Thanks I will look at this as well .
I take it that in your opinion the head position of qb is not relevant to confuse defenders and it does not provide timely enough info that the play is not TO. If mlb leaves before mesh, he sure leaves a big hole in middle. No respect for bb dive or counter action
Good off season project.
Truthfully, I doubt that anybody uses the QB head position as a key. I don't want to state this as a fact, but I feel it is true. Additionally, in the case in question, I watched enough plays to know that the MLB wasn't waiting for ANYTHING after AB motion to get to the pitch lane. He was very quick to get on his horse and it has nothing to do with lack of respect for the dive, because that was just a matter of assignments. It wasn't like nobody was assigned to the dive. Under BF, they just mix things up. BF kept the MLB heading to the pitch until CPJ showed he could do something to slow him down, then he went to something else. BF is a good coach. He had a game plan, just like CPJ does.
As we move forward as an offense, we are going to have to come up with an effective answer for the deep MLB and DL holding our chipping and releasing OLs. MLBs running free has been the bane of our existence this season. If we have to use the play side AB to cut him, then the playside AB isn't getting to the safety. It has a domino effect. I am not sure what the answer is, but the man advantage has been negated for us for much of the season by a filling MLB who has nobody blocking him. Traditionally, we have used the playside AB to cut safeties or switch roles with WRs who hit the safety while the AB cuts the CB. Much of what I see from opposing DLs looks illegal but it is simply never getting called.
