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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Uh, just informationally, yes, you can.
Andy Reid has designed plays where Mahomes has done that to take advantage of zone coverages or rookie DBs before.
I didn't even know about it until early this year, when an analyst on YT (Krueger or Kohlmann or somebody) made note of it in one of his videos. During the game it looked just like Pat made a read, twitched his shoulders and then moved onto the next receiver.
But when slowed down and looking at it from the opposite angle, it's pretty clear that Patrick was never going to throw the ball at the first receiver. He just did that to get the LBs and the rookie DB to bite, so he could really throw the next guy open. Part of the reason you cold tell was that his first read (Conley I think) wasn't even looking when Pat did that shoulder twitch. He was still running with his back to Mahomes at that moment.
And the analyst mentioned that Andy wasn't even the first person to come up with the idea. Apparently Dan Marino did stuff like that. Whether it was actually scripted that way was unknown to the analyst, but he had a clip of Marino doing it way back when.
Just some contextual information for your all's conversation . . .
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In this case, both receivers are the 1 read or region read. But Allen is checking the safety. The shoulder roll looks interesting but it will have no effect on the safety. Allen doesn't even bother reading the full region as you can see his head move to cheat towards where he can watch for Diggs to cross. JC Jackson is in trail coverage but is watching the QB instead of fully mirroring the WR and this allows enough space for Allen to complete the pass.
Every Diggs TD in last night's game was intended for Diggs from the get go.
Nothing wrong with it. Hell, Denver should have Lock watch Jeudy most of the time.
It is something that KC will mess with if we play Buffalo again. It's not unique to Buffalo. This is the college game taking more and more space in the NFL.