A New Offensive Scheme? (Merged Thread)

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Originally Posted by jsarno

I don't know if it's me or not, but this offense looks a lot more like a Gibbs system than a Saunders system. Is that a fair statement?

The consensus seems to be that it is a mix. Using Gibbs basics for the bread and butter plays and mixing in Saunders' more creative ideas to try to create explosive plays on the outside. All I know is that they ran up the middle a lot and kept doing it even though it wasn't that successful. As far as the passes over the middle (the ones that made us feel so warm inside) it's difficult to say. I suspect they would both say that those are integral parts of their system. It was a staple of Gibbs approach in the 80s but we haven't seen enough of it in the second term. I think part of the reason it worked today was the cover 2 that Dallas plays and Roy Williams looked a little off. And Brunell had time. There is no substitute for play action on 1st and 10 in my book.

I hope they at least try the same approach next week because Philly plays a lot of cover 2 as well and Trotter can't do much in coverage. Philly blitzes a lot more often, though, which will constrain them a little. And they are on the road which could make it tougher for the O-Line. And Philly was off this week. The last time, we played an NFC East opponent on the road who was coming off the bye week we tried to use the gameplan from the week before and we got crushed.

My main point would be that because Gibbs knows so much about offense and what basically works, it would be foolish not to use him as a resource. Especially with a losing record.