re: There’s not much O likes about his offense

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Last night in his coach’s show he mentioned going to ‘MAX PROTECT’ to give Max time to throw. Those words should scare the hell out of everyone. That ain’t Peetz and that ain’t Brady.

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It does me.

Every play has a declining effectiveness through the course of a game. The more equal the match in talent, the steeper that rate of decline.

Max protect as a formation and in plays run out of it have the steepest decline of all because the defense has to worry about accounting for fewer people away from the LoS... which means adjusting to it and accounting for both people and space downfield just got real simple for a defense.

For an OL it, if used too much, is counterproductive. That is because you end up with more defenders closer to the the LoS which you OL calls have to account for them. Look at it this way, if a safety is playing centerfield 15 yds back is a Center going to have to account for him at the snap of the ball? No- he's too far away. Put that S 4 yds off of one of those TEs on your outside shoulder and now you have to account for him. And 8 other defenders.

Want to see blown assignments and LBs/Ss running free in the backfield every play? Use max protect.