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Originally Posted by RunKC
This one isn’t much better either..
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Boy, that play will take more time to unpack than I'm gonna give it; mostly because I kinda think I know what I'm seeing there but I'm not positive.
Is that an RPO? Or just a really cleverly designed PA pass? Because the entire OL down-blocks so you can see Fuller and Hitchens both kinda take themselves out of the play. Fuller gets stuck in the wash and Hitchens is just too slow to react to the play-fake and get upfield to disrupt the rhythm.
Clark seems to first be going 'with' the run, squeezing to his left and treating it like a run play to close up the gap and potentially maintain a new edge. If that's a run play and he tries to freelance it (jump outside and get after the passer, for instance), he could create a massive cutback lane so credit to him for really engaging his guy first. Then he diagnosis the play action and by then it's too late.
I won't put that play on Clark. That's mostly on Ward for getting beat by a single move and then just being outrun to the spot. Clark did what he needed to do given that the OL was showing run. Be it an RPO or good play-action design, the down-blocking from the OL fooled most everyone there. Ward needed to do his job there and Minshew probably checks down to the guy squeezing out to his left there for maybe 6-8 yards.
In either event, that was a well designed play and I think there were yards there whatever the case ended up being. You just sure would like to see that not be 60+ in that spot.
EDIT: Yeah, I dunno - I really think that's an RPO given that Lee came across the formation and his first step was to block. I'll remain open to being educated there. Fournette seemed to give up on the mesh pretty quickly for an RPO but it's possible he was just making the same read as Minshew and knew what was going to happen so he was trying to get out in the pattern. Dunno really but I don't think Clark did anything wrong there.