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    How come the Packers hardly do any screens anymore? You would think that Brandon Jackson would be a good rb to do them with.

    Is our O-line bad at setting screens up or is McCarthy just not a fan of them ? ..or maybe I'm jumping the gun

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    Re: Screen game ..?

    Originally posted by steve823
    How come the Packers hardly do any screens anymore? You would think that Brandon Jackson would be a good rb to do them with.

    Is our O-line bad at setting screens up or is McCarthy just not a fan of them ? ..or maybe I'm jumping the gun
    This is my opinion....To run a very good screen, you need athletic Tackles...of which we don't. You're tackles either are the lead block, or have to take on a few blocks as the guards move up field, and right now, I don't see our tackles able to do either.

    With Sherman, we usually ran screens with our G/C/G...of which I have no idea why we don't do that with Colledge/Wells/Sitton...they seem perfect for that. Of course then I remember the 'Zona playoff game with Jackson having NOBODY in front of him but 3 lineman and 1 LB, and Colledge completely whiffed, and we lost yards.

    I do think Jackson would be a perfect screen guy though, much like Edgar Bennett. You can't outrun your blockers, and Jackson has a tendancy to stick to his blocks a little too much.
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    • #3
      Re: Screen game ..?

      Originally posted by ND72
      Originally posted by steve823
      How come the Packers hardly do any screens anymore? You would think that Brandon Jackson would be a good rb to do them with.

      Is our O-line bad at setting screens up or is McCarthy just not a fan of them ? ..or maybe I'm jumping the gun
      This is my opinion....To run a very good screen, you need athletic Tackles...of which we don't. You're tackles either are the lead block, or have to take on a few blocks as the guards move up field, and right now, I don't see our tackles able to do either.

      With Sherman, we usually ran screens with our G/C/G...of which I have no idea why we don't do that with Colledge/Wells/Sitton...they seem perfect for that. Of course then I remember the 'Zona playoff game with Jackson having NOBODY in front of him but 3 lineman and 1 LB, and Colledge completely whiffed, and we lost yards.

      I do think Jackson would be a perfect screen guy though, much like Edgar Bennett. You can't outrun your blockers, and Jackson has a tendancy to stick to his blocks a little too much.
      I agree with your point about the tackles. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Packers become more of a screen team once Bulaga has replaced Clifton.
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      • #4
        Didn't Gruden say we were one of the best screen team in the league during the preseason MNF game vs the colts?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by MichiganPackerFan
          Didn't Gruden say we were one of the best screen team in the league during the preseason MNF game vs the colts?
          Somebody tell McCarthy!
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