The Ultimate NFC and AFC Championship Preview

NFL CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND – Josh Norris and Hayden Winks check out the two nail-biter matchups and storylines of 2024 NFL Conference Championship Round. Heavy focus on the trenches in both games. Can Lamar Jackson avoid the Spags blitzes? Will the stud Ravens D-Line control the game? Can Jared Goff handle the pressure going on the road? Brock Purdy’s hands will be the driest they’ve ever been.

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17 regular season games two weeks of playoff action has led us to this point Lions versus 49ers Chiefs versus Ravens Hayden it’s here it’s beautiful it’s Championship weekend we have two Elite quarterbacks on one side and then two of the most well-rounded skill groups that

You can kind of put together on the NFC side and we’ll we’ll call a Super Bowl wow Hayden just starts off with the biggest backhanded compliment you can give to the NFC um okay as we always do we will go team by team player by player and really matchup by matchup with both

Of these teams uh in order of each each offense having the football and we’ll kick things off with Chiefs versus Ravens 44 and a half total in this game Baltimore at home favored by three and a half points this is 3 o’cl on Sunday Hayden in 96 career games how many do

You think that Patrick Mahomes has gone into kickoff being underdogs four well that’s very low 11 11 games in Patrick mahomes’s career where he has been the underdog he is actually eight and three in those games we will first though kick things on over to the Ravens

In because we know they’re projected for a healthy amount of points in this game when the Ravens have the ball hayen what do you expecting to see from them a little bit of everything this is like one of the most unique offenses to talk about just for example last week they

Used six different Personnel groupings which meant different types of wide receivers a fullback multiple running backs multiple tight ends they ran 11 personnel 19 times 21 Personnel 18 times 12 Personnel 11 times 20 Personnel eight times they multiple tight end sets multiple fullback sets they throw everything at you they could run the

Ball with Lamar Jackson they can run the ball with uh justice Hiller Gus bus they can also play action you to death they’re good in the screen game so this offense is basically bulletproof because they can attack you in so many different ways at the same time on the Chief’s

Defensive side Steve Spagnola also has a bunch of ways to attack you they’ll stay in man coverage they’ll play in two shell but I think the big thing what Lamar Jackson has to focus on this week is beating the blitz because Steve Spagnola loves to Blitz you at Elite

Rates and Lamar Jackson has been pretty up and down throughout his career against the Blitz and uh Nate Tyson from the athletic and Yahoo uh Sports he noted that when the Chiefs do Blitz uh they lead the league in the percentage of their blitzes still in a two high

Look which means that you’re still GNA have uh defensive players yeah deep coverage but also eyes on the quarterback versus blitzing and man coverage where you’re running away from them so they don’t get scrambled on against the blitz so that’s like the one little wrinkle but it’s really hard to

Prognosticate exactly what the Ravens offense is going to do because they can literally do just about everything yeah few notes there one Todd monin is 57 years old as we’ve talked about and as you’re seeing throughout this hiring cycle it’s a young man’s game at offensive coordinator even though at

Playall caller even though in this game it’s Todd monin versus Andy Reid and they are absolutely two of the best another note and we will talk about the Ravens defense they are considered the most multiple defense in the league with their looks it is so cool as you

Outlined that the offense does the exact same thing now to that pressure and Blitz rate and how has impacted the Ravens you only have to go back to last week’s game I think against the Houston Texans to see and this is via Gordon mcginness of PFF Lamar Jackson the first

Half of last week against the Houston Texans he averaged 3.9 seconds uh it’s time to throw or Sack or scramble 83.3% of his dropbacks uh was 2. six seconds or higher time to throw right and that was because he was getting blitzed he was holding the football and

Then he was trying to find receivers down the field I mean they Texans defense sent six not five six or more pass rushers on 11 of his 22 attempts last week then the second half as has now been widely reported even by Lamar Jackson himself he went to Todd monin

And said okay stop holding on to the football I need to stop doing this let’s give the football quickly in the second half two and a half second average time to throw and then just 36% of his dropbacks were with 2.6 seconds or higher time to throw so I love that even

