Therefore, having an abundance of WRs familiar with the system and young and less injury-prone is exactly what BP has in mind.
Also, spreading the defense with 3 WR sets is going to do more to help the running game than playing 2-TE sets that cause the defense to stack in and run their run-blitz packages to break up the timing of the OL. Timing that they really dont have at this point with so many new faces.
It's harder to run-blitz if the offense is dropping into 3 and 5 step drops and throwing quickly. Run blitzes creates pressure on the secondary and LBers to cover anybody coming out of the backfield, too.
So with us keeping so many WR's..it seems to definitely be tipping BP's hand as to what we are going to be featuring at least early. I'd think that once the OL does this and the offense succeeds, and points are on the board, we will then go to a 2-TE offense and try to play T of P.
And let the defense try to mop up the other team as they hopefully play from behind and forget the ground game trying to throw the ball. Letting us rush the passer with Ellis, Ware and Co.
I'm Ok with that. Let's have about 5-6 WRs that are involved and spread the ball so even if TO, Witten and Glenn are on the field, guys like Rector, Hurd, Austin and Crayton can burn the the holes in the defense trying to cover everybody.
Why would you run first if you can play pitch and catch at will..?
We've seen the screen pass a few times this pre-season and I think that also is going to be a big weapon this year with MBIII as the 3rd down back.
Again, passing the ball for quick hits of yardage and keeping the wear and tear off the RB's so they can be effective later in the year when hopefully the defense is going to mature into a true force each Sunday seems like a very reasonable game plan.
A lot depends on keeping Bledsoe and TO staying healthy and the defense not hitting any games where they start to give up long pass plays like they did last year. No more Commander, KC and Giant collapses and we can seriously think homefield advantage in the NFC.
We'll see. But I believe BP has decided to pull out all the stops and throw the ball bigtime and try to get 10-14 point leads early in games and sit on the defense for the wins.
Very different than last year where we played to try to keep the game close going into the 4th QT and try to win. That doesn't win consistantly in today's NFL.
Wide-open offenses and multiple schemes that keeps the defense guessing is what wins.
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