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Jalen Milroe, Snap by Snap: A Preseason Week 1 Breakdown · Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

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Welcome to the Sea Hawkers Podcast.
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I'm your host, Clinton Bonner.
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I am joined by my very good buddy, Mr.
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Adam Emmett out in Montana.
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Adam, we have got some fun tonight for these Flockers, for the 12s out there.
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There is a lot of consternation, a lot of conversation out there.
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Is Jalen Milroe any good at football at all, Adam?
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Yeah, it's interesting.
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And so we decided that we would go through and break down each
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one of his passing reps here.
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And we're gonna go…
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There, there's quite a few of them.
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Yeah.
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So it's not like we're gonna get into them and break down the minutiae of
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exactly what defense is out there, what personnel groupings, all of that.
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Like, basically what we're gonna do is go through these plays rather quickly
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and just see, hey, like was that a positive rep, was that a neutral
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rep, or was that a negative rep?
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And basically, as complicated as we wanna make quarterback at, at times
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and all of that, a lot of it is, like- Are there guys in your face?
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Are there guys open?
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And if the answer is no to the first one and yes to the second one, you should
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be able to find a completion out there.
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Mm-hmm.
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If the answer is no to the, to the first one, it, like, or yes to
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the first one, there's a dude in your face- Yeah … and no to the
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second one, well, good effing luck.
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I don't care if you're Tom Brady- … Patrick Mahomes, like anything like that.
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So we're kinda just judging it on that standard there, and, we'll
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see how this goes, 'cause we're gonna try out some new stuff here.
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And I think this is gonna be fun, because Clinton, I'm not on the socials, I
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don't do the socials really, all that.
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You said you had seen a certain amount of conversation regarding Milroe's
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here, first game here in the preseason.
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Oh, man, it was a gigantic dial.
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A huge, huge spectrum, all the way from he, literally he's absolutely trash and
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he needs to go, which is, like, bizarre as, seeing as, like, he's- Mm … a
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quarterback, he's in a perfect system that will allow him to mature, learn, with
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great coaching, with zero pressure really.
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He's probably, probably not getting into games, because we have a competent
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backup and a good starter, all the way.
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So that was one end of the spectrum, is he's trash and should go now, all the
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way to bro, the dude had absolutely no time, and basically he didn't do anything
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wrong in this preseason game at all.
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So that's a pretty big, cone of, what's the hurricane thing they give you?
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The cone of uncer- Cone of uncertainty, yes … uncertainty, right.
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Yeah.
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So we're gonna, we're gonna examine, we're gonna do the work here to actually
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look and see, all right, is that cone of uncertainty, justified at all?
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Are people being too parabolic on both ends?
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And w- is Jalen Milroe progressing?
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That's also a big thing.
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Year two, is he progressing?
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So we're gonna get into it, but before we do that, remember, like, subscribe.
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Mm-hmm.
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But drop the comments, drop the likes.
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It drives the algorithm absolutely bananas in all the good ways, Adam.
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So let's drive our Flockers bananas in all the good ways.
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Let's dive into this Milroe tape, buddy.
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Take it away.
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All right.
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So kind of to start out with here, like just a couple things to kinda keep in
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mind as, as we're going through this.
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number one, we're gonna do my infinite screen share here.
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Nice.
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But, when I pull up the- the screen mirroring here, and if I just
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hit this button right about there.
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Look at that, it works.
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We- It works … we got it.
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We gots it.
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And I think we're that.
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I'm sorry.
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Yeah, nailed it.
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All right, very good.
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you're gonna see the watermark on, on this, because this is gonna
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be our first time trying this, and I'm not paying for the software
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if this is gonna be a disaster.
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so there's that.
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Also, do be sure to like and subscribe, because there's a good
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chance this gets demonetized.
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Correct.
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so if you like these all 22 things, you know, definitely check that.
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Also, I just wanted to, say to the NFL, hey, NFL,- Look, we are
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not stealing your money because, you know, if you're the NFL, by us
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showing all this All 22, that's gonna get some people out there that might
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wanna be a film junkie themselves to sign up for NFL Plus or maybe NFL Pro.
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And what that does for you, NFL, that equals money, okay?
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So we're not stealing from you.
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We're making you money, so don't demonetize us, please.
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So- I like, Adam, I like that you're showing off your, your
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newly equipped skills brought to us by Video Pencil, of course.
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So, hey, if it's gonna be on screen, might as well treat
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them like, like they are.
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But- There, there we go … beautiful.
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I'm excited for you to give me some John Madden-esque motions
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and everything else here.
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Yeah.
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Let's, let's start.
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So how many…
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Give us the, the totality before we dive in so folks have an
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understanding of the volume.
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How many snaps did, Jalen drop back to pass in this first pre-season,
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pre-season game versus the Cowboys?
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don't know.
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Didn't count them.
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So,- … what I'm gonna be relying on you for is to, as we go
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through these, just keep track of- Okay … plus, neutral, or minus, right?
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And- I have a pencil and I have a pad, so I'll do it.
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Very good.
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Well, this first play that we're gonna talk about here, Clinton, this
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actually was intended to be a run play.
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We got a l- let's see, what do we have out here?
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12 personnel with the two tight ends and one back.
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Arroyo in a short motion.
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We hit snap and then…
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Oh, no.
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Oh, boy.
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Oh, no.
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There- I see something.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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There's Jalen.
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Uh-huh.
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He's on his belly.
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You, do you wanna play quarterback on your belly, Clinton?
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No.
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If you're playing Hungry, Hungry Hippos and you wanna go grab
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that last little pellet- Right
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that's a pretty good position, 'cause I think Milroe's about to do the Hungry
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Hippo on that ball I see there, dude.
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He does.
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He gets out there.
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He reaches out and snags it right there, and so he's got the
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ball there, but that equals boo.
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Boo.
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We hate that.
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That's no good.
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Negative.
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This is, this is a minus, my friend, so th- Okay
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not a lot to talk about there.
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you gotta be able to secure the snap.
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Is that on Olu?
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Is that on Jalen Milroe?
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Hard telling not knowing because they were under center and it's tough to see.
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But- Don't know … that is, we're gonna put that as a negative on Jalen's tape.
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Fair is fair.
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All right.
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So here we go.
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We're in the gun.
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We got Holani in the backfield.
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Looks like we got 11 personnel here, the one tight end with Arroyo at
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the top and, three receivers.
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And so let's see him here.
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He's gonna take the snap.
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Boom.
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We're gonna go one, two, three.
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On the drop back there, four.
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Hits his back foot and he's ready to rip this.
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Where is he going?
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He's looking, to me, Clinton, right down the middle of the old field ski here.
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Mm.
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And,- Seeing the seam, okay.
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If we're looking down the middle of the field, where are we trying to go here?
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Well, that's because he's looking for some more Bobo, and he's gonna come over
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and sit down right over the middle here.
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So we watch Bobo.
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He's on the in breaker.
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And watch- The little bit of anticipation here from Jalen Milroe.
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Bobo is just starting his break right here.
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You can see Bobo just starting his break, and we are just now separating
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our hands if we're Jalen Milroe.
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And if I can get the little dial to work, and ball is out.
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One, two, three, four, boom.
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Ball out, and dink right on target.
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Bobo makes a great catch while getting crushed.
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Past the first down marker.
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First down Seahawks.
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Well, that is a 12-yard gain.
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Adam, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that's a plus in my book, yeah?
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That is a plus.
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Big plus.
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And here's why it's a plus, Clinton.
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Here is the, the end zone angle here, and we're gonna watch here after the set,
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one, two, three, four, yeah, ball out.
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But watch the back stripe of Jalen Milroe's hel- helmet right here.
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Okay.
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Okay?
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All right.
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Okay.
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Watch what he does right after he gets the ball.
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Where's he looking?
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He's looking a little- Where's he looking right here?