Half to half we get adjustments that they know what they’re doing because many teams throughout the league can’t even do that week to week and we get it kind of quarter to quarter here with the Baltimore Ravens yeah and self-awareness from Lamar on knowing exactly what’s

Going wrong as well yeah the coaching on both sides of offense and defense in this game is phenomenal it’s that two high shell look with the blitz Lamar Jackson on 18 attempts with those two things together which is what the Chiefs I think will do a ton in key situations

This game he has a negative EPA so it’s hard to find negative EPA stuff with Lamar Jackson because he’s so uh Dam good but this is one way that I do think the chief’s defense is going to try to figure it out the other thing with Chiefs defense uh they can really tackle

In the secondary they are so physical out there so that I do think that they’ll be able to contain Lamar Jackson a little bit better than what the Texans were able to do uh last week as well but there’s only so much you can do just

Because they have so many answers to the test um one note on the the Ravens offense one of the answers was not Odell Beckham last week though he only ran eight routes last week that was way behind Z flowers who’s a full-time player Rashad baitman who’s basically a

Full-time player right now but Nelson Agar was even ahead of Odell Beckham and I think that this week one of the answers will be more two tight end sets because they get Mark Andrew back you know they were already playing Charlie Kohler their second string tight end for

51% of the snaps card counts as a fullback in a lot of measuring sticks out there right and he’s a fullback or a tight end he can or L yeah maybe maybe he’ll be a future president who know the most versatile player in the NFL at this

Moment I love and arms for for for days truthfully so um it will be baitman and Zay plus Mark Andrews and Isaiah likely primarily um and not Odell Beckham which is kind of curious because we thought we were saving him up for the entire season they gave him that $5 million contract

Only eight routes last week okay I have a couple notes Here the Chiefs did run the fourth highest percentage of dime snaps in the NFL this season 23% I mean 23% is kind of astronomical when you think about it and in those dime looks you get those two

High shells I do want to point to what Lamar Jackson did against two high looks last week against the Houston Texans because it was a bit of everything um early on we got a couple scrambles here and this is just super decisive seeing that the middle of field is wide open

And then just gallops for you know a 20 plus yard gain later on we get it once again decisive sees the middle of the field open nearly runs it in for a touchdown and then Hayden it doesn’t just stop with scrambling we then also get designed runs out of it because once

You look at the wide receivers in this pattern it definitely looks like a passing play but then if you look at the interior pieces it is almost certainly a quarterback draw on top of it and then Texans I mean throughout the game you know they try to change their looks we

Get to a true single high look and then this Ravens offensive line is so dang good and then the pieces where you get Patrick rard who can act like A6 offensive lineman sometimes the obviously the running back sayyan and Chip as Hayden said you might get Isaiah

Likeley or Charlie Kolar or even Mark Andrew sitting in there because they can switch up their personnel grouping so often and that just allows Lamar Jackson to also stay patient and when you have a quarterback who if he sees the middle the field wide open can run for 20 yards

And then also say wildly patient for six seconds and allow um Odell Beckham to create separation over the Middle Field or Rashad baitman to do it too like you’re in a no- win situation there defensively and then just finally this point Patrick Ricard is here at the end

Of the offensive line I mean this is I guess technically 21 Personnel since Ricard is treated as a fullback and then you also have a tight end on the opposite end but how many fullbacks tight end whoever can just sit there and block an edge rusher one-on-one and this

Is just what having a player like this and we joke about Patrick rard but having a player like this can do to your offense because you can treat him as a six offensive lineman we’ve also seen him in the flats we also see him in mesh

Near the goal line I mean how Todd monin has weaponized a 300 pound fullback speaks to again how multiple this offense can be yeah truly remarkable stuff and then even looking at their running backs they’re multiple there what what’s happened in this last game it was Justice Hill he was playing most

Of the passing down situations Gus bus he was out there for both of the goal line reps he got stuffed on one Lamar Jackson had a bootleg rushing touchdown on the other but we have more confidence gusb Remains the goal line back and then dvin cook he played nine snaps I

