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Rye, Many teams have gone away from the traditional run/down — passing/down options that most of us grew up playing or watching. IOW teams are running on what were traditional passing downs and passing on 1st down or 2nd and short. Not always of course but often enough.
With the shotgun and pistol formations QBs are getting pre-snap reads on defenses, etc. This makes aligning defenses based on down and distance dicey. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said, “Why in the hell are we running on this down and distance?” when Hines would rip off a first down or TD run..
I would line up safeties at the LOS on the opps WRs. Make contact, hold them up at the line if possible, release the WRs to the CBs and the safeties would be there for run support at the LOS. See why I’m not coaching? LOL
Our WRs were small when DD got here. Now they are as big as LBs. OTH Our CBs last year had trouble covering big receivers and were getting blocked by these same guys. We now have CBs who are big and athletic enough to cover those same big receivers. We shall see if it makes any difference.
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