(01-24-2018, 06:25 PM)Eric1 Wrote:

(01-24-2018, 04:30 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: Fournette saw 8+ men in the box 48% of the time. That's an insane number. If you watched the Jags games this year, it's not hard to see how teams were playing this Jags offense. Load the box and force Blake to throw. Just about every single team did it which should allow Blake to see easier defenses when he drops back to pass.

The last game of the season may have been meaningless but he still played. If he had dropped 300 and 3 TDs in that game, I'm sure you would use that to help boost your argument. Blake played average this year. He threw for 20 TDs and 13 interceptions. There are probably a lot of QBs who could do that.

Everybody already knows what we faced so many 8-9 man boxes, because WE made them 8-9 man boxes with the play calling. When you only send one WR out wide and have Fournette lined up in the I formation, what do you think we're going to do? The same exact thing we've did all season long, run it straight into the middle of the pile, or to the left of the pile. So, why wouldn't they stack the box?

If you have 3-4 WRs going out wide, they aren't stacking 8-9 guys in the box and cluttering it up with bodies. If you want to be a smash mouth team and line up 9 guys on the LoS in a blocking formation, you better be ready for 10 guys stacking and crashing the box on the other side.

Yeah I'm not sure all the reasons, but it makes sense that formation dictates how many defenders are in the box. Last season Ivory had a 21% rate and Yeldon an 18% rate, so must be something in the offensive playcalling and formations. I mean LeGarrette Blount had a 43% stacked box last season. Must mean that teams don't trust Brady to throw.

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