Callahan to Titans

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(01-27-2024, 11:02 AM)Synric Wrote: The RPO and screens are new for 2023. In 2021 and 2022 Bengals used the least amount of Playaction, RPOs, and Screens in the NFL.


The major thing this offense needs blasted for is zero rushing identity. In '19, '20, '21, and '22 the offense started out as a Wide Zone Strerch team and outside of '20 they had to stop and go to a gun run with duo, traps, and inside zone. In '23 they started out with the Gun Run scheme with heavy A and B gap runs which marries better with the spread rpo passing offense but it was very limited only attacking the edges of a defense with success on rare occasions adding in thr RPO quick screens to the receiver to make up for the lack of run game. 

Couldn't agree more with all of that. I was remembering a thread discussing the screens, and an article or Twitter link, etc quoted Zac as saying they run a lot of screens early in the game to see what the defense was showing them. Then the haters all chimed in with stuff "are you not watching film of your opponent?", "you not scouting your opponent?", "you don't already know what the defense is doing?" and so forth. Now we know why they didn't know, and my assumption is they ran them because it was a little safer than going deep/intermediate not knowing what they're trying to do to you. I think it also shows just how damn smart QB9 is.