The New England Patriots are 3rd in the NFL in rushing averaging 159 yards per game and have always been one of the best rushing teams in the NFL.
They have rushed for an average of 5.1 yards per carry this year and have done it a few different ways.
Some of its old school under center, power, counter, iso, toss schemes and then they mix in some zone read concepts with Newton out of the gun which makes them difficult to defend. The Boss read play weak is a real difficult concept to defend.
The most impressive is that they constantly get 8 man boxes because teams don't respect their downfield passing game. Regardless, the Patriots still can rush the football and hit teams with their playaction concepts.
Here's some of the plays and plays off it
Play Play off it
Toss fake toss slant
jet wing counter
iso/power play action dover concept (deep over)
boss read play action to the tight end drag
Vs. The Bills in 2020
They do a great job running play action off their run schemes which I will show you later in the clips.
They really hurt the Bills running the ball then running a sequential counter, play action scheme.
This is all being done with limited tight end and wr play in the passing game.
Lets take a look at some of the concepts vs. the Bills.
They ran 29 carries for 183 yards =. 6.31 yard
Toss. 7, 2,5,6,6,1. = 6/27 yards 4.5 ypc
qb sweep with toss blocking 2,19,5 = 3/26 yards 8.6 ypc
counter 22 td, (309 3rd). 18, 7 2, 3 = 5/52 10.4 ypc
iso 2,2 ,13, 1=4/18 yards 4.5 ypc
power 4, 2=2/6 yards 3 ypc
zone read 4. 1/4 4 ypc
boss read . 2/14 7ypc. play action 133 2nd
qb draw for 3, 2 2/5 2.5ypc
wide/ inside zone -2, -2 10=4/9 yards 2.25ypc
wham 2 1/2 2 ypc
jet sweep 6 1/6 6ypc
wing trap 6 off jet 3rd 10:15 1/6 6ypc
speed option 8 1/8. 8 ypc
The Patriots ran a toss crack concept against the Bills
1st and 10 for 7 yards
TE cracks on de. Wr cracks on SS Tackle pulls for the cb
Whether its toss or qb sweep, that's the scheme they ran 9 times for 53 yards.
1st and 10 in the 3rd quarter
They run the toss crack for 5 yards out of 21 personnel.
Only difference is fullback runs the alley.
Next they run the toss out of 22 personnel
Same scheme similar result-7 yard gain. You'll love the double pancake from the right tackle on the film!!
Later in the 4th quarter after great success, they hit the slant off the play action because they Bills were playing a lose cover 3. Had it in the hip pocket all game. They gave the same look and the Bills defense had no answer to it.
Heres some toss clips and play action ff it
They also ran the qb sweep with toss blocking scheme. big 19 yard gain.
In the 2nd quarter the Pats start running counter.
The counter to the 1 technique side was another big play for the Patriots. Seemed to like running this to their left attacking the right side of the Bills Defense. Bills were rolling to the tight end side to take away the power /toss concepts.
counter blocking #1 22 yard td.
Counter blocking scheme 2 : 20 yard gain
3 counter clips are below:
Another sequence was the boss same side zone read 2 times.
They ran it 2 times for 14 yards before running a nice play action off it.
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| Look at the hole from the boss fake, Cam reads the end 9 yard gain |
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| Hits te off the action for 10 yards |