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He's looking the, the middle linebacker- Looking up … off to the left a little
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bit, holding it, holding his feet a little bit left of screen there.
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That's right.
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So he's got, he's got his eyes locked on 45 there, and why is he doing that?
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'Cause he knows that Bobo's gonna be coming into this void.
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So what he's trying to do is hold this linebacker right here- Mm-hmm
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to keep that space available to throw the football.
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It works.
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The second he snaps his head, snap head, ball out.
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Boop, and then look at where he puts the ball.
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Nice, high.
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Look where he puts the ball.
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In, away from the, corner or whoever, where that was,-
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Yep … guarding Bobo, but plenty of space for the linebacker.
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No, no time to crash down on that or try to deflect it or pick it
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off, but also high for a target.
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Not high that he can't go get it, and not a murder-death-kill ball.
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No.
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Just simply a nice high ball that only Jake Bobo can come down with.
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He didn't have, and he didn't have to leave his feet for that ball, right?
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Like, there's- Well, Jake Bobo's, like, 6'3", 6'4", so not- Right,
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but why, why are we- He barely, he barely- Why are we jumping?
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you know.
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Why, why are we jumping?
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a little pizzazz.
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We don't need to be jumping.
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A little pizzazz.
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He just- A little pizzazz … take, take a little bit of an extra hit here.
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But we talk about Jalen Milroe, and the big knock on him coming
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out was the accuracy, right?
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from this tape as we go through, you're gonna see, boys and girls, the
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accuracy issue, that's been cleaned up.
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Now we're just talking about ball placement, because there's
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a big difference between accuracy and ball placement.
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Accuracy would be can you get it to Bobo anywhere in his catch radius?
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If you get it to over here, accurate.
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If you get it to over here, accurate.
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But ball placement, man, we're trying to get it so that it's in the
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exact right spot for him to either- Brought to you by Video Pencil.
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Yeah.
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By Video Pencil.
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But, you get the, you get the idea there.
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Perfect.
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Ball placement was excellent on that.
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This is a massive plus for Jalen Milroe.
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Nice.
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And nice zip, right?
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And again, the read, hits the, hits the back, back st- foot.
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Takes one extra beat to let it come open.
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Zips it.
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12 yard gain.
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We like 12 yard gains.
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We like 12 yard gains.
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They're not as good as 21 yard gains as- Correct … Mike Macdonald would say.
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But yeah, that last ball, that was a piss missile, man.
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He threw the- He threw that on a frozen rope, right?
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On a 12 yard gain over the middle of the field.
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All right, so here we go.
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next play.
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And unfortunately the All-22 doesn't give us down and distance
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anymore before each play, which, hey NFL, bring that back.
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Yeah.
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That's nice.
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we'd like to know the situations.
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But- Ooh … here we are under center, back in 12 personnel as we've got,
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two tight ends to start, on one side here, on the strong side of the formation.
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So we got Arroyo in motion, now we're balanced out.
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And one of the other things that we're gonna assume as we
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do this, Clinton, is that we're at a Kyle Shanahan-type offense.
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Yes.
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Or a Shanahan offense.
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That's a pure progression-type offense, right?
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So there is a predetermined this is gonna be your one, your two, your
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three, for the most part, despite what the defense is doing for you.
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As opposed to a read defense, like Kurt Warner really liked to play, where he's
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looking, okay, we've got, you know, numbers over here and that sort of thing.
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I'm gonna read this side first, read this side second.
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So we're gonna assume that wherever Jalen Milroe is, is going first with
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the ball with his eyes is correct.
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Because- I- … he's a smart guy, he's a professional.
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Yep.
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He's been studying this.
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I agree.
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All right.
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So here we go.
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Under center, balanced formation, and we've got play action.
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Nice little play action here by, by Jalen.
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To the boot.
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Play action to the boot.
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To the boot.
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All right.
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So what are we gonna get here?
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So our receiver here on the bottom, he's gonna try- Cody White, he's
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gonna try to get outside and kind of fade to the sideline here.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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We've got, M- Foster Jr.,
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he's gonna be coming over.
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Monty.
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And then, whoever this is here, they're coming, they're coming on an over
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as well, or a crossing route as well.
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So basically we're gonna try to cut the field in half and just have
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two reads here for Jalen because basically it's here and here.
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Mm-hmm.
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This is where you're trying to go.
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So as we're looking, as he's booting off here, we can see Jalen.
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Where is he looking?
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he's looking sideline right now, yeah.
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Yeah.
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He, that, that's clearly his one.
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He's looking at Cody White here, as, as the one, and we watch Cody White.
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It- he's got a zone defender that he's gonna try to get past, gets
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some illegal contact downfield.
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It's not called.
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Who knows why?
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… and then, he gets past the defender and has a step of
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separation for a beat, but you also have the safety drilling down here.
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Mm-hmm.
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And whether that's gonna be to drill down on Foster or if Jalen were
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to throw this ball, maybe flip his hips and try to get in for the pass
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break-up, that means this is dead.
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Like, nothing here.
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So Jalen sees that, and right about here, so just, he takes about another
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two steps after seeing nope, that's dead.
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Goes to number two, which is Foster Jr.,
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and now he's no longer open because this safety had buzzed down to right here.
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Nothing there.
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So then he goes, as he continues along here, he goes to three, which
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is this backside, tight end here, and, wait, d- does that, that
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backside tight end, Clinton, do, do you wanna throw that football?
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from your position, typically not.
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It's, it's a, it's, if you're, you've got a absolute hose, then yes.
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But typically no, I don't think.
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Yeah, so this would be back across your body- Correct … into
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the middle of the field.
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These guys equal bad.
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We- we're, we're not doing that.
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We're not throwing there.
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That's gonna get you in big time trouble when you get back to the QB room.
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So Jalen's been told, "Use your legs.
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Be a weapon."
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He goes out there, runs, picks up about, a quick three yards there.
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All right.
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So the only thing I would, I think people will call out here, where
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whatever grade you give this, is I know the one was Cody, 'cause you,
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you pointed out he's looking that way.
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Mm-hmm.
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But could he have processed to Foster sooner and got, and got something
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with Foster in your opinion?
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Okay.
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So, from the other angle it's a little easier to kinda
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dissect that, but let's see here.
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So let, we got, here's the boot.
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We just faked the hand off, right?
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Yep.
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We're one, two, three steps in- I don't think that Cody White has
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declared one way or another if he's gonna be able to stack this DB.
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Right.
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So now hips are even.
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Even, we're leaving.
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That's what we say with these wide receivers.
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Coming down.
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He also then, right there, that's when he's gotta make this decision
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and see where this safety is.
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And since the safety has been playing so far this outside, I'd have loved
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to get off of this a little earlier.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I can understand why it took a s- a second to get there.
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but because it takes just a beat to get there, then
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you've got- Then it's over.
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Yeah … that other safety driving down- Yep … and now you gotta run.
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So.
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Okay.
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I want, I wanted to get your gauge on that, if you felt like, okay,
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if it's processed just a hair, a hair quicker, could Foster have
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been the guy peeled off as the two?
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It appeared to me that he could be, but also it was split second.
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And once you missed it, you gotta be prudent with the ball and not force it.
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Yeah.
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We can't just play these in real time.
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That's for sure gonna get us demonetized.
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So, like, you gotta remember, all that happened in less than a second.
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Yeah, of course.
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Right?
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but yeah, if he could right here get off of one and get to two,
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'cause I mean- But that's the…
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But this angle, yeah, 'cause that- that's Cody there on the, on the Seahawk, yeah?
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Or is that Murphy?
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No.
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That's, that's, that's Foster Jr.
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Oh, that's…
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Oh, there.
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Okay.
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Yeah And he's not covered.
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Cody's not here.
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All right.
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Okay.
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I got, I got betwixt.
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Yeah.
