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It's a fun exercise to read that call and try to break it down before, I only got about half of it right...I missed the Gun alignment and had the RB at the other side of the formation.
To me, it instantly looks like a cover 1/cover 3 beater in terms of the high low on the FS. but it will toast cover 2 just as well, if the 8 route splits the safeties.
I think we'll see more of these plays this year as Wentz has the deep ball game and both Terry and Jahan have the chops to get separation deep.
Yeah, certainly hoping to see more verticality from this offense. At worse, it clears out the defense and opens up space for McKissic/Gibson underneath to pick up some nice YAC
Plus arm strength lets you beat a zone more often by reducing the travel time of the ball. So they'll probably face more man than before. The big question is if Wentz has the brains to make fast accurate reads and decisions.
With the game going to more passes, and the book on "how to beat Mahomes" is essentially "play your fastest defenders all the time", I think there will be opportunities to leverage power over speed and get more first downs (and/or make more yards on first to shorten the chains). A smart OC can tailor the offense to the opportunities and the resources on hand. We'll see how that goes.
2. The whole thing seems like a mess. Wonder why they don't have a more intuitive system of terminology.
3. If they are in gun, than your diagrams are off. Not criticizing, know you cut and pasted old stuff, from back before this shotgun crap from Landry had polluted the Redskins. But there's another aspect, which is that the back is almost certainly to one side, unlike how shown. Not clear to me, to which side, from your breakdown.
2. This system (at least from a terminology standpoint) has been hit hardest from the shift in the NFL to passing the ball more and using three receiver sets. When the offense was first designed, almost everyone worked from a 2-back set, so it was easy to just call the 3 digits for the X, Y and Z. Now you have a slot receiver and the back possibly running routes, so it gets a bit muddied.
But outside of that, the construction of a call is the same as systems like the west coast offense. Formation, variation, motion, protection, concept in that order. In fact, having the different families for formations, like T formations are all trips or 3 by 1 formations, is pretty good. The main difference from the west coast terminology is that they use terms for protection and then right or left for direction of the protection, and then digits for the route concept. In the west coast system, they use numbers for protections with even numbers sliding protection one way and odd numbers sliding it the other, then they used terms for the concept.
3. The formations remain the same for everyone but the QB and the RB when shifting to the gun. The receivers still align in the same spots. It’s just the QB in the shotgun and then the back gets his alignment from the protection call.
Great to have you back and pushing out the content we can't get anywhere else!
It's a fun exercise to read that call and try to break it down before, I only got about half of it right...I missed the Gun alignment and had the RB at the other side of the formation.
To me, it instantly looks like a cover 1/cover 3 beater in terms of the high low on the FS. but it will toast cover 2 just as well, if the 8 route splits the safeties.
I think we'll see more of these plays this year as Wentz has the deep ball game and both Terry and Jahan have the chops to get separation deep.
Yeah, certainly hoping to see more verticality from this offense. At worse, it clears out the defense and opens up space for McKissic/Gibson underneath to pick up some nice YAC
I see Brian Robinson Jnr getting praise from the beat reporters for his hands as well.
Plus arm strength lets you beat a zone more often by reducing the travel time of the ball. So they'll probably face more man than before. The big question is if Wentz has the brains to make fast accurate reads and decisions.
With the game going to more passes, and the book on "how to beat Mahomes" is essentially "play your fastest defenders all the time", I think there will be opportunities to leverage power over speed and get more first downs (and/or make more yards on first to shorten the chains). A smart OC can tailor the offense to the opportunities and the resources on hand. We'll see how that goes.
1. Thanks for the awesome effort.
2. The whole thing seems like a mess. Wonder why they don't have a more intuitive system of terminology.
3. If they are in gun, than your diagrams are off. Not criticizing, know you cut and pasted old stuff, from back before this shotgun crap from Landry had polluted the Redskins. But there's another aspect, which is that the back is almost certainly to one side, unlike how shown. Not clear to me, to which side, from your breakdown.
1. Thanks!
2. This system (at least from a terminology standpoint) has been hit hardest from the shift in the NFL to passing the ball more and using three receiver sets. When the offense was first designed, almost everyone worked from a 2-back set, so it was easy to just call the 3 digits for the X, Y and Z. Now you have a slot receiver and the back possibly running routes, so it gets a bit muddied.
But outside of that, the construction of a call is the same as systems like the west coast offense. Formation, variation, motion, protection, concept in that order. In fact, having the different families for formations, like T formations are all trips or 3 by 1 formations, is pretty good. The main difference from the west coast terminology is that they use terms for protection and then right or left for direction of the protection, and then digits for the route concept. In the west coast system, they use numbers for protections with even numbers sliding protection one way and odd numbers sliding it the other, then they used terms for the concept.
3. The formations remain the same for everyone but the QB and the RB when shifting to the gun. The receivers still align in the same spots. It’s just the QB in the shotgun and then the back gets his alignment from the protection call.
3. Thank you.
This is like diving into a buffet of football nerdery. Thank you so much.