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Cosell Bucs Breakdown.

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I thought I would start to provide this breakdown on a weekly basis.  Greg Cosell from NFL films is on WFNZ every week and I absolutely love his unbiased takes. He watches 75 hours of film every week during the season and has been doing it 26 years.   He had a good point this week when he was talking about trying to make judgements without watching All 22 and specifically seeing all the route concepts and knowing the coverages behind them.  Without knowing  the coverages you are not making logical opinions. 
 I will take some brief notes from his breakdown of last weeks film and give them to you weekly if I can.  

Bucs breakdown:

Norv is giving Allen a really good designed read gameplan.  If it’s a read he likes he will cut it loose and if not he checks it down. Good compliment to a run based offense. 

He said Allen is one of the best 1st down passers in the league right now.  127 QBR , 71% completions, 9.5  YPA.  Also nice compliment to everyone keying on CMC.

Has done well under center running conventional PA.  Especially bc he sees a ton of single high Safety.

Best throw of day was that 3rd down throw to Wright that he dropped.  Awesome ball placement on a scissors route against a cover 4 concept. Says something about his growth. (Ellis has cool GIF on that throw.)

Allen is not a super high level thrower.  He is good, but nothing jumps out about how he spins the ball. But he says he really likes his accuracy.  Norv needs to continue to define his reads and he will continue  do well.

Our defensive line did a really nice job with a multiple effect stunt game.  McCoy  dominated  his 1 on 1 matchups.  

Secondary mixed man and zone really well.  He raves about the cover 4 subtleties and nuances we ran. He said the zone coverage has developed over the years and it’s not as simple as a man covering an area.  Liked how well we looked doing those things even with Cockrell in the lineup.  (Bottom line Fewell is paying dividends and has brought another element to our coverage). Intrigued by our matchup principles in our zone concepts. Matching up certain guys on certain receivers but still playing zone.  Working well. ( If you notice this year Bradberry isn’t jus to playing one side of the field) He loves how well our front 7 and secondary are meshing right now.  Fun to watch on film. 

He stopped the interview with a little time left and ignored a question to make sure he got this point in.  He said he loves how well Eric Reid played in this game and what he brings to our defense.  He’s is a really good chess piece in our gameplan. He is really active at the LOS.  Really good in the run game.  And the good percentage of his blitzes are really effective.  (These are the views I really enjoy from a guy that knows the game. I see one whiff by Reid or someone and my weekend warrior logic tells me he had a bad game. But a guy that truly knows his poo raves about him.  Keeps me in check) 

Until next week.  Cheers. 

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Cosell also talked about how well we are using 6 man blocking schemes.  Specifically mentioned that we are using more slide protection this year.  Where the entire line slides one way and we use a TE backside. 
This isn’t that exact slide protection but Ellis does a good job breaking down our OL. 

 

 

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39 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Good analysis. Cosell is always good, though.

Ted Nguyen's article in The Athletic is also a good read.

Yeah I read Ted’s article last night. Enjoyed that. Did a nice job pointing out how Kyle doesn’t have a cannon but has nice anticipation for a young kid.  Evens things out for him.  
Also has a good breakdown of that scissors route that Kyle had the best throw of the game.  

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8 minutes ago, Black&BlueBubba said:

Yeah I read Ted’s article last night. Enjoyed that. Did a nice job pointing out how Kyle doesn’t have a cannon but has nice anticipation for a young kid.  Evens things out for him.  
Also has a good breakdown of that scissors route that Kyle had the best throw of the game.  

Nguyen had pretty high praise for his footwork. I took a look at the clips posted and yeah...

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19 minutes ago, Black&BlueBubba said:

Here is that breakdown from Ted Nguyen. Good stuff.  
 

Ted’s Film Room: Taking a closer look at the play of Kyle Allen and Kyler Murray 
https://theathletic.com/1299673/2019/10/18/nfl-film-room-kyle-allen-kyler-murray/

Subscription required of course, though I think they offer some free articles.

And hey, if you're tired of Kyle vs Cam, maybe Kyle vs Kyler will be a welcome change :)

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23 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Seems almost surreal to remember that Mariota and Winston were the # 1 and # 2 picks in the Draft.

Talk about epic failures...

And to grab a guy like Allen off the street can’t be over looked.  And Norv and Scott should get a lot of credit in his development and game planning for him.  
I’m not sure of Allen’s overall ceiling.  But I think we can all agree that he is better than some 1st round draft picks that have imploded out there.
What a nice upgrade in value.  I always get pissed how the Pats are constantly upgrading on the value of under the radar guys.  Glad we are starting to do that.  Even if we decide to stay with Cam and trade Allen at some point down the road it’s a nice buy low sell high scenario.  

 

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