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Right there, I'd love for him to fire that ball.
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But again, so, so okay, we saw it a couple angles.
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Yeah.
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What, what would you grade this then?
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Because looks like- I- … Foster could've been hit, but…
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I don't know … I've gone back and forth on this, whether it's a, it's a
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neutral or a positive, but, look, man, he's trying to hunt for the big play.
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That's what he's obviously being told to do.
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He's, he's told to go there for one.
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if that's the case, then it does just make it so that it's just gonna
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be almost impossible to get to two in the proper amount of time, with
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as quickly as this safety up here reacted- Yeah … and came down.
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So I'm gonna give this a plus.
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If you guys, feel more strongly that this is a neutral,
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then we can give it a neutral.
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it's up to you, Clayton.
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I'll go plus.
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I th- hey, it's still plus three yards, and I like this angle also showing,
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'cause before from the sideline, it was like, oh, you know, you could gun it into
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that, that third, leaking tight end.
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But here you can see clearly, no, be- beyond going back across your
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body, now you get to actually see the width of that throw.
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And there were dudes there also, right?
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So plus is fine.
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It's not a screaming plus, but it's not a negative for sure.
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So plus is fine.
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It's not…
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It's a little better than neutral, so I'm good with it, dude.
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Okay.
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Very good.
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All right.
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And it was a positive play.
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And really, you know, plus is did you do your job and, get the most out
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of it, you know, for the most part?
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Like, you know, a neutral to me is like- I mean, shoot, I don't know what
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the hell you were supposed to do, bud.
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Like, there's nothing there for you.
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Right.
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So- It's almost like a null, right?
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Almost.
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Right.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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So here we go, next play in the drive, and this is the drive that
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we, get the missed field goal on.
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So we're out here at 11 personnel.
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We're gonna see a lot of 11 personnel out here with, Jalen Milroe.
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And, two receivers to the, to the outside on the left, one on the bottom.
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And so let's see where we go here first.
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So we got a little short motion from a royal return action.
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All right, so we're gonna run a bubble here.
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Your favorite play.
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A favorite play.
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So from a Milroe perspective, clean catch, one step, step
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and fire, bink, right on Bobo.
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In motion, too, for Bobo.
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Like, it…
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No wasted, no wasted time for Bobo.
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He plays it well, but as far as a bubble screen goes, that's exactly the best…
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He placed it exactly where you possibly could for what you're
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being asked to do in this play.
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That's right.
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Now, this, this could go for a long-ass ways.
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If only.
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If only.
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Yeah, who's…
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Do we know who that is?
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Watch Josh Jones, go up against 41 here.
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Yeah, yep, yep.
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if he could just do something, but instead he goes, "Oh, no.
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Ole."
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Yep, he just- And whoop- Runs right by him … right by.
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Yeah.
17:29
Bobo gets stuck, and, bubbles do what bubbles do, which is basically miss.
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They burst.
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Bubbles burst, bro.
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Hell yeah.
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So quick, quick out.
17:37
There we go.
17:38
Right to bubble screen to Bobo.
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Decent play.
17:41
when I'm go- grade the college guys, Clinton, bubbles are neutrals to me.
17:46
Right.
17:46
I, I just don't care.
17:47
Yeah.
17:47
Like, I'm not gonna give you a bunch of credit for just doing something I can do.
17:50
So let's call it a neutral.
17:51
And he, he did what he was supposed to do with the play, but you know, bubble…
17:55
Ju- trying to judge did he play well with that, I mean, that's a throw any dude
18:00
in the NFL should be able to make, so.
18:02
Extended handoff, right?
18:03
Like, I'm not giving you a plus for a handoff.
18:04
Right.
18:05
Ex- Okay, fair by me.
18:06
Yeah, yeah.
18:07
All right, so here we are.
18:08
We're in the gun again, and, we're back in 11 personnel
18:11
once again, it looks like.
18:13
And, we got two receivers at the top, tight end as well.
18:17
Let's see where we wanna go with the football.
18:19
If you're Jalen Milroe out of the gate, usually you're gonna go strong side
18:23
here with all of your weapons that way.
18:25
And lo and behold- He's looking that way for sure … he's
18:26
looking strong side, right?
18:28
So let's see where we go from here.
18:31
One, two, three, four.
18:33
Hits his back foot.
18:34
Second he hits his back foot, Clinton, what happens?
18:37
There's pressure right in the pocket.
18:40
so it's the right tackle.
18:41
I'm not sure if that was Kight or whoever, whoever that is at this point.
18:44
maybe we could see on the next angle.
18:46
But right tackle- It's Hall … gives up the ghost and, and he's
18:50
gotta bail for the pocket.
18:51
He can't- That's right … he can't throw or step into that.
18:53
Otherwise, it's just, he's, that's, you can't do that, so-
18:55
Yeah … he's gotta, gotta bail.
18:55
I mean, riddle me this, like, boom.
18:58
Like, you're gonna throw it in that amount of time right there?
19:01
Well, there's also nothing open, right?
19:03
So it's like- Right … there's zero open also.
19:05
If there was some checkdown that was already, designed in,
19:08
sure, then you have an outlet.
19:09
That's not this play design, so what can Milroe do?
19:12
Yep.
19:13
And, he's been encouraged by the, offensive staff to get out
19:16
and use his legs a little bit more.
19:18
He gets out, he tries to direct, Holani here to go and get a block,
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and he says, "Nah, I, I'm just gonna run around and do nothing."
19:24
And he tips it up- I'ma, I'ma, I'ma check out.
19:27
Yeah.
19:27
Tips those down the sideline.
19:28
First down, nice play, and I think the end zone angle shows just how much
19:34
Holani couldn't care to, go for the block because watch Milroe right here.
19:38
Whoop, there's your point right there.
19:40
And he's pointing at the backer, and Holani's like, "What, me?"
19:44
Yeah Yeah.
19:46
Oh, yeah You know?
19:46
A- and he's- This, this is me?
19:46
Yeah, he- he's like, "Yeah, you."
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And he's like, "Nah, I'm good."
19:52
Just runs that way, Milroe goes, gets the edge, tiptoes out of bounds.
19:55
Nice first down run.
19:56
That's a plus, my man.
19:57
Oh, yeah, that's…
19:58
How could it not be, right?
19:59
So dude in your face, escapes, and then tiptoes with some athleticism.
20:04
Yeah, that's an absolute plus.
20:06
You bet.
20:06
So back in gun, we're empty.
20:08
We've got, four wide with Arroyo being your fourth year
20:12
as a tight end, in the slot.
20:14
So let's see what happens here.
20:16
Balance formation.
20:17
Which side does he wanna start to read here first?
20:20
So one, two, three, back foot.
20:23
We are, we are reading to this side, to the middle here.
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Mm-hmm.
20:27
Looks like we're going to good old Kaller up here.
20:30
So one, two, three, step and fire.
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Boop.
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Nekeae.
20:34
Oh, and look at the ball placement on this.
20:36
The, the next, angle here, man, this is where it's gonna be at.
20:40
Let's, so let's get to that.
20:42
Here's Kaller up here.
20:42
He's gonna come over and just have a little sit route over the center.
20:45
Yep.
20:45
Super common in NFL.
20:46
A lot of times you'll see a back do it, that sort of thing.
20:49
But this is for first down yardage.
20:51
This is a smart play.
20:52
They run everybody off.
20:53
You get a one-on-one with the linebacker right here.
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he freezes.
20:58
And j- just look where he puts this ball, man.
21:00
This is not a far throw, this is not a hard throw, but we talk
21:03
about accuracy and ball placement.
21:05
Boop.
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Great.
21:06
To the outside, opposite leverage of the, of the, linebacker here.
21:11
That's an excellent throw.
21:12
Yeah.
21:13
If that's inside, 42 has a chance to, to bat it away, tip it,
21:16
which is all, all bad things, right?
