12-15-2022, 12:27 AM
(12-15-2022, 12:22 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: It is incredibly rare. There were 150 total snaps with five down linemen in the NFL during the 2020 season. It wasn't even mentioned in the breakdown of the 2021 season. I would be willing to bet that Cincinnati has run less than 30 snaps of a 5-2 personnel all season. We are talking less than 1% of the time across the board for the NFL, and not much better than that for Cinci, likely.
Thanks for providing an actual play, though. I genuinely couldn't think of any instances, so at least they have done it.
We ran it quite a bit vs the Titans, I'll have to check the Browns and Falcons games, maybe Steelers as well?
You sourced an interesting article but the section regarding 5 lineman and the goal line provided a key excerpt...
"All defenses with fewer than four defensive backs are either "Big" or "Goal Line." "Big" includes anything with three defensive backs and fewer than four defensive linemen (mostly 4-4-3 and 3-5-3), while "Goal Line" is everything else. Despite its name, there's no requirement for goal-line defenses to actually be played on the goal line;"
