A few days ago, we looked at Middle-Read Dagger, the Green Bay Packers’ most-used passing concept of 2024. Today we’re looking at a concept that wasn’t nearly as widely used, but may be making a return to the offense. Buckle up, because we’re talking about Mesh, baby.

Back in 2020, Mesh was a core passing concept in the Packers offense. According to Bobby Peters’ excellent offensive manual of that season, he has the Packers charted with 34 instances of Mesh, averaging 8.4 YPA. In his book, Peters opens the Mesh section with this: “The Packers are the best Mesh team in the NFL. They run more variations than any other team I have studied.”

That 2020 Packers offense was a wagon and Mesh was a big part of that. Sadly, Mesh got blown up in a couple of high-profile spots in their loss to the B

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