Originally posted by Paradoxrip
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If the point of using 2 back personnel groupings is to get LB isolated on RB, I think you are mistaken. Not that it wouldn't be a mismatch, I just don't see defenses falling for it. If the RB are a passing game mismatch, they will stay nickel and/or dime to keep the mismatch from being exploited. And if every time we see the box loaded up with an extra LB, we motion the RB out of the backfield, we are tipping the playcalling. If they know that you don't like the run options when you put 2 RB on the field, and will put them split out, why would you send out LB to match up against them?
The real mistake is that you are suggesting that we take Henry out of the offense in that set, and we are making him one of the highest paid TE in football. He is an effective downfield target, and a key to making a the running game in any shape go. The RB (outside of Ekeler) are the unknowns, so I don't see the sense in taking the proven commodity off the field and using the unproven commodities in the HOPE that they will be more effective.
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