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EmbedZach Dunn@ZachSDunnFollow
Sean McVay is a genius. A thread detailing another reason why he's the best offensive coach in the league right now.
The Rams come out in a common formation of theirs - Bunch Rt 'X' Book. They're in this formation probably around 1/3 of their plays & they do so much off of it.
The Rams run a handful of plays off this same formation, and motion from the 'Ze' wide receiver. They run the Fly Sweep, Wide Zone Y-Sift, Wide Zone Weak, Screens off of the Fly Sweep and Wide Zone action, a multitude of play-action off it. Seattle knows this.
Seattle decides to defend this formation w/ an 'Over' front while rolling the Strong Safety down into the box over 'Z' receiver in the bunch and play 'Cover 3' behind it. They want to use the backside curl/flat player to play the fly sweep, and not move the LB's too much.
The Rams run the fake Fly Sweep, fake Wide Zone w/ the Y-Sift, and set up for play-action. Seattle is expecting this. The Rams show it every week and hit several chunk plays off it. But this week McVay added a twist too it, knowing how Seattle would play it.
With Seattle in 'Cover 3', the weak curl/flat player takes the fly sweep. The Rams use this to pull the curl/flat player out of a throwing window. He bites immediately w/ the chance that this is a fly sweep. The next great thing McVay does is put the 'X' WR on a "Read" route.
W/ the condensed formation, there's a good chance Seattle is going to play their corners off the line of scrimmage & w/ outside leverage. The "Read" route allows the 'X' WR to read the leverage of the corner. If he plays off & over the top = 20-Yd Stop route. Pressed & even = Go.
In 'Cover 3' the responsibility of the hook/curl players on play-action is to with the crossers. McVay knows this. As soon as the weakside hook/curl player sees the play-action he turns to the 'Z' WR, who he expects to try and run a crosser across the field. A common concept.
So McVay puts the 'Z' WR on a "Deep Whip" route. Meaning he runs like he is running a crosser to 15-Yds deep & puts his foot in the ground & either sits in the zone or returns if he's matched. The 'Z' has occupied both hook/curl players while the fly sweep occupied the curl/flat.
Thread concludes:
View: https://twitter.com/ZachSDunn/status/1063325106284449792
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Commenters point out that McVay went into the wayback machine to pull up a Wing T play against the hawks:
View: https://twitter.com/FB_FilmAnalysis/status/1062105979922264065
