Film Room Getting through the summer - Spring Game Slow Motion Play by Play #1

[Longestday]

I will be doing a daily slow motion from the spring game (if this generates conversation and some interest).

 

[ilovetheoption]

Looks like a botched read, to me. Looks like lee was trying to get to the 2nd level and Freeman squeezed down super hard, which to me means that should be a pull.

VT likes to squeeze their ends down like this, both to lock up the tackle and prevent him from cutting down the LB's and to confuse the dive read.

Cooper also airballed his block on the MLB, so even if the right read had been made, this play was likely going nowhere.

 

[alentrekin]

Unless TQ had pulled quickly and pitched off AJ in the alley -- could have been TQ/Qua 5 yards with CB to beat.

 

[AE 87]

On Defense, we had 8 men in the box. It looks like we had AJ Gray move up on the level with the 3 LBs (Lewis, Mitchell, and Alexander) of our 4-3 personnel. I think someone said that we ran our base 4-2-5, but this looks like we weren't running base 4-3 or nickel.

I agree with @ilovetheoption that the play appears to be an inside veer with a bad give read.

Green got after Victor pretty good. Brant played off the Cooper's block pretty well. Terrell Lewis made the big play by staying home. Mills did a pretty amazing job of resetting the play, and it looked like he might bounce it outside. However, Lewis took away that path.

 

[Longestday]

Look at what the left A-Back does... normally that means a called dive. I think Freeman and AJ are the reads. Freeman pinches Lee and holds back a little... this can be a give call at times. If Mills goes outside of Freeman and AJ over-runs to the outside... this could have made better yards.

There is a similar play latter and Freeman's arms are not strong enough to stop Mills.

 

[flea77]

FYI. The defense knows the plays , they hear the coaches . They also know the calls made pre snap by the QB and OL It's a scrimmage. It's not a game. Never judge a season by a spring scrimmage. You can watch ind battles but the game is meaningless.

 

[ilovetheoption]

Look at what the left A-Back does... normally that means a called dive. I think Freeman and AJ are the reads. Freeman pinches Lee and holds back a little... this can be a give call at times. If Mills goes outside of Freeman and AJ over-runs to the outside... this could have made better yards.

There is a similar play latter and Freeman's arms are not strong enough to stop Mills.

Huh! So the read there is "give, and bback hits it hard as hell outside"? That surprises me.

 

[Longestday]

Oh I am not sure... that is for sure.

 

[Fatmike91]

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[alagold]

A classic misread (unless it was a flat-out called bback dive), if the ball went outside there was minimum of 5 yds. And like Flea said, the DEF has seen that play before a few times--hmmm. Another big reason the DEF looked ok in the game.