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this is from the same thread. i also bolded the part where he talks about how minnesota used goff’s tendencies against him. he sounds like he knows what he’s talking about anyway!
los angeles lenny
When I share this tidbit of info let me validate it by my playing experience and who taught the class: West Hills College: Coach Clausen (his sons were Jimmy Clausen, who played for the Bears, KC Clausen who I believed played for KC)
Northern Arizona University: Andy Reid, Brad Childress) Mesa State College: Donnie Holmes: receiver for CardinalsThis is the cumulative beliefs from this group.
Keys for the receivers:
Presnap read: work smart! know where the play is going and what where you are supposed to be. give yourself space to work in.
1) when you line up you need to distinguish what defense and coverage they are in.
If it is man to man coverage- these are the rules: you need to run precise patterns in a timely fashion, your pattern will include more straight line or precision cuts, you have to get into the db so you can get away from him, as you break you lean into the db and use his body to push off or go the other way to create separation. you explode off your first step at the line of scrimmage.
2) if they are in zone: the precision of the pattern is not important, the spacing is important. your job is to find a seam, gap, window in the zone. your pass patterns are rounded, sometimes delayed (because you are allowing the defense to clear out and then you go where they vacated.
Does everybody remember the Super Bowl when Peyton Manning was yelling, Omaha. He is doing a presnap read, Omaha: cold mean, audible, blitz, man to man or zone coverage.
The receivers have the same thing: when they come to the line of scrimmage they could place their hands on their waste (meaning) I am in man coverage I am going deep, or they can let their arms hand which means 10 yard cushion, throw me the ball. The point I am trying to stress is there is a ton of communication going on at the line of scrimmage by everybody.
When I say Sammy is not a natural receiver, he excels at catching, running, getting of the ball. But rule number one: you have to be your QB’s best friend. There are many times when he is running routes he is open early and not feeling the coverage. He is running the route and not taking what the D is giving him. There is a difference between breaking off your pattern and running yourself open. I am not a tech savy guy so I can not show you what I am talking about, but he does not feel the coverage or exploit its weakness. and yet he is still open a lot.
With Goff, I feel he looks early and then if it is not open, he fixates on the crossing route or the back in the flat. I wish he would look the free safety off, and then go backside to Sammy.
McVay runs a lot of misdirection, motion to assist the QB with the coverage (or pre snap) reads. Minnesota took the tape on Goff, took away his running game, and used his tendencies against him. What ever side he runs to: look for the man underneath or the back in the flat. That is why he was throwing into such tight spots. If Goff ever throws to his backside receiver to make the FS play honest it will get back to looking like everybody is wide open. Sammy needs to feel the coverage and make himself big. You can tell where the ball is just by where the defense is, you do not have to look back at the QB.
I said this at the 49 er game, put Sammy in the slot and get him the ball. He is one of the most explosive athletes on the field, good things will happen.
if there’s one good thing you can say about kroenke, it’s that he’s a patient dude. even if this season hadn’t been the wild success it has been, i’m pretty sure he would have given mcvay and snead awhile to build this team the way they wanted.
I think Havenstein did ok against Clowney in the second half.
i also seem to remember some of the damage clowney did was against guys like kupp and higbee. which was probably not the best idea.