21:18
So- Yep … that's exactly where that ball should be.
21:21
Yep.
21:21
So, that'd be a plus of risky to me.
21:25
You know, that is a plus.
21:26
And this- And a first down … this feels about right just so far because
21:29
you said this was the, I think this is still the drive where Myers misses
21:33
the, the sh- kinda short field goal.
21:34
Yep, for sure.
21:34
And my recollection was like, no, the offense be- besides
21:37
Drew's drive, the offense looked good on this, the Myers- Yeah
21:41
misdrive too, so.
21:42
Yeah.
21:42
So far so good.
21:43
It was Milroe's best drive for sure.
21:45
circumstances on the second drive made things a little tougher, but,
21:48
we'll get to that here in a minute.
21:51
Mm-hmm.
21:52
So, so here we are.
21:52
again, we've got 11 personnel out there.
21:55
We're basically four wide with Arroyo in the slot, one back.
21:58
And let's see what we got going here.
22:01
So Jalen takes the snap.
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One, two, three, rock and fire.
22:06
And immediate quick decision.
22:08
He's going…
22:09
This is his first read, clearly, right?
22:11
Yep.
22:11
Oh, yeah.
22:11
Like, watch, watch his head.
22:13
Oop, immediately right over here to Cody White.
22:16
And we're looking to see if Cody, Cody White can cross the face of this defender.
22:20
If it's looking like he's gonna cross the face of that defender,
22:23
we're throwing that football.
22:24
We're throwing it every single time.
22:26
And, you know, I think the first down yardage is somewhere
22:28
around here on this particular play.
22:30
Feels good.
22:31
So, so anyways- When does he release the ball?
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Oh, oh, the first, actually the first down's right there.
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He's at- Right there … the first down marker right there.
22:37
So- There you go … this would be a first down throw.
22:38
I know- Goddamn, yeah … I know it's not converted, but, but we're going through
22:41
the process of was it the right read.
22:43
Right.
22:44
And so, yeah, you gotta trust your guy to a, to a degree here.
22:47
So his hands are already separated right here, right?
22:50
Mm-hmm.
22:50
Like, we're already- Oh, yeah, he's throwing the ball … throwing the ball.
22:52
Decision's been made.
22:53
So this is before Cody White stumbles and doesn't take on the physicality
22:57
of the cornerback in the way that you were hoping as a quarterback.
23:00
He stumbles right here, comes out of his break, and then look at that.
23:04
Even with the stumble, all of that good stuff, what happened?
23:08
Ball is away and outside right there for, Cody White, and
23:13
he just can't quite bring it in.
23:15
Yeah.
23:15
I remember- He says he did.
23:16
I, right.
23:17
"Look, look what I did."
23:17
Yeah.
23:17
This is the one that- Yeah … yeah, clearly bounces.
23:19
Yeah.
23:19
I remember seeing this live, and beyond believing Cody White for a second,
23:23
because, I'm gullible, I remember being like, "Oh, that's a good ball."
23:26
I remember just live being like, "Okay, he put that exactly
23:29
where he was supposed to."
23:30
And again, you could say, okay, is he supposed to make that
23:33
throw, the guy's right there or not, but you went through it.
23:36
He crosses the face.
23:38
You expect your receiver to, to, like you said, fight through some physicality.
23:41
But then it's a…
23:42
But if it is gonna be a tight window like that, then it's on the
23:44
quarterback to be accurate and give the, give the receiver a legit shot.
23:50
Adam?
23:50
Yeah.
23:50
Call it.
23:51
That is an accurate pass, and that's- Yeah … a legit chance for him to
23:54
convert a first down right there.
23:55
Maybe the only reason, you know, as a quarterback that you might be a little
23:59
hesitant to pull the trigger on this right out the gate is the way that he
24:03
did, DB's playing with inside leverage.
24:06
He's not lined up out here.
24:07
He's lined up a little inside, making it harder for Cody
24:10
White to get across the face.
24:11
But, we expect Cody to do that, because he's a big physical guy.
24:15
So, I like the, I like the rep, I like, the process.
24:19
It was on time, in rhythm, good ball placement.
24:22
any problems on this play were not a Jalen Milroe problem.
24:25
I think that's pretty close, easy to see.
24:28
I agree.
24:29
So is that a plus in your book as well?
24:30
That's a plus.
24:31
That's a plus.
24:33
Okay.
24:34
Well, so far this is like a, the flurry offense versus our
24:38
third-string defense on hard knocks.
24:40
This is, so far, just to give a quick tally- Yeah … we have five
24:44
pluses to one neutral to one, one L.
24:48
So pretty good so far.
24:48
Wow.
24:49
That's, that's tallying up fast.
24:50
I, I didn't know what it was g- the final count's gonna look like, so
24:53
that'll be, it'll be interesting to see.
24:55
So, back in gun.
24:57
I think this is the last play of this drive.
24:59
I think this is the fourth down play, the fourth and two.
25:01
let's see here.
25:03
We take snap, one, two, three.
25:06
Again, th- we're gonna talk a little bit about Jalen's footwork on some
25:10
of these, because that's my biggest takeaway from this that I don't love, is
25:15
that even these- Mm … little shuffle, these little shuffle drops on the…
25:20
in gun, like, why are we, why are we here with- Mm-hmm … our
25:25
back facing backwards, right?
25:26
How are we, how are we not twisted so that our feet- Right … are
25:29
more aligned this way instead?
25:31
Super open, right?
25:32
So the chest is facing really the goal line.
25:34
Right … and the w- as you're draw- drawing it.
25:37
You know, my, my kid, tennis is, is his, his best sport, so he takes some
25:40
lessons, and very often he's, he's, he's out there with the coach, and the
25:43
coach is like, he's like, "You're…"
25:45
He's like, "You can't generate power."
25:47
He's like, "If I could see your chest and you're facing me…"
25:49
Now, there's times to be open.
25:50
There's times where the shot- There is … will dictate I need to be
25:52
open for this, but most times, no.
25:55
Y- and, and just like football for quarterbacks, it's,
25:59
it's gonna be your legs.
26:00
Yeah.
26:00
So the position he's in, you ain't got no legs, man.
26:03
You can't drive the way- Yeah … you intend to if your f-
26:07
you know, your front is facing the end zone like it is right here.
26:10
Yeah.
26:11
And it looks like our first read here is gonna be out to Bobo, who
26:14
looks to be running a, an out.
26:16
Nope, it's a little return route.
26:18
So you can watch Bobo pivot and then return.
26:20
But by the time he does that, what's going on?
26:23
He's getting, he's getting…
26:24
Yeah, the, there's two tackles that are not exactly-
26:26
Yeah … doing their best work.
26:27
Yeah.
26:27
That's exactly right.
26:28
So we get one, two, three, four, top of our drop.
26:32
Top of our drop, this is his back foot right here.
26:36
Even though I don't like the way he's facing- Oh yeah,
26:39
he's got- there's trouble.
26:40
There's tr- troubled water there.
26:42
Jo- Jones, just to say very quickly, I love what he did last
26:45
year, love him as a swing tackle.
26:47
I thought he was not very good this game, and it's A-okay, 'cause
26:51
when it, when the chips were down, he was very, very good last year.
26:53
But I did not think he had a, great game, as a, as what is our sixth,
26:59
lineman, that I, in my brain, can go, "Yeah, that guy should, could come in
27:03
and could start for a lot of NFL teams."
27:05
He actually had some tape like this kind of throughout his,
27:07
his time on the field, Adam.
27:10
Yep, absolutely.
27:11
So now that we know that B- Bobo's running this return route- Yep … you
27:14
can't, you can't pull the trigger now- Nope … a- and get it to Bobo.
27:17
Cody White's not open.
27:19
We're bracketed.
27:20
so that, that's gonna be no good.
27:23
And C- you know, color is flashed in your face here, getting around Jones.
