Nuance

neugey · 09-29-2006, 12:51 PM

The thing that impresses me with me Payton is not necessarily his playcalling, although it is top-notch. What we are doing that many other teams are not doing is mixing offensive personnel effectively.

Here's how I see it. The starting QB and the 5 OL are fixtures on the field. Look at last year. Assuming no injuries, on most plays the defense knew they'd see Deuce, Karney, Horn, Stallworth and Conwell (or Hilton if you like). Maybe on a few plays we'd go 2TE and replace Karney w/ a blocking TE. Big deal. Then on third it was a 4 or 5 wide set. Yawn.

With Payton, it's not just match-ups that are the important factor. It's keeping the D off-balance by subbing personnel in an unpredictable fashion and constantly changing packages and personnel groupings. A perfect example is Stecker's insertion into the ATL game in the first few series - sometimes at RB and split out wide once or twice if I'm not mistaken. Now, is Stecker a better RB than Reggie/Deuce or a better WR than Horn? Certainly not, but I'd bet that the Atlanta defenders spent no time studying how to defend Stecker or knew what his strengths/weaknesses are. Defenses are already on their toes because they don't know whether we'll have Reggie or Deuce or both in the game at any given time. Then we throw in Stecker and nobody knows anything about him. No one knows what kind of a look Payton will show. Over the course of a game, that is a huge advantage. If the defenders don't know who they're going to be defending, they can't anticipate. When defenses successfully anticipate, bad things usually happend(turnovers and 4th downs). That's why our offense has such great momentum. My saving grace on the XBox playing football is that I always change up what I'm doing, because I don't want the CPU catching on to my patterns and calling the right defense on me. Why should real football be that much different?

You'd think with so much personnel swapping, we'd make more mistakes. But we don't and that is because Payton focuses on execution and getting first downs, not touchdowns. The plays don't need to be over-complicated because we'll keep the D off-balance by changing personnel. We don't need to go for 50-yard passes very often at all. So we'll get our fair share of field goal attempts. If touchdowns happen, they happen. We just want to move the frickin ball and keep our D rested. Brilliant.

09-29-2006, 12:51 PM	#1
neugey Hu Dat! Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6,615 Blog Entries: 13	The thing that impresses me with me Payton is not necessarily his playcalling, although it is top-notch. What we are doing that many other teams are not doing is mixing offensive personnel effectively. Here's how I see it. The starting QB and the 5 OL are fixtures on the field. Look at last year. Assuming no injuries, on most plays the defense knew they'd see Deuce, Karney, Horn, Stallworth and Conwell (or Hilton if you like). Maybe on a few plays we'd go 2TE and replace Karney w/ a blocking TE. Big deal. Then on third it was a 4 or 5 wide set. Yawn. With Payton, it's not just match-ups that are the important factor. It's keeping the D off-balance by subbing personnel in an unpredictable fashion and constantly changing packages and personnel groupings. A perfect example is Stecker's insertion into the ATL game in the first few series - sometimes at RB and split out wide once or twice if I'm not mistaken. Now, is Stecker a better RB than Reggie/Deuce or a better WR than Horn? Certainly not, but I'd bet that the Atlanta defenders spent no time studying how to defend Stecker or knew what his strengths/weaknesses are. Defenses are already on their toes because they don't know whether we'll have Reggie or Deuce or both in the game at any given time. Then we throw in Stecker and nobody knows anything about him. No one knows what kind of a look Payton will show. Over the course of a game, that is a huge advantage. If the defenders don't know who they're going to be defending, they can't anticipate. When defenses successfully anticipate, bad things usually happend(turnovers and 4th downs). That's why our offense has such great momentum. My saving grace on the XBox playing football is that I always change up what I'm doing, because I don't want the CPU catching on to my patterns and calling the right defense on me. Why should real football be that much different? You'd think with so much personnel swapping, we'd make more mistakes. But we don't and that is because Payton focuses on execution and getting first downs, not touchdowns. The plays don't need to be over-complicated because we'll keep the D off-balance by changing personnel. We don't need to go for 50-yard passes very often at all. So we'll get our fair share of field goal attempts. If touchdowns happen, they happen. We just want to move the frickin ball and keep our D rested. Brilliant.