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A good running back screen.

We used to at least run a good TE one …. Or maybe that was under Marvin

Anything but the wr screen. We got to put our energy into hoping they throw those plays out for a more conventional screen game.

I can see Chase being more than capable of explosive plays from screens.

I don't think we ever were particularly good at RB screens. I remember a whole lot of hospital balls where either it was telegraphed what we were doing or the blocking for the screen just completely failed and the RB just got murdered.

I really don't get it either, especially since our pass blocking wasn't great because the a way to neutralize the pass rush is to let defenders rush up field and then throw a screen to take advantage of the vacated areas.

The only problem is that screens work best when the defense blitzes because the defenders are in the backfield and you toss it over their heads to the back behind the line of scrimmage, but our line was so bad last season that we faced the least amount of blitzes in the league but still gave up the third-most pressures.

Hopefully this is Burrow's best line and they can be good enough to make running screens effective.

Well Perine is back. He scored on a screen when he was here his first time around.

(05-29-2025, 11:35 PM)Mer Wrote: [ -> ]Well Perine is back. He scored on a screen when he was here his first time around.

"A," screen?

More like many.

(05-29-2025, 10:40 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think we ever were particularly good at RB screens. I remember a whole lot of hospital balls where either it was telegraphed what we were doing or the blocking for the screen just completely failed and the RB just got murdered.

Giovanni Bernard's ribs got pummeled from being hung out so often when he was here.

The Perine AFCC screen TD was memorable. And perfectly executed. 

Mixon would look like he had the whole field ahead of him and he’d trip as he accelerated.

(05-29-2025, 11:59 PM)jj22 Wrote: [ -> ]The Perine AFCC screen TD was memorable. And perfectly executed. 

Mixon would look like he had the whole field ahead of him and he’d trip as he excelled.

Believe that was the longest TD play in Bengals playoff history.

Also like Truck said, Chase Brown is one hell of a screen RB as well. Agree, we should see more of them but not in a predictable way please...

Not near as much 3rd and longs where it HAS to be a screen would be my want.

(05-29-2025, 10:13 PM)jj22 Wrote: [ -> ]A good running back screen.

We used to at least run a good TE one …. Or maybe that was under Marvin

Anything but the wr screen. We got to put our energy into hoping they throw those plays out for a more conventional screen game.

I can see Chase being more than capable of explosive plays from screens.

Don’t recall us ever having success with TE screen plays. You are correct, too many players get blown up.

(05-30-2025, 12:03 PM)TKUHL Wrote: [ -> ]Don’t recall us ever having success with TE screen plays. You are correct, too many players get blown up.

Uzomah vs the Jags in '21. 

They've had a couple good gains with a few guys but nothing consistent. 

I miss doing a line off of a hookers b... Wait... What forum am I in?

Another great thing about screen passes is calling them "scream passes." Any time I'm out throwing the nerf football around with my buddy and his kids we do lots of scream passes, which is just throwing a regular pass while going AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I miss that old school running between the tackles and having a FB/TE pave the way for the RB.
I also miss having true interior pressure on the DL. I miss 2011 when Geno, Fanene, and Rucker were constantly terrorizing the QB inside. That year they had 5 guys with 4+ sacks each.

(05-30-2025, 02:58 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: [ -> ]I miss doing a line off of a hookers b... Wait... What forum am I in?

(05-29-2025, 10:13 PM)jj22 Wrote: [ -> ]A good running back screen.

We used to at least run a good TE one …. Or maybe that was under Marvin

Anything but the wr screen. We got to put our energy into hoping they throw those plays out for a more conventional screen game.

I can see Chase being more than capable of explosive plays from screens.

You weren't watching Chase Brown last year. Plenty of screens and passes out to the flat for him.

(05-30-2025, 12:03 PM)TKUHL Wrote: [ -> ]Don’t recall us ever having success with TE screen plays. You are correct, too many players get blown up.

Donald Lee made his name known with us on TE screens.

Eifert got many, MANY first downs on TE screens.

Ceej also did some, as mentioned by Faulk.

We use our TEs differently than in the screen game.

(05-30-2025, 03:53 PM)higgy100 Wrote: [ -> ]You weren't watching Chase Brown last year. Plenty of screens and passes out to the flat for him.

Passes out of the flat and checkdowns I remember, but not traditional screens. 

(05-30-2025, 04:10 PM)jj22 Wrote: [ -> ]Passes out of the flat and checkdowns I remember, but not traditional screens. 

You may be right but I thought there were a couple.

We used to do the TE middle screen and it seemed to work every time. It was one of the good plays back in the day I would of liked to see
more of. To Gesicki it might be efficient as he is athletic, Drew Sample though? Not so much.