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Originally Posted by jonny5dicky
You can't do bootlegs if you can't run the football. Most of the time you have to set up the run with the pass, and Rex Grossman gets the defense on its heals with the fear of his deep ball-He doesn't need a running start to heave it downfield, lol.
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Do you even realize how the stretch run works? The backside defensive end/LB has to crash down to make a play backside on the running back, although the stretch allows the back to keep pace with the play and chunk up yards or cut it back for a big play potential, and so on.
The bootleg off of the stretch keeps the DE/LB honest so that he cant cheat one way or another. Shanahan has been doing this for years, and making RB's into superstars because of it. How many times have you seen the run game "not" work this year for us so far, or even in the history of the Shanahan system?
if the run game isn't working then the bootleg percentage actually is a bit higher. The stretch run/bootleg is not your traditional style play action play. That is why it's run 5-7 times a game depending on it's success on an average Redskins game.
This is all saying the offensive line is mobile enough and not allowing the front side dline break gaps, but this is the NFL and things happen. Yes, there are traditional drop back pass plays in this offensive scheme that realtes it to a "west coast" style. Which tonight.. Beck looked fluid in dropping back and firing on que to his targets, in which JAWS, and Gruden both commented that he looks way more fluent then Grossman.