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[QUOTE="0.2 YNdeeR, post: 5112609, member: 8125"]
Red zone or short yardage I would expect 12 P as [USER=436]money3189[/USER]  posted. Per the OP 11 personnel sounds good as a base to keep teams honest with our balance.

Against peer opponents, however, a lot will depend on the OL. If it's NRFPT, JN will need to get creative. I think it is likely that ACC DC's (NCSt., UM, V-T), with big DL's, good LB's and fast corners, will test us with their favorite strategy: stack the box and jam our WR's. They have done this for years forcing out QB's to scramble and stuffing the run. Countering that strategy will require disguised looks mixing in RPO's, screens, draws, counters, buttonholes, 1-2 second routes for OG, VIllari and JRS .. more of a dink and dunk possession offense. Some pace could be added in.

If the OL is able to create running lanes, the stacked box starts to fall apart.  Ground and pound runs clock, moves the chains, and opens other things up  - as we've learned the hard way. DC's might have to pull their safeties up, exposing them to deep routes by Haynes and GIll. If the safeties stay back and our OL can protect him, Kyle can go over the middle to OG, JRS, Meeks, Pena. Either way, with our talent at RB, TE and WR a functional OL makes us difficult to stop even for an upper tier ACC defense.
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