According to Shurmur. As much of a disaster as last years O was there were a few plays here and there that we executed well. Combine that with plays from the Vikes that Shurmur believes will translate well to our personnel and then some of the best Shula stuff, the O design looks to be a collaborative effort to assemble plays that complement and fit our players strengths the best.
Dalvin Cook was extremely productive in the Shurmur offense before he went down and 2 good but not necessarily great receivers in Diggs and Thielen had career or near career years. A 3/5th overhauled OL gelled and performed well. As opposed to Mac, I trust he will be able to put together a great playbook for this offense.
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Thats a good point BB. I dont see that in this case but we'll see.
Yeah mitt...very likely a whole lot more 12 personnel formations. A real running game, improved OL, 2 top WRs then a drop off, a good blocking TE and an excellent receiving TE, it makes great sense. Barkley can come out of the Backfield and line up in the slot or even potentially out wide , same with Engram. ALot we can do from that set.
They may have to play us more straight up which will be huge for a healthy OBJ.
Under the tutelage of Shurmur/Shula and with the hands of Barkman ...Ill lean yes
The wheel route was effective and sending McCaffery out last year as a mismatch, but his system didn't utilize the traditional screen much at all.
Don't know what Shurmur did in Minny.
The wheel route was effective and sending McCaffery out last year as a mismatch, but his system didn't utilize the traditional screen much at all.
Don't know what Shurmur did in Minny.
Thanks for the insight FMIC. Not sure how screen heavy Minny's O was either. But we know NYG had Barkley do alot of receiving drills over the Mini Camp and Shurmur has said he wants his backs catching the ball out of the backfield. So we should expect Barkley to do alot of receiving whether via screen plays or some other pass pattern.
In that it's probably a quicker transaction than shotgun, quicker than actual hand offs in that QB doesn't need to get back to RB.
And. Whereas there is no true play action out of it, one can do the not pitch version, or not pitch option, counter runs, what have you.
All just musing on that - outside power runs might develop a tad more slowly.
Even quicker.
I think we will see an entirely different team from the get go.