So many times last night I saw LBs creeping toward the line to blitz AR. We were in a 4 wide set and D is showing cover 2.
Why isn't one of the slots running a skinny post to the middle. Their LB is is at 3 yards and won't get back to the middle quick enough. Instead I saw them run a go route against a safety 12 yards deep.
That is failure to adjust pre snap. No checks, no hot reads, nothing.
These MFers get paid millions to do this. If I were 15 years younger, I would sell my practice and go the coaching route. I don't want to call plays or necessarily be a head coach, but given enough time, I can expand my playbook by 100 pages and keep it simple enough a dummy can understand it. FTR, I took Clemsons playbkok circa 2011 from a former player of Dabos, threw out the terminology, and installed half it in 3 days to a JV squad.
I earned my stripes coaching 6 year olds in flag football. If you can teach them at that level, you can teach ANY level.
I have coached with former NFL players, D 1 qb and OLs, numerous d 2 players, and while they can teach technique at individual positions, not many can teach scheme where people understaDabo,
Example. Our QB coach several years ago was a D1 QB who is in his schools hall of fame and 2 time POY. We tried to install his teams passing g off at a high school. The gst is its 4 numbers left to right. So the call would be 13/18 where the left side would run the 13 package and right would run 18. This combo package went all the into the 60s and he expected a hs kid to remember 60 different route combos and at 4 different positions. So, 240 options.
I took a 9 route tree and gave each a number. Now, we can run 9,999 different route combos and all anyone has to remember is 9 route possibilities. Then when you take playside and backside primary look,, because let's admit it, a good NFL qb isn't getting past the 3rd read, focus on one side of the field. The other side is backside. Backside rules could be whatever, but I liked the deep dig and a drag by the slot. QB focuses playside 2 routes, if not there, checks to the drag or deep dig.
The last year I coached with these guys after implementing this, we could run plays in real time in less than 5 seconds from the spot.
Did college teams for qb runs and pro teams for rb runs. City was to the right, mascot to the left. If the caught on, switched to hot and cold.
Its not hard, but most coaches aren't smart and want to make it hard to appear smart.