Wouldn’t pay attention to most of them yeah eight of them came in garbage time uh and then the other note here in the second half of the game when the Ravens really started to take off on offense Odell Beckham ran one route in the second half Nelson agilar he ran 15

Routes so it was almost like a benching of some sort who knows about about the Personnel it’s an offense that’s fairly hard to predict on a week- toe basis just because they are multiple and like you said these coaching staffs they’re going to be playing this cat and mouse

Game going into halftime things will look completely different because on both sides of the ball when the Ravens have it uh it’s just going to be a complete coach off totally okay let’s slip on over when the Chiefs have the football what do you expect to see because at

Least to me when I think of kind of the old Chiefs the explosive Chiefs I bet many of you instantly jump onto tons of wide receivers on the field that they spread it out and they try to attack every single blade of grass but close to 60% of their snaps this past weekend

Were multiple tight end sets 12 and 13 Personnel so we talk about adjustments it certainly feels like the Chiefs understand that okay Rashid rice is the only wide receiver that we can truly count on now on top of that you do get one or two Splash plays from mvs or

Justin Watson in order to win games but really what we’re at our best now are these multiple tight end sets it’s Travis Kelce it’s Noah gray it’s whoever else you want to throw out the Blake Bell whoever else right um and Isaiah pcho being a foundation piece so Hayden

If this powerful Personnel grouping is here to stay for them is that enough to beat this Ravens defense the hard part is the Chiefs historically are throwing the ball underneath and kind of over the middle of the field because they don’t have the downfield weapons right now they’re 26 in their

EPA on these downfield passes they’re attempting those downfield looks 15 plus air yards downfield at the 24th highest rate it’s just not part of the equation now where the Ravens are really good on defense is everywhere first of all but they can really tackle over the middle

Of the field if you haven’t heard about their linebackers plus Kyle Hamilton who plays in the box or in the slot for a lot of his reps they’re third best protecting the middle part of the field so what the challenge is going to be is either you’re gonna have to get yards

After the catchability from Rasheed rice and Travis Kelce against good players at preventing those type of looks or have to throw the ball to the outside real quick though on targets uh that aren’t over the middle of the field and within 15 air yards the easy little passes that

Patrick Mahomes completely usually hits he has a 112 passer rating over the middle right there everywhere else downfield to the perimeter all that stuff only an 85 passer rating so that’s a big difference here so you’re going to have to try to find some answers and

Right now I’m with you I think the answer is gonna be run the ball and use Noah Noah uh Noah gray and more tight ends out there because we can’t just trust these wide receivers against this unit you mentioned it Chiefs are actually second in the League this

Season in Yak per reception and it makes sense those passes over the middle of field to Travis Kelce especially to Rishi rice on those drag routes and then also screens that they do try to run to the outside I will add the Ravens are fifth best in the league defensively in

Preventing yards after the catch per reception so you’re going against the strength with the strength of your team and again we talked about how multiple this defense or this offense can be the defense is the same exact thing not just in their coverage looks but also just

Who was on the field at the same time because they do run that if you want to call it Big Nickel whatever you want to do with you know Marcus Williams Gino stone at the true safety spots and then Kyle Hamilton can go there or Cal

Hamilton can work back to one of the true safeties and you put in I believe it’s Arthur Mallette um at a true nickel spot and he was fantastic at blitzing CJ Stroud last week so gives you all these different opportunities to cause confusion create Havoc look at pre- snap

And post snap I will add that as much as we love CJ Stroud he is no comparison to what Patrick Mahomes is in terms of an Off Script mover who can diagnose while holding on to the football to the very last second Patrick Mahomes is the best

In the league at it even in the Super Bowl that they lost the Tampa Buccaneers where he was getting pounded into the turf every single snap he was giving his offense the best chance to succeed by holding on to the last millisecond he will probably have to do that in this game

And I think the passer ratings that you outline middle of the field versus out wide is just down to the Personnel groupings because as frustrated as I have been with the Kansas City Chiefs all season long that has not been an indictment on Patrick Mahomes because almost throughout the entire season he

