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Kudos to the D
This is meant to be an offensive analysis, but simply cannot write this without a shout out to the D for an excellent performance.
Great game by the D. Surprisingly high amount of pass rush. Scheme was more innovative and aggressive and it showed. Was it due to a bad Bears O-line? Putting pressure on a rookie QB? Or could it be, because the secondary and its young CBs are starting to play at NFL starter level? Hoping the latter. Williams and Melton are ascending players. I like it.
SCHEME
Back to the O....
I praised Petzing last week for adjusting the passing game and having a intermediate passing game with crossing routes instead of the outside deep passes to compliment the good running game. Most of the game was in 12 or 13 personel and Petzing has found away to make it work out of that keeping the defense on it's heels, because the offense can both run and pass effectively from that formation. This game was next level of that. The Bears clearly watched the Dolphins game and didn't want to let Kyler have the same type of game and put focus on shutting down the passing game. That left the running game WIDE open and Petzing attacked the Bears defense with multiple types of runs that left the Bears gassed. When the defense adjusted, so did Kyler and Petzing and the passing game was still fairly succesful in the intermediate route tree and several succesful dump-offs to the RBs
Before we go into that, one observation on Kyler. He was sacked 3 times. Obviously, that is not great, but the Bears had good coverage and it seemed that Kyler tried to stay more put in the pocket. Not saying that the O-line were good and it was pure coverage sacks, but at the same time no free rushers and the O-line formed a pocket throughout the game (some collapsed quicker than they should).
What I really liked about this game was the crazy variety of run plays. I've done a quick summary of what Petzing threw at the Bears in the run game.
1st & 2nd drive
Pretty standard gap blocking without much succes. Seems like the O-line was struggling with stunts.
3rd drive
Change of blocking scheme with immediate results.
Off tackle left with Adams pulling for a huge Connor run.
A wedge block with Higgins as lead blocker in motion.
Tight-End sweep to McBride.
4th drive
New blocking again.. This time misdirection pulls to the right in a designed run left.
5th drive
Another new twist.. Reiman motions out as a receiver than drives across the field to take out the MLB on a good Benson run designed to go right behind Reiman.
Off tackle with Colon & McBride pulling into the hole.
New Blocking again. This time an off-tackle right double trap by both guards that springs Connor for a big run with Froholdt holding the key block
Back to power out of 12.
The off tackle left with Colon pulling.
Then back to the power runs twice with Higgins laying an excellent block on the play, where Connor gets flipped.
On the Benson TD Reiman in motion through the hole with Colon pulling behind.
6th drive
Petzing "special" sweep with Froholdt and playside G pulling outside (the play repeatedly run against the Rams). Brown makes an excellent reach block. McBride as well. Bears get caught in blitz. Demecato 53 yards.
7th drive (2nd half)
Another sweep but this time from a passing formation. Zay Jones cracks the Edge. Beachum & McBride pulls and Froholdt is at the 2nd level with a key block.
Off-tackle with both guards pulling.
Fake hand-off, designed run by Kyler where he slides way early.
Another fake, roll-out pass to McBride.
Game, Set & Match.
This drive killed the Bears. The Cardinals had been running at will for over at quarter out of basicly only 3 different formations. They took over 5 minutes off the clock and showed with the designed run with zero effort from Kyler and play fakes to McBride, that there is a 2 more levels of this, if the Bears wanted more.
What this showed me is that all O-linemen incl. Adams and Colon & all 3 top TEs can operate seamlessly in this scheme and Petzing can send so many different types of runs at opposing teams and there were not only two more levels to the run game, but 2 more levels to the passing game with a crazy total of 7 targets to receivers. It just wasn't necessary... Higgins 25 snaps. Reiman 29 snaps, so almost equalized the snaps after a trend of Reiman taking more and more snaps.
O-Line Performance (draft grades below - final grades in attachments)
Overall grades points on the O-line:
5th best O-line over the last 4 games.
4th in the league over the season in effective run games.
2nd most effective overall offense in 12 and 13 personel behind Ravens.
Extremely high praises from PFF to Petzing and the offense for the ability to atteck with so many different formations.
In Cardinals wins - 49.2% run vs. pass. In Cardinals losses - 37.2% run vs. pass.
Final conclusion from pff: This is a VERY dangerous team, when you can win like this without Kyler having to play "hero-ball"
PJJ - PBLK 73.2 - RBLK 68.2 - 71.6 overall grade
Very average game by PJJ, but still at solid starter level.
Brown - PBLK 78.4 - RBLK 81.9 - 86.8 overall grade
Brown is really turning it on with the second game in a row with a very high grade. Great signing.
Froholdt - PBLK 53.2 - RBLK 78.9 - 77.8 overall grade
Old-School Froholdt. A beast in the run game and struggled per the grade in Pass-block. Not overly concered as Froholdt is asked to do so much more that the guards and almost always has man on man blocks in pass protection and the player asked to do the critical block to enable the pulls.
Colon - PBLK 74.1 - RBLK 81.5 - 85.9 overall grade
Very very high grade, which is of course great, but Colon benefits from Froholdt and OTs getting asked to do more. I do not believe I saw a single 1-1 block at the line
Adams - PBLK 79.1 - RBLK 72.6 - 76.9 overall grade
Surprise of the week is Adams having the highest pass blocking grade. If this is an indication of Adams having turned the corner, watch out.
Beachum - PBLK 68.6 - RBLK 63.9 - 66.8 overall grade
Solid all around.
