It’s Saturday and I’m still looking back at the previous week. Probably because I have a problem. But you’re reading this, so I guess you do as well. Always nice to be in good company.
I didn’t find time to put together the full RPO report this week, but that’s okay because it was a pretty awful week for the RPO game. Let’s take a high level look at it, starting with the overall performance.
NOT GREAT. On the day, the Packers dialed up 10 RPOs which gave them a total of 2.4 YPA. The only pass tag that was above average was the one vertical tag on the day: a slant to Romeo Doubs. I talk about that concept and the tunnel screen tag in this video:
There wasn’t a run tag that worked particularly well, either. We saw a return of the power rushing attack in the RPO game this week. And, while it was the most successful of the base concepts, it still only averaged 2.7 YPA, so it’s damning with faint praise.
On the whole, the running game was better outside of the RPO game, even if the running game as a whole was pretty bad.
Alright. Now let’s get to some things I wrote/recorded this week.
For Packer Report, I wrote about a deep throw to Doubs on 4th & 2 that went incomplete. Basically, it’s a dive into the Mesh concept and the typical read on the play. Basically, good process, bad throw.
For Cheesehead TV, I took an overall look at the passing game, then look at two plays I liked on the day.
Touchdown to Allen Lazard off Verts.
A fake-bubble/go combo.
I also used this opportunity to look at how the Jets were looking to take away the middle of the field by telling their LBs not to bite on play action.
Lastly, I took a look at the play that resulted in a Rodgers fumble. We looked at the defensive alignment - pre-snap and post-snap - and what Rodgers was seeing in the post-snap read on the #1 in the progression. I don’t know how fun it was, but I learned a lot in digging into a play that I didn’t really think about looking at initially.
Hope you learned something this week, because I know I did.