Has played at an elite level every single game it is more that the Personnel pieces either look slow at times tight end uh do not hit the same Effectiveness as they have in the past they just aren’t in the right place they aren’t doing the right thing they aren’t

Doing their jobs and that has impacted them significantly now in the last two games has it no and so in a now four game stretch could it run perfectly and pure yes and that is what they are banking on I just think that they haven’t faced a defense like this they

Certainly have not uh they are getting cadarius Tony back but potentially if that moves the needle you can take the M Hardman stuff out and maybe give it cadarius Tony and then we have a whole new way to screw things up exactly it’s the what can go wrong wide receiver

Rotation but at least the funniest thing Hayden about the mik harman thing is I know everyone can say oh they kind of dominated the bills because they would have been up by even more points if M Harman didn’t fall off the end zone okay you’re also the Kansas City Chiefs that

Have been this way and so a mistake like that is not surprising because this is who you are it is but what’s so crazy about that and this is just Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs throughout his career I mean these are insane EPA numbers the last two games 3 7 against

The Dolphins 57 against the Buffalo Bills just to put this into context Lamar Jackson had .15 EPA per dropback this season he’ll win the MVP off of that in M Patrick Mahomes 16 games in the playoffs he’s gone above that 13 out of the 16 times and he’s been on

Absolute heater so it’s been all Patrick Mahomes these last two games buying some time and dumping it off out there but this is by far his most difficult challenge so I think this one will be fairly close I can see this one being a little bit lower scoring but I think

This game is going to be fantastic because of the two quarterbacks and the two defenses and basically the defensive play callers on top of this so I think this can be like 1721 kind of in that range I’m not really expecting the 35 31 firework show but I think this is going

To be one of the best games of the entire season no doubt about it I want to reiterate Isaiah P’s name because I think he is incredibly important on top of that Joe tuni is playing with a PEC strain um if I can just list he even

Plays if he even plays if I can just list the Baltimore Ravens defensive lineman uh Michael Pierce is 350 pounds and apparently hit 15 miles per hour while chasing CJ to the sideline last week yeah we know Justin matab has been unbelievable this year and he’s built like a boulder Travis Jones massive

Player coming out of Yukon Javon Clowny straight line awesome run Defender so again a significant strength and what they have to lean into with this team has been running the football just a big question if they can do that once again but because of that Hayden if we can

Build or start building a pickham lineup here I think Isaiah Pacho at 63 and a half rushing yards is is higher is what we have to do because of what he’s done in recent weeks I mean it’s 97 89 130 so I think even in a loss Isaiah P can get

There for 63 and a half rushing yards I think just to let Patrick Mahomes breathe he’s gonna have to get a bunch of carries out there because it’s it’s so much of the past attempts are just momes creation and I think that would get certainly tiresome at some point so

Would you rather do the 14 and a half rushing attempts um I think I’m yeah I’m pretty neutral on either one of those I think the rushing yards is probably my lean here um the other one that I had in this game that I’ve played is uh Odell Beckham I

Took his lower on three and a half targets just because he didn’t see the field and I think that’s only going to get worse with Mark Andrew out there that’s not a lot of targets but I mean it’s 20 and a half receiving yards as is

Higher that is nothing yeah but I I want the lower on the targets because he’s just he he was on he ran eight routes last week he basically didn’t play in the second half and then um Justin Tucker the lower on the two and a half extra points if we especially in this

Kind of Pacho rushing yards one um I think it’s going to be a very neutral game and I can see the the Ravens scoring 20 or 23 points off a lot of field goals but not necessarily the touchdown so I’m just expecting the 17 to 24 kind of range for these two two

Teams I hear what you’re saying about Odell being demoted last week I will add that the narrative that you and I had walking into this playoffs was that they had been saving him because he was playing about 57% of snaps every single game Harbaugh the coaching staff he

Himself had kind of said that the entire season MH so I don’t know if I want to totally chalk up that you know he’s only going to be limited to 15 routes this week all I know is last week in a playoff game it was going into halftime

