Originally posted by Midbay:
Thanks Jonnydel. Excellent as always.
Hear a lot about how Dallas will try to disguise the defensive looks but you mention Shanahan dictating to defenses. Does Kyle scheming tend to limit the range of things defenses can reasonably try?
Absolutely.
Quinn likes to run c-1 man on early downs - at least he did vs WAS and TEN. Against TB he would make it look like C1-man a lot on runs downs and then back out into various forms of 2zone. invert-2, tampa-2, 22 zone. They were leaning in to Tampa bay and Tom checking to throw vs MOFC looks because Tampa Bay is not good running against 8-man boxes.
With Kyle, you run c-1 man on early downs he's going to split McCaffrey out wide and put Deebo in the backfield. Do you really want Anthony Barr or Vander Esch covering Deebo in man-coverage on a choice route? Do you really want a corner playing inside on run downs? He'll put Quinn in a bind on early downs to play zone and then test the rules of coverage and alignment.
[ Edited by jonnydel on Jan 18, 2023 at 10:29 AM ]