Formation idea

[BFritz21]

(10-21-2023, 07:38 PM)BoomerFan Wrote: Defenses are feasting this year so far. Generally they are doing so with deep coverages and great pass rush (or, arguably, increasingly poor offensive line play by most teams because that position is approached differently in college). So how has our team addressed this? We have moved to a shotgun formation and our passing game has been designed for shorter yardage plays. This of course protects the quarterback by being more physically distant from the line so the pass rush takes longer to get there. So what if we took this concept further?

My suggestion is a punting formation. In fact I might even replace our center with our long snapper. Burrow would line up where the punter is. That's right, I'm talking 15 yards back. And every down the ball would be snapped all the way back to Burrow. He would then have more time to throw and the defensive pass rush will wear out faster running all that way every down.

That's it. That's my admittedly gimmicky idea. It is the bye week so I thought it couldn't do any harm to put it out there. Please feel free to respond with thoughts on this or even just light mocking.  

It might give him an extra second to throw, but probably not much more than that, and defensive backs would have more time to react to throws, and not to mention that it would tire out Burrow's arm more.

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lol. 

I like thinking outside the box and, like you said, it's bye week, so what else is there to do?

Actually, if we were inside the 10, it might not hurt to have Burrow a bit deeper taking a shotgun snap to give him a little more time since pass rushers just tee-off on third down and better vision, but, outside of that, I don't think it would work too well.