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Why do teams keep stacking the box

Cam putting out some tape last night keeping the zone read is only going to make opposing Defensive staffs head spin even more. Also he took what the defense gave him more last night with his legs and that is even more demoralizing.

Opposing Defensive staffs are losing their minds trying to figure out how to stop this dude and having to defend the zone read makes that INFINITELY harder.

I thought we put out some bad tape defensively last night and excellent tape offensively
 
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gogeta4 said:
There probably isnt 2 linebackers in the country that can run with Chris Johnson so good luck.

Sh*t Cam under threw a lay up td tonight...if u wanna play shell he will hit Fletcher, CJ, and Martinez in the flat and they will get 10 a pop and Cam is cool with that...the'l break a tackle or 2 and then your still f*cked lol
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Yeha Johnson had his guy beta by 3yds and Cam floated it
 
DCs pride themselves on stopping the run or making a team one dimensional. They stuffed the run pretty well for 2.5 quarters. I'll give them that.
 
I think what will serve us well when teams inevitably start playing 2-high and drop 8 and play more conservative in general are a couple things.

1. Cam has enough mobility to make them pay for doing that, which someone like TVD didn’t have last year. Mahomes and Allen use their legs (to different degrees) to punish teams who play that defense against them, and it seems cam has that same ability

2. More importantly, our offensive line is elite and so many offensive lines in the NFL are horrible. Cam has all day to sit back there, keep sliding in the pocket and wait for things to open up. You can drop as many as you want, but the longer you allow routes to develop, naturally that’s more space for defenders to cover and then coverages just spring leaks everywhere if you extend plays long enough.

Someone else mentioned it as well, but hitting the checkdowns is another game changer these days. Something very simple that qbs don’t do enough these days
 
obcanes said:
Ward is averaging 11 ypa. A first down every try. Those are crazy stats. There's no reason to try to establish the run. Just keep throwing, scoring, and having the D get a few stops.

Then once up by 21+, the D can pin their ears back and the O can bleed the clock with the run.

Seems to be the formula for they year.
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Ward is averaging 11 ypa. A first down every try. Those are crazy stats. There's no reason to try to establish the run. Just keep throwing, scoring...
We happy.

Then once up by 21+, the D can pin their ears back and the O can bleed the clock with the run.
Mario happy.

Win. Win.
 
redsoxcane said:
It seems like stacking the box and forcing Cam to throw is a bad idea but teams continue to do it.
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Every team has a core philosophy of "stop the run and run the ball" as being part of building a long term successful team. Sometimes it backfires.
 
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NCCanefan said:
That tight end screen design last night was very clever
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There was a play last night that made me giddy; it was that field trips 11 personnel formation where we motion the RB out for the swing screen (the one CJ scored on vs Ball St)… we faked the swing screen and hit Arroyo on an in-line screen. It went for a 1st down and I was just like…how do you stop everything we have
 
USF played a ton of single-high coverage on early downs in order to stop the run, and basically dared us to throw the ball. They even had their DB's in our face.

If Cam converts on a few of the early throws he missed (at least 3) and George doesn't deliver an INT to a USF DB we would've started the rout in the first half.

I commend USF on their game plan.
*Take away the run
*Challenge the WR's and force Cam to make accurate throws
*Hope their offense can make more plays than Miami's

The only issue is...
If your DB's aren't good enough to hold-up in man coverage all night, and Ward starts hitting his throws, you're in trouble. It's just Jimmies & Joes at that point.
 
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