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