Quote:You mentioned using a TE as a security outlet. Your words not mines. So in essence, Lewis should have been the 3rd read at best.(and even still he was open a few times in the middle of the field, feel free to read back thru the gameday thread) Common sense would tell you that his targets wouldn't be as high as it should if he were the first or second option in the progressions. So again, was it a protection issue to where he couldn't get to his 3rd option? What it Blake failing to read his progressions that were available?

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So it should be prefaced that I'm not a coach and I have no inside information on what fish is trying to do with the offense. We're just dudes talking football... I don't think I'm smarter than anyone else in the Jungle, and I try for the most part to respect everyone here...


To me there are multiple layers to this discussion. I'll start with this: from games I watch where the TE is used better than the jags, the read to the TE or even the RB in the middle of the field is when the QB is sensing that the pass rush is getting through. Usually the QB looks at the primary and then quickly realizes he's gotta dump it to his outlet. So in that sense, they go through one read and then recognize that it's not there and he's gotta get rid of the ball ASAP.


Most successful offenses have the outlet available in the middle of the field. I just don't see us attacking the middle like other offenses do. The idea that we must keep extra blockers in is a chicken/egg argument to me. In my point of view, if you slip the TE or even the RB into the middle it forces the defense to keep one of the blitzers on that outlet receiver, and if they don't you have an open outlet.

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