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Originally Posted by Aspengc8
There have been opportunity's to throw down the field, Alex just not taking the shots. Andy likes to attack horizontally instead of vertically, so you get a lot more passing concepts like shallow crosses, dagger, mesh concept..anything with a short crosser and maybe a dig behind it. Makes it easy for Alex to just read one defender. He will flood the sideline but never takes the deeper read.. usually always throws the receiver guy running the arrow (either a RB or WR). He is also a big fan of double slants, curl/flat, stick and tare concepts which is why it seems like Bowe is always catching a curl/hitch/comeback. Theres nothing wrong with these concepts- they are universally run throughout the NFL. Problem is KC does not try to stretch vertically with the exception of Kelce/Fasano running a seam. Why no smash concepts? Hitch/corner? Because that is a long throw.. too long for Alex to trust himself. The distance to throw a 30yd seam route is not the same as a 30yd corner route.
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Agreed.
I'd love to see this concept Weis used quite a bit while with KC. Ideally have Bowe as #1 (although interesting if you used Kelce) with whomever you wanted as #2 (to really sell the horizontal stretch, I think splitting Charles/Thomas out would be fun).
