Observations from a brief All-22 study

Just a screenshot, but you say Carr had the ball out in less than two seconds. You also said we didn’t attack their primary cover 2 the way we should. If you have 7 defenders over 10 yards deep in well under 2 seconds, that isn’t a cover 2. This is a cover 4 and the reason the middle is wide open is because they have no reason to cover. They have defenders ready if it’s threatened. I admire your study but this may have looked like cover 2 pre snap but it’s not at all. I see nothing wrong checking down here. What I wish they would do is throw to Kamara on option and in routes. At least 3 or 4 times if he is going to have over a dozen targets. They cover that then things open up over the top.


what we need in that screen shot is Kamara short across the middle drawing one of the inside defenders and a slot digging if the defender bites. 2 on 1. Where that red circle is drawn is falling for the bait, imo. Both safeties just waiting for it. They have no outside responsibility cause corners aren‘t covering the flats. They are going as deep as the outside threat.


I realized it's a Cover 4 look later in the thread, they played mostly Cover 2 and Cover 4 with an occasional Cover 3 look, they seldom if at all went into man.

Mike is definitely looking for that ball in the void but I realize now White is just going to continue his drop since he's watching Carr. Like Rouxble said, this actually should have been checked out of with how far back the corners were playing.

I do agree, if we're going to call 4 verts from empty sets we should at least create a high/low concept and make White have to choose. Kamara could have run a simple drag and if White continues his drop then throw it underneath and he'll have a little room. At the very least it's taking 5-6 yards as opposed to because we're getting it to him in stride with a little room as opposed to him having 2 defenders swarming to him as he catches it standing still behind the LOS.

Regardless, we didn't challenge the middle of the field the entire game regardless of whether it was a cover 2 or cover 4 look. I find the Kamara option routes to be advantageous particularly if they're in man, but there needs to be a seam threat if it's going to be effective versus some of these zone looks that we're getting.