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The Titans screen game was haunting x.com/billbarnwell...

one among many reasons I continue to cope about how “bad” Ward’s year was

Derwin James welcoming Chimere Dike to the NFL

hiding the safety rotation is all fun and games until you get caught rotating away from the play and your LBs are out leveraged with no help

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Todd Bowles defense only really works if they are dominant in run defense on early downs. Without Vea I don't see how that's remotely possible

Matt LaFleur manufacturing explosives w/ formation GB in 12p, but go empty and split out the back into the boundary with the two TEs. Both WRs to the field with #1 outside the numbers. Strength into the boundary makes the pole runner open to that side; FS has to bail and pay respect to #1 deep

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Not necessarily, though I don’t think his arm is good at all. But I don’t think he should have thrown the deep over here anyway. It’s covered, like you said. He made the right throw here, just missed

now if Tua missed short, then I’d be more willing to say Waddle falling was an issue because in that case him falling would’ve meant he couldn’t come back to the ball in time

Tua’s already throwing by the time Waddle hits the ground for a second, and the throw still needs a tighter trajectory because of where the corner is playing. Play is designed for this to be open and the QB overthrew it

next layer of the same concept: boundary WR runs a deep comeback, QB can't drive the ball to get it there

it's a touchdown-to-checkdown design and the post runner clears the entire right side of the field for the deep crosser. every team in the league runs some variation of this

I wager Justin Herbert tries to throw the deep over behind the weak S who is put in a bind with the #1 running a corner route

I wager Justin Herbert makes this throw

Mike McDaniel was just doing shit man. this looks like NFL Gus Malzahn

the slop division

EVEN WEIRDER: if my TruMedia scouring is correct, the only other instance I can find of a team going 100% first down run defense success rate in two games vs a division opponent in the last five years is … the Titans doing it to the Texans in ‘21

even if you include scrambles, there’s only one successful play for the Titans offense: a 20 yard scramble in the week 11 game

random offseason data find: the Houston Texans faced 18 first down runs vs the Tennessee Titans last season (not including scrambles). they had a 100% defensive success rate on those plays