HoofHearted

Again, anyone blaming Edmonds for that run is dead wrong. I’ll draw that one up later.

Love Spencer Brown and the nasty he brings up front. He plays the position right. We got too many nice guys up front.

Great stop D - we still have time to score.

Can’t play defense anymore… just make it 7 on 7…

I hate that we flip backers on motion…

Jesus Diggs continuing to get mugged out there. At some point though he’s gotta stop playing for the penalty and accept he’s gonna get held every play and fight through it.

How did they abandon it? Because they threw it three times on the goalline? Then turned around and ran jet and then Q Counter on back to back plays to start the next series? 🤔

Bunch of people who don’t understand football. Take it for the entertainment it is.

Daboll doing a great job with play calling so far - making the Patriots cover every area of the field. Deep shot incoming.

You can tell rush lanes have been emphasized the past few weeks with the DL - it’s clearly evident they are playing their high box/low box rules - but we’re not doing a good job of collapsing the pocket.

Bills fans: run the ball! Also Bills fans: why are we running the ball! This place is great on game day 🤣

They started to - played some 4 toward the end of that drive and got out of their roll 3 coverages.

This thread is fun lol

This idea that we are built defensively to just beat the Chiefs is a fallacy - we are built to stop modern offenses. There's two ways to build a defense - be bigger than everyone or be faster than everyone. We've built our defense to be faster and more athletic than everyone. You see the Buccaneers following this same philosophy and don't hear anyone saying anything about them being only built to beat the Chiefs.

Unfortunately you can't just jump into whatever fronts and coverages you want week to week. Alignments, keys, techniques, fits, rules, etc. all change when you change the base front.

Doesn't matter what defensive personnel grouping we put out there if guys can't fit their gaps correctly. If we continue to get reached or get washed we're gonna get gashed regardless. This idea that there's not play action possible out of shotgun is absurd to me. Plus you completely remove the RPO game if you play solely under center - which has been the major way we've had any type of success in the redzone this year.

No, he took a good path. Gunner did a good job running off the Jammer. Matakevich just let his man go essentially unblocked.

Didn't look to me like he ever committed to the block. Looked like a miscommunication as he worked almost immediately up to the second level. I also agree. I understand there's an element of surprise to the fake punt, but why take your best player off the field in a crucial situation. I'd feel more confident in the offense being able to gain 2-3 yards than my punt team.

100% - a bunch of non-football guys grading players without knowing play calls or assignments. Brilliant! Slow feet don't eat. Our OL is so unathletic. This definitely compounds the issue, but we are very unathletic up front.

Typically SPT Coordinator will come up with the scheme (with approval from the head coach). Head Coach will just determine when/if he wants it run in a game.

Incorrect, they overloaded that side. Would have been a sure tackle for loss. That's what I questioned as well.

Nothing on film suggests they picked up that Breida was in the game (slow getting lined up, no one communicating or pointing, no one on the second level in a stance even). Regardless, it's not about fooling the defense with the personnel you put on the field. They could very well have known a fake was coming - they'd still have to stop it. It's a defensive play just like any other on 1st-3rd down. Every player has their assignment and executes it the same whether it's a punt or fake. The design of the fake was a solid one for the look they got from the Bucs.

If Matakevich holds his block for just 1 more second that dudes not even there to make the shoestring tackle.

Saw a lot of people bashing the play design of the fake punt on here so I thought I'd break it down so everyone could see what the coaching staff saw. Coaches designed the fake so that we could get numbers to the offensive left side of the play. The backside (Center, Right Guard, and Right Tackle) are essentially blocking Power here (Center and Right Tackle block down while Right Guard pulls to wrap on the opposite side). To the playside they are zone over-take blocking which essentially means the Left Tackle and Left Guard are going to combo the Tackle until the Left Guard can overtake him and then the Left Tackle will work up to a 2nd level defender (the Sam in this case). The slot to the playside (Gilliam) is responsible for overtaking the End (get outside leverage and pin him back inside). Gilliam does a poor job of reaching the End and never does get outside leverage of him, but with a chip from the pulling Right Guard (Dodson) the play could have still been successful. What ultimately blew the play up was Matakevich and Giles-Harris actually do a really good job with their zone over-take. Matakevich has great positioning on the Tackle but then just lets him go and works to the second level (either there was a miscommunication on the combo or the timing of the play was off). Either way Matakevich has to stay on that block longer as the Tackle was ultimately the one who made the tackle on the play. Overall the play design was sound vs what the Buccaneers were showing. If executed properly, we had numbers on the left side and should have easily been able to pick up the first down and likely a lot more.

This first play was a set up for the same look we showed later and threw it to Gabe Davis over the backers head.