Quote:You are Jaguars OC Greg Olson.

 

It is in the 4th quarter of the Carolina game, and you are trailing by 8.

 

While Luke Joeckel isn't making anyone forget Tony Boselli, he has done a relatively decent job against the Carolina DE before leaving the game with an injured ankle.

 

His substitute, Sam Young, hasn't fared as well.  Frankly, he's been beaten like a rented mule, and most of the pressure on Bortles has come when he entered the game.

 

What plays do you call?

 

You are behind in the 4th quarter.  While there is still time, we need points pretty quickly.

 

The situation calls for 4 wide and throwing it all over the place, right?

 

All of your pre game scouting shows that Carolina's nickel and dime backs can be had.

 

But your LT is hurt and his replacement can't block anyone.

 

Do you go four wide and leave your LT to try to block the DE when you know he hasn't?

 

Do you go 3 wide leave a TE in to help block the DE, leaving yourself less able to attack the secondary you scouted and determined to be vulnerable?

 

Do you make your rookie RB chip, limiting his availability as a check down?

 

Do you shift protections to the left, even though your pregame scouting shows they sometimes slant to your right?  What if they played against their own tendencies and showed blitz to the right?  Do you allow the QB to audible, switch protections to the right, leaving your vulnerable tackle one on one?  Does that include route adjustments? Do they become hot routes and they break it off underneath to beat the blitz?  What does that do to the play you deemed appropriate under the circumstances? 

 

Oh yeah, the receivers whose routes you may be adjusting, have been dropping passes and not getting much in way of separation all game.

 

What play works? 

 

If you can still afford to run the ball and not burn too much clock.. do it. then set up play action for a deep strike. but according to your second post of scenarios its likely i have to pass as theres not enough time

 

You go 3 Wr's (Robinson, Hurns, Greene) 1 TE (Marcedes) and a RB (Denard). thats my personnel.

 

now you have 2 options, have Marcedes stay in to block and help Sam Young, or have Young Cut block and roll Bortles out of the pocket away from pressure; this puts pressure on the defense having to respect bortles leg and his arm downfield, it also neutralizes the pass rush from the blind side that Young is helpless against. Have Denard as a checkdown or sit down in the zone in the middle of the field, have Robinson run a comeback on the near side (where Bortles rolls out to) have Hurns run a post route from the opposite side of the field (so his route is heading towards the direction Bortles is rolling to) and motion Greene into the slot on either side to read the defense and have him be the designated "hot route" that will run a curl or a shallow cross. Robinson's the first read, if the comeback to the sideline isnt there look to hurns on the post cutting across as you roll out, if thats covered then Bortles keeps it himself or find the checkdown in Denard/Greene. additionally the pass rush against Sam Young is neutralized by the rollout of Bortles and having Marcedes help block on the edge.

 

People forget how good Bortles is throwing on the move, he THRIVES in the concepts ive described above and that play utilizes the strength of each of the players: Bortles- Mobility,  Marcedes- Blocking, A. Robinson- hands/possesion route, Hurns- Deep threat/big play downfield, D. Robinson- quickness in space as a checkdown.

 

If we just played to the players on this rosters strengths rather than trying to get cute and match concepts we'd have a great deal more success

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