Originally posted by jonnydel:
Originally posted by 5_Golden_Rings:
I mean Deebo on a HB angle route is taking candy from a baby. And Kittle on a slant, again, pretty easy stuff. Jimmy is 5% of why we won that game. If not for his incredibly bad INT, I'd give him 35% maybe. But that win is because of the defense, special teams, and key runs.
I'm about 99% sure those are option routes. We ran a lot on the day to try and beat the Packers's sticky man-cov.
I remember one of the sacks we lined up in the same formation as Jennings's big OT catch vs rhe Ramsz told my wife theyre looking for Jennings. Jimmy looked there and the Pack had excellent coverage on both Jennings and Kittle and Compton got billed over.
The pass to Kittle, they started to work option routes over the middle. Thats why you see the ball come out after the break, Jimmy was waiting for Kittle to make his love.
In the Deebo option, looked like we were running an interference play to the right, it got played well, then looked to the option to Deebo.
I doubt the Deebo route was an option route because: (a) every time Jimmy throws the Texas route, he looks to the other side of the field first, which would only be happening
that consistently if he was actually just looking off the coverage over the middle knowing full well he's throwing the Texas; and (b) because Mitchell went to the flat and Kittle ran deeper to get that high-lo situation. If it's an option route, where was Deebo's option to? To go the same place Mitchell went? It makes much more sense to me that Aiyuk was a "glance" on his slant and Deebo was the primary target. About the only way I'd see Deebo as running an option route is if he had the option to sit.
The 2016 Falcons playbook (assuming the one online is legit) had similar plays but no option for the angle route. For example these:
Usually these kinds Texas routes are the primary, and they're usually the type that you scheme open; and if they aren't the primary, they are hot depending on what the defense does.And lastly, I thought I read earlier in the year that Shanahan simplified the offense (which would entail fewer option routes).
Either way, it's still candy from a baby. Not a linebacker or safety in the league can cover Deebo.
The Kittle route was possibly an option route, although he did a double move, so maybe not, because the fake to the outside might make the QB throw it there if the two aren't on the same page, resulting in the ball going one way and Kittle going the other.
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I don't know why that matters, though. Jimmy completed both of them.
