The Tennessee Titans are fresh off their bye and are set to host the Atlanta Falcons in a game they desperately need to win if they want any realistic chance at keeping their season alive.
A loss on Sunday will likely have a negative trickle-down effect on everything from attendance and relevancy going forward. It could also lead to several veteran players being put on the trade block before Tuesday’s deadline.
Only time will tell whether any of that actually happens, but the focus this week is trying to get back in the win column after dropping two straight games prior to the bye.
Fortunately for Tennessee, it will have one of the most lenient referees in the league who has called the second-fewest amount of penalties in the NFL going into Week 8.
According to the NFLPenalties.com, Clay Martin and his crew have only called 57 penalties on the year for a combined 490 yards. For perspective, the five officiating crews who have called the most penalties have all thrown at least 87 flags up until this point in the season.
Listed below is each penalty that Martin and his staff have called through the first five weeks, how frequently they called them, and which teams they’ve favored the most.
All other penalties not listed either haven’t been called or were negated by offsetting and/or penalties that were declined.