NFL Season 2020 Football • Page 85

can't wait to sign Andrus Peat in March and then draft Andrus Peat in April

 

Way better fit inside

 

I'm just so ready for the rumor mill

combine starts next week as does the franchise period so we should star getting some news

 

Nice

 

Arthur blanks boat

 

that really, really, really doesn't look like it's going to fit under that bridge. and that bridge doesn't look like it rises.

 

It does in the middle

 

Thank you for showing me something I know I'll never be able to afford.

 

Like HOW

 

BRAIDERS

 

I guess Stefon Diggs deleted everything vikings related on his Instagram

 

I feel like this happens a lot

 

Arthur blanks fucking yacht fuck yinz

 

I just think Becton’s awareness is very low. He looks lost in space. But he handles the shit out of the dude in front of him.

I had assumed he would be a bad pass blocker when I heard he was “raw” but his tape was a lot better in that area than I expected. Surprisingly it was his run blocking angles / vision that looked like it needed a lot of work. A gap scheme with very specific and straightforward assignments could certainly hide a lot of his flaws.

 

I mean, its kind of smart versus handing him a new deal if you dont think he's a top 10 or even top 5 QB. But god damn is that handing that division to the Chiefs for a while...as all the other teams will have garbage at the QB position.

edit: Though apparently Brady is linked to Las Vegas? That'd be weirdly compelling with their extra draft picks already + what they can get for Carr, but man, why would Brady go somewhere where the WRs are somehow worse than NE.

 

My favorite draft speculation/idea was the notion that the Bengals, aware that Burrows might tell them no, would trade the #1 pick to the Lions for Stafford and the #3 pick. There's so many ways that doesnt work...but it was fun as hell to think about (same could be said for Carr + 12/19 for Burrows, for example).

 

It's not.

Putting a player who's most dominant attribute is his size/strength/power in a gap scheme is absurd.

Not too many NFL (or even college teams) are running gap stuff too much anymore. Unless you're at the goal line or in short yardage and you're looking to run power, you just don't see it.

Almost everything you see is built around the inside zone concept. Off of that you can run dive, belly, toss/sweep, and the flavor of the month: RPO.

 

I prefer the idea that the Bengals just take Tua and Ron Rivera goes rouge and takes Jeaux Burreaux

 

I'm sorry but I just don't really agree with this? The whole reason the zone running scheme proliferated is because it was a way to be competitive with smaller offensive linemen who just get pushed back into their gaps in a power scheme. You're not asked to straight up move bodies in zone, you're more so asked to take good angles in space and I felt like Becton didn't know who to block a lot of the time once he left his original spot.

The power-style run is uncommon and no longer a "staple" but some teams certainly run it more than others.

 

I think you're confusing gap and man blocking schemes.

The Flexbone offense runs a gap scheme. Teams that run a flexbone offense do it for two reasons: they have inferior talent on the offensive line (usually smallish linemen) and they do not have a ton of athletes. It is the least diverse blocking scheme known to man.

If you are thinking of a power man scheme, that's different.

There's man, zone, and gap. Zone is the trend these days because of the Air Raid and the fixation on the RPO.

In a gap scheme, it's all about leverage and blocking down. It's super vanilla and you can't fool too many people with it. You don't get much movement into the second level at all because all of your OL are blocking down to overcompensate.

 

Actually yeah that sounds right. I think I was confusing the two.

 

Man you really are Ben

 

They're gonna sign Chris Jones