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Tennessee’s dreadful second-half offense continued on Sunday afternoon. For the third straight game, the Titans failed to put up any points after halftime. In total, they have been outscored 64-7 in the second half this season. 

The most maddening thing about this is the fact that the Titans are currently the most efficient offense before the break. Tennessee has scored a combined 68 points throughout the first half of games.

According to RBSDM, over the first two quarters, the Titans rank in the top five of EPA per play (.274), Success rate (53.3 percent), Dropback EPA (.382), Dropback success rate (54.3 percent), Rushing EPA (.129), and Rushing success rate (51.9 percent).

Things drastically fall apart in the second half as Tennessee falls to the bottom-five in each of those categories, except for “Dropback success rate”, where the Titans fall in the middle of the pack at 15th (44.6 percent).

From the outside looking in, it seems like Tennessee’s coaching staff is struggling to counter any halftime adjustments the other team makes.

The Titans’ offense desperately needs to start putting together a productive four quarters if they’re ever going to reach their full potential.

They don’t need to be an offensive force for four quarters or anything like that, but they can’t keep having these steep fall-offs from being the most efficient offense in one half to being the least efficient offense in the other.

Tennessee found a way to survive these lackluster second halves for two straight weeks, but this habit will catch up to them at some point if they don’t figure it out soon.

If the Titans can find a way to translate the success they have in the first half of games over to the second half as well, they will be a force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, that’s apparently much easier said than done.

The Titans will have one last chance against the Commanders to put together a complete game in order to build some momentum as they head into their Week 6 bye.



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