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Texans Quick Fixes for the Offense Starctor Miles, Miles, good morning,
more than how's it going, gents, We're good, buddy. What's
on your mind?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well? This is my first time calling in, but I'm
also a season ticket member, and I'm so I'm when
I'm watching the games. There's honestly some simple things that
can be done. One of them, which is a predictability
uh on on play call in and if I'm sitting
out in the bleachers, I know this play is coming
because you know certain people in positions. You know. If
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I know it, I know that the other teams know it.
So for a case in point is whenever number thirty three,
I think it's a goomble when he comes in, it's
gonna be passed. If they take mixing out and a
goomble while come in, it's a pass. Yeah. I mean
it's almost every single time the offensive line wise, they're
getting trucked over. I mean when when you see him,
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they some of them don't even know who they're supposed
to blocking. So my fix would be one, if we're
struggling already on the offensive line, which we have been,
and folks on all the block all right, if they're
doing great in practice, okay, great, but then the time
for game day they're falling short, well, then you might
want to go ahead and have them guys a little
bit of a short lease and kind of rotate some
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folks out, put a little pressure on them. Maybe you
might find something, I would say, trying to help on
a double team, but they keep listening double team as well.
There's just a lot of small items attention to detail
wise they're not doing. I mean, can you can tell
the players they're called. You got to stop calling all
these plays whether the wire receivers catch the ball behind
the line of scrimmage, because they keep getting stopped unless
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we have Tankdale. And even when tank Dale did it,
we would still get stopped sometimes. But he could. You know,
he had enough quickness and Chillian speed to get around.
But we keep throwing it behind the line of scrimmage
and he can't do anything. And see to the point
now where you know he didn't You can tell he
didn't trust off the line because he's starting to get
footsteps some dark He trying to get rid of that
ball as quickly as possible because he didn't trust that
this the guys in front block them. My opinion, of course.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Thank you, Miles, you're right there. From a season ticket holder.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Watch you can tell he watches a lot of football
and yep, now all those things. At times you do
need to throw the ball behind the line of scrimmage
because you dial it up to work and help the
screen game works at times, you do have to push
the ball down the field and and tendencies are a problem.
And I don't know, say to me, mixing is a
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three down back, and I would he'd be he first
adjustment I make. I'd try to create mismatches. He'd be
heavy in the past game this week, he just would.
I said it on earlier in the week. I fully
would expect it. But I get where Miles is coming from.
I wish the fix was that easy. But I mean
you roll through it and you think, okay, this, this,
this and this, But you can't just drop back five
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and a hitch and throw dig routes, go routes, comebacks.
There's going to have to be you know, you've got
to mix in the slant game where Nico Collins is
a big winner on that. You got to just do
it and put players in position. But can't. You can't
get rid of everything and just be a one dimensional team.
But Miles is right, tendanci has become a problem. And
if tendency shoved now, I don't know what the statistic
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is that when a Goomblewalle's in the game and he
that they're throwing. I'd be interested to see where that
percentage is not necessarily to him, But are you dropping
back every time he's in the game, then then those
tendencies are probably gonna have to change. I'm sure there's
a number in their metrics that's say so. I don't
have that number.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I don't either, I don't even know where to find that.
But I have noticed on a lot of third downs,
especially third downs like eights and nines, a goomble Walle
does come in the game regularly. That's predictability.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Oh yeah, when he comes in, whether it's you liked him,
the versatility of him more. But Joe Mixon is very
good coming out of back right, So if it's a chance,
if he needs a break, if he's so, whatever it is.
But tendencies have to be broken, and you have to
have the guts to break tendencies under pressure circumstance is
which we always lean on a crutch.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Bobby Slowe, the offensive coordator for the Texans, talked about
the challenges that the Chargers defense will present to their offense.
This is the offensive coordinator on the Chargers defense talks.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
About how this tree, you know, you could kind of
see I call it the Baltimore Tree, but people that
have been in Baltimore recently and kind of where that
comes from. That style where there's a lot of split
safety hold and they usually try to disguise it make
it really hard for the quarterback, and when they do
show middlefield close usually it winds up be in some
form of split safety post snap, and they do a
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really good job making it where you can't get a
beat on what they're doing before the ball snapped, and
then they mix that in with pressure and a lot
of offsets. I will say, like, I think this defense
is a little different than some of the other teams
from that tree are, but I mean they do a
really good job keeping things in front of them and
making sure that they don't give up explosives. So you know,
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that's what we think one of our strengths are and
one of their strengths is not and that happen, and
our job is to find a way to still be
able to get those while staying on track, because I mean,
I think I want to say that I could be wrong.
I think their second I know their top five in
at least explosives given out, and like that's that's one
of the good things they knew.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Similar.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Okay, let me that's Bobby Slow talking about pre snap
and disguising, and in the NFL they disguise a lot.
In high school you get coverage, it's usually the coverage
you see pre snap college at times NFL. And Jesse
Mentor has been with the Baltimore and been with Harba
on in the past, and he's, uh, if you remember,
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his dad was a head coaching evers Cincinnati. Dad's been
a defensive coordinator. So he comes from Football Tree and
at Baltimore Tree, there's no doubt there's aggressive and what
he's saying when he talks about split safety. So when
you hear that, we just kind of go through it,
just an explanation of what he's talking about. As a quarterback,
when you come out, the first thing do you locate
when you break that huddle? Find the locate to sayfeties,
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they're gonna tell you, not the corners. You'll scan left
or right if that's what you do defense, but you
check out how the front is, boom, find locate safety.
