HoofHearted

Running the same ISO concept we ran last week.

It was GH Counter

Haven’t run draw yet.

Running crossers vs man coverage works regardless of the backfield action. Hope they keep trying to man us up!

I’ll teach you football after the game.

Shouldn’t be lol. Slot choice was their bread and butter my guy.

Sure. 😏

New England built a dynasty on them 😉

This place wild on game day lol

Why?

He has.

Don’t agree with his take here. Thought Poyer played equally as bad if not worse. Several times he gave up big plays in the pass game on deep overs that he had to come out of the roof to cover. On the bright side Elam looked really good in his run support fits, but did miss two tackles at the LoS.

Yeah, read should be Kincaid, Diggs, Sherfield, checkdown

Elam struggled in man coverage. So much so they moved him to the field for a series before they pulled him. He actually looked at his best when playing press 2. The tapes not as bad as the stat-line. I'd have to go back to the film and track the stats, but I'm almost positive that stat-line is crediting him with at least one reception that wasn't his fault.

Because our defense doesn't match receivers - we play with a field corner and a boundary corner regardless of where receivers go. This has been talked about ad nauseam around here.

It's play action. They're showing Stretch action to pull the linebackers to the boundary and then throw it to Kincaid working the opposite direction. Every team in the league runs this concept. The dolphins aren't intentionally doubling Kincaid here either. We just happened to run it against a 1 Rat coverage look where they have a guy playing man on Kincaid and a low hole (Rat) player to rob anything coming back across the middle of the field.

It’s probably fairly accurate - their raw data stuff usually is. We slide protection his way quite a bit so I’m not surprised by the “left on island” rate. The help isn’t coming from the right ends as frequently as people seem to think though.

This narrative is exaggerated. Are they chipping some? Yes. Is it anywhere close to 50 percent of snaps? No. There were quite a few vertical concepts by Tight Ends in the Jaguars game. Some of them were just collector routes but others were part of the progression. Pocket breakdowns or 1v1 matchups backside that Josh liked instead were big reasons why they weren’t targeted. Vast majority of chips came on play action.

Unequivocally no.

Sure. If your players suck it doesn’t matter what you run - it’s going to suck.

I disagree. Basically every High School and College in America runs some variation of 2 read coverage. Every NFL team runs some variation of it as well. It’s not an intellectually challenging scheme just takes reps like anything else. As an aside Saban doesn’t run a ton of Palms - he’s made his name through his Match 3 coverages. Completely different.

They played primarily 3, but did play some quarters and two.

Incorrect… we only ran one draw in the game.

I’ve done everything from DI down as a defensive coordinator. As far as the content stuff - I don’t usually have a ton of time to watch most of it. I’ve seen some Cover 1 stuff and I think I’ve said this in the past - they do a good job of regurgitating football terms and giving you maybe a general idea of what’s going on but I’m not sure how much football they actually know. Erik does a better job offensively (probably because there’s more information out there about offense) than he does talking defense. He can tell you general concept names and reads on offense but I’ve never heard him get into specific rules for positions. Defensively he often gets coverages wrong or says players are doing things on “instincts” when really it’s just players playing fast within the rules of the defense whether that be fits or coverages. I don’t know much about the other guys. Scheme is tough to learn without being in it. Coaches are pretty protective of their stuff so if something gets out it’s no longer being used or taught that way anymore. That being said there is a ton of information out there. It’s kind of like a grab bag though - you have to piece together stuff like a puzzle. There aren’t just breakdowns of entire schemes all in one place. Additionally there isn’t a common language spoken when it comes to football. Everyone kind of has their own name for things which can get convoluted when first trying to learn because you’ll hear multiple terms for the same thing depending on what information you’re looking at. If it was easier to upload images on to this site I’d do more in depth breakdown stuff more often but it’s kind of a pain in the butt trying to get multiple images into one post. Maybe someone has a work-around?

Here’s the disconnect - play action opens up the middle of the field by pulling defenders into the box. Because of this they are now responsible for an immediate gap in the run game and thus have to play run first. This is why play action is successful because it can pull backers and box safeties toward the LoS. It has zero effect on corners eyes or, in the case of what we saw from Jacksonville, MOF Closed Safeties. They’re working their pass keys regardless of the action. Because they were in MOF Closed coverage the majority of the day there wasn’t anything to take advantage of in the middle of the field by using play action which is why every time we ran it except one the pass went outside where, like I said, the corners are just playing coverage as normal based on their key read. Hope that clears it up for you.