NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After the Titans’ excellent offensive output in Sunday’s sparkling win over the Bengals, Mike Vrabel was quick to deflect a question about Tim Kelly’s play-calling.
“I think all the credit goes to the players,” Vrabel said. “It does. We make all this up about play-callers. Give them a play and they go execute it. It's up to the players and they did a great job. That's what I'm saying.”

Are some plays better than others? Are they better designed? Do they stand a better chance to work given what a defense is doing?
Sure. And we can tell some of that, particularly when one layers nicely on another or when something might build now on something that unfolded earlier.
But we tend to oversimplify our rating of play-calling, and I try to stay away from it because of that.
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