So safeties are gonna tell me where rotation is. If
they rotate an extra guy down right, why wouldn't I
want to throw left right. I'm talking about so people
understand the basics of how you approach it from a
quarterback standpoint. So when you line up and they're two
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high safeties, split safeties, two high safeties, that's roll corners.
What that coverage does, whether it's two man two zone
where two zone at the top, the five underneath, the
running in two man or two zone, or you end
up dropping the corners black and put back and playing quarters.
They show two and they drop back and they got
quarter quarter quarter quarter, and then it's you can work
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the outside lanes and underneath, but the disguise and when
you go from too high to single middle of the
field close there's a safety even between the hash marks.
You don't want to run stuff in between the hash marks,
at least at him. You want to run seams, the
all verts where you put him in a conflict bine seams.
You want to you know you can get posts. You
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can do you're running posts, dig you're trying to put
him in a bund do I jump into it. But
when you disguise what cover two enrolled corners and split
safeties do, it allows you to get help over the
top and prevent the home run they're taking. They're they're
begging you to say, I'm gonna play It's what Monte Kiffin.
It's some similarities to it, but Cover two is what
Monte Kiffin's Tampa defense did. Everything keep in front of you,
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tackle and let's go play football. And they just they're
not going to give you the home run. Now when
they go single high safety. And what he said, Now,
this is hard to do as a quarterback. You come
up and they say middle of the field is closed,
single high safety, which means another safety is down near
the box or hovering in this hook curl flat range.
And then all of a sudden, they're running a guy
to split safeties from a single high safety. Look once
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in the way you see a single high safety with
a strong safety, you know, ten yards off the line
of scrimmage, eight yards removed to the to the width.
You're thinking, they're not getting it too high with this,
and at the snap of the ball, they're sprinting to
two high, inverted too high and go. Or they'll run
the safety to the corner and take the corner and
run him back to the half field. So they're inverting
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and switching on you. And if they go from two
to single high, single high to two, that's hard to
do for a quarterback. Ball snap boom, oh, single high safety,
you're going to your single high reads and you're running
a bender. You don't want to throw a bender into
a single high safety. You want to throw a bender
in a middlefield open split safeties say do a great
job in their safeties. As we know, Hamilton's as good
as there is in all of football. So the disguise
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on a young quarterback, because you're so concerned about it,
can take you up out of a lot of stuff.
That's why we go pre snap, post snap reads. That's
why your eyes have to before and if you're in
the gun, you're taking your eyes off coverage to catch
the ball. All those things having to play. But you
have to a lot of guys get so comfortable read
pre snap once the ball snap down playing, But what
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if they rotate single high end might read completely changes
from middlefield closed and middlefield open completely changes. I can't
throw a f route in a corner roll situation or
it's an interception for a touchdown. I can't throw a
bender or a middle of the field closed and a
guy sitting right in the middle of the field. You've
seen it, guys said, would you see? So you have
to have posts. Now they test your patience. And then
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when you get tired of throwing the stuff underneath because
they test you and testing and testing, then you know
what you do. You take a shot and you throw
it to a too high safety and he's sent it
over the top for a pick. Or just when you
think it's zone, they'll bring somebody. Talking about the Baltimore look,
they'll bring somebody and the Chargers do the same thing
that Baltimore look when Hamilton and that's where Mentor is
from Michigan and Baltimore brought it. Now you've got to
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Derwin James, who just like Hamilton active the skies. They
will in and Mentor is gonna and it's a little different,
like he said, but they're gonna do a lot of
different things because you have the versatility of a great
safety that can play linebacker, that can cover, and he's
big enough to tackle you and can cover in space.
So they will run. You saw I showed you the
video the other day. James back back and then boom
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comes off. They cover up the slot and he comes
on a kind of an A B gap blitz from
wide comes and sacks quarterback. Matter of fact, force to
turnover and took it to the house. So the point
is that this thing, and the reason I'm using Hamilton
is the Derwin. There's a lot of similarities ones younger ones,
but both active and so they can create a lot
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of pre snap post snap problems. And the Chargers are
doing well and jesse mentor young and aggressive, but they're smart.
They're not going to lend. The Chargers are at the
top of the league in lack of explosives, and Baltimore
will be too. They just don't give them up. And
that's who you're going to face. You saw it with
Baltimore here the other couple weeks ago. You're going to
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see it Charges and the Chargers. Then the problem is
the reason they can do that they trust that they're
four guys can get pressure without without blitzing. And when
then just when you think they're rushing four, they bring
a fifth and you got nobody for it.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
That's going to be the big thing is hou is
the offensive only gonna pick up those blitz packages.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
So exactly right, Well, that's when he said, and he
says millfield close and too high split safeties. That's open
and closed, and every quarterback should start with that as
the midfield open and close. That tells me where I'm
starting with my read. Simple. So when you're at home
and you see two split safeties, keep your eye on
the pre snap post snap on your TV screen. If
they show you a replay, and you'll whoa that disguise.
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That completely changed the quarterbacks read.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
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