The screen game

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(09-28-2020, 08:35 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Gio Bernard had three receptions for 55 yards.  Mixon had two for 16 yards.  A couple of the biggest plays were screen passes.  Although Burrow got killed on one, it is a logical call when the pass rush is teeing off.  I don't care if you have to run it 5 times in a row.  Think of it as a long handoff behind the defensive line.  The way the defensive line was blowing through the offensive line, I often thought they were screens.

There was a play where if Fred Johnson didn't whiff on his block in space, Mixon has a huge gain.  Never went back to it.  

This is yet another example of Taylor not understanding his opponent as the Eagles have one of the worst LB corps in the league.

You're onto something, of course.  Screen passes work best with good downfield and near field blocking by wide receivers and Tee Higgins and Tyler Boyd do this expertly; AJ Green used to but now, not so much -- and I understand why not.  



The other way to exploit a bad linebacker corps is to use tight end crossing routes about ten yards deep across the middle.  I know this because every other offensive coordinator in the league did this to the Bengals successfully for about twenty years.