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Originally Posted by RunKC
On the 2nd drive after Spags beauty of a blitz getting Watson a sack, he set up the same damn blitz look. Tua saw it and changed the play to a protection.
Spags call was that similar look but it dropped everyone and the play ended up being 7 vs 3 on the back end with us dominating.
Shortly after they shows Spags smiling  |
I mentioned it about a month ago before we got Omenihu back that Spags does really fascinating things with his alignments to create pressure. Not just the stuff that's obvious to us like the blitzes or even the twists/stunts. But the way he uses shades and then the way he chooses to feign blitzes to create headaches in the protection calls - it's just cool as hell even when it seems like vanilla 4-man rushes on its face.
Then against Miami you saw him do some of those same things but also combine them with the blitzes (the CB blitz early being the most obvious example) to just completely mind-**** the QB. I mean he baited Tua into simply calling the wrong protection with some of those slides and by isolating Jones.
And times when he only sent 4 he'd make it look like he was sending 6-7. And on the fumble at the end he sent (I think) 7 but WANTED Tua to know he was sending 7 to try to rattle him, IMO. I mean NOBODY disguised anything there.
It was an absolute masterpiece. Everything he did was perfect. It was a culmination of a dozen different things that Spags will show on occasion but all rolled into a single gameplan that made life absolute hell for Tua.
I honestly don't know how any QB could've dealt with that defensive gameplan on Sunday. Mahomes would've struggled like crazy with it. It was as brilliantly done as anything we've seen from Reid on the offensive side of the ball.
And I didn't like the hire one bit. But man has this guy been a godsent the last couple of seasons. Truly one of the best out there and he's pretty unique in his approach (as opposed to just being another Fangio acolyte). I'm not sure if he'll ever get the kind of credit that someone like Dick Lebeau got - I think LeBeau made the Hall as a coordinator, didn't he? But I'm starting to think that he just might deserve it.