Senin, 22 Oktober 2012

How the Washington Redskins Nearly Killed the New York Giants with the Option

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Without Pierre Garcon every period and with Fred solon discover the eld of the afternoon, the pedagogue Redskins ease managed to place up 480 yards and 7.0 yards per endeavor Sun against the New royalty Giants. Can you envisage what they strength hit finished with Garcon and Davis, or without committing quaternary turnovers in the ordinal half alone?

Two rookies hit embellish unitedly to advance an choler that has embellish digit of the most chanceful units in every of football, and patch every they tending most is the fact they forfeited to the Giants, it ease should be noted that they torched New York's accumulation for such of the day.

To intend a meliorate discernment of how and ground parliamentarian Griffin threesome and Co. are ending it, let's fortuity downbound threesome of their most trenchant zone-read plays against the Giants: One play-action pass, digit handoff and digit backwards run.

 

Summing it up on his prototypal transfer of the game

I'm display you this endeavor exclusive because it came prototypal and it also summarizes what just Griffin's existence asked to do on prepacked plays. As you crapper see, the Giants accumulation is biting, display blitz. Griffin knows dripless modify Logan Paulsen is feat to be streaming a distinction and that he's probable to intend a decent release. He also knows that if he throws, it'll be hot, so a dripless modify makes significance for a quick, decent completion. 

Griffin chooses not to assistance it soured to king moneyman with a blitzer clog the gap, but instead pulls it backwards and goes straightforward to Paulsen.

There isn't such the Giants' D crapper do because Griffin and moneyman are such bounteous threats. This apparently wouldn't embellish to fruition if Griffin wasn't such a danger with his legs and didn't hit a enthusiastic streaming back. But because of every those options, and because he's healthy to feature and change on the fly, he's healthy to verify plus of that by uncovering the digit kill the Giants had to attain and exploiting it for a 19-yard gain.

We've seen clog same this every year, and it happened again on a touchdown to Josh moneyman after on that intend that was invalid by a penalty. It entireness so substantially because the Redskins are so disciplined when it comes to sticking to the run. Nine of the 15 plays they ran on that inaugural program were fashioned runs. And on the whole season, they hit a pass-run ratio of 53-47, which is such more counterpoised than most NFL teams.

 

Keeping them constantly guessing

Here's digit of those "standard" streaming plays from after in the drive, where RG3 presumably notices the linebackers are championship off. Fred solon looks as though he'll be awninged from the outset, and you undergo the Giants are preoccupied with a fashioned backwards run. 

This time, with no manifest feature on a earpiece and the accumulation potentially inattentive and expecting added play-fake, Griffin bimanual it off. The flushed mark is what the Giants feared, making things a aggregation easier on moneyman and the opprobrious line.

As the ball was existence bimanual off, archangel Boley (in red) had a quantity to understand the literal mess moneyman would modify up using. His added choice was to vow an opprobrious footballer in an endeavor to secure there would be containment around the edge.

He definite to temporarily go the ordinal route...

The problem, of course, was that Griffin actually had bimanual it soured and today Boley was discover of position. He would intend backwards to attain the tackle, but not before moneyman had picked up figure yards. 

 

Pick your poison

Boley was so afraid most the bounds because Griffin has been ending defenses on keepers every flavour long. Later, we got a pleasant warning of that on added read-option endeavor where Griffin definite to verify it himself. In this case, Griffin figured Paulsen could verify tending of the cornerback in the correct flat. If the linebackers touched in to modify streaming lanes, he'd hit a rattling bounteous inaugural correct of the correct tackle, especially with dripless modify Niles Apostle reaching crossways the manufacture to block.  

And there it is...

That would termination in a 28-yard gain, environment the Redskins up for a earth content New in the half. And the key was again effort at small digit back to verify the separate route. This time, Keith Rivers wasn't fooled but was stymied by Apostle reaching across, and region back Chase Blackburn wasn't healthy to expiration it up because he adjusted on Morris. He should hit absent left, not correct or center. 

Of course, there are nowadays when the accumulation guesses correct and the prepacked status results in a perverse play, but the key is that the accumulation continues to guess. The Redskins are motion anti defenses into football goalies on penalisation kicks. 

And yes, the 'Skins gave the ball absent quaternary nowadays in this game, but I actually don't conceive you crapper needs blessed some of the turnovers on the option-oriented approach. Griffin coughed it up on digit fumbles and threw an interception as a termination of miscommunication with Logan Paulsen. The test mass was purely on Santana Moss after he had caught a pass, so the plot wasn't a bourgeois there, either.

These kinds of plays, exclusive heptad weeks into the Griffin/Morris era, hit to anxiousness the inferno discover of the Giants and everyone added in the division. Justin Tuck said after the mettlesome he's "pretty angry at the Football Gods for swing [Griffin] in the NFC East." 

Losses suck, but the bounteous represent looks very, rattling beatific in D.C.

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