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Originally Posted by Megatron96
And every variation in between.
I said a few weeks ago that I had a theory about 13P, and it looks like it's finally becoming a thing.
Basically, my thought was that from this package, not only could you mix and match players, but you could go into a hurry-up and never have to sub packages of players in and out, because you can run or pass so effectively from EZ to EZ from it. And defenses would have to pretty much guess what Andy was going to do from snap to snap. DCs couldn't simply look at the personnel grouping/formation and call a pass-/run- centric defense. And once in the RZ, having three TEs/big WRs or whatever (FB?) forces the defense to almost straight guess.
The only real issue, from a traditional standpoint, is that the package tends to condense things between the numbers/hashes. But this is Andy we're talking about; you know he's going to modify things, use motion, etc., to spread the defense out horizontally. He could get the DC to send in a base or heavy defense call/personnel package, and then spread Fortson, for example, out to the X, Maybe do the same with Pacheco/McKinnon or whoever, and draw two LBs out past the numbers, creating isolated bad matchups for the defense, and leaving one or no LB in the middle, while simultaneously creating a light box.
And so on.
it's just a theory, but there's plenty of potential.
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Gray and Kelce can both play as 'move' TEs. Hell, so can a healthy Fortson for that matter (though he's shockingly stiff for a converted WR).
So if you feel like defenses are bunching the middle of the field too much, you can take either of those guys off the end of the line and get them spread out a tick more.
And they're going to have to call their personnel packages based on our huddle, not our formation. So if we line up 3 TEs, they're unlikely to be out there in a Nickel. At that point, you can use those athletic TEs to motion out. And if they come out in a lighter defensive grouping, you just keep them in-line and either play bully ball with short passes or run it at them.
It's a really fascinating set of options.