While the Tennessee Titans’ 2019 passing attack was about as successful as this franchise has seen in many years, there is still room for improvement going forward, even in the face of what seems like inevitable regression.
Of course, Tennessee needs to stay true to itself and keep utilizing the run game in order to set things up through the air, but there are other ways the passing attack can help itself out to truly make the Titans’ offense unstoppable.
Limit sacks
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While the Titans did a better job at limiting sacks as the season went along in 2019 after a disastrous start, they still finished with 56 allowed, the second-most in the NFL.
In the first six games with Marcus Mariota as the starter, the Titans allowed 25, which works out to about four per game. In the 10 games after Ryan Tannehill was named the starter, Tennessee averaged a shade over three.
There is a silver lining there despite those horrid numbers. The Titans allowed the third-fewest quarterback pressures, per Pro Football Focus.
Limiting sacks isn’t just about offensive line play, though; although that should improve drastically now that the group upfront has more experience playing together. It’s also about Tannehill not holding on to the ball for too long, which is something we saw him do a bit too often last season.