As I mentioned in the final Kellen Moore submit, I’ve watched a lot movie on the brand new Eagles offensive coordinator that I’ll flip all of the clips I recorded right into a sequence of posts, fairly than only one lengthy article. Each one will give attention to a number of totally different features of Kellen Moore’s philosophy. If you haven’t checked out final week’s submit then please learn that earlier than this one!

Part 1: Run Game, PA Naked Bootleg and Motion

Last time I spoke so much about tendencies, we checked out numerous numbers. We will discuss movie this week and take a look at three areas that stood out to me when watching Kellen Moore’s move sport. There is just one place to begin…

Handling the Blitz

The Eagles’ season collapsed as a result of they couldn’t deal with the blitz. It is kind of unimaginable simply how dangerous they have been towards strain final 12 months. If you have been to remove the blitz, the Eagles’ offense was completely advantageous. It ruined the Eagles’ season and positively pissed off the hell out of all of the gamers.

You can argue that the Eagles’ greatest precedence was selecting a brand new offensive coordinator who may plan for the blitz. Well, I’ve excellent news. Kellen Moore’s movie towards the blitz may be very promising within the video games that I watched. And the stats again me up.

So, what does Kellen Moore do towards the blitz? I’m sorry to disappoint however, he doesn’t do something radical. I feel his groups are very properly coached and so they do the fundamentals proper over and over. If you expect to examine a model new revolutionary offensive strategy towards the blitz that can blow your minds, then I sadly can’t provide you with what you need. But I can present you what teaching employees can do to arrange a crew to face strain.

In quite simple phrases, Kellen Moore’s groups are well-coached to have quite a lot of scorching routes or built-in solutions to strain. If you’re a correct scheme nerd like me, please take a look over a number of the performs within the Cowboys’ 2021 playbook which proves that Moore is concentrated on dealing with strain.

I received’t bore you with the specifics, however almost each play seems to be just like the one above. You will regularly see the phrases ‘Hot Built-In’ or ‘Bandit Build-In’ (Bandit is a sight adjustment telling the receiver to regulate their route and get open shortly if an additional blitzer comes from that aspect). If you wish to get higher towards the blitz, you’ve gotten to spend so much of time getting ready for it all through the low season. You have to have solutions on each single play to numerous strain. It takes time. It takes preparation. It takes consideration to element. You can see the solutions on movie.

Firstly, such a play is what you see so much on movie. You can see that the quarterback and his receivers are on the identical web page. Moore’s offenses didn’t try to take deep pictures towards strain just like the Eagles tried to do. They simply saved the chains shifting by throwing into the realm that was vacated by the blitzer. Football will be easy generally, can’t it?

The different factor you are able to do is design performs that provide you with an perception into what the protection could be doing through the use of shifts and movement. The Chargers right here use shifts pre-snap to determine the zone strain look and Herbert throws into the aspect bringing the overload. Also, Moore’s offenses weren’t afraid to go away backs and tight ends into block if wanted. The Eagles have struggled with their operating backs in move safety the previous couple of seasons and that is an space that they should deal with.

You can see a theme, can’t you? Simple throws, the place the quarterback and receivers are on the identical web page. It seems to be simple, however these things takes numerous preparation.

Everyone can get a little bit too obsessive about scorching routes, and the fact is that generally constructing an offense with a wide range of routes at totally different depths can present numerous solutions towards strain. The secret is giving the quarterback simply sufficient time, which implies no free rushers! Even when the Eagles designed performs towards strain final 12 months, they only couldn’t maintain up in move safety as they have been outnumbered.

Quads/Trips Formations

One of the most important issues I seen from Kellen Moore’s offenses was the usage of quads and journeys. Get able to see numerous formations subsequent 12 months that isolate one aspect of the sector. AJ Brown goes to like this offense. He’s going to be remoted so much and moved across the formation so much. CeeDee Lamb is a celebrity, and I feel Kellen Moore goes to attempt to isolate AJ Brown like he did with Lamb.

I really like seeing the usage of quads formations and ‘fast 4’ however the actuality is that these things solely works in case you have a receiver that may win these one-on-one matchups. AJ Brown can win one-on-one matchups.

This stuff occurred so much within the movie I watched. Quite a bit. If Jalen Hurts actually ‘can’t throw it to the center of the sector’ like some folks consider then we’ll discover out this 12 months.

It seems that Kellen Moore’s been doing this for just a few years too…

If you wish to get actually excited, Kellen Moore has additionally lined up offensive linemen in journeys to run display performs. Jordan Mailata blocking out in area? Sign. Me. Up.

Vertical Shots

Listen, you didn’t actually assume the Eagles have been going to rent an offensive thoughts who didn’t wish to push the ball down the sector, did you? I do know a few of you’re fed up with an strategy that focuses on explosive performs, however everyone knows that explosive performs are very important for an offense to succeed. The situation with the Eagles final 12 months was that many performs felt prefer it was explosive play or bust as a result of they might be vertical pictures to a lined receiver, and we might merely hope that the star receiver would come down with the soccer. Moore’s offense is just not like that.

Moore makes use of a number of totally different formations to try to create explosive performs. His Cowboys’ offenses weren’t afraid to take numerous vertical pictures. They did it in a barely totally different solution to the Eagles final 12 months although. The Eagles would use isolation routes on the surface to throw go routes to make the most of one-on-one matchups. The Cowboys and Chargers used extra ideas akin to Mills, Post-Cross, or Double-Post Cross like under to try to get gamers open. This labored so a lot better with the Cowboys as a result of they might use the run sport to get a protection to be aggressive towards them. Please, go and skim the first article I’ve written on Moore as a result of I’m going into numerous element on why the important thing a part of his offense is the run sport.

The Cowboys line up under with 12 personnel and pistol so the protection is considering run.

This is a magnificence. The performs are sometimes properly designed and you’ll see that there’s a built-in reply to strain if the protection blitzes. When I consider the Eagles going vertical the previous couple of years, I consider go routes and 50/50 throws. I didn’t see that from Kellen Moore’s offenses, however as all the time, this could possibly be all the way down to personnel. I noticed numerous deep crossing routes and posts, fairly than straight-go routes, to create explosive performs. These double submit ideas are actually good towards the quantity of split-safety coverages we’re seeing at the moment. Note the late shift and place of the receiver right here to create exterior leverage from the cornerback… we spoke about this at size final week!

That’s all for this one. Next time up, we’ll take a look at just a few extra options of Moore’s philosophy and I’ll additionally summarize my private opinion on the rent when it comes to positives and negatives.