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**Jags02** · 06-04-2018, 06:45 PM

(06-04-2018, 03:14 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:
(06-01-2018, 09:29 AM)Bullseye Wrote: See...that's your problem.

You talk too much!

i remember Marrone talking about why they got away from him in the second half. He indicated that New England presented different looks that kind of precluded them from utilizing Grant.

I went back and reviewed the first half when they utilized Grant, and the Patriots always had 8 in the box when they utilized him.

Now perhaps there was something about the alignment that I missed, but that was what stuck out to me.

What was it about the 8 man front that made it good to utilize Grant like that.

If it was the 8 man front and they got away from it in the 2nd half, why couldn't we run the ball effectively with Fournette?

The jags were having success with Grant on a few of those plays because the Pats were leaving a LB on him. That LB bit on the fake handoff to LF on the one below. They were also cleverly lining him up behind two receivers. Almost like he was the Z in a bunch formation.

The LB (all of them actually) bit on the fake hand off to LF and Grant was free with two WRs (or a TE and a WR) clearing a path in front of him.

I can't confirm it yet, but I'd guess the Pats later started putting a DB on Grant instead.

The real problem was that they got away from that set ^ and went with power run formations more often and LF was facing this:
(next post)

It makes sense that they would all bite on Fournette. In that first half, Fournette was on pace for a monster game. He was just killing them, and then Grant on top of him was too much. I think they got away from Grant in the second half more because they couldn't get Fournette going in the second half. I'm not sure what the adjustment was that the Patriots made at halftime, but just as Fourtnette was ready to take over the game and blow it wide open, they managed to clamp down and take him out the rest of the game. I'm hoping the presence of Norwell would have evened the odds in that second half, and that we'd actually see the take over by Fournette and Grant that we were anticipating.

'02