Switching to Spread Formations Finally?

One of the main things we did was spread them out instead of loading up 3 TE's with closed formations and trying to run them over. Spreading them out and incorporating a REAL power read option (a lot of times Mariota was handing it off and not reading because we didn't want him to get hurt (or he was already hurt)) gave us a real running threat of Mariota running as well as give BOTH of them more room to run.

We will need to do this against the Pats if we want to win. This is what Pitt (should have won) and Miami did (won) did most of the time.

 

I made this joke around mid season. Wasn't really serious about it. But my lord if they don't come out first series like they played the second half of KC, the coaches should be left in NE.

But if they actually opened it up now, they'd surprise a lot of people. Can't wait for Saturday!

 

I think the read opition open up lanes for Henry..

Mariotas running the ball well is the key.

 

Last weeks game was one of the first times all year that we didn't have our RB getting hit in the backfield immediately after getting the ball...It also was one of the first times that I felt the OL actually played well as a unit. I don't know whether this was simply because the KC front isn't great against the run or whether the spread formation helped open the holes more than our OL or has our OL finally come together.

I sure hope that it wasn't a 1 week aberration. The Pats front does not have a BIG immovable object like Wilfork any more. In their losses they have been run on. I want our big uglies upfront to have the best game of the year.

Kudos OL for your play last week and keep it up.

 

My lord, why on earth am I still living in North America? I have a huge case of yellow fever. My parents are shocked I'm marrying a white girl actually lol.

 

It’s become something of a joke in our family.

Dad served in the navy in Okinawa for a while. Didn’t marry one, but had his fun with the Japanese ladies I’m sure.

His brother is married to a woman from Taiwan.

My brother is married to a Vietnamese woman.

I am engaged to a Filipino woman.

We joke that my nephew has to go Thai or Korean to complete the set.

 

That's fantastic, you win sir! I'm not sure what it was, maybe my love of import cars, but tiny Asians are my fav lol.

 

I never really had a thing till I moved here, which I only did because it pays the best to teach.

Once here, I became a fan. Lol

 

I think we were talking about a different kind of spread formation than you guys.