This is why we need to start taking delay of game penalties on third and one.

I feel like this is what we do and it goes for a loss of 3 every time.

There's virtually ZERO question what the Eagles are going to do as well. And, yet, they convert at an absurd level. Bell should be that guy for us. If folks are really worried, he CAN throw the ball.

We ran this play on the 4th and short in the SB and the play design was never on tape. It was a 10+ yard gain.

I believe Andy has a play like this in the backlog for January

I think that was Vince Lombardi's philosophy with the power sweep. There was no element of surprise at all, but he ran it because it couldn't be stopped.

For those of you too young to remember, Vince Lombardi and Bart Starr were a coach/quarterback combination that won almost as often as Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes II.

Running the offense out of shotgun/RPO 95% of the time doesn't help matters.

IMO this is the main issue, esp when you supposedly have the NFL's best interior OL or at worst a top2-3 unit there.

When the offense lines up behind center in these situations, everyone and their mom knows whats coming. Thats part in reason why the Chiefs have to get cute when calling these plays.

It's really frustrating.

Our interior is good, but I don't know that we run-block very well 1-5, including the interior OL, when it's simply trying to get a forward push. THAT'S where you need the giants like OBJ.

I'd like to think we could fall forward for a yard, but that's simply not the case with our OL.

If only we could get Blake Bell to master the tush push.

If you can't get one stinking yard consistently by running down the middle, the O-Line isn't very good.

You shouldn't run your traditional offense from 3rd and 1 or 4th and 2. Just run everything from under center.

And that could be true. I think we have the guys to be a good PB OL (clean up the protections a bit, particularly vs stunts), but I'm not sure that's true with run blocking. It's a weakness that most on here were FINE with if it meant they could pass-block at a high level. Well, now that appears to be a reality, with the caveat that our pass-blocking hasn't been outstanding either.

Exactly. 3rd and 1 doesn't need to be outsmarting anyone, really. If we can't man-on-man move the pile a yard, we can still trap and down-block.

I KNOW Nagy et al. have considered ALL of this. I'm not sure why we haven't seen Bell under center either sneaking or giving to Pop.

Bell should stop practicing in order to exclusively do powerlift squats

I'd really like one of these stat nerds to quantify how much win % we give up each game by turning 3rd/4th and 1 into 50% success rate, while the rest of the league is at 80-90%.

Andy doesn't field a FB any longer so we need to go to the "Belldozer" every now and then.:thumb: