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Green offers too much potential to add to the explosiveness to the O to sit the bench for long stretches. The problem with bringing him in for a package of plays here and there is you are telling the D what you are hoping to do. At least do it from a WR slot where the intent isn't as obvious...at least as long as it isn't as obvious as it was under Stefanski where you knew it was some sort of jet sweep or reverse 95% of the time.

Yeah, it was pretty predictable when Elijah Moore showed up it was going to be a jet sweep. A player has to have more than one calling card to be effective. That is on the coaches as well.

Yeah, it was pretty predictable when Elijah Moore showed up it was going to be a jet sweep. A player has to have more than one calling card to be effective. That is on the coaches as well.

Moore was a WR. Green is a QB who is a threat to pass or run the ball. These two situations are not similar.

Except when they are running onto the field, the other team is screaming their name and the probable play.

Once again Moore a WR. Green is an actual QB. Green opens up the option to pass or run from the pocket which does not give the play away when he comes on the field. You do understand the difference there don't you?

Exactly Pit..

You can build a short yardage/red zone scheme based on what Green can do. It won't be 1 or 2 plays, it will be a scheme with 10-15 plays built around the look the defense gives you. Now, given a defense each week, there might only be 4-5 of those plays that will be practiced against their particular defense set. THEN, you take those 5 plays inserted for that weekly game plan and it automatically turns into 10 plays by inverting the alignment.

Nothing is TOO vanilla in the NFL. Monken will be able to hide what he is doing with the limited number of plays schemed to Green.

It's why this type of scheming can work a lot better than the wildcat.

The difference to me is more the coach.

If you run the same play everytime one player is on the filed it's predictable
If you run multiple plays then it is no different than using any other substitution

The difference to me is more the coach.

If you run the same play everytime one player is on the filed it's predictable
If you run multiple plays then it is no different than using any other substitution

WR's aren't a legitimate threat to run or pass equally from the pocket. Your options are far more limited than having a QB in there who can be a legitimate threat to do both. In Monken's first year here they drafted him and gave him an option we didn't see them give Stefanski. I won't try predict or try to guess what Stefanski would have done with such a tool at his disposal but at the same time I'm not going to point the finger at him because he never had such an option. But I am quite convinced that won't prevent others from doing so.

I think in order to make something like this work, the offense first has to establish an identity, and then you can start adding chunks of plays off of a subset of looks.

Ex. Jacoby Brissett and the QB sneaks. We still had a strong Oline and he was really good at executing that play. Then KS added wrinkles to it. I think this is how we build a subset of plays for Green (slowly).

I think him having already been a starting QB that worked in an O where he has already worked well in the run/pass option would make this an easy transition for him. As a senior he rushed for 777 yards and eight touchdowns on 139 carries.

Based on his 2025 season at Arkansas and his performance at the 2026 Senior Bowl, Taylen Green is a dual-threat quarterback who frequently operates out of RPO (Run-Pass Option) and read-option sets, utilizing his 6'6" frame and elite speed.

I don't think there needs to be a big cause for alarm in thinking Monken needs to slow walk this.