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Hello there,
The Patriots have the best RB roster in the NFL, from top to bottom. White, Lewis, Burkhead, Gilleslee and Develin are bound to have some role in this team (granted, we can never be sure with the Pats) and, most importantly, they are all quality players.
We all know that our coaching staff is always look for mismatches to pounce on. With the amount of talent in our backfield, I kept wondering how we could take advantage of such diverse and vast group of players. Well, what about bringing back and old formation back: the Wishbone
It goes without saying that a 3 running back in the same play goes against the current pass-happy era we live in. However, I'd like to point out that, all of our players are at least decent pass catchers. Even Gilleslee, who has the worse statistical numbers of all, is able to contribute more than our last Power RB, Blount.
Moreover, we've seen, specially in 2015, times where our offense would put a Heavy Personnel on Offense (3 TE, 1 FB and 1 RB) and they would spread out the players pre-snap, in order to get a good match against a loaded inside the box defense.
Could you imagine going in the field with Lewis and White/Burkhead spread, Develin (mostly a decoy, but he had some good catches before), Gronk and Allen? It would be hard for Corners and safeties to keep up with them, imagine Linebackers, who were prepared to stuff the run, suddenly in need of covering those much faster players. And that is definition of a mismatch
The Patriots have the best RB roster in the NFL, from top to bottom. White, Lewis, Burkhead, Gilleslee and Develin are bound to have some role in this team (granted, we can never be sure with the Pats) and, most importantly, they are all quality players.
We all know that our coaching staff is always look for mismatches to pounce on. With the amount of talent in our backfield, I kept wondering how we could take advantage of such diverse and vast group of players. Well, what about bringing back and old formation back: the Wishbone
It goes without saying that a 3 running back in the same play goes against the current pass-happy era we live in. However, I'd like to point out that, all of our players are at least decent pass catchers. Even Gilleslee, who has the worse statistical numbers of all, is able to contribute more than our last Power RB, Blount.
Moreover, we've seen, specially in 2015, times where our offense would put a Heavy Personnel on Offense (3 TE, 1 FB and 1 RB) and they would spread out the players pre-snap, in order to get a good match against a loaded inside the box defense.
Could you imagine going in the field with Lewis and White/Burkhead spread, Develin (mostly a decoy, but he had some good catches before), Gronk and Allen? It would be hard for Corners and safeties to keep up with them, imagine Linebackers, who were prepared to stuff the run, suddenly in need of covering those much faster players. And that is definition of a mismatch
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