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Mike Moraitis

Titans’ 2022 pass rate after 1st down incompletion among lowest in NFL

One of the many gripes with former Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator Todd Downing was his propensity to run the football after the team gained little or no yardage on first downs, whether that be via pass or run.

That approach led to difficult third-down situations that Tennessee’s putrid passing attack simply wasn’t able to overcome.

Football analyst Warren Sharp crunched the numbers and showed that the Titans were near the bottom of the NFL in pass rate on second-and-10 scenarios following an incomplete pass on first down.

The Titans only threw the ball 42 percent of the time after a first-down incompletion, which ranked bottom five in the NFL.

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The teams with a lower pass rate were the Cleveland Browns, Washington Commanders, New Orleans Saints and Chicago Bears.

Of course, some of that can be blamed on the fact that the Titans’ best avenue to move the ball was on the ground thanks to injuries and overall ineptitude in the receivers room. But, even considering that, this is still unacceptable.

Thankfully, Downing’s ineptitude as a play-caller will no longer haunt the Titans after the team fired him earlier this offseason and replaced him with Tim Kelly, who has nowhere to go but up from here.

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