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Green Bay's play is different because of play design. Typically, you didn't pair screens with downfield passes, because offenses wanted to use different blocking techniques with these different play types.
Used to be the first read you'd make is "run or pass" block.
Now, they're pairing runs and passes with similar blocking schemes to give qB's more options.
I think we're going to see more defenses using hybrid defenders to mess up the Key player reads. Basically, you get guys like Justin Houston who can both rush the passer and get back in coverage. You line him up in one of those two true DL sets with his hand down on the edge, and have him cover an unexpected area.
That article makes me wish I had coachesr film of KC's game against GB to see what Crennel did against Rodgers. I wonder if KC's defensive improvements late last season could have been Crennel figuring out how to handle these kind of options.
Remember how we used to hate Greg Robison's "spinner" package with 2 DL? Crennel employed that a lot late last season, but it was actually more effective. He also attacked the passer much more agressively late in the season.
Part of that might have been Justin Houston's emergence. Remember how at the beginning of the year we were all wondering why houton only played in pass coverage instead going with his strengths as a pass rusher? I think the idea was to get houston to focus on the coverage aspects of his game.
With defenses increasingly geared to stop the pass with hybrid defenders, the Chiefs might be perfectly aligned to exploit those adjustments with a smash-mouth run game.Teams might be so concerned to stop the Drew Brees/Aaron Rodgers of the world they don't field enough big uglies to stand up to power running attacks in the last 20 minutes of games.
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