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The past two weeks the Bills offense has shown an increase in its efficiency particularly in the passing game. Shorter drops, quicker passes along with bootlegs and screens have all helped, but spreading things out with open formations may be one of the bigger reasons for the recent success.
At times this season Buffalo's offensive staff has been concerned about protection and rightly so. At one point in the season J.P. Losman
was getting sacked once every 10 drop backs. There were even games, like the one at Indianapolis, where maximum protection still didn't provide a consistent answer to the protection problems.
So the offensive staff eventually elected to go with more three and four receiver sets. By putting more receiving threats on the field the opposing defense had to pull more players out of the box thereby reducing the number of pass rushers. Secondly, Bills GM Marv Levy believes it becomes a bit easier to get a pre-snap handle on what the opposing defense is going to do when the offense spreads them out.
At times this season Buffalo's offensive staff has been concerned about protection and rightly so. At one point in the season J.P. Losman
was getting sacked once every 10 drop backs. There were even games, like the one at Indianapolis, where maximum protection still didn't provide a consistent answer to the protection problems.So the offensive staff eventually elected to go with more three and four receiver sets. By putting more receiving threats on the field the opposing defense had to pull more players out of the box thereby reducing the number of pass rushers. Secondly, Bills GM Marv Levy
believes it becomes a bit easier to get a pre-snap handle on what the opposing defense is going to do when the offense spreads them out.
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