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Posted my review some weeks back and I intented to do a weekly analysis. Didn't go that way. Last couple of weeks had been a shitshow on the personal front with water damage and moving the family around temp airbnbs before we could finally move back on friday.
In my week 3 review I questioned the scheme and focus on the short and intermediate passing game. It seemed that when a teams takes the run game away, then the mitigation was to force the ball deep and abandon the heavy personal too early. Didn't like it. Didn't understand it.
SCHEME
This game was Petzing's answer to my questions. This was a well executed gameplan.
First of all, some general observations.
It's clear that the hot and cold games from MHJ has been discussed. It's been reported that there was an emphasis from Kyler to work with MHJ and clearly the wanted to get MHJ in rhytme with some early designed plays to him. There is a clear shift from outside routes to crossing routes where MHJ becomes part of route designs Rather than being on an Island drawing double coverage. This way opens up more space for everyone
The O-line is playing well. Very well considering there are 2 back-ups in there. Why are we not seeing a bigger negative impact? Hjalte Froholdt. Blocking scheme has been adjusted and where we earlier and last year saw Froholdt in a lot of pulls, he's staying much more at home. You can argue that that is taking away Froholdt's strength, but it stabilizes the line in general and Froholdt is asked to do the key blocks inside that Hernandez earlier did with Froholdt pulling, but Colon/Adams are not asked to do that (yet). Pulls are far less frequent and almost only by the Gs with limited pulls by Froholdt.
This team wears down opponents. Whether is discipline, Conditioning or just pure team effort I do not know, but this teams and the run game gets better as the game goes on. Saw it last week. Saw it this week. I like it.
The development of Tip Reiman. He started as the 12 TE due to being better blocking than Higgins. Reiman is getting better and better week by week. He is a monster blocker and taking more and more snaps from Higgins. On top of that Reiman is getting more and more used in the passing game. This certainly doesn't show up in the stats. But if you look at the game, you'll see Reiman in a lot pass-blocking and 1 yard outs. This is actually locking the defense, because there is a clearly focus on having coverage on Reiman.
Reiman the X-factor... So why are defenses respecting Raiman so much even when he starts in pass-pro? Is it his awesome skillset as a receiver? Nope. It's again about the blocking IMO. Defenses respect him, because Reiman is the key blocker on most runs by Kyler and has absolutely killed everything on those runs. It's quite impressive/surprising when you look at the game how much attention Reiman actually gets given he has like 4 receptions for the season. But he is the guy sealing the edge allowing Kyler to roam free on the outside and looks like defenses are terrified of Kyler running free so there is always coverage on Reiman. This focus enables the intermediate route trees that McBride and MHJ benefits from to develop. One example is McBride's single reception mid 2nd Q. 12 personal McBride and Reiman lining up side by side. Reiman runs a 2 yard in that freezes the defense resulting in an McBride easy 7 yard reception between coverages.
O-line
The O-line plays at a very solid level.
Stars of the show are PJJ and Froholdt, but Brown is having a sneaky good season. I miss the big pull plays, where Froholdt and Hernandez were blowing up holes for Conner, but gameplan is more conservative now and the stability of these 3 is very high. Froholdt in the conservative role is limiting, because he an absolute beast in space (I would argue the best in the league now Kelce has retired). But the thing with Froholdt is that he never makes a bad play. Lower bar is very high. Same goes for PJJ. He did have a couple of penalties in this game - one stupid and one on purpose to protect Kyler. He's good a pass-pro and good in the run game. Not elite in any of those (yet). PJJ is currently ranked 12th in the league overall, Froholdt 10th. Interestingly. If you look at the Gs on the team, the seasonal overall grades are Hernandez 25th, Adams 32nd, Evans 37th and Colon 41st for the entire league. Quite impressive.
Beachum is better in pass-pro than run-blocking which most likely also has influenced the scheme.
The interesting part to follow is Colon vs. Adams and how Petzing is subbing them drive for drive. Both are playing well. Adams is a monster in the run-game (again highest run block grade on the team), but struggles more in the pass-pro. He did clean up his pass-pro this week and I only saw 1 horrible play vs. 4-5 last week. Colon is the more stable player, but Adams has more upside. I'm guessing the purpose of shifting between the two is to slowly take the training wheels of Adams and for him not to be a liability to the team as he e.g. was last week. If the shifting continue and Adams continue to improve to the point where the pass-pro while not being great, but no longer a liability, then I expect Adams will be the full time starter after the bye. Either way. This a positive. Both are playing better than you expect from a back-up.
