good link on bubble screens

[Millhouse]

the smart football site is loading in a not smart way but this has the relevant quotes

http://www.fieldgulls.com/2012/11/2...-screens-and-the-constraint-theory-of-offense
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"In a given game your offense might look like it is all "constraint" plays: all gimmicks, screens, traps, draws, fakes and the like. Maybe so, if that's what the defense deserves. But you can't lose sight of the structure of your offense. Just because the bubbles, the flares, the fakes, and other gimmicks are your best offense for a couple of weeks doesn't mean that it will be there. Indeed, the best defense against that kind of stuff is simply a sound one. Thus great offenses must be structure around sound, time tested core ideas, but have the flexibility to go to the "constraint plays" whenever the opportunity exists. Too often, the constraint plays are alternatively given too much and not enough weight. But they nevertheless are what make an offense go."

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also worth looking at the screenshots of the seahawks screens. Lynch isn't even near Wilson yet and the ball is already out. if you're waiting to do a play action or go through the running back read, the DBs are already going to be on to the WR who is waiting behind the line of scrimmage. if you decide to throw the bubble, it should be before the snap and get it out of there right away

 

[supp]

Yep, the bubble can't be a safety valve. You're just shifting the location of the TFL or minimal gain to the sideline and increasing the chances of a turnover. Either you commit to it based on what you see pre-snap or you run something else. You can't ask WRs to hold defenders in space for more than a second or two---if they can get their hands on them. Setting up blocking on the perimeter is harder than they think it is based on the number of times they run the bubble in a game.

 

[TheCusian]

Think it is a pre snap read based on CB position primarily?

 

[Millhouse]

Think it is a pre snap read based on CB position primarily?

not here because we do so many fakes to the RB first, if i remember correctly.

oregon does the zone read before throwing the bubble too, but i still don't like it

if we keep doing it, hopefully we start doing some pump fakes as the secondary bites on the bubble guy

 

[supp]

not here because we do so many fakes to the RB first, if i remember correctly.

oregon does the zone read before throwing the bubble too, but i still don't like it

if we keep doing it, hopefully we start doing some pump fakes as the secondary bites on the bubble guy

The fly pattern to Broyld was on a bubble fake I want to say. The CB didn't seem to bite. He was step for step with him but that might have also been due to Hunt putting too much air under the ball.

 

[690West]

Here's a nice link on the dangers of the bubble screen. lol
http://deadspin.com/this-is-what-happens-when-a-wr-screen-falls-apart-1635549176