JT O'Sullivan QB School Video Breakdown of Allen in Week 8 against TB - some very interesting points

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2 hours ago, HappyDays said:

Yeah the design of the play and the concept all make sense and show a good understanding of how to beat Tampa's principles.

 

 

Some teams will also run alternates to this play, especially when facing defenses they know are good at communicating man-cover switches.

 

Rather than having the outside WR slant in, they will have that WR fade up to the back of the end zone.

 

This puts the boundary CB in conflict.

 

If he goes with the outside WR to the back of the end zone, he leaves the fully-running-with-a-headstart Kincaid with an easy catch and TD run toward the pylon (it’s difficult for the trailing defender to catch up to a receiver who has a head start pre-snap - Miami does this a lot ).

 

But if he doesn’t follow the outside WR to the back, and instead covers Kincaid, then the QB has an easy TD to the back of the end zone.

 

Like this:

 

 

Back to the play they actually did run (the rub slant). The Bills actually ran a very similar concept to that play against the Patriots. In that situation, rather than having the RB stationary in the backfield at the mesh point, they had the RB motion, Josh faked the handoff to him during the catch of the snap, and Kincaid got the first down via the rub.

 

The Patriots also passed coverage assignment well, but the difference is the Patriots didn’t dare to play bump coverage. They played 5 yards off.