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Every week I take time to roll through all of the Packers offensive snaps multiple times, both for charting purposes but also to get a good feel for what the Packers did offensively. There are always fun plays & wrinkles. I want to write about those, but I don’t always get a chance to. Then the next game comes around, the cycle starts all over again and some of those fun little plays just fall by the wayside.
Well, today I get a chance to look at a few from Saturday’s game against the Baltimore Ravens. We dove into the overall passing game already, breaking down the first 2 completions from Malik Willis. Today? Today we just look at 3 plays that I just thought were neat.
The Packers are in 11 personnel (1 RB, 1 TE, 3 WR) in a tight formation. At the snap, the Ravens bring 5 rushers and play zone behind it. The Packers are running Hank on the right and Cross-Country Dagger on the left. Hank is a 3 step concept while Cross-Country Dagger is 7 step read. Malik Willis [2] is reading Hank-to-Dagger.
Willis is reading Hank on his dropback, but bails as soon as he hits his back foot (probably something to do with Kyle Hamilton [14] detonating Josh Jacobs [8]).
Romeo Doubs [87] is running the hitch route in Hank, and he has a zone defender underneath. Doubs recognizes the coverage, so he just works away from the zone defender and gives Willis a nice target. The threat of the Willis scramble moves the defender up to the line, leaving even a bigger window for Doubs.
Good recognition from Doubs, and well done by Willis to find him with a really nice, sidearm throw past a defensive lineman. Doubs finds grass after the catch and picks up 13 yards.
It was 27-14 at this point, and the Packers needed something to get them rolling. 3rd & 18 isn’t necessarily where you want to be, but sometimes you find beauty in the places you least expect.
The Packers are in 11 personnel in a 3×1 Trips look. They’re running something that looks an awful lot like Drift Stalk, with a couple key differences.
Matthew Golden [0] is running the Drift/Strike route from the iso position on the left. Christian Watson [9] is running a Push route from the #1 position on the right (in place of the Drift Off Route). Jayden Reed [11] is running something that looks like a Tree Pump route instead of Stalk Rail. (Stalk Rail calls for a Stalk Block off the line that releases vertical, while Tree Pump is a route that pushes vertical to 10 yards, speed cuts to 12 and then veers back upfield.)
Josh Whyle [81] is running an out route from the #3 position out of Trips, and, as it...
