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FRPLG · 10-12-2005, 12:16 PM

I think the use of Portis so far hss been mediocre at best. Portis is best in space, on the edges or outside. Seems we ram him up the middle a little more than I'd like to see. I think the ratio of gut runs to streches and zones needs to come down a bit. As far as screens they ran a bunch of these in pre-season but we have yet to see them. I am guesing these are being saved for later in the year. Seems Gibbs and co. like to hold back things so teams can't prepare for them. You can contrast this style of scheming to the Colts who simply throw everything at you every time and force you to choose what to take time preparing for versus what not to. Not sure which method is better but the success of the Colts is hard to argue with.

I think to a large extent our offense has been turned around by a couple things this year. First of course is the continued improvment in play at the QB position. Brunell seems increasingly able to avoid some pressure and make good decisions while throwing the ball adequately. He is no Johnny U but he is getting the job done pretty well.

I think our play calling has become a much more inspired but our overall offensive direction is what is holding us back from scoring points. Our offense is largely to max protect and let our fast receivers get open while Brunell takes his time finding them. This works great in space but when you get to the redzone it is much harder for those WRs to get open with less space. Consequentially we either don't get anything done since no one can get open or we have to shift gears and move into a less comfortable set which we don't seem to execute as well. We need to work our way out of max protect as the season progresses because it is really limiting our scoirng ops.

10-12-2005, 12:16 PM	#6
FRPLG MVP Join Date: May 2004 Age: 46 Posts: 10,164	Re: Something different than LaVar I think the use of Portis so far hss been mediocre at best. Portis is best in space, on the edges or outside. Seems we ram him up the middle a little more than I'd like to see. I think the ratio of gut runs to streches and zones needs to come down a bit. As far as screens they ran a bunch of these in pre-season but we have yet to see them. I am guesing these are being saved for later in the year. Seems Gibbs and co. like to hold back things so teams can't prepare for them. You can contrast this style of scheming to the Colts who simply throw everything at you every time and force you to choose what to take time preparing for versus what not to. Not sure which method is better but the success of the Colts is hard to argue with. I think to a large extent our offense has been turned around by a couple things this year. First of course is the continued improvment in play at the QB position. Brunell seems increasingly able to avoid some pressure and make good decisions while throwing the ball adequately. He is no Johnny U but he is getting the job done pretty well. I think our play calling has become a much more inspired but our overall offensive direction is what is holding us back from scoring points. Our offense is largely to max protect and let our fast receivers get open while Brunell takes his time finding them. This works great in space but when you get to the redzone it is much harder for those WRs to get open with less space. Consequentially we either don't get anything done since no one can get open or we have to shift gears and move into a less comfortable set which we don't seem to execute as well. We need to work our way out of max protect as the season progresses because it is really limiting our scoirng ops.