As Bowen mentioned, McDaniel’s offense last year ran it at the second-highest rate in the NFL. The Chargers, meanwhile, ran it the fifth-most last season, according to Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n
The Chargers have created a group of offensive skill players that will give them a lot of versatility in what groupings they choose to do.<\/p>\n
But Bowen stated that if they opt to continue the high rate of 21 personnel, it can create a lot of advantages in multiple phases.<\/p>\n
It will a fascinating story to watch when the season kicks off and progresses.<\/p>\n
With two running backs on the field, offenses can gain numbers and blocking angles by tagging the fullback to lead, insert or wrap in the run game. This also creates heavy opportunities for play-action, mirroring the backfield action, because it can open voids in the coverage for the tight end and two receivers. And with versatility at the fullback spot, offenses can easily shift to 12 and 11 personnel looks for better matchups against base defensive personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Bowen mentioned, McDaniel’s offense last year ran it at the second-highest rate in the NFL. The Chargers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[37,5245,241,7,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,4836,6],"class_list":["post-919675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-chargers","tag-app-homepage","tag-articles-bolts-buzz","tag-chargers","tag-football","tag-homepage-cp","tag-homepage-headlines","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleschargers","tag-mike-mcdaniel","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116754925710481749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}