What is Gibbs holding back?

[Schneed10]

I don't think we've seen many stretch plays, to be honest. I've seen a couple, but mostly it's just Betts off left tackle or Betts off right tackle. That big play Betts had against Cinci wasn't really much of a stretch play, it was intended to be an off-tackle run and he just decided to bounce it outside when the LB filled the gap off-tackle.

The stretch plays with zone blocking are most recognizable when you see the RB (Portis) running parallel to the line of scrimmage, and then all of a sudden make a quick cutback through the moving line of blockers. I haven't seen any of that yet.

On the pass plays, we haven't seen too many routes. Patten seems to run that same corner route on every play (the one where he breaks it off flatter instead of going to the corner). All of his balls were caught on that route against Cinci. I think there are more routes to be seen.

And yeah, Cooley seems to be held back as a secret weapon of sorts.

[GoSkins!]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

The stretch plays with zone blocking are most recognizable when you see the RB (Portis) running parallel to the line of scrimmage, and then all of a sudden make a quick cutback through the moving line of blockers. I haven't seen any of that yet.

Your right, but I think I saw it one time in the Carolina game. It looked like the linemen did pretty well. Modest gain on the play. It will be fun to see it working in a real game when Gibbs has found some poor DE or LB to pick on.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by GoSkins!

Your right, but I think I saw it one time in the Carolina game. It looked like the linemen did pretty well. Modest gain on the play. It will be fun to see it working in a real game when Gibbs has found some poor DE or LB to pick on.

Yeah I think you're right, and if my memory serves Rabach got out to the LB level of the defense and made a good block. That's something Raymer couldn't do last year, he kept getting caught up by the DTs and could rarely make it to the LBs. That's an encouraging sign to see an athletic center like that.