27:28
It is time to go, and so Milroe says, "Yeah, don't mind if I do."
27:31
We step up in the pocket, little sliparooski, but then we get
27:34
our feet again, and we have a Russell Wilson moment here.
27:38
And, we shotput the ball over.
27:40
Little bit sketchy, little dangerous, but it works.
27:44
Careful.
27:44
That would've converted the fourth down if it weren't for the nice
27:49
big old fat hold that Josh Jones committed after getting beat.
27:52
Like, that's the only thing that's worse after that, is,
27:54
like, if you actually hold, so…
27:56
Like, he, he bushes him to the ground right there.
27:58
You can see.
27:59
Yeah.
27:59
He pushed him- Yeah, I just wonder if that's actually…
28:01
I mean, he got beat, and then he just shoves the dude in the, in his back.
28:03
I, I actually don't think it's a hold, per se, but doesn't matter.
28:06
I think the- Block in the back then.
28:09
Yeah.
28:09
Then call a block in the back then.
28:10
Like, that call him.
28:11
Sure.
28:11
So I mean, the guy, 'cause the guy's also going super wide on
28:14
him, so you are allowed to ride the guy to the ground if he's going
28:16
super wi- wide on you as a tackle.
28:18
But all this being said- Yeah … Milroe makes, you know,
28:20
lemonade out of lemons here.
28:21
Didn't have a lot.
28:23
Doesn't look pretty, but he finds Bobo, and if it wasn't for the flag,
28:27
this would just be a great conversion.
28:30
Look at, look at how close that is.
28:31
I know.
28:31
Yeah, yeah.
28:31
There, the ball ba- like, just oh my goodness.
28:35
Whoop.
28:35
Look at that.
28:35
Like- He just flicks it.
28:36
"Whoop, that's mine."
28:37
He picks it up.
28:38
Yep.
28:38
I love it.
28:38
Yep.
28:39
That's why you pay Bobo to come back here instead of go to Jacksonville.
28:42
That, that was pretty sweet.
28:43
All right.
28:43
Love Bobo.
28:44
So that's the end of his first drive.
28:45
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait … what did you give that last one, Clinton?
28:47
Because, like…
28:48
It's hard.
28:49
I, I don't understand how that's not a plus.
28:51
Like, given what was- Yeah … coming off the left end there- He made the
28:55
play The footwork was god-awful.
28:58
That's the, that's the part of it that- I- … that makes me
29:00
go, "Ugh" You wanna go neutral?
29:01
Go neutral.
29:02
Let's go neutral on that.
29:03
All right.
29:03
That's totally fair.
29:03
Let, let's be fair.
29:04
Let's not be homers.
29:05
Totally fair.
29:06
It's, it was creative, but the footwork to start wasn't good.
29:10
One thing before we get to this last one, Mookie Alexander from
29:14
Field Gulls joined,- Mm-hmm … Brandan and I for the post-game.
29:16
He did, did an awesome job for this game.
29:19
And Mookie said something, I didn't, didn't catch it live
29:22
and actually heard it later.
29:23
He's like, he's like, "Hey, Milroe," he's like, "He's really fast going forward,
29:27
he's not very fast going backwards."
29:29
And I didn't kinda register it when he said it.
29:32
I was like, "Oh, he just means his dropbacks."
29:34
His dropbacks sometimes are a little not clean or a little, they feel maybe
29:39
a little lackadaisical and not as crisp or choppy as you maybe wanna see.
29:44
And I know you were, you know, picking that up as well.
29:47
Yeah.
29:48
They feel nonchalant to me.
29:50
Now, are you slow-playing a drop to marry it with the, with the routes?
29:54
I mean, maybe that's happening.
29:56
We, we don't know all the ins and outs there.
29:58
But I do know this, they don't all look the same.
30:01
And- Hmm … to me, from what I've been told over the years, is that you want
30:06
it all to look the same to make it that much more difficult for the defense.
30:09
So, as a guy who's just entering year two here with Jalen Milroe, am I
30:14
surprised that there's work to be done on the footwork arena of things when you've
30:18
been working really hard on accuracy?
30:19
No, I'm not surprised by that.
30:20
Wait a second.
30:21
Wait a second.
30:21
He came from Alabama and Ryan Grubb, so he obviously, he obviously-
30:26
knows about seven-step drops under shotgun, Adam.
30:28
I mean, out of- Yeah … under center, so of course he should know this by now.
30:31
Or- Right.
30:32
Right … maybe not.
30:32
Yeah.
30:33
Yeah.
30:33
Well, we're gonna see a seven-step drop or two out of gun.
30:36
so that felt a little grubby.
30:38
That's, that's getting deep.
30:39
That's Arena League stuff right there.
30:41
That's right.
30:42
But a lot of this, too, remember, as we start our second possession
30:45
here with Milroe, they, they got the ball, like, with 40 seconds,
30:49
38 seconds, whatever it was.
30:51
So this is two-minute drive.
30:52
You're trying to push the ball down the field as far as you can in just a few
30:56
seconds, to try to get some points.
30:58
So, understand that when we see the play calling here and what
31:02
Milroe is trying to accomplish.
31:04
Like- Yeah … that, that's something, that context matters here, right?
31:08
So- Well, they're trying to get in the field goal range to, to give Myers a
31:11
chance before half, I think, from this situation is, is the, the nut of it.
31:15
Is that correct?
31:16
That's correct.
31:16
Yep.
31:16
Okay.
31:17
So we're gonna see a lot of 11 personnel on this, on this drive.
31:20
And, with Arroyo in there, we got him down here, and Holani
31:23
in as, as your back for pass pro.
31:26
So here we go.
31:27
We're gonna take the snap in…
31:29
L- let's see.
31:30
We got one, two, three, four, five, six.
31:33
He's about to get blown up.
31:35
Yep.
31:35
And he hits his back foot.
31:37
And we've already lost.
31:39
Yeah.
31:40
Hart's already lost out here.
31:41
Like, that's tough.
31:42
I don't care if you're Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, Dan Marino,
31:45
it, it don't make no never mind.
31:47
You're boned right there if you're a guy who can't run.
31:51
But Jalen Milroe is a guy that, can run, so he's not completely boned.
31:54
He steps up, breaks the, breaks a tackle there.
31:58
Breaks a second one because that next lineman gets some,
32:01
gets, a hand on him as well.
32:03
And now this is exactly what he's been waiting for and what all of
32:07
his coaches have been talking about.
32:08
Look at all of that green, green- It's a lot of green.
32:10
A lot of green
32:11
beautiful open grass.
32:11
And Milroe makes them pay.
32:14
So he gets out, big long run.
32:16
The most electric play for the Seahawks offense of the night, and
32:19
it gets us out to about the 50.
32:22
I mean, I know we're gonna see this angle here too to see Hart
32:24
get beat cleanly, unfortunately.
32:27
But I mean, how is this anything but a plus given the scenario?
32:30
He's got a 20-something yard gain while he could've been yanked down for
32:34
a sack, and then escapes another guy on, on the, coming off the other end.
32:37
Gotta be a plus, yeah?
32:39
Yeah.
32:39
I, I…
32:40
This is a massive plus.
32:41
This…
32:42
So it's one thing to be able to step up and make the, the
32:44
first guy miss here, right?
32:46
And, the two ends collide here, boop, behind him.
32:49
Yep.
32:50
But look at what happens with 95 here as he comes in.
32:55
Watch- Yeah … watch this explosion out of Milroe.
32:58
Ah.
32:58
Yeah, he tries to get his left- Get out of there … tries to get his left paw on his
33:01
other shoulder, and Milroe is still, even in a, compromised position, he, he can
33:07
still contort his body in a way and- Yeah
33:10
and accelerate.
33:11
Yep.
33:11
And that's, I mean, that, it's special athlete type stuff.
