dallascowboy wrote:Very true. Blitz pickup is horrendous. The first few games they didn't come after us much partly because they didn't know what we'd do on offense and partly from Matt Davis' ability to scramble. The adjustment was to bring an extra guy or a "green dog" late blitzer and that kind of gave us fits. Now teams know going in that they're going to bring the house and see if we can handle it.
I think the scheme doesn't really call for the Oline to pick up blitzes though. In the Air Raid offense they are usually built into the play as in having hot reads or options. Either the QB isn't making the right read or the scheme is just bad. Hard to tell but it isn't working whatever the case may be.
Hot reads probably aren't going to happen on a delayed blitz - it isn't exposed until the original route is being run. From a playcalling standpoint, you want to call quick slants into that space, or hold the H-Back and RB in the pocket to block and open up the deep ball, or run a middle screen to take advantage of vacating the space. I'd like to see the middle screen.
dallascowboy wrote:Very true. Blitz pickup is horrendous. The first few games they didn't come after us much partly because they didn't know what we'd do on offense and partly from Matt Davis' ability to scramble. The adjustment was to bring an extra guy or a "green dog" late blitzer and that kind of gave us fits. Now teams know going in that they're going to bring the house and see if we can handle it.
I think the scheme doesn't really call for the Oline to pick up blitzes though. In the Air Raid offense they are usually built into the play as in having hot reads or options. Either the QB isn't making the right read or the scheme is just bad. Hard to tell but it isn't working whatever the case may be.
Hot reads probably aren't going to happen on a delayed blitz - it isn't exposed until the original route is being run. From a playcalling standpoint, you want to call quick slants into that space, or hold the H-Back and RB in the pocket to block and open up the deep ball, or run a middle screen to take advantage of vacating the space. I'd like to see the middle screen.
True, but green dogs usually occur once the RB or Hback doesn't come out so the blitzer gets out of coverage and comes late. I saw HCCM check out of plays when he saw blitz so I'm guessing it's for draws or short routes to get the ball off quicker. The interior Oline definitely needs to get better though. If a guy comes up the middle untouched it's hard to run anything.
dallascowboy wrote:Very true. Blitz pickup is horrendous. The first few games they didn't come after us much partly because they didn't know what we'd do on offense and partly from Matt Davis' ability to scramble. The adjustment was to bring an extra guy or a "green dog" late blitzer and that kind of gave us fits. Now teams know going in that they're going to bring the house and see if we can handle it.
I think the scheme doesn't really call for the Oline to pick up blitzes though. In the Air Raid offense they are usually built into the play as in having hot reads or options. Either the QB isn't making the right read or the scheme is just bad. Hard to tell but it isn't working whatever the case may be.
Hot reads probably aren't going to happen on a delayed blitz - it isn't exposed until the original route is being run. From a playcalling standpoint, you want to call quick slants into that space, or hold the H-Back and RB in the pocket to block and open up the deep ball, or run a middle screen to take advantage of vacating the space. I'd like to see the middle screen.
On at least 2 of those CD blitzes in the USF game the receiver points at the CB creeping in towards the line and ran a short route. Davis either didn't see it or didn't understand it.
