06-30-2017, 09:09 AM
(06-30-2017, 08:19 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Chip tried to run a ridiculous number of plays per game and it had some success in college, but not really in the NFL. I am speaking more about getting the opponent in a formation like Nickel and then pounding them with a TE, FB, and RB. Sure, many nickel packages will be able to stop the run, but you get what I am saying.
I just like the creativity of the sugar and tryjng to bait the opponent in to switching personnel and catching them for an easy "too many men" penalty. The best part of that is the free play, where you can take a deep shot with no fear of an INT.
Kelly really wasn't that much faster than other teams doing it when you look at offensive plays per game. That said here is a quote from an article looking back at it. In the end defenses were so comfortable adjusting it wasn't that big a deal.
But defenses adjust, and by the end of 2015, Kelly’s opponents barely seemed affected by his tempo. As Belichick pointed out, the biggest benefit of fast tempo is that it takes play-calling away from defensive coordinators, putting the onus on defensive players to communicate and adjust on the fly. But, as other NFL offenses have increasingly used the no-huddle, defenses have gotten comfortable playing fast themselves, and can now communicate their complex schemes and adjustments with just a word or two.
Not sure how you catch them with a nickel package and you have a FB on the field. A FB entering the game is one of the "tells" for base package. Trying to get personnel mismatches comes more from personnel ability and positioning than trying to hope they don't adjust with you.
The patriots for example have a formation called empty ace patriot where they will have 12 personnel on the field but it's a shotgun spread formation. The beauty of this formation is that normally when you see 12 personnel your going to be in a base package on defense. For this formation though, they line up their 1 and 2 WR on the short side of the field out wide then have the HB split wide opposite and two TE's in the slot between the Tackle and HB. Why this formation is deadly is because of mismatches it creates. Let's assume this is against a man defense, in this case you have stacked their CB's to one side and now you have LB's in space against your TE's and HB all of which are better in space than LB's normally. If they stay Zone on the WR side you now have the #2 WR in the slot against a LB in zone and they are better equipped to find soft spots against a LB in coverage.
The thing is you have to have personnel's who skill set can be used in these types of ways. These kind of things are actually where the Patriots having multiple pass catching TE really paid off for them.
