Here is another example of a common attack faced by the defense every week.
Rivers spreads the running back to the top of the screen just like Atlanta and New England did, except instead of isolating the back in space, he went up there to bunch the area up and take a player away from their real target: Hunter Henry.
Rivers fired a perfect pass right down the seam for a huge gain. A big part of why the defense struggled had to do with the fact that Rivers was on top of his game all night, even if his final statline didn’t completely look like it (18-29 for 178 yards 1 TD 0 INT).
But as Blake Bortles reminded us this Thursday with his bankrupt 300-yard outing, stats never tell a complete story in this game.