Quote:Bortles has an obvious issue with making his reads. I think that that Fisch has been trying to create ways to bring him along in this area. 

Earlier in the year, they tried running 2 receivers and a TE to one quadrant of the field so that he could read three receivers quickly without scanning widely. Lately they've used motion and formation to draw safeties away from a primary receiver giving him a probable one on one to come back to.

Selling out to a bunch of spread as you suggest isn't going to help him in this area and it would be sniffed out by opponents just as readily after a couple of games. 

 

Anytime a scheme isn't working it's easy to say "they should do this instead."  I think they'd still have issues executing anything you draw up because of the youth and inexperience on the field.  Players failing in one-on-ones is still going to happen if you spread them out.  Bortles will still get pressured up the middle sometimes regardless of formation. Receivers will still drop balls. Bortles will still throw picks and miss open receivers. 

 

This is also part of the issue with "halftime adjustments."  When you are already bleeding a stone to get production with a dumbed-down playbook, it's pretty tough to switch it up at halftime. There are very few (if any) options available. 

 

How many times have you seen this offense fail at executing a simple quick slant?  That looks a lot more like youthful lack of execution than scheme issues to me. 

 

Here's the interesting thing. When you spread the field out it gets EASIER to make the reads because the defense will have to spread out and show who is covering. If they decide to leave guys uncovered at the snap you throw quickscreens and let guys run for five or six yards.

 

When you play with everyone bunched in you get safeties, DBs, and LBs in the same area and some of them may or may not drop back or cover areas, etc.

 

I think you're right about the team not having any well it can easily go to, but I also think part of the problem is that the staff thinks it needs to stick with something and make it work.

 

Maybe the scheme Fisch wants to run starts working with enough sacks on Bortles' back, but I don't really see a reason that the team has to get Bortles killed every game just because Fisch wants to run a certain scheme.

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