Spags does it again

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

That is interesting.

So what he refers to as a 'cloud' I would still refer to as a bracket. I just refer to inside/outside brackets or over/under brackets. I've never heard an over/under referred to as a cloud before but hey, it works.

What really stands out is Spags threw the kitchen sink at our boy. And by and large, he seemed to have the Bengals tendencies really dialed in because he sure looks to have been calling for inside leverage on inside moves and vice versa. But man, he was mixing up that coverage with the only real constant being that someone was always providing help on Chase - Chase just wasn't going to be really sure where the leverage was going to be or how the help would arrive.

That makes those option routes pretty tough and if you don't have Mahomes/Kelce chemistry, sooner or later you'll see the QB just stop looking that way. Not because Chase is covered, necessarily, but because Burrow isn't confident of what he'll be doing on any given route and it's just mentally taxing to try to guess based on coverages that are being mixed up so frequently.

Spags was just locked in. He had their number and flat out won the battle against Taylor.

And he did it with THREE rookie corners and a rookie safety making the plays, given that Sneed went out in the first. It's difficult to overstate how impressive that really was.