And that's why your safety, both of them at the same time, shouldn't but jumping at a half assed fake PA and leave him in one on one on the deep post. Our safeties are NOT WELL coached and if the are continuing to make the same stupid mistakes then bench their sorry azzes. They ran that play twice and hit it twice because the safeties failed to do what the name calls for.....keep the deep part of the field safe from the big play. The first time they jumped the PA(first off. play of the game for A&M) and when they needed a big play again, the ran a crossing route, and of course the safety jumped that route and left Marco..again...in man on the deep route.
We were in cover 3. The CBs and FS have deep third responsibility. Not sure what they are doing underneath with the LBs as I haven't rewatched and studied it, but when rushing 3 (insane), they are dropping 5, which should be 10-15 yards and getting depth. It looked like a scramble underneath. If the MBL drops to 12-15 in the middle, the W and S drop to the hash at same depth, and the SS and N drop to the outside, and the FS doesn't bite on the deep dig, this play doesn't work unless you have an unbelievable throw to the dig.
On the left side, Spurrier used to run this play all the time. One player caught so many TDs off it he renamed it after the player. Can't remember his name. I put it in my play book and it scored almost every time we threw the post. Here it is. I call it 19. Works against ANY zone coverage not dropping 8 in coverage. Outside R runs a post (1 route), slot runs a 12-15 dig (9route) route right in front of the FS. On the backside, slot runs a shallow cross or drag route in front of the LBs (keep LBs from dropping as deep) and backside R runs a hitch to outside trying to hold the CB that side.
In cover 3, I know FS and CBs are in deep third coverage. If the FS bites on the dig, (deepest guy in HIS zone), I throw the post over his head. If he keeps getting depth, I throw the dig route. If I can hit the dig route coming across, the DB to the side R is going should be behind the CB to that side since he isn't dropping as deep because of the underneath stuff.
We can't play defense and I am not sure our players understand how to play defense. There is nothing ocmplicated about any of this stuff. Play your zone and it works. Our biggest problem is we have too many guys wanting to make plays instead of do their job.
