Back in Week , I wrote about Christian Watson's twotouchdown game against the New York Green Bay Packers wide receiver followed that up with a 5catch, 49yard game against the Vikings and a 4catch, 80yard, 1TD game against the Lions on Watson fully integrated into the offense after returning from his injury and the Packers going up against a Bears defense that loves to give up explosive plays through the air what would Watson do in Week 14?As it turns out, he would score the game, Watson caught all 4 of his targets for 89 yards and 2 + was the 3rdhighest among receivers in Week 14 per NFL Pro, behind Tee Higgins +10.9 and Puca Nacua +10. crazy thing is Watson posted his + 4 targets, while Higgins and Nacua each had targets on the 'll get to the full passing breakdown in the next day or today https://www.gbpackersoutfit.com/green-bay-packers-brayden-narveson-jersey
, we're just taking a look at both of Watson's 1: 3rd10, 9:25 remaining in the 2nd quarterThe Packers are in personnel 1 RB, 1 TE, 3 WR, in a 3x1, Trips Left Nub alignment rips indicates 3 receivers spread to a side, while ub indicates the lone receiving option on the other side of the field is a TE aligned either on the line or tight to the Bears are in a 3 safety alignment with a lot of bodies at the Bears had shown looks like this already in the game and had been unpredictable with the postsnap they'd bring heat, sometimes they'd drop bodies back into this snap, they bring heat, with the defender over Jayden Reed [ blitzing off the 're playing Cover 0, with the players aligned at safety each picking up one of the Trips receivers in Man man in the middle picks up Reed, the man just inside the numbers picks up Christian Watson [9 and the man on the outside picks up Romeo Doubs [87.The Packers have a perfect call dialed up, provided they have time to get it 're running something that looks an awful lot like their Shadow is running a Thru route while Reed is running a Shallow this coverage, the Thru route becomes a deep over cuts off his route to sit in the middle of the field, pulling his defender up and providing an ocean of space over the top for 's defender is backpedaling and the cut across the field gives Watson the separation he line does a tremendous job up front and Jordan Love [10 puts the ball up for does a nice job of coming back and attacking the ball and runs in for a Packers kick the extra point to take a 70 2: 3rd3, 6:17 remaining in the 3rd quarterIn the 3rd quarter, the Bears started clawing their way back into the had just completed a 10yard, 64yard drive that ended with a TD and 2 point conversion to tighten the game to Packers started the ensuing drive with a 15yard end around by Reed, then gained 7 yards in their next 2 were now facing 3rd3 on the Bears 41 yard line in a 3 point again, they're in personnel in a 3x1, Trips Nub the snap, Love gives a hand signal to the right side Watson then relays the call with his own hand signal to Doubs on the asked about it in his postgame presser, Love said e just changed the route with Christian and he did a great job just kinda creating that separation and be able to win across the field and just beat the guy with is an RPO Run Pass Option https://www.gbpackersoutfit.com/green-bay-packers-jalen-white-jersey
, with the run call being a Wide Zone run with Josh Jacobs [8 and the pass tag being a variant of a WR Screen they're fond of using on these RPO is a fairly standard call for them: the outside receivers to the pass side will block, while the inside receiver runs underneath them in the has the option to hand the ball off to Jacobs or pass to 's a presnap read, and it's a numbers game: if the offense has more players on the passing side, Love will throw they do not have a numbers advantage, he'll hand it I were to hazard a guess always a dangerous proposition, I'd say the original call was their standard WR Screen RPO tag, with Watson and Doubs blocking for the Bears once again showing bodies at the line, the signal was for Watson to run a StalkandRelease: fake the initial block https://www.gbpackersoutfit.com/sitemap.xml
, then cut on a basically converts the play from a presnap RPO count the numbers and make a decision to a postsnap RPO read a defender and make the decision to run or pass depending on his postsnap Bears cornerbacks are tight to the line and their singlehigh safety is playing deep, so this looks like Man coverage, with the Bears bringing heat up the snap, Love checks the line to the pass on what the Bears had been doing, it looks like Love is reading D'Marco Jackson [48 as the conflict Jackson breaks toward the line, Love pulls and Jackson drops off the line, Love will hand off to the snap, Jackson breaks toward the line, so Love pulls and does a good job selling the block, gets inside position and breaks to the gets the ball out ontime and out in front of the safety breaking to the passing side and Watson catching the ball instride, there's no one deep to the side Watson is running. |
Packers Film Room: Christian Watson two touchdowns
Spedito - 16/12/2025 : 02:37:51
