MLF loves to run shotgun RPO zone runs. Doing so requires rather athletic linemen to be able to run and block in space. Yet the packers the last few years have been drafting bigger linemen. Road graders.
Earlier this season I saw a start that the packers were averaging less than 2 yards per carry running shotgun zone and over 4 ypc when under center.
Why does MLF think we have zone blocking linemen. It hasn’t worked all year. It jumps off the tape too (I watch the all 22 every game).
Coaching is knowing what your players talents and scheming to them. Matt lives in an echo chamber that his scheme is good and the players just need to execute…
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Jacobs did wonders for us. We had no run game
“I said, run RB3 Inside Zone outta 4-wideout shotgun spread… again”
But here comes an extension for MLF 🫠
They’re also all soft as charmin. Not a single one has the power or will to dominate the guy in front of them. We need mean and tough guys up front.
It’s been clear MLF has wanted to get to a more gap run scheme for like 2 years now. He wants to do what McVay does. Defenses have adapted to the 2017-2022 craze of wide zone scheme with lighter dline who can move horizontally and basically oversized safeties playing linebackers and now the game is meant to stretch the defense horizontally with the pass game rather than the run and then gut check them with power runs and then when they are committed to covering the sidelines and the box then chunk it deep for kill shots and rinse and repeat. It’s a good plan and has worked well for LA but we don’t have the guys in the online to do it. I say that but I think they CAN physically do it but they have had poor luck at it. I think a good deal of it stems from the weakness at the center position.
A coach I follow on Twitter said the same thing: your skill players are only as good as your linemen. Good coaches adapt to the skills of their linemen, not necessarily to the quarterback.
It’s his ego. His system is great and could win a Super Bowl if every single piece is working the way he envisions it. Sadly that’s not reality.
Matt needs to coach to his talent. It’s what elite coaches do. He doesn’t. It’s almost like him and Gute aren’t on the same page.
We used to be a smaller line that was excellent at pass blocking. Now we got bigger and just suck at both. Get me a real o line coach.
He was trying to mimic the Eagles. Justus Mosqueda has a really good article on it, how taking athletic offensive lineman in the past allowed them to pick up value in the later rounds, but taking the biggest offensive lineman in the draft left them with questionable players in the first and second rounds.
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Solved it
Run 3 guys deep and throw to the quick slant. Get 7-10 yards against the bears every time.
I love ground and pound as much as the next guy, but you need the horses for it. We do not have a road grading offensive line. Their pass blocking is adequate, and their run blocking is poor. You cannot just blindly call games like you’re Alabama playing Citadel.
Your quarterback can still use his feet to escape defensive pressures and our defense can’t stop a rookie tightend from racking up 100+ receiving yards in 15 minutes.
Maybe defense is more of a concern? But, I’ve been very wrong before.
I’ve always thought Tom looked tiny😂 I guess I’m used to tackles being 6’8 at 350
When you think you’ve found something and you haven’t. Same size as a lot of linemen of offenses that run the same offense. Look at the 49ers and rams offensive line.
Give him another 5 years. He still won’t have it figured out, but he’ll have wasted another 5 years.
I just wanna know why he loves HB toss on 3rd and short when he has Jacobs at RB and a IOL that averages 327 lbs.
they cant runblock anything ever bro.
The play calling was frustrating this year, bottom 10 in yard per carry but top 7 in rushing attempts…
But I’ve been told that we’re lucky to have him
Well he has another 3-4 years to try I guess.
Zone blocking needs to be done by very athletic offensive lineman that can move laterally quickly.
So you have it figured out by their height and weight? Ugh go play more madden
Everyone blaming Love or Lafluer need to recognize that the Oline absolutely sucked the whole year
I’m hoping they add more depth at offensive line. They couldn’t open up a hole for the run. Maybe because they were backups.
So our smallest and lightest lineman happens to be our best? In this scheme? Ya don’t say!
No one thought the offensive line would’ve been an issue this season
Running out of shotgun is a lot like play action passes. They aren’t something to lean on. We have the hogs up front that we should able to run it old school like with did with Aaron Jones and A.J Dillon. Yet we try this cutesy stuff.
I scratched my head the same way when I saw all that designed runs out of shotgun against the bears the same way I did when I saw Preston Smith running 15+ yards down the field in coverage.
One of the MANY things he can’t figure out. All he cares about is his tablet. Why isn’t that play working? It worked in 2019!!!
Doesn’t help that their main OL were hurt all season.