titans ran 520 plays with 2TE on the field last year. They ran another 100 plays out of 21 (FB + TE).

 

Long story short, the Titans face so many 8 man fronts because of their personnel groupings which @BudsOilers explained to you earlier.  

 

 

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