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Originally Posted by daquix
You just learned about QB’s doing that this year? ��
That doesn’t make it not a read.
If, for example, Allen had Davis streaking wide open, he’s not going to just do the shoulder fake and then throw it to Diggs.
He’s going to throw it to the wide open Davis.
A read is simply the first receiver a QB looks to.
The first defensive “read” he makes in correlation to how a receiver is being defended.
A 2nd read is the second receiver a QB looks at.
A 3rd read is the third and so
forth.
Just because Pat planned to throw it to X receiver the whole time, doesn’t mean that Y receiver wasn’t the first read.
PS, you reallyyy love YT analysts it seems.
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No, you misunderstand me.
I didn't know that
Andy schemed such a play for Mahomes as early as 2018 until this year.
And you don't understand what I'm trying to say about the play design.
In that design, the first receiver is never actually a receiver. He's a prop. It's misdirection designed into the play to manipulate the defense into hesitating/driving/whatever to create a window for the real receiver (2nd read). Kind of the same thing as running a fake screen with a T and a TE with no RB to draw the eyes of the LBs, while the real receiver is running whatever on the other side.
Actually, Andy schemed up exactly such a play against BAL this year, I believe, where he ran a fake screen with the RB, that Patrick faked a throw to, and then flicked the ball to Kelce a few yards upfield and about 90 degrees North of the fake RB screen. It was obvious even during the in-game replay that the whole RB screen in the flat was a complete ruse. There was no read there; they were play-acting for the benefit of the defense.