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Murray’s passer ratings against the blitz are terrible. The Az Cards site notes, “Kyler Murray enters with the fourth-lowest passer rating (79.3) against the blitz and the fourth-highest passer rating (105.2) when not blitzed.” Some of that is on him, but Petzing has got to have better schemes for handling these situations. I keep talking about hot reads, rollouts, screens, and keeping a back in are all ways of helping Murray be more effective. Running Murray more will also restrict blitzing. As things stand now I’m surprised opponents don’t blitz almost every play. At some point Gannon needs to step in and demand the scheme be changed.
 

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Murray’s passer ratings against the blitz are terrible. The Az Cards site notes, “Kyler Murray enters with the fourth-lowest passer rating (79.3) against the blitz and the fourth-highest passer rating (105.2) when not blitzed.” Some of that is on him, but Petzing has got to have better schemes for handling these situations. I keep talking about hot reads, rollouts, screens, and keeping a back in are all ways of helping Murray be more effective. Running Murray more will also restrict blitzing. As things stand now I’m surprised opponents don’t blitz almost every play. At some point Gannon needs to step in and demand the scheme be changed.
The other side of this is Kyler has to beat the blitz by beating man coverage. That would be a reason to not change.
 

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We keep taking about it but Kyler has to run more.

A few designed runs will keep the defense a bit more honest and will help everything else get/keep going.
Yeah, that would be ideal. But every defense we have faced the last few weeks, and for the rest of the season, has designed a game plan to limit Kyler's runs. It is why the few runs he has had lately have mostly come on scrambles. Watch the DEs. They are not crashing down on the zone reads nearly as much as they did earlier in the year
 

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Yeah, that would be ideal. But every defense we have faced the last few weeks, and for the rest of the season, has designed a game plan to limit Kyler's runs. It is why the few runs he has had lately have mostly come on scrambles. Watch the DEs. They are not crashing down on the zone reads nearly as much as they did earlier in the year

Agreed - they are playing the edges much better against the run.

He has done well on draw's up the middle...just needs to be smart.
 

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Yeah, that would be ideal. But every defense we have faced the last few weeks, and for the rest of the season, has designed a game plan to limit Kyler's runs. It is why the few runs he has had lately have mostly come on scrambles. Watch the DEs. They are not crashing down on the zone reads nearly as much as they did earlier in the year
Yeah. The is the chicken and egg discussion of the dominating run game.

Kyler has killed the edges not keeping contain. The edges keeping contain are getting killed by the pulls from the interior line when they play 5 and 7 or can be blocked by TEs if they play 9
 

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I've given Petzing his share of blame this season, but today? Meh, that wasn't the worst called game. One 3rd down I didn't like the handoff. Designed runs for KM and even rolled him out. Threw a WR screen in there, which posters have been asking for. Bottom line is that the players need to execute better.
 

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I've given Petzing his share of blame this season, but today? Meh, that wasn't the worst called game. One 3rd down I didn't like the handoff. Designed runs for KM and even rolled him out. Threw a WR screen in there, which posters have been asking for. Bottom line is that the players need to execute better.

First half and final drive were horrific
 

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Cosign 420 kush rip to his scared ass playcallin system out if az n yr its boringgggggg with little success
 

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I've given Petzing his share of blame this season, but today? Meh, that wasn't the worst called game. One 3rd down I didn't like the handoff. Designed runs for KM and even rolled him out. Threw a WR screen in there, which posters have been asking for. Bottom line is that the players need to execute better.
Maybe not his worst called game, but his worst called play since his tenure where he called 5-Wide in 1st & goal.
 

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Tons of teams do this. Kliff did it all the time to give Kyler room to run if he wanted it.
Yeah, we did it all the time with KK. But this team uses TEs out the wazoo. It was a weird time to do that I thought. Of course Minny was going to go 0 coverage and all out blitz and there wasn't even a hot route with 5 damn Wars.
 

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Maybe not his worst called game, but his worst called play since his tenure where he called 5-Wide in 1st & goal.
I don’t mind 5 wide in the red zone, I mind that it is a formation that we rarely use. Maybe that was the point and it was supposed to catch MN by surprise. It sure didn’t work. That much I know.
 
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