It was basically tied I forget the exact score and they said no more Odell Beckham so that’s I don’t know Lions versus 49ers one of my favorite stats every single year Red Zone touchdown success rate these are the top two teams in the NFL this season who have actually

Haen been even better over their last three games so for the season the 49ers and the Lions converted about 67% of the Red Zone drives into touchdowns last three games the 49ers are up to 70% last three games the Detroit Lines are up to 82% um 51 total in this game the 49ers

Hayden are actually favored by seven points when we start with them on offense what do you expect to see well well I just think back to the Red Zone point just in general these are the two teams that could run the ball in a variety different of ways so they can

Kind of pick their poison in terms of matchups out here um but when I’m looking at the Lions defense there are some very obvious mismatches against the 49ers first of all just using EPA the lions are 27th against the pass they’re fourth best against the run and one of

The reasons why they’re so good against the run is because they’re not afraid the Lions defense that is to put more linebackers on the field one problem when there’s only four DBS on the field uh Brandon iuk turns into an absolute Superstar and this is just what happens

When you have these play action looks how many times have we talked about these in-breaking routes over the middle of the field these post routes off of play action where Brock Pie has an open pocket and just absolutely dialing passes into bruk he’s averaging 4.6 yards per route run against 4 DB looks

And what I think is going to happen here Shanahan’s going to get Kyle euse cheek on the field get that second tight end on the field especially if Debo Samuel isn’t going to play and he’s going to DARE the lion or the the Lions to use a

Third linebacker out there and then play action them to death so George KD brand Nuka 2 the best players in the entire league against play action the lions are really bad at defending that and I think this is the exact kind of matchup where I who I’m typically been a little bit

Hesitant with brand crowning him all the way there I want all the smoke I can give with these stuff uh for this week I am a bigger fan than Hayden is of Brock pie um Brock py played like crap last week in fact worse than crap he was

Awful I think you can chalk that up to weather and I understand that people get so frustrated when hand size is brought up during the NFL combine and draft season I don’t think it’s a standard that it impacts everyone equally um who have certain hand sizes because I

Actually think grip matters and like how they hold the football because you can do it different ways uh I think it was very clear that it impacted Brock Purry last week and then that almost indecision of being able to grip the football properly then made him more

Indecisive and late on some of his throws with that said Brock py will not play as poorly as he did last week I am certain of it I am certain of it now Debo Samuel playing or not playing is significant here I think he got in a limited session here on Thursday no

Matter what he’s going to have to play through pain and as Hayden says who knows how much the beaver tranquilizers can actually help him with that shorter issue but he was going to be massive last week as Greg Olson suggested and if that’s the case he can be massive this

Week even if he might not be as big of a part of the game plan heading into it right what he brings the table is like simple receptions then turn into explosive plays and game-changing moments you know we saw it against the Philadelphia Eagles defense where it was

A six-yard slant that he just broke one tackle and ran through the middle of the field you also see these by the way the first three snaps if you go back and watch um last week the 49ers did that motion with chrisan mcaffrey where was like a strafe motion and almost put him

Out to the numbers and then on the opposite way they would have Debo Samuel and so it’s basically hey we got two ball carriers out there so whichever side we have the numbers advantage or going to P it out to that side and win and we have to catch and no offense can

Really have that and bring that to the table when you have two players with the ball in their hands and the entertainment the electricity that they bring in Debo and CMC so obviously a uh Aiden Hutchinson’s like the guy to watch on the Lions defense but they have a they have a

Really impactful rookie linebacker who will have to be on his absolute best behavior talking about those type of looks that you’re talking about just because there’s so much misdirection this offense you’re have to find Christian mcaffry out in space you’re going to have to be worried about the

Play action over the top because they will throw the ball over the middle of the field so to me this is a lot to ask for for the Lions on the road to go out here and stop this defense which I or this offense which I really do think is

Kind of built to beat this type of lions defense just because their play action offense is basically as good as it can be I think you’re gonna have to have some random turnovers in your favor if you are the Lions here like an Hudson tip pass some type of fumble that you

