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It has been discussed before but I don't recall this point being made about the two fade routes that were called on the goalline. In my opinion, they were excellent calls, more so for future games. It would have been a tremendous call had R. Williams caught the freaking ball, but I digress.
Go back and review the two plays. Essentially, you should notice the corner backs were playing an inside technique, virtually cutting off the ability to run the slant of the none 30 yard variety.
. By alignment, the defense is dictating to the offense, and more times then not that is an early win, especially when you are fighting for any advantage in the tight confines of the redzone.
In my opinion, both fade calls were viable calls because of the following.
When we start hitting on these fades and I am convinced that we will (there are too many factors that are in our favor not to), it will force the opposing corner backs to play more head up technique. In addition, the safeties instead of playing more aggressive on the run has to be cognizant of threats over the top, i.e. corner routes and fades. This will give us more room to dictate run or pass, which would put even more pressure on the defense during pre-snap and for the matter, their weekly game preparation.
Right now, they are taking away the slants and the running game by virtue of alignment. In order for us to continue our run dominance our offense have to start dictating the defensive alignment.
Now the converse of all of that is being good enough to run regardless of alignment. That is all fine and dandy in the short-term against certain teams but that won't be the case going against all teams, especially in the latter part of the season.
For example, when we play the gents again or the iggles I want our offense to at least have the advantage of alignment, which is a major win in the redzone. The bottom line is the seldom talked about subtlety of alignment can mean the difference between scoring with the ball by just breaking the plane of the goalline or falling short by 1 inch.
Go back and review the two plays. Essentially, you should notice the corner backs were playing an inside technique, virtually cutting off the ability to run the slant of the none 30 yard variety.
. By alignment, the defense is dictating to the offense, and more times then not that is an early win, especially when you are fighting for any advantage in the tight confines of the redzone. In my opinion, both fade calls were viable calls because of the following.
When we start hitting on these fades and I am convinced that we will (there are too many factors that are in our favor not to), it will force the opposing corner backs to play more head up technique. In addition, the safeties instead of playing more aggressive on the run has to be cognizant of threats over the top, i.e. corner routes and fades. This will give us more room to dictate run or pass, which would put even more pressure on the defense during pre-snap and for the matter, their weekly game preparation.
Right now, they are taking away the slants and the running game by virtue of alignment. In order for us to continue our run dominance our offense have to start dictating the defensive alignment.
Now the converse of all of that is being good enough to run regardless of alignment. That is all fine and dandy in the short-term against certain teams but that won't be the case going against all teams, especially in the latter part of the season.
For example, when we play the gents again or the iggles I want our offense to at least have the advantage of alignment, which is a major win in the redzone. The bottom line is the seldom talked about subtlety of alignment can mean the difference between scoring with the ball by just breaking the plane of the goalline or falling short by 1 inch.
