Quote:Might work for an opening drive, but it's not sustainable for very long once the LBs start sniffing it out. 

Also important to note that Blake doesn't look very comfortable throwing when he rolls to his left.

 

 

I  also get the feeling we'll see a lot more runs than this from Hackett, BTW. 

 

Regardless - I hope the rollout and the up-tempo stuff find their way onto the field Sunday enough to help the kid get something going. Will be interesting to see how Hackett uses that stuff.  Also very curious what he'll do to spark the run game that he's supposedly very committed to balancing. 

 

I think it'd be great if they mixed it up like that on the opening drive and managed to score. This team is young. They need some confidence shot in their arm early and often. I would certainly expect them to start sniffing it out at some point so that's when you'd maybe start trying to change the tempo up and switch up the personnel packages. Instead of trio sets at WR run a trio set at TE and maybe see if they'll cheat up to the LOS in hopes of freeing up Lee or Robinson on a one-on-one deep route. Use the RB screen instead of the TE screen on this drive or that drive. Let Blake do those little run option keeper plays he's good at to keep the drives going. Line up in shot gun and let Yeldon run a sweep play. If the lineman can't block at least get a TE out on the parameter on the sweep play with Hurns and Robinson coming in to chip on the secondary or outside backer. I think Hackett will try some of this to be honest. Because we haven't seen any of it yet. They're going to need him to open up the running game with the passing game first though. 

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