Know we are not accustomed to here because yeah if everything the weather cooperates then how Kyle Shanahan and his play calling cooperates here um you have to fear four players with the ball in his hands now even if it’s without Deo Samuel you still have three and

That’s better than so many other offens I think Jan Jennings is like decent enough just yeah but I mean it’s not huge difference but like he’s he’s a NFL starter in my mind for sure interesting I believe he’s a restricted free agent or some type of free agent what he what

Jan Jennings does bring is just total toughness to a team and he can fill in with some of that run blocking I wouldn’t be surprised if Debo can’t go if we see some of the screens manufactured to Brand auk who has always been a yards after catch threat he’s

Just not as much featured in that area as Debo is because again Debo is on this roster yeah I mean I just really love this team I will be shocked if we see Aiden hunson matching up with Trent Williams often right I think that in order to try to create those turnovers

They will try to force him either against the right tackle or some of the interior looks that we see from Aiden hon but at the same time when you have Trent Williams on your team you can leave him in isolation you can leave him in one one and then basically have four

Other offensive linemen blocking three other rushers yep I I think the Lions need to get Brock py interceptions here that’s that’s the key well then let’s shift on over to what the Lions have to do offensively and Hayden if we just go back and look at where Jared G and Ben

Johnson attacked the Tamp Bay Buccaneers last week it is all over the middle of the field they pinpointed spotlighted that part of the defense and said we are going to win between the numbers um that is going to be much more difficult to do when you’re facing off against Fred

Warner when you’re facing off against Drake green law so what can the Lions do this weekend most offenses don’t have the Firepower to keep games against the 49ers close so typically it’s been hard to run on the 49ers but if you look really into the EPA numbers the 49ers

Are fifth best against the pass they’re actually 26th against the run and they’re actually fourth worst in EPA allowed on running back runs right up the middle so that could be the kind of change up here and I don’t even want to call it a change up with the Lions

Because they’re so used to just running the ball with both Gibbs and David Montgomery so maybe it’s less of these passes over the Middle where kind of Fred Warner sits and maybe they just try to actually sit there and run the ball right up the middle the problem with

That potentially left guard Jonah Jackson he’s out and Frank ragno he played every single snap last week but he got rolled up on really bad on the injury report it literally says like ankle toe knee and shoulder for him uh so it’s going to be a tough spot because

Those are the two interior offensive linemen but where the 49ers defense is worse is preventing these downhill runs right up the gut and we have seen the line be able to pound that interesting last week against the Green Bay Packers we actually saw them struggle on outside

Runs these are all pin and pull situations and for all of you that are unfamiliar with those it is like in this case look at davien Wix in the slot um on the line of scrimmage he is basically just going to stand in the way of Nick

Bosa and then we get offensive lineman pulling in the opposite direction Zack Tom is their most athletic offensive lineman and so he’s the one who was pulling out in space picking up a linebacker Corner safety whoever and then continuing it off and it wasn’t just one time it wasn’t just two times

It was three times and sometimes Chase young was the guy who gets pinned sometimes it’s Nick Bosa who was the dude that gets pinned and I went back and watched it wasn’t a ton of occasions this year where we can point to the Detroit Lions doing um a lot of these

Pin and pull looks because as we know that they love to run Duo up the middle they serve bread and butter but when you get p out in space magico Rhino he’s a 6 foot5 337 pound dude who can freaking move yeah and Hayden as much as you and I

Love David Montgomery to me this has to be a jir Gibbs week um we talk about explosives how they change games how it’s difficult to do that throwing the football even though we’ll get to Ben Johnson in this passing attack in a moment jir Gibbs and what he is at this

Moment in comparison to week one week two week three week four he creates explosives for this team consistently and you can also rely on him in pass protection so I would almost think of not 1 a 1B anymore in this back field that to me this week it needs to

Be jir Gibbs as the clear number one and then Dave Montgomery coming in here in certain situations throughout both the playoff games though it’s been David Montgomery like 60% of the snaps and then Gibbs at like 33% % of the snap somewhere in there so they still want to

