Titans coach Mike Munchak hinted that running could become a bigger part of Jake Locker's arsenal, Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean reports. “Jake brings that dimension to the game, but you have to be smart about it. You want to take advantage of all the skills he does have, though it’s hard to survive if you’re running it all the time,’’ Munchak said. “So it has to be a happy medium, and that’s what we’ll try and find.†Locker’s running was limited last season to 291 yards after he suffered a shoulder injury in the season opener while making a tackle. He eventually missed five games and had surgery after the season, but he is on track to be fully recovered for training camp. Even the best-laid plans with dual-threat quarterbacks have to be adjusted, however. Munchak pointed out that Griffin was unable to finish last season because of injury, and Michael Vick has taken a pounding over the years. “We are going to have a lot more things for Jake. We worked on things for him after we drafted him … and you want defenses to worry about those types of things,†Munchak said. “But maybe we wouldn’t do it to the degree you have seen other teams do it, because I don’t know if the quarterback can hold up doing that. “We did things with Warren the first three or four years, and he just took too many hits doing those things. Warren would run the option and do things in our run-and-shoot days, and it got to the point where we had to put a stop to it for the most part. … It’s hard to survive. It has to be a happy medium.†Source: The Redzone
