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Marquise said he expects to practice today.  Barring a setback, he'd appear to be good to go Week 1.

Blake will need all the help he can get, and Marqise was open very consistently last season.

I really hope that Hackett is cooking up a set that gets Lee and Westbrook on the field together. They need to attempt to aid the run game by letting those guys get open deep a few times - discouraging the stacked box. Those two have the speed to do it if Blake can manage to connect with one of them.

Its not even so much of we are running into stacked boxes and our run game being shut down. Other teams are in base personel and can play pass against us, then our runs get strung out by some random offensive lineman getting blown up and the entire second level can come downhill and swarm the ball carrier.

(08-26-2017, 01:00 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: [ -> ]Blake will need all the help he can get, and Marqise was open very consistently last season.  

I really hope that Hackett is cooking up a set that gets Lee and Westbrook on the field together.  They need to attempt to aid the run game by letting those guys get open deep a few times - discouraging the stacked box.  Those two have the speed to do it if Blake can manage to connect with one of them.

That requires blocking..yikes.

(08-26-2017, 01:31 PM)uthill Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-26-2017, 01:00 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: [ -> ]Blake will need all the help he can get, and Marqise was open very consistently last season.  

I really hope that Hackett is cooking up a set that gets Lee and Westbrook on the field together.  They need to attempt to aid the run game by letting those guys get open deep a few times - discouraging the stacked box.  Those two have the speed to do it if Blake can manage to connect with one of them.

That requires blocking..yikes.

Yeah, it does.  I'm talking about a handful of plays per game here. Let's not pretend that this line can't protect Bortles long enough for Lee and Westbrook to get twenty yards downfield. The O-linemen aren't going to be perfect, but they can do this well enough often enough to be effective using that strategy.

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(08-26-2017, 01:21 PM)FreeAgent01 Wrote: [ -> ]Its not even so much of we are running into stacked boxes and our run game being shut down.  Other teams are in base personel and can play pass against us, then our runs get strung out by some random offensive lineman getting blown up and the entire second level can come downhill and swarm the ball carrier.

Yes. That is a problem thus far in the preseason.  
The scenario I'm proposing assumes Hackett does actually get the run game rolling a bit with Fournette and teams respond by stacking the box and forcing Blake to throw. It's something I feel is a likely eventuality.

I hope so, man.

Fournette alone or an occasional big game won't be enough to do it though. It would take us gashing teams like MJD and Fred Taylor days off old before teams would start consistently stacking boxes on us. It would take a string of games before teams would actually make that adjustment.

This is good news.

I still think this offense has a chance to be explosive. But I'm sold they are the team Doug Marrone thinks they are.