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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Poppa San" data-source="post: 550636" data-attributes="member: 2547"><p>The personnel grouping may have been 1/1/3 but did they line up that way?  Could they have been in a 2/3 with the TE lined up as an H-back?  You could go 4 wide with a TE and have Cobb take a hand-off with a H-back lead.  The personnel on the field does not dictate the alignment, just restricts it.  I recall Dorsey Levens split wide quite a few times back in the day.  Three wide receivers should usually put the defense in nickel alignment no matter the QB.  This would pull one of the bigger bodies out of the front seven.  Lacy seems to excel at evading the first tackler which gets him to or through the line to where the smaller backs are.  He probably got there through a hole created by the lack of a lineman.  Don't have a clue as to why other teams don't do this more often.  It is fairly effective.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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