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Originally Posted by Joshua
And I don't generally re-watch the games but it seems like teams are having their backside DEs stay home and play the boot and we don't have an answer for that. So, what was one of our most successful plays and one of the staples of our offense is now rarely called and when it is, it's a disaster (see Seattle). That's a huge system issue when one of the things you predicate your offense around disappears and there's nothing to take its place.
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Perhaps teams have made the conscious decision that they would rather have the backside DE or OLB key the bootleg and give Foster/Tate some bigger cutback lanes believeing a 10-yd gallup by the RB is more desirable than a 20-yd pass to AJ crossing against the flow of the play. That sure seems to explain what the Rams were doing. And if any coach has experience defending Kubiak's offense, it's Jeff Fisher.