33:14
One of the things that makes him special, right?
33:16
So, so here we go.
33:18
This is after a penalty, and, we start to get into, you know, second and forever
33:22
and third and forever as we go on this drive, which again, now you know the pass
33:26
rushers, they know to pin their ears back.
33:28
So we got Bobo in motion, and boom, one, two, three, four.
33:34
Right when he hits his back foot, oh, rook.
33:38
Stupid [bleep] rookie.
33:40
Look at this.
33:41
Bo, Bo Stevens already beat as Milroe hits his back foot, and we're
33:47
trying to push the ball downfield.
33:49
I mean, we got receivers 20 yards downfield already, and these
33:53
two are actually gonna kinda, like, muddle to the middle.
33:56
I do not understand these, these routes up top here, but I think what it's
34:01
trying to do is just kinda, like,…
34:03
Whoop, don't do that.
34:04
Don't do that either.
34:06
Let's see if I can stop, some of the- If I make sound
34:08
effects, does it make it better?
34:09
If I make sound- Whoop.
34:09
Yeah.
34:10
Whoop, whoop, whoop.
34:11
All right.
34:11
Well, it's gonna be what it's gonna be.
34:13
Yeah, that's- All right.
34:13
So, so, yeah, at this point…
34:16
There we go.
34:16
Well, maybe, like, what you're pointing out there too is maybe if they are
34:19
funneling, that they're looking for a, a gimme over the middle, like, a, to
34:22
g- to get the dump to create a little space- Yeah … and go get as much yak
34:27
as you possibly can by, by trying to draw those wide receivers to the middle.
34:30
It's my only guess.
34:31
That's right.
34:32
So, I think that's probably the idea.
34:34
So he can't even begin to process his first read as,
34:38
Bo Stevens is beat here.
34:40
So he does what he can do.
34:41
He steps up.
34:42
Now honestly, he hits that back foot.
34:45
If you see that color already, you see him getting beat like that- Can we
34:51
just abandon everything up here- Right
34:53
and pitch it to Bobo?
34:53
Yeah.
34:53
Yep.
34:53
Bobo's- Like- And that's the thing, Bobo, I think the play
34:57
is sucking those dudes in.
34:58
You got a couple of linebackers drop super deep because of the time and place.
35:02
Get it to Bobo, let him go stumble for six or seven more
35:04
yards and, and get into the play.
35:07
Yeah.
35:07
And we all know in two minute, the defense is gonna play to not let
35:10
the ball get over their head, right?
35:12
Yep.
35:12
And, you know, I've listened to some of the greats talk about two-minute drives
35:15
and all that, and it's, and it's about just kinda getting, getting chunks.
35:19
But, like, if it's gonna be underneath where you had a guy that's got all
35:22
that space out there, go there.
35:24
So- I mean, look, it's the NFL.
35:25
That space will close really, really quickly, but it's still the right place.
35:29
You still gotta make a dude make a tackle, and if he converts there, Bobo's
35:33
probably getting to about midfield.
35:35
Yeah.
35:35
You know, that's probably where he ends up, which is super
35:37
positive in this situation.
35:38
It, it would be.
35:39
And, make your next down and distance a lot more manageable.
35:43
but again, he's being pressured immediately.
35:46
These are a lot of decisions to make in about a second.
35:49
He steps up, gets out, and then, aw, ends up getting sacked here.
35:54
And again, this whole time it's like, "Just flip it to Bobo.
35:57
Just flip it to Bobo."
35:57
Yeah.
35:58
"Just flip it to Bobo."
35:59
And you thi- it looks like he maybe thinks about it right here Or at least throw
36:03
it at his feet But that's, that's, yeah, but who, who was the, the Vikings guy
36:06
last year that threw the ball directly to Ernest Jones instead, the rookie
36:09
that he was supposed to be- Oh, Brosmer
36:10
Brosmer.
36:11
The Brosio.
36:12
'Cause, 'cause I heard all week before that week that he was just gonna be
36:16
the next Sam Darnold and it was g- that was it, the Vikings were fine.
36:18
Yeah.
36:19
then he, then he wasn't.
36:20
So at the point he's thinking about it, it's just, it's just a little too late.
36:25
Yep, it's a little too late and, look, I'd like to not take a sack here.
36:29
Yeah.
36:29
I think there was opportunity to get the ball away and, at least
36:33
get an incomplete because basically, you know, your order of operations
36:37
when you're getting that kind of, pressure early is, the, the
36:42
best outcome would be a completion.
36:44
That's super highly unlikely in that scenario.
36:47
Next is an incomplete, next is a sack, and after that is a turnover, right?
36:52
Yep.
36:52
So let's not take the second to worst thing.
36:54
Let's, let's get to at least an incomplete.
36:56
I'm gonna give him a minus on this 'cause I think, I think he
36:58
could have kept the sack off the stat sheet for his offensive line.
37:02
I knew where it was going.
37:03
I had a minus in the book before you said it.
37:06
Okay, very good.
37:06
But still, tough rep.
37:08
Yes.
37:08
Tough rep.
37:09
Oh, absolutely.
37:10
Look, there's plenty of dudes who don't even get as far as Milroe
37:13
got, but there's also other dudes that would've checked that down, you
37:17
know, a good half a second earlier and Bobo would've gotten 10 yards.
37:21
Yep, and I think of this whole drive, my number one takeaway is, like, hey,
37:25
they're gonna build that picket fence.
37:26
They're not gonna get beat over top, the Cowboys, so let's just get to our
37:30
checkdown and take the free yards.
37:31
And, you know, again, beginning of his second year.
37:36
So, like, he'll get there.
37:38
He'll get there.
37:39
All right, so back in, shotgun, another 11 personnel play.
37:43
We get to our back foot.
37:44
We even get, like, a, a little hop here.
37:47
We get to our second read.
37:48
You can see it.
37:49
Now we got to our third read.
37:50
So we can see our first read is over here.
37:53
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
37:53
We're looking out this way.
37:54
This is gonna be an out.
37:56
I don't like the way that that corner's playing to throw it out,
37:59
like with underneath like that.
38:00
That looks like a, that looks like a for sure pick six, so.
38:03
Pick six territory.
38:04
Yeah, could be.
38:04
Let's not go there.
38:05
So we don't.
38:06
We get to our second read, which is right here, and I believe the second
38:09
read should be over the middle here.
38:12
There are how many?
38:14
One- Four … two, three, four Cowboys converging on that area.
38:17
That's a big fat no thank you.
38:20
so by the time we get to three, which is now, I think he's
38:25
trying to look to Montorie here.
38:28
Pocket's starting to collapse in on you.
38:30
Could you, could you pull the trigger right now and hit Montorie?
38:33
Maybe, but as you can see- Yeah, I'd say yes.
38:38
I'd say you could … it would have to be, it'd have to be right now, right
38:44
where, because that's after he hitches up.
38:47
Have to be right now.
38:48
And watch the, the D end here.
38:50
Mm.
38:50
He's already had a spin move.
38:52
If you pull the trigger, boy, I, I think he's probably getting your arm.
38:59
I'd love to see the other angle when we get there too.
39:01
Yeah.
39:02
I think just looking at that, and again, we're slowing it down, we're
39:04
free- we're freeze framing it.
39:05
Yeah.
39:05
It is, to your point what you said earlier, wh- why you spent time
39:09
in the beginning, it's like this is a progression based system.
39:12
It is read number three.
39:14
With all that, if it's like could he have fired in there?
39:17
Maybe.
39:17
I think he could have taken his chance and, and tried it, but let's,
39:19
let's see if there's a, you know, a little more evidence here that
39:22
this guy was in his lap even worse.
39:24
All right.
39:25
So- Or at his knees, even worse worse.
39:27
One, two, three, four.
39:30
But he's still looking left here.
39:31
So that's the first read.
39:32
Yep, yep.
