What changed in the running game

[BengalChris]

(12-16-2019, 04:39 PM)Au165 Wrote: Actually, no not really. Most defenses you are playing with you are getting very basic looks that aren't going to tell you what will or won't work. In general though you spend all off season installing an entire scheme, considering you are only playing a quarter  two you will never get to see how your setups and then your counters off the setups work because there is little game flow and there is no pre scouting to suck teams into fakes. 

You "Let it go" because you can't install a whole new scheme in three days especially when you have to game plan for the next opponent. There is a difference between a game plan and a scheme. We tried a couple different game plans early in the season and those all did not work either, we needed to rebuild the scheme. A game plan is taking things you do and picking and choosing WHAT you are going to do using that foundation. A scheme is HOW you do it and that comes with technique and fundamentals that have to be understood in order to understand the branches of adjustments off it. 

The Steelers changed their game plan they didn't change their scheme. They didn't ask their line to block any different, they limited route trees they didn't ask them to run them any different, they limited the reads for the QB they didn't change the way they read the defense, they chose to run more they didn't change their running style.

You see the difference? This is actually exactly what I was just talking about above.

I'll go ahead and expand on this, with Pin and Pull it's pretty basic zone blocking on the backside with basic rules to the frontside on down block versus pull however the TE/OT Combo that occurs has a couple variations because of the overhang defender. We motion TE's often as well as motion WR's down which then take over TE/OT Combo rules. That kind of change doesn't just happen overnight. It was an easier transition then saying going from an outside zone team to say a man blocking scheme but there is legit work by both the line and the TE/WR group that has to occur to implement the Pin and Pull piece.

I got all that. But if you can bet that Belichick would have fixed it long before the half way point. Heck, even Marvin would have fixed long before then as well.