Looking back on a play from the Packers victory over the Rams.
I’m currently working on a piece about the direction I think the Green Bay Packers offense may be heading in 2025. However, as those pieces tend to go, it’s taking much longer than I had originally expected.
One of the nice things about it is that it allows me to study some other offenses around the league, but it also allows me to revisit Packers games from this past year. The further I get away from the season, the more I focus on the coming season and the less I tend to remember about the previous season, so this is a fun way to remember some of those moments.
While I work through my “Packers Offense in 2025” piece, I thought I’d just take a few minutes from time-to-time and remember a play from the 2024 season that I enjoyed.
Today, we’re going back to Week 5 against the Rams. It was a pretty ugly game that saw the Packers trailing 13-10 going into the half, with the Rams only TD coming off a horrendous Jordan Love pick-six from his own end zone.
On their first drive of the 2nd half, the Packers were still down 13-10, looking at 2nd & 6 on their own 34 yard line.
The Packers are in 11 personnel (1 RB, 1 TE, 3 WR) in shotgun. They start in a 2×2 formation, with Tucker Kraft [85] in-line on the right and Jayden Reed [11] split tight outside. Before the snap, Reed motions in front of Love, then orbits behind and releases to the right flat.
Love spins to fake the handoff to Reed while Josh Jacobs [8] crosses Love’s face to release to the left side. Elgton Jenkins 74] pulls to the right, helping to sell the handoff to Reed.
The fake to Reed gets the eyes of Christian Rozeboom [56] in the backfield. Kraft releases off the line and past Rozeboom. Rozeboom – thinking Kraft is trying to pin him on a run block – hops outside of Kraft, giving Kraft a clean release through the teeth of the defense.
After the fake, Rozeboom settles into the middle of the field and Troy Reeder [51] runs out to take Jacobs in the flat. With Dontayvion Wicks [13] and Bo Melton [80] pushing vertically on the left, the boundary is cleared out. Kraft picks his way through the middle and finds an ocean of space. Love waits until Reeder angles down on Jacobs, then finds Kraft.
Kraft takes the ball and rumbles to the end zone, giving the Packers a lead they would never give up.
Shout out to Wicks for staying with the downfield block, allowing Kraft to get down the sideline for 6.
Albums listened to: Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film