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Originally Posted by O.city
Biggest issue is they don't disguise stuff as much as they should. Not sure why, but you sit in one way pre snap and don't move, you're gonna get torched.
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I feel like they do - they just don't time it very well.
They don't 'deke' all that much, though. When we're sending a blitzer, either the blitzer delays correctly and we catch them off-guard or he gets their early, gives it away....and then goes anyway.
We don't fake that blitz and drop back as much as I'd like; it would make those out of sync blitzes a little more effective because the QB would still have to worry about a zone drop even when a safety comes flying up.
A lot of DCs give their veteran players freedom to make those decisions on their own. Not the 'go/stay' call but the window dressing they put around it. They trust their who's tasked with a middle zone to go blasting 'early' towards the line to make it look like a blitz and then fall back to where they were going to be anyway.
It's possible Sutton allows his guys to do that and we just don't have anyone comfortable enough to do it. It's also possible that he doesn't trust anyone enough to allow it.
As for disguising their basic coverage looks - they did that several times yesterday and just couldn't get their depth properly. They tried to fake a cover 1 look a few times and Parker just never got back. They also had a couple of Cover 2 looks that were actually Cover 1s and Parker got thrown over top of as he was trying to get down for the short routes because it looked to me like Goff just didn't respect it either way.
When I say that Parker got caught in between a lot yesterday, a lot of the time it was when we were trying to disguise looks, at least upon my first viewing.
I reiterate, Sutton is really hamstrung by his safety play, especially when it comes to trying to mix coverage looks. It's really frustrating to me that he won't give Lucas a chance there.