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Originally Posted by Megatron96
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.
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That’s just not true.
He is not a prop, and running that same exact play, that receiver has gotten the ball in other game circumstances.
It depends how the safety plays it.
Which is why Allen does the shoulder fake (to pull the safety).
I’m talking about the Bills play, I haven’t seen the Chiefs play you’re referring to.