Solutions to the Titans' current Achilles Heel

The Titans' current Achilles Heel is the run game.  If you look at overall rankings for this first half of the season, the Titans' pass offense has a 95.9 QB rating (4th best in league) with 7.6 YPA (4th best in league).  The pass defense is allowing opposing QBs a 75.5 QB rating (8th best in league) with 6.5 YPA (8th best in league).  The run defense is allowing 4.1 yards per carry (16th best in league) while our run offense is getting 4.2 yards per carry (14th best in league).

So, we have a top 10 pass offense and pass defense but average run defense/offense.  I would like to focus on the run offense because I think we should have one of the best rush offenses in the league, even with defenses stacking the box.

The big changes in the run offense from last year are moving Eugene Amano to center and Leroy Harris coming in at guard and the loss of Alge Crumpler at TE.  We can debate back-and-forth on the impact both of these changes have made but I would say neither is helping the current Titans run game.  There is way too much penetration in the middle of the line and the edge is not being set strong enough for CJ to get outside.

Now, some of this can be corrected via more creative play calling, but I have a couple of additional solutions:

1.  Move Leroy Harris back to center and Eugene Amano back to guard.  Amano played guard last year and was sufficient and Harris has the strength to hold up against the inside push better.  This switch on the inside of the line is obviously not working out great, so a change is needed.

2.  For running plays off tackle, we should look at using an unbalanced line.  I see the Ravens/Jets use this from time-to-time.  Essentially, we would move Steward from right tackle to the left end position next to Roos.  We would then move Stevens to the "right tackle" position and put either Scaife/Cook on the right side with him.  So, we would now have the best run-blocking offensive lineman on the edge on the left side, so we should (theoretically) be able to set the edge better on run plays.  We could also play action off the run to the left with VY on a bootleg back to the right with two tight ends: Stevens on a stick pattern 5-10 yards deep and Scaife/Cook running an out pattern to the sideline.  Either way, we can keep the defense off balance horizontally even if they have 8-in-the-box.  I know this might give away which direction the Titans would run, but teams are already blitzing the running gaps the moment VY turns his back to hand the ball off to CJ...at least, this will put our best run blockers there to pick it up.