One thing I want to address

[lightsout]

So, there are a lot of people saying that OBJ beat Norman deep on that first drive and dropped a TD pass. This is not factual. What happened was a miscommunication/mistaken coverage.


If you watch Norman most of the day, he maintained outside leverage and played a bit underneath OBJ, but within range. Harper was over top and inside shade, and within range. I think either Roman thought man coverage there (so he bailed to the deep middle third to take any inside receiver trying to take the seam or post), or forgot that OBJ was lined up to that side. Or Norman was mistaken and thought he had that bracket coverage all the way. You see Roman come from the middle third late and attempt to catch up as OBJ gets free.

Take that away, and our coverage scheme on OBJ worked wonders when he was outside.

I think him lining up in the slot was largely decoy work. If you watch, the RB was slipping out to where OBJ was lined up pre-snap and eating us up because our coverage was focused on keeping OBJ covered and accounting for other receivers in his vicinity. Nobody had RB accountability.

For this reason, I don't think what we saw today was QUITE as much our coverage failing us as much as it was accounting for a great WR that truly scared us. NY knew this, likely gameplanned with that assumption anyway, and attacked it. We won't see another WR like that in the next two games. We'll play Atlanta the same way we already have had success with, and same for Tampa. Rest easy, guys.

[JawnyBlaze]

Eh, I haven't analyzed the play yet like it seems you have. Seemed to me that Norman momentarily bit on a fake or a double move and that's what caused him to get burnt. Doesn't bother me, it'll happen especially with gamblers like Norman.