39:32
Yep.
39:32
Now we're getting to two.
39:33
And now he's on second.
39:34
Yep.
39:35
Okay.
39:36
Now we're getting to three.
39:37
So it'd be pull it now.
39:40
It's tight.
39:40
It's tight.
39:41
This- that's got, that's got a UCL surgery written all over it, to be honest, right?
39:44
I mean, you need to put your arm up there and you, you'd get it,
39:47
you know, tangled up with the dude.
39:48
You could try it.
39:49
You could try it, but it, it would be…
39:51
It's, it's, that pocket is collapsing, for sure.
39:54
Yeah.
39:54
It- you are asking for it to get batted down or your arm
39:58
to get clipped on the way up.
40:00
I'm gonna give this a neutral.
40:01
Okay.
40:01
'Cause I, I think you could pull the trigger there, but also,
40:04
too, like, we, we got from one to two to three in, you know, it…
40:12
We- when the first time you've had a clean pocket since maybe, what?
40:15
Second, second play of the game?
40:18
Like…
40:19
So pretty, pretty sweet that he was able to do that, because I know a lot of people
40:22
were talking about the processing and not being able to get through reads, and it's
40:26
like, hell no, we got to three there.
40:28
Should you pull the trigger there?
40:30
Probably … well, if, if, who, I don't know who the left, the left
40:34
guard is for Seattle in this one.
40:36
I think it's,…
40:36
Well, who's 78 there?
40:38
Whoever that is, if he holds up a little bit stronger- Richmond,
40:40
yeah Okay, yeah, Richmond.
40:41
If he holds up a little bit longer, then, then he, then the pocket wouldn't
40:44
have had the, like, crumple zone on him.
40:45
But, you know, it's the third read, and, at, at that point
40:50
Richmond does finally get beat.
40:51
He, you know, it's a pretty good rep until…
40:53
A little more sustain would be useful there, but it's
40:56
not gonna happen every play.
40:57
It's fine.
40:57
Yep.
40:58
But it, it, I don't think he was just holding the ball for
41:00
no reason there either, right?
41:02
Like, to generate that sack for himself.
41:05
No, no.
41:05
Yeah The f- the first two reads were not open.
41:07
Yeah.
41:08
So, yeah, I'm gonna give that a neutral.
41:10
could've been better- Oh, totally fair … could've been worse.
41:13
All right, so here we go, back in the gun.
41:15
And again, oh, second sir counting down here.
41:18
Takes a snap, back to drop.
41:20
Actually has a beat to go to one, and again, we're starting
41:24
off on our left-hand side.
41:25
We're looking out here.
41:26
Are we looking to the flat or are we looking to the deep guy, I wonder?
41:29
I'm guessing he's reading deep to, to short, in this situation,
41:34
'cause you need a [bleep] ton of yards in a short period of time.
41:37
Yeah.
41:37
would be my guess.
41:39
So we get to one.
41:40
Our…
41:41
He can only look at one.
41:44
One, one hitch, and he's already got pressure from left tackle
41:48
Josh Jones missing his block.
41:50
Now we gotta step up.
41:52
We step up, and once we step up, like this is my critique on this play.
41:57
We step up, throw it now.
41:59
Mm-hmm.
42:00
Like, what are we doing?
42:01
Throw the football.
42:02
Throw it or run it.
42:04
Yeah.
42:04
You know, like, I don't know.
42:04
We're, we're looking right at him.
42:07
And yeah, okay, so it was a little quicker than I thought that he got to that.
42:10
So there you go.
42:11
He threw it, got it to Arroyo.
42:13
He gets out of bounds.
42:14
They keep the clock running, we have to call time out, and that's
42:18
pretty much the end of that.
42:19
But…
42:20
Or that's his first step on the, on the back foot there, and he's got
42:25
one hitch, and good night, Irene.
42:30
Now, I wonder, you know, we watched Hard Knocks episode three, and there was that,
42:34
that little bit of oddness with, that conversation in, in the QB room where he's
42:39
talking about it being a Ferrari in the garage and like, "Let it go, let it go.
42:41
Like let, let it rip."
42:43
And not throw the ball, let it rip, like use your feet more.
42:46
I wonder with the parting of the Red Seas there at the very, very
42:49
beginning- Yeah … if they're, if in the film room they're like, "Jalen,
42:52
that's what we're talking about."
42:53
Now, again, down distance, we gotta get to a certain area to tr- to
42:58
try and get something before half.
43:00
But I do wonder if once he saw it split, are they, do they
43:03
wanna just, just, "Hey, go."
43:04
You got a good path to probably go get 20 yards if you just take off once it splits
43:09
like that and there's no linebacker.
43:10
It's completely vacated.
43:11
Yeah.
43:12
I think this was third in a million too.
43:14
Right.
43:14
Okay.
43:14
for, for context.
43:16
And- Yeah, that's really important context.
43:18
Yeah.
43:18
And as a whole, like, I want my quarterbacks to get the ball out
43:22
of their hand and into somebody else's hand to do that running.
43:24
Is Milroe special?
43:25
Do we want him running?
43:26
Probably.
43:27
I don't think you're picking up the first down one way or the other.
43:30
I mean, we could see the first down markers way the [bleep] up here.
43:33
Oh yeah, yeah.
43:33
For, for sure.
43:34
Yeah.
43:34
I mean, that is third and forever, so that, that's good, very good context.
43:37
I do wish the NFL would just bring back the down and distance on these thingies-
43:40
Right … 'cause they were useful.
43:42
Yep.
43:43
So I believe that took us to the end of half.
43:48
So yeah, I believe this is our first, first play of Milroe's second half here.
43:54
And, again, a bunch of 11 personnel, two receivers at the top.
43:59
We're under center, one, two, three, four, five, six.
44:01
Hits the back foot, little shuffle step, and he steps and fires
44:06
and throws a beautiful ball.
44:08
And yeah, was this the, the Foster drop to start the half?
44:10
It is.
44:11
Catch the bleeping ball.
44:14
And he played pretty well, and still that is a, that's a bad drop.
44:18
Yep.
44:18
But, but the- The, the, the backdrop, you know, the,
44:23
the footwork, the shoulders.
44:25
Like, everything there looks like, oh man, like you were saying, hey, if…
44:28
That should look similar every single time, kind of like a
44:30
pitcher who's throwing a baseball.
44:32
The changeup should look just like the fastball because that's how you
44:36
get the, the, the batters fooled.
44:38
Similarly here, Adam, the footwork and shoulders and everything looks perfect.
44:42
And by the way, oh, a big shock, he had a little bit of time.
44:47
He had a little bit of time.
44:48
Look at that.
44:48
They…
44:48
you know what I love?
44:49
Pocket thingies.
44:50
Yeah, pocket thingies are the best.
44:51
Although people that don't love pocket thingies are defenders, but, what
44:55
I love here is you can see Foster, he's just starting his break- Yep
44:59
right?
44:59
Yep, mm-hmm.
45:00
And hands are separated right now.
45:03
you can see that with, with Milroe.
45:05
He's, he's starting the firing motion, so he's already got it ripping.
45:09
He throws an absolute strike.
45:11
Yep.
45:11
Perfect ball placement, catch the ball.
45:13
Yep.
45:13
The only thing here was, it was he didn't catch it.
45:16
Everything else, including the route, is exactly what you wanna see.
45:19
Yeah, and then from the backside you see just what a good ball it is.
45:23
That's a, that's a giant plus for, for Milroe there.
45:26
Mm-hmm.
45:26
First read, decisive, foot in ground, a little bit of anticipation.
45:30
Not capital A anticipation, but a little anticipation, you know?
45:33
So we like to see that.
45:34
I think that's growth there.
45:36
And again, how many air mails have we seen, Clinton?
45:39
Zero.
45:40
Zero.
45:41
All right, so we end up in empty.
