Packers Moving Receivers and Quarterbacks Together Makes Sense

The Packers hope to cut back on miscommunications between the quarterback and his recievers.

Interesting note from Ty Dunne over at JSOnline regarding an adjustment Mike McCarthy has made to his offensive meeting rooms. 

Earlier this offseason, when McCarthy made the adjustments to his offensive staff, it was noted that Alex Van Pelt would be coaching both quarterbacks and wide recievers. While this seemed a bit curious at the time, OTAs have given us a gliimpse into McCarthy's thinking.

Packers quarterbacks and wide receivers are now meeting all together in one room.

As Van Pelt told Dunne:

The beauty of the position — coaching receivers and quarterbacks — is that 80% of the things you can do, you can do together,” Van Pelt said after Thursday’s OTA practice. “It’s just the little bit, that 20% of protection and the run game that doesn’t require them to be together. I think the guys have liked being together. We’ve watched all of our scheme evaluation together. I think they get to hear how everybody sees it. That’ll help.

Now, there’s no lost in translation. Everybody gets to hear it from the quarterback to the receivers and the tight ends.

It’s awesome. As long as you’re on the same page, that’s the most important part and then how the quarterback sees it is very important obviously. And then making sure that everybody is on the same page as the quarterback. Being all together gives us open communication. There’s no lost in translation. You hear it right out of the horse’s mouth—what he wants, what he’s looking for.

I think it's telling that Van Pelt used "There's no lost in translation" twice. It doesn't take much to read between the lines here. 

When reviewing the 2014 season, one is struck by how many times Rodgers and his recievers seemed to be on different pages when it came to sight adjustments off the line of scrimmage. There were many more plays than usual where things broke down, communication wise, on the perimiter. Now, some of this was due to bringing along a rookie reciever in Davante Adams. But it wasn't just an Adams problem. All the recievers had moments of being on a different page from Rodgers at one point or another throughout the season. 

With a group of young recievers, including guys like Jared Abbrederis, Jeff Janis and Ty Montgomery, moving them into the same room as the quarterbacks while they learn an incredibly complex offense makes plenty of sense. 

 

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Icebowler's picture

May 30, 2015 at 02:51 pm

Last year they combined the OLB's and ILB's into the same room. I wonder if the move of Clay to play more ILB would have happened if the two groups were still separated?

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DrealynWilliams's picture

May 31, 2015 at 12:43 am

I don't know why something like this didn't happen sooner. Serious question - what bad could come of this?

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Tundraboy's picture

May 31, 2015 at 08:39 am

If it increases likelihood that everyone is assignment sure what the hell took them so long.

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Ibleedgreenmore's picture

May 31, 2015 at 08:59 am

It makes sense to me, gotta love it when a plan comes together.

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TarynsEyes's picture

May 31, 2015 at 11:22 am

So the QB and WR's were playing a version of Jeopardy...Rodgers is the answer and the WR's had to guess what the question was each play...Do I go post,corner,back shoulder,a 7 or 9 route.....Who knew?

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FITZCORE1252's picture

May 31, 2015 at 09:08 pm

Really does seem to make a ton of sense.

Do any other teams do this? Anybody know?

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Mojo's picture

May 31, 2015 at 11:14 pm

Maybe they should have the RB's sit in a few sessions too.

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RyanMedina's picture

July 15, 2020 at 01:28 pm

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, and it should happen. I'll tell all my https://www.fischervanlines.com/ friends about this, and we'll have a civil discussion on this. It will be quite entertaining, and that's what I want.

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