11-17-2016, 02:30 PM
(11-17-2016, 09:29 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: I believe the opposite. You can run out of this formation very well. You can send as many as as four receivers in a pattern.
If you line AJ wide, but off the LOS so he isn't covering up the TE...say, Kroft, on the right side of the LOS, with Eifert on the other side also not covering up Uzomah on the left side of the LOS and you have Gio/Hill in the backfield. You have extra blockers if you want to run that the defense must still account for going out in a pattern. The RBs can go in motion as well. Your receivers at (or near) the LOS go 6'4", 6'5", 6'6", and 6'6".
Plus, you can go no-huddle without changing personnel, which would allow the defense to substitute.
I don't mean to say that they play 100% of their formations with 3 TEs, but it would give a boost to the running game, which every defense not named Cleveland knows exactly when a run is coming, by being less predictable and also gives Dalton some big targets that DBs will not like trying to tackle.
The problem with that is Uzomah and Kroft are incredibly poor route runners so you essentiall take yourself down to a 2 man route with the possibility of an <5 yard gain otherwise on a dumpoff possibly