Rely on David Montgomery but I do agree that jir Gibbs is he’s improved throughout the entire year I went back just look at look at those in between the The Tackle runs uh in David Montgomery his success rate is like 10% higher than Gibbs but even with that

Success rate being higher gibbs’s yards per carry is actually significantly higher than David Montgomery so it’s kind of this yin and yang situation here it is interesting that the obviously laflor knows this 49ers roster basically as good as anybody that they were targeting them on these outside runs but

I do think this Lions offense can do a little bit of everything except kind of win on the perimeter that’s kind of their one weakness spot though Josh Reynolds my guy has been uh popping up here and there uh this last week they used some two tight end sets the week

Before that they were almost exclusively out of 11 personnel so Ben Johnson will have some answers here it’ll be very interesting to see what he dials up I think that this should be a a somewhat running back focused game plan just because I don’t think that like Josh Ren

And and J Mo will be able to like win down the field as much it is shocking to me to see Sam laor moving in the way that he is after the sprain knee or sprain MCL that he suffered a few weeks ago uh he is such a pivotal figure in

This Lion’s off because you know this past week in a playoff game we saw him lining up as the furthest pass catcher out near the numbers frequently and then everything else that was condensed was inside how often do you see that for a tight end end and namely how often do

You see that for a rookie tight end in the league basically being your top outside wide receiver and then just the athleticism the speed that he brings again we talk about fly motion or speed motion across the league Tyreek Hill is the most lik the example of that so

Often the lion speed motion guy is Sam Le Porter to get him on the move and get that gravity because safeties and linebackers or whoever just cannot keep up with him um what I love about Ben Johnson why I think he’s one of the best play callers in the league is his play

Sequencing okay and I just want to show you kind of two plays early on so here it’s shotgun excuse me it’s under Center that we get after a shotgun look out of the Huddle then we get that furthest outside tight end here motioning into being an inline player right post Snap

Excuse me just before pre- snap we see I’m on Ros St Brown motioning to the opposite side this is just a front side run right this is the end of the third quarter it gives the Bucks this look right 15 plays later once again same shotgun then shift to under Center then

We get that same motion by Alan rosate Brown not front side run this time screen to the other side so basically Ben Johnson’s and I understand why people get so upset by you know early down runs and how they’re not the most successful okay well a four yard run

Then sets up a 10 yard pass out of the same exact look and just a little tweak of the end result of it so the fact that Ben Johnson is already and he has been for these last two years sequencing these plays um shows you just how good

He is and it’s going to be very needed against this 49ers defense everyone should go watch that scheme episode with Shanahan versus Ben Johnson Fantastic look at what’s going to happen here do you have do you have any pick them leans or any other notes on this my my only

One and it’s obvious based on what we have been saying and I think again it’s very necessary jir Gibbs just at 47 and a half freshing yarts yeah look for the explosive I I played that I played one with the David Montgomery it was at 10

And a half uh Rush attempts but my favorite one of this game is Jake Moody and this is so on brand for Kyle Hayden we have two games and you want to have two pick entries with kickers on it I’m to I’m totally fine with this because

I’m I I want the lower on Jake Moody one and a half field goals this guy has been erratic for most of the Season I’m not sure if Shanahan’s gonna trust him and on the flip side Dan Campbell is as aggressive as it gets I wonder if Shanahan now will feel

The pressure with Dan Campbell being aggressive and will instead of taking these field goals try to go for it maybe trust his quarterback a little bit more but I just don’t like Jake Moody I don’t like I feel like they don’t trust them and I feel like this is the type of game

Where you don’t have the option to run out your kicker as often as you typically would because it’s time to score some touchdowns okay well then we’re going to end it with a pick four here Isaiah Pacho higher 63 and a half rushing yards jir Gibbs oh you want me

To yeah Odell Beckham lower on three and a half targets I don’t love that one Jamir Gibbs higher on 47 and a half rushing yards and then Jake Moody lower on one and a half field goals made he’s gonna miss one at the buzzer okay I will play that and I will

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