Should Locker have been running the option?

Titans coach Mike Munchak said he doesn’t second-guess the decision to use Jake Locker on an option, the play that led to the quarterback’s season-ending foot injury Sunday against the Jaguars.

Locker was making his third start since returning from hip and knee sprains.

“It’s something he’s very comfortable with. He’s been asking for more runs because he’s good at them,” Munchak said. “That’s like a bootleg … He’s on an edge, free, with one guy, making a decision. So I felt that was a very safe play.

“Yeah, he got hurt, so you wish something else happened. Yeah, we wish we would have called something else so it didn’t happen, but I think it was a very easy play for him to execute.”

Munchak suggested that Locker’s competitive nature might have gotten the best of him on the play, just as it did last season against the Lions when Locker hurt his shoulder trying to make a tackle following an interception.

“He’s always about making plays, just like when he went for the tackle. He’s always wanted to find a way to help the team win and I think he figured (he was going to get) a first down,” Munchak said.

“I’m not quite sure in that split second if he thought he was going to stop or maybe juke a guy, or he could maybe have flipped it back to C.J.? Could he have slid? He had options, but it was just a freak play. You can go back and look at those things, (but) you can do that 100 times and it wouldn’t happen again.”

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Source: Titans Insider