01-23-2025, 11:10 AM -
No matter who has been coaching the Panthers, seems like they are generally not good at executing them on offense or defending them o defense. I found this article in The Athletic to be very interesting:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6044189...-playoffs/
— Andy Reid often describes himself as more than a coach. He considers himself a teacher.
The classroom for Reid — the NFL’s oldest head coach at 66 — is a major reason he continues to arrive at the Chiefs’ training facility around 4 a.m.
“I enjoy teaching,” Reid said.
From his voluminous playbook, Reid loves instructing his players on his massive collection of screen passes. The Chiefs have installed more than 100 screens this season, variations meant to surprise opponents — and some they have yet to unveil.
The Chiefs know — whether it’s the first week of the offseason program, training camp or the first day of a game week — Reid will go through several meticulously designed screens, plays that require his players to have proper synchronization.
Reid is known for many things — his deep passing attack, his penchant for trick plays, his affection for cheeseburgers and Tommy Bahama Hawaiian shirts. In 26 years as a head coach, Reid has become most known around the NFL as the screen master, his schematic innovations of the play being one of his core contributions to the sport.
“It’s important in the pass game that you have certain things that can offset it,” Reid said. “That’s a complementary play to your dropback pass game. It can be complementary to your play-action game and even that you’re throwing off of it can be complementary.”
Since Reid joined Kansas City in 2013, after 13 years in Philadelphia, the Chiefs have been one of the league’s best teams at executing screens. Since quarterback Patrick Mahomes arrived in 2018, the Chiefs have been the league’s best team at screens. During that time, in the regular season, the Chiefs have attempted and completed the most screens (433 of 483), have generated the most yards on screens (3,062) and have been the most effective team in the NFL on screens in terms of passer rating, expected points added per dropback and percentage of attempts going for a first down or a touchdown, according to TruMedia and Next Gen Stats.
The Chiefs have scored 19 touchdowns on screens since 2018 — eight more than any other team.
“He’s got a great feel for when to dial those up,” Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay said of Reid. “We always talk about how no screen is the same — every screen has its own story. But for some reason, everywhere Andy Reid has been, that team has a good feel for it.
“Big Red is the man. There are so many layers to it. I’ve studied them every year. That’s one of the things you’re going to spend an offseason studying.”
Over the past year, The Athletic has asked many in the Chiefs organization a simple question: Why is Reid so good at screens? Almost every player and coach touched on the same sentiment: Reid’s success is in the details.
“He’s really good at teaching the base screens, even more than I had ever been taught,” Mahomes said of Reid. “Every day (in camp), we have a part of our install where we talk about screens, how we’re setting up this screen and what it goes off of and how we want to make it look like this different (play).”
Reid enters most games with at least 10 screens.
When he coached the Eagles, he started putting screens on steroids. No longer was it just two linemen, usually the center and a guard, going out on the perimeter. Reid created landmarks and sidewalks all over the field, even within hashes. Some screens involved a shift, a motion or play action. Others had an element of a reverse or a rollout for the quarterback.
“If you’re a running back for Coach Reid, it’s a lot of fun because you have to be a better receiver than a runner to play in his offense,” general manager Brett Veach said.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6044189...-playoffs/
— Andy Reid often describes himself as more than a coach. He considers himself a teacher.
The classroom for Reid — the NFL’s oldest head coach at 66 — is a major reason he continues to arrive at the Chiefs’ training facility around 4 a.m.
“I enjoy teaching,” Reid said.
From his voluminous playbook, Reid loves instructing his players on his massive collection of screen passes. The Chiefs have installed more than 100 screens this season, variations meant to surprise opponents — and some they have yet to unveil.
The Chiefs know — whether it’s the first week of the offseason program, training camp or the first day of a game week — Reid will go through several meticulously designed screens, plays that require his players to have proper synchronization.
Reid is known for many things — his deep passing attack, his penchant for trick plays, his affection for cheeseburgers and Tommy Bahama Hawaiian shirts. In 26 years as a head coach, Reid has become most known around the NFL as the screen master, his schematic innovations of the play being one of his core contributions to the sport.
“It’s important in the pass game that you have certain things that can offset it,” Reid said. “That’s a complementary play to your dropback pass game. It can be complementary to your play-action game and even that you’re throwing off of it can be complementary.”
Since Reid joined Kansas City in 2013, after 13 years in Philadelphia, the Chiefs have been one of the league’s best teams at executing screens. Since quarterback Patrick Mahomes arrived in 2018, the Chiefs have been the league’s best team at screens. During that time, in the regular season, the Chiefs have attempted and completed the most screens (433 of 483), have generated the most yards on screens (3,062) and have been the most effective team in the NFL on screens in terms of passer rating, expected points added per dropback and percentage of attempts going for a first down or a touchdown, according to TruMedia and Next Gen Stats.
The Chiefs have scored 19 touchdowns on screens since 2018 — eight more than any other team.
“He’s got a great feel for when to dial those up,” Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay said of Reid. “We always talk about how no screen is the same — every screen has its own story. But for some reason, everywhere Andy Reid has been, that team has a good feel for it.
“Big Red is the man. There are so many layers to it. I’ve studied them every year. That’s one of the things you’re going to spend an offseason studying.”
Over the past year, The Athletic has asked many in the Chiefs organization a simple question: Why is Reid so good at screens? Almost every player and coach touched on the same sentiment: Reid’s success is in the details.
“He’s really good at teaching the base screens, even more than I had ever been taught,” Mahomes said of Reid. “Every day (in camp), we have a part of our install where we talk about screens, how we’re setting up this screen and what it goes off of and how we want to make it look like this different (play).”
Reid enters most games with at least 10 screens.
When he coached the Eagles, he started putting screens on steroids. No longer was it just two linemen, usually the center and a guard, going out on the perimeter. Reid created landmarks and sidewalks all over the field, even within hashes. Some screens involved a shift, a motion or play action. Others had an element of a reverse or a rollout for the quarterback.
“If you’re a running back for Coach Reid, it’s a lot of fun because you have to be a better receiver than a runner to play in his offense,” general manager Brett Veach said.