OZ into the boundary?
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The reason it's a popular audible is because more often than not, the defense will load the field side of the LOS, since the offense has more room to work over there. If I saw correctly, the Jags' DL shifted towards the field right before the snap as well. Just a good, not great, playcall combined with a lucky break.
Right as I finished typing that, I found an example of Iowa running it very well. I don't know if this is an audible since the video lacks the pre-snap reads, but you can see OSU's DL oriented towards the field, leaving the 1-technique and a DE in a 7-technique to the short side. Counting the center, since he'll pick up the 1-tech so the RG can climb to the second level, and the 2 TE's, it's essentially 5 vs 3 (2 DL and an LB) on the right side. That, combined with the safety dropping back before the snap, allows for a pretty good numbers advantage, and it shows, as Coker almost gets to the endzone untouched.
IAHAWK1982
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This used to work pretty well for I
Why it works for the Patriots and other teams is because that when they audible, one you don’t really know they are changing the play and two you don’t know what play they are changing to.
This used to work pretty well for Iowa in the past, but if you now notice in games that the opposing defense will commit their strength to the wide side/formation strength and then Iowa will audible to run short side/weak side. Defense then will on the snap slant to the weak side and backers will come hard to LOS because there is no misdirection in look to this play other than the bootleg pass which most teams also know and will defend pretty well. It just isn’t as effective as it once was.
Why it works for the Patriots and other teams is because that when they audible, one you don’t really know they are changing the play and two you don’t know what play they are changing to.
homes
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My sense is that for every 1 video showing it works there are 20 that shows that it doesn't.
SpiderRico
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The issue isn't running OZ into the boundary....by shear numbers, it can typically work because you can put more blockers than defenders to that side in a quicker amount of time.
The issue is that when that is the call 95% of the time there's an audible, most teams know that and will bait the QB into audibling into that and then just flowing everyone to the boundary side.
The issue is that when that is the call 95% of the time there's an audible, most teams know that and will bait the QB into audibling into that and then just flowing everyone to the boundary side.
