Take a look at episode 35 of Duval Rundown, hosted by Gus Logue.
Gus was joined by 1010XL’s Mia O’Brien for a reside breakdown of the Jacksonville Jaguars’ points on offense. By comparability, how do one of the best offenses within the NFL get probably the most out of their gamers?
“The largest factor is marrying the working sport with the passing sport. We noticed that [from Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay] about five-plus years in the past with vast zone after which bootleg off of the vast zone.
“Now it’s turn out to be much more numerous, and Ben Johnson is doing these things in Detroit too, however a variety of what they’ve turned to is duo or energy or simply ‘working straight at you’ kind runs. With the vast zone, the working again is working laterally at first and looking for a gap to chop again into. While you’re working hole and energy schemes, you’re working downhill and proper on the protection.
“It’s necessary to run these varieties of performs towards these fashionable defenses that run a variety of two-high security shells to strive to remove explosive passes — particularly the kind of explosive passes that the Shanahan-McVay teaching tree was capable of get a lot due to their bootleg system that had a bunch of crossers vast open throughout the center of the sphere. So the best way that they’ve adjusted is, they’re nonetheless marrying the working sport with the passing sport, however as an alternative of doing vast zone to bootlegs, they’re doing a bunch of hole and energy ideas to attract secondary defenders farther into the field.
“It’s fascinating as a result of I believe the Jags have been planning on doing that this yr. However they’re not likely including any new twists or wrinkles. As an alternative, it’s similar to, right here’s a play and execute it. Trevor Lawrence truly threw two interceptions off of the identical play-action move, one towards the Payments in Week 3, one towards the Eagles in Week 10. And so they have been each form of Brian Thomas Jr.’s fault as a result of he didn’t run his route the precise means when it comes to spacing.
“While you take a look at McVay, simply final week, he had a play-action move the place Puka Nacua was moving into movement … when the ball was snapped, he was working in movement behind the road of scrimmage, behind the offensive line. After which he ran in between the offensive deal with and the offensive guard, after which reduce throughout the sphere for a primary down.”
The best way Sean McVay weaponizes pre-snap motion, formations, and alignments is definitely up there with one of the best I’ve seen of any system within the NFL. He could manufacture extra separation for his route runners schematically than anybody, and it’s actually all simply based mostly on understanding… pic.twitter.com/o5QDUUa00P
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“That’s ingenuity. That’s not simply adjusting to defenses, however enjoying forward. That’s being proactive relatively than reactive.
“The Jaguars did have that proper concept when it comes to marrying the working sport with the passing sport, and particularly under-center downhill runs towards these two-high safeties that we’re seeing a lot of within the NFL. However relating to the execution when it comes to instructing it and training it and speaking, not to mention arising with new concepts to spring gamers open, I believe that’s the place it falls quick.”
It’s not nearly marrying the move/run sport… tune in to listen to extra!
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