"2nd & 1 and this is one of the things I see on film often with our offense. It is maddening, honestly. Look at the top of the screen. Look how far off they are. That has to be an automatic call to throw the swing pass. That’s a free 1st down. The only chance of that not being a 1-yard pickup is if they drop the ball. Instead we run a dive into an 8-man front. We do pick up the hard earned 1-yard, but that pass to the top of the screen is a missed tackle from a big play and it’s free. The QB just has to be willing to audible to it. "
I'm glad you mentioned it, because that has been driving me nuts for a long time. Throwing that pass isn't even something that we'd have to overhaul the offense to do. Throwing that pass is something we can easily do RIGHT NOW within the confines of the current offense to at least be more successful moving the football.
If I'm the QB and I see the DBs playing that far off, I'm throwing that pass every single time for an easy 7 yards with the potential to become much more with just one missed tackle. Why aren't we doing it? ****, it's something we did very often in 2016, and even last year.
I'm glad you mentioned it, because that has been driving me nuts for a long time. Throwing that pass isn't even something that we'd have to overhaul the offense to do. Throwing that pass is something we can easily do RIGHT NOW within the confines of the current offense to at least be more successful moving the football.
If I'm the QB and I see the DBs playing that far off, I'm throwing that pass every single time for an easy 7 yards with the potential to become much more with just one missed tackle. Why aren't we doing it? ****, it's something we did very often in 2016, and even last year.