This is meant to be an offensive analysis, but simply cannot write this without a shout out to the D for an excellent performance.
Great game by the D. Surprisingly high amount of pass rush. Scheme was more innovative and aggressive and it showed. Was it due to a bad Bears O-line? Putting pressure on a rookie QB? Or could it be, because the secondary and its young CBs are starting to play at NFL starter level? Hoping the latter. Williams and Melton are ascending players. I like it.
SCHEME
Back to the O....
I praised Petzing last week for adjusting the passing game and having a intermediate passing game with crossing routes instead of the outside deep passes to compliment the good running game. Most of the game was in 12 or 13 personel and Petzing has found away to make it work out of that keeping the defense on it's heels, because the offense can both run and pass effectively from that formation. This game was next level of that. The Bears clearly watched the Dolphins game and didn't want to let Kyler have the same type of game and put focus on shutting down the passing game. That left the running game WIDE open and Petzing attacked the Bears defense with multiple types of runs that left the Bears gassed. When the defense adjusted, so did Kyler and Petzing and the passing game was still fairly succesful in the intermediate route tree and several succesful dump-offs to the RBs
Before we go into that, one observation on Kyler. He was sacked 3 times. Obviously, that is not great, but the Bears had good coverage and it seemed that Kyler tried to stay more put in the pocket. Not saying that the O-line were good and it was pure coverage sacks, but at the same time no free rushers and the O-line formed a pocket throughout the game (some collapsed quicker than they should).
What I really liked about this game was the crazy variety of run plays. I've done a quick summary of what Petzing threw at the Bears in the run game.
1st & 2nd drive
Pretty standard gap blocking without much succes. Seems like the O-line was struggling with stunts.
3rd drive
Change of blocking scheme with immediate results.
Off tackle left with Adams pulling for a huge Connor run.
A wedge block with Higgins as lead blocker in motion.
Tight-End sweep to McBride.
4th drive
New blocking again.. This time misdirection pulls to the right in a designed run left.
5th drive
Another new twist.. Reiman motions out as a receiver than drives across the field to take out the MLB on a good Benson run designed to go right behind Reiman.
Off tackle with Colon & McBride pulling into the hole.
New Blocking again. This time an off-tackle right double trap by both guards that springs Connor for a big run with Froholdt holding the key block
Back to power out of 12.
The off tackle left with Colon pulling.
Then back to the power runs twice with Higgins laying an excellent block on the play, where Connor gets flipped.
On the Benson TD Reiman in motion through the hole with Colon pulling behind.
6th drive
Petzing "special" sweep with Froholdt and playside G pulling outside (the play repeatedly run against the Rams). Brown makes an excellent reach block. McBride as well. Bears get caught in blitz. Demecato 53 yards.
7th drive (2nd half)
Another sweep but this time from a passing formation. Zay Jones cracks the Edge. Beachum & McBride pulls and Froholdt is at the 2nd level with a key block.
Off-tackle with both guards pulling.
Fake hand-off, designed run by Kyler where he slides way early.
Another fake, roll-out pass to McBride.
Game, Set & Match.
This drive killed the Bears. The Cardinals had been running at will for over at quarter out of basicly only 3 different formations. They took over 5 minutes off the clock and showed with the designed run with zero effort from Kyler and play fakes to McBride, that there is a 2 more levels of this, if the Bears wanted more.
What this showed me is that all O-linemen incl. Adams and Colon & all 3 top TEs can operate seamlessly in this scheme and Petzing can send so many different types of runs at opposing teams and there were not only two more levels to the run game, but 2 more levels to the passing game with a crazy total of 7 targets to receivers. It just wasn't necessary... Higgins 25 snaps. Reiman 29 snaps, so almost equalized the snaps after a trend of Reiman taking more and more snaps.
O-Line Performance (draft grades below - final grades in attachments)
Overall grades points on the O-line:
5th best O-line over the last 4 games.
4th in the league over the season in effective run games.
2nd most effective overall offense in 12 and 13 personel behind Ravens.
Extremely high praises from PFF to Petzing and the offense for the ability to atteck with so many different formations.
In Cardinals wins - 49.2% run vs. pass. In Cardinals losses - 37.2% run vs. pass.
Final conclusion from pff: This is a VERY dangerous team, when you can win like this without Kyler having to play "hero-ball"
PJJ - PBLK 73.2 - RBLK 68.2 - 71.6 overall grade
Very average game by PJJ, but still at solid starter level.
Brown - PBLK 78.4 - RBLK 81.9 - 86.8 overall grade
Brown is really turning it on with the second game in a row with a very high grade. Great signing.
Froholdt - PBLK 53.2 - RBLK 78.9 - 77.8 overall grade
Old-School Froholdt. A beast in the run game and struggled per the grade in Pass-block. Not overly concered as Froholdt is asked to do so much more that the guards and almost always has man on man blocks in pass protection and the player asked to do the critical block to enable the pulls.
Colon - PBLK 74.1 - RBLK 81.5 - 85.9 overall grade
Very very high grade, which is of course great, but Colon benefits from Froholdt and OTs getting asked to do more. I do not believe I saw a single 1-1 block at the line
Adams - PBLK 79.1 - RBLK 72.6 - 76.9 overall grade
Surprise of the week is Adams having the highest pass blocking grade. If this is an indication of Adams having turned the corner, watch out.
Beachum - PBLK 68.6 - RBLK 63.9 - 66.8 overall grade
Solid all around.
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