In my week 3 review I questioned the scheme and focus on the short and intermediate passing game. It seemed that when a teams takes the run game away, then the mitigation was to force the ball deep and abandon the heavy personal too early. Didn't like it. Didn't understand it.
SCHEME
This game was Petzing's answer to my questions. This was a well executed gameplan.
First of all, some general observations.
It's clear that the hot and cold games from MHJ has been discussed. It's been reported that there was an emphasis from Kyler to work with MHJ and clearly the wanted to get MHJ in rhytme with some early designed plays to him. There is a clear shift from outside routes to crossing routes where MHJ becomes part of route designs Rather than being on an Island drawing double coverage. This way opens up more space for everyone
The O-line is playing well. Very well considering there are 2 back-ups in there. Why are we not seeing a bigger negative impact? Hjalte Froholdt. Blocking scheme has been adjusted and where we earlier and last year saw Froholdt in a lot of pulls, he's staying much more at home. You can argue that that is taking away Froholdt's strength, but it stabilizes the line in general and Froholdt is asked to do the key blocks inside that Hernandez earlier did with Froholdt pulling, but Colon/Adams are not asked to do that (yet). Pulls are far less frequent and almost only by the Gs with limited pulls by Froholdt.
This team wears down opponents. Whether is discipline, Conditioning or just pure team effort I do not know, but this teams and the run game gets better as the game goes on. Saw it last week. Saw it this week. I like it.
The development of Tip Reiman. He started as the 12 TE due to being better blocking than Higgins. Reiman is getting better and better week by week. He is a monster blocker and taking more and more snaps from Higgins. On top of that Reiman is getting more and more used in the passing game. This certainly doesn't show up in the stats. But if you look at the game, you'll see Reiman in a lot pass-blocking and 1 yard outs. This is actually locking the defense, because there is a clearly focus on having coverage on Reiman.
Reiman the X-factor... So why are defenses respecting Raiman so much even when he starts in pass-pro? Is it his awesome skillset as a receiver? Nope. It's again about the blocking IMO. Defenses respect him, because Reiman is the key blocker on most runs by Kyler and has absolutely killed everything on those runs. It's quite impressive/surprising when you look at the game how much attention Reiman actually gets given he has like 4 receptions for the season. But he is the guy sealing the edge allowing Kyler to roam free on the outside and looks like defenses are terrified of Kyler running free so there is always coverage on Reiman. This focus enables the intermediate route trees that McBride and MHJ benefits from to develop. One example is McBride's single reception mid 2nd Q. 12 personal McBride and Reiman lining up side by side. Reiman runs a 2 yard in that freezes the defense resulting in an McBride easy 7 yard reception between coverages.
O-line
The O-line plays at a very solid level.
Stars of the show are PJJ and Froholdt, but Brown is having a sneaky good season. I miss the big pull plays, where Froholdt and Hernandez were blowing up holes for Conner, but gameplan is more conservative now and the stability of these 3 is very high. Froholdt in the conservative role is limiting, because he an absolute beast in space (I would argue the best in the league now Kelce has retired). But the thing with Froholdt is that he never makes a bad play. Lower bar is very high. Same goes for PJJ. He did have a couple of penalties in this game - one stupid and one on purpose to protect Kyler. He's good a pass-pro and good in the run game. Not elite in any of those (yet). PJJ is currently ranked 12th in the league overall, Froholdt 10th. Interestingly. If you look at the Gs on the team, the seasonal overall grades are Hernandez 25th, Adams 32nd, Evans 37th and Colon 41st for the entire league. Quite impressive.
Beachum is better in pass-pro than run-blocking which most likely also has influenced the scheme.
The interesting part to follow is Colon vs. Adams and how Petzing is subbing them drive for drive. Both are playing well. Adams is a monster in the run-game (again highest run block grade on the team), but struggles more in the pass-pro. He did clean up his pass-pro this week and I only saw 1 horrible play vs. 4-5 last week. Colon is the more stable player, but Adams has more upside. I'm guessing the purpose of shifting between the two is to slowly take the training wheels of Adams and for him not to be a liability to the team as he e.g. was last week. If the shifting continue and Adams continue to improve to the point where the pass-pro while not being great, but no longer a liability, then I expect Adams will be the full time starter after the bye. Either way. This a positive. Both are playing better than you expect from a back-up.
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