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Zone read - maybe use clay in motion as the pitch back behind taylor on an option. Or have McCoy follow for the pitch while Tolbert is the handoff back. You can do it from pistol too with Tolbert behind and McCoy to the left or right of taylor. Taylor reads the LB on the pitch, and the end for the hand off...

They are a bit of a mess as a team in LA. No one will go to their games until they're good, their best player skipped camp and wants a dareus deal, their qb isn't very good yet, they pay their receivers a ton, and will pay them more if they extend Sammy. They're going to be cap strapped soon.

Sometimes it's the threat, have the guy in motion going the opposite direction... if nobody moves with him u don't hand it off. He can be the pitch on an option too if you add zone read. Can add a shovel pass too... gets the defense moving horizontally away from your run play.

It's not all qb... you have to make sure that everyone else knows what they're supposed to be doing.

This past game really wasn't a chance to use any of those plays. They weren't blitzing, their stunts wouldve blown up draws, they were playing a decent amount of press or at least close to the line... so none of those plays really work. You need to get the defense moving side to side. A reverse at the right time would have been pretty good, or more waggle type plays designed to get 1x1 matchups with tyrod on the go. They have to respect tyrod in that situation so it can help create some space in the run game.

The NCAA does it with zone read and package plays. I don't need to audible - i just either hand off or keep it, the blocking scheme is the same. If its a package play i either hand it off, or roll right and have a 2 player read. If nothings there I run. I think KC definitely does some stuff with package plays. You use presnap motion to create additional action like a fake reverse, etc. It only takes doing that tyreke hill reverse one time for like 60 yards for you to have to respect it. Then you have to do something else to give the guy a chance. This aint the 90s... and we don't have the WRs built to consistently win 1x1 matchups.

Or so they can adjust while i bark out gibberish. The patriots are so formation independent that motion doesn't affect the route combinations, so they move people around just to move them. Identify the good match-ups, and if you don't like it, its really easy to change the play.

There is such a thing as intelligent play design, and the QB trusting what he sees. It's all a game out there too, yelling out gibberish half the time to see what the defense does.

Roman. He took forever to call plays so we were always just getting lined up as the play clock winded down.

I would use motion on almost every play... it helps with press coverage too. Occaisionally lining up your receivers tight helps create more space on the sidelines... where our QB is more comfortable throwing the ball I don't mind i formation in the running game, if you can pass out of it too. We haven't done a good job of it yet. Line up 2 WR on the left and TE on the right... force the action to the right with a run, and WR slants to the right. Roll left and have clay cut across. They were in Man coverage most of the day so taht leaves probably the WLB covering clay, and covering TT's legs

Feels like we're absent motion sometimes too, and we always line up our receivers wide.

There doesn't need to be that many audibles... switching out of an I formation would be one i would stress. You can zone run out a pistol or shotgun, and with a short QB he can see better with deeper drops. I also felt like the snap count this past game was getting jumped all over as well. Need to mix it up more.

We should train our guys at love canal... maybe the chemicals will give them super powers!

i know that he missed oleary on that one... but he did throw it to dimarco passed the sticks for what should have been a first. Felt like he saw oleary but knew with pressure in his face he was going to have to loft that thing up there.

His motor is awesome. I think its a really good coach/player pairing. I didn't know much about him, but when we signed him I was definitely curious as to why we gave him what seemed like a lot of money.

10 mil in cap savings... old roster filled with holes... uhmmmmm yes please! UFAs - Kwilliams, matthews, wright, humber, preston brown, ej gaines, leonard johnson. The biggest holes there are at WR and DT. but 10 mil is enough to re-sign most of those guys and hopefully build some additional depth. We drafted vallejo and milano too so they could deem humber expendable. Never know.

Yes - but there are ways to disrupt timing and disguise coverage. You can't just be like - were a WCO, thats what we do.. and expect to succeed. There needs to be flexibility.

It seems pretty lousy so far. His history doesn't seem to scream success. Gotta be willing to change and evolve with the players you got.

You can game plan a bit differently than you did when you scored 3 points... i think you have to come in expecting to see a ton of press man and stacked boxes. What are you going to do to attack it?

We can't run this outside zone scheme if they stack the box. They just did the exact same thing to dallas o-line... and their o-line is better than ours.

If we don't come up with an actual game plan we will lose again.

If we can't run the ball we're going to be pretty poopy. On some of the plays it looked like our guys were like.. on top of each other in their routes. I'd like to see some mesh/pick type stuff. Use Clay to create space for McCoy. I like the angle routes if we have a LB in man with a back - usually a check down that picks up a few extra yards. And if they're pressing then we need to find a way to get our guys off the line and to their spots on time.

Yeah - i didn't see a ton with regards to cutback lanes. It seemed like there was penetration on every play. Unfortunately we have to beat them with the pass, and if they're playing press man then its going to involve some new stuff we haven't seen yet. Bunch formations, motion etc.

They're swarming the ball, and our QB is fast... it worked the few times we did try it. I get what you mean saying you can't run why would it work, but we were getting blown up by their speed. I also think zone-read and spreading them out a bit more would've helped some.. at least create some 1x1 matchups instead of a wall of people. We're likely to see a lot of this against denver - they have big physical corners who will probably play a bunch of press man against us. We have to be at least a little prepared for that.

Yeah... which means you're running routes right into their zone. ugh. I think my biggest concern was the unwillingness to try anything to get the run game going. We didn't attack with PA and zone-read to use their aggressiveness against them.