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Here’s why coaching helps lift talent & why Miami is winning despite not having great depth. The early punt block vs LA: Kavon Frazier at the bottom of the formation - #35 on the 0 of 20. Runs from covering the gunner to back into the middle. Nothing too strange about that......
But watch Brandon Jones, 3rd round rookie on the 35 yard line. He’s the QB of this specific play. Watch him lift his right foot like a QB sending a WR in motion. Instead he sends Jomal Perry in motion which confuses the Chargers, allowing Van Ginkel to block the kick. Coaching.
Here again, this time DC Josh Boyer. Miami have thrived on the cover zero blitz all year: trust the best CB pairing in the NFL in Jones & Howard outside & play no safeties. Vs Herbert, they didn’t do that. Instead they flooded the secondary with DB’s: six minimum on every down...
On this blitz, here’s how you confuse a high flying rookie QB. Come in expecting the cover zero? Instead you get nobody with their hand on the ground and an amalgam of players at the LOS. Some could come, none could come, left, right, centre? 3, 6, 8. I wonder Herbert was lost.
And finally, just individual coaching work: Watch Raekwon Davis here at NT engage, stack, shed & crash into Joshua Kelly to make the tackle. Godchaux out, Wilkins with Covid, lot of pressure on him to step up. Absolute textbook here from a raw rookie. Miami’s coaches are working
