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Why the Tennessee Titans should love Jace Amaro

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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Jace Amaro is one of the newest Tennessee Titans, and I am thrilled with that.

For those that are ready to say that he was a bust in New York, give me a minute to convince you why this is completely different.

In case you missed it, there is some short required reading for this article. Go check out my article on why the Tennessee Titans should claim Jace Amaro here before it actually happened.

Did you read it yet? Good. Alright, so you know that I think he could be great from a personnel standpoint. With that in mind, I would like for you to think of him as a 6’5 slot wide receiver, instead of a tight end.

Having trouble with that? Just imagine Jimmy Graham and how he was used in New Orleans. I believe he spend slightly less that half of his snaps out in the slot, much like how the Titans really used Delanie Walker last year.

Now that you have that in your head imagine this lineup. The Titans go with their “jumbo” package. From left to right that looks like this, excluding Marcus Mariota:

-TE Anthony Fasano (6’4)

-5 OL

-TE Delanie Walker (6’1)

-TE Jace Amaro (6’5)

-RB DeMarco Murray in the backfield

-WR Andre Johnson split out wide.

The Titans snap the ball and run a play, 5 yards behind whichever side the defense looks the weakest. Tennessee keeps doing that until the defense decides they are tired of getting run over, and one of the linebackers or DBs comes out and gets replaced with a DL.

Marcus Mariota sees this and immediately shifts everyone out. Now you have Johnson and Walker on the left with Jace Amaro in the slot on that side, and Anthony Fasano lined up wide to the short side of the field. Marcus Mariota reads how the defense adjusts and either throws to a coverage he likes or he boots out and makes the defender choose between him and the WR.

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Schematically it is a nightmare to try to defend in the first quarter when everyone is healthy, not to mention how tough it is going to be after the defense has tried to tackle DeMarco Murray and Derrick Henry for the last two hours.

I love this move from a tactical standpoint and if the Titans love that no huddle (which they should) then this move helps them and makes the oft injured Kendall Wright less of a key cog that people thought in the preseason.