Observations from a brief All-22 study

efil4stnias said

lots of context missing here- What down is this?

very hard to say much of anything off still....but what i do see is Kamara within 1 yd of LOS with no one within 10 yards of him.

Moreover, that line is collapsing and looks like DT already in a stunt move, meaning that pocket you have circled, aint dere in the next few slides.

The issue, as you pointed out in op- isnt so much design, its WHEN the play is called within the context of the game, our drive, down and distance, side of field etc etc. Add to that, PC tendencies are figured out by not only fans, but DCs too.

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It's 2nd down. The play was blocked fine, the stunt was picked up. There's a pocket to step into.

My point in the OP actually had nothing to do with when things were called, because we didn't attempt to attack the weakness (middle of the field) of their defense once regardless of down and distance.

And as far as Kamara at the LOS with no one within 10 yards of him, sure. But we had attempted that all game, they are very aware of our tendencies. They're sitting on that. It's why we had next to no yards passing on the day, because we didn't challenge where they were actually leaving holes in their zone once.