45:43
out a gun and late in the snap, right before the snap of
45:48
the ball, good job by 27 here.
45:49
He sneaks up to, to blitz.
45:52
I think Cowboys bring five on this play, or it's kind of a, a mush rush
45:56
on the, on the outside of the pocket.
45:58
Yeah, I think a five.
45:58
Yeah, I think he's coming though.
45:59
Yep.
46:00
And then, kind of peels off.
46:02
Oh, then he's dropping back.
46:02
Okay, yep.
46:02
Yeah.
46:03
But first off, when that happens, and it happens late in the down, both,…
46:09
I believe it's still Hart out there, and, Bo Stevens, they've gotta retarget.
46:13
And they do a good job retargeting, right?
46:15
Because the, the tackle takes 27.
46:17
Bo Stevens takes the inside guy.
46:19
There's only one downside to that.
46:21
So Bo Stevens takes him on, dips his head- Mm-hmm … lets the defender get h- get
46:26
into his chest, and then what happens?
46:28
Oh boy, you just get walked back there like you're a rookie.
46:31
Look at that.
46:32
Yeah.
46:32
Like, pressure right in Milroe's face, and that is right…
46:36
Now is this top of his drop, and he's got a dude a yard away that's
46:41
about ready to clean his clock.
46:43
He tries to get it off fast, which is good processing because he knows
46:46
that his outlet is down here, and so that's where he tries to get to.
46:51
But by the time he does, unfortunately, dude's got his hand coming up in M-
46:56
Milroe's chest there, so we gotta throw off the back foot, which is
46:59
where we had inaccuracy problems when he was in college, folks.
47:02
When he didn't get his hips and his right foot through the ball,
47:05
this is what it looked like.
47:06
And when that happens- We hit the sideline.
47:11
Yeah.
47:11
But in my opinion, that's a good incomplete.
47:14
That's a good incomplete.
47:16
Immediate pressure, up the gut, good luck, figuring out what to do from there,
47:21
and, to just get it out, not take the sack, I think it's a good incompletion.
47:26
There's literally nothing you can do there.
47:27
Like, nothing.
47:28
That's…
47:28
I, I mean, okay, m- yes, you wanna be a little bit more accurate off
47:32
your back foot as you're getting crushed, but- That's fair … at le-
47:35
at least it's, it's out to the outside.
47:37
It's not a, it's not a ball that the, cornerback or, if that's a safety or
47:41
a linebacker, could undercut whatsoever.
47:43
So it's almost a little no harm, no foul, but what are you supposed to do?
47:46
The- Bo Stevens just lunged, kind of took a stab, and was just beat
47:51
very, very cleanly unfortunately.
47:53
Yep, for sure.
47:54
And, we're gonna see that a few times on the film.
47:56
Bo, Bo had himself a rough day.
47:58
There's a reason, he hasn't maybe, done what we thought he'd do and
48:02
displace Anthony Bradford to this point.
48:04
But, anyhow,- But, but give- … I'm gonna give that a neutral Okay.
48:07
Yeah.
48:08
Neutral, neutral's super fair.
48:09
I mean, it's, it's verging on plus.
48:11
It, obviously if he completes- Yeah … that, it's a plus plus, because then it's
48:14
a super hard one to be accurate with.
48:16
Neutral's fair.
48:18
Yep, there we go.
48:19
All right, so gut again, 11 personnel again.
48:21
here we go.
48:24
Hits his back foot Pocket thingy … decisive pocket thingy.
48:28
He's gonna rip it to his first read to, to Foster Jr.
48:33
up top here.
48:34
And he rips that thing on an out, about a 12-yard out, and it ends up
48:41
being a completion, which is nice.
48:45
We like completions.
48:46
I do.
48:46
We like first downs.
48:46
Mm-hmm.
48:47
But what we don't like, Clinton, as we get here, not inaccurate, but the
48:54
ball placement isn't where we want it.
48:56
The corner- A little inside.
48:56
Yep.
48:57
Yep, a little inside.
48:58
So if the, if the corner's a bit stickier or broke a little sooner on Montee Ball
49:02
out there- Yep … it could be a little danger zone is what you're pointing out.
49:05
That's how pick six happen.
49:06
Watch, watch Milroe's reaction, here towards the end of this.
49:09
Watch this.
49:10
He, yeah, he's starting to run back.
49:11
Yeah.
49:11
He's starting to run.
49:11
Yeah, he's starting to run back.
49:14
He does the little hop here.
49:14
Yeah, yeah.
49:14
Oh, no.
49:14
Yeah.
49:15
But yeah, you see him at the bottom of the screen here, folks, because he knows,
49:18
"Oh, no, I left that too far inside."
49:20
Foster does a great job fighting for the ball, coming back to it,
49:23
makes the, makes the completion.
49:25
so I'm gonna give that a neutral.
49:28
Mm-hmm.
49:28
A damn near, a turnover, but it was a completion.
49:31
But it was, yeah.
49:32
What is is what is, right?
49:33
Yep.
49:34
Neutral, again, that's totally…
49:36
Neutral's fair on what was a first down, I think it was a first down
49:39
conversion on, on a nice, on a nice out route by, again, Foster.
49:43
If he doesn't have that drop, and I know he had a, you
49:45
know, some sort of offsides thing or, later or earlier too.
49:48
Does, if he gets rid of that drop, Foster's having quite
49:51
a nice game on, on replay here.
49:52
Yep.
49:53
Absolutely.
49:53
So here we go.
49:54
under center, big seven-step drop, and at the top of our route- But who's that?
50:00
Who's getting…
50:00
Why is this…
50:01
Who's getting beat again?
50:02
Is that Bo?
50:03
It is.
50:04
It's,…
50:05
Well, let's see.
50:06
Let's go back here.
50:07
Yep.
50:07
It's,…
50:08
Oh, no, we got, that's Hart who's getting beat.
50:11
That's Hart?
50:11
Okay.
50:12
Yep.
50:13
And, tight end, that must be Vannett, 83.
50:18
Yeah, Vannett.
50:19
he's trying to take on the corner safety type there.
50:22
He gets beat too.
50:23
He doesn't do good - Yeah, come on, man … either.
50:25
Come on, man.
50:26
We got- I'm, I'm more, I'm more concerned about, about,
50:29
you know, Hart getting beat.
50:30
Well, not really concerned 'cause b- both these guys are, you know,
50:33
a fringe, fringe roster guys.
50:34
Yeah.
50:34
But of the two, it's like I, I really just hate to see a, your in- your
50:39
lineman getting beat- Yeah … across his face on the inside there and, boy.
50:43
Yeah.
50:43
All of this, we hate it.
50:45
Bad job.
50:46
We can do better.
50:46
So we hit our back foot.
50:47
Now, who's open?
50:50
Who's open?
50:50
The, there's- Where's he supposed to go with this to not take a sack?
50:53
Where are- Literally no, literally nothing here.
50:55
Nothing.
50:55
Yeah.
50:55
Nothing, nothing.
50:56
Yeah.
50:56
this is, this is all bad news.
50:58
I don't like that.
50:59
Like, you know, we even still have a deep safety just kinda
51:02
chilling, waiting to do something.
51:04
back leaks out late, but I mean, you're not gonna get
51:08
to him by the time- Yeah.
51:11
No, I mean, no By the time he gets there.
51:13
No.
51:14
There's just nothing…
51:14
I- this has gotta be a neutral, right?
51:16
'Cause there's nothing he can do here.
51:18
Yep.
51:18
This is definitely a neutral, you know, because the sacks I think
51:22
is one of the things that made a lot of people be like, "I'm over it.
51:25
He can't process.
51:26
What's going on here?"
51:27
Right?
51:28
And it's like, well, is that true?
51:30
You know?
51:30
Mm.
51:30
Like, no, no, he's processing fine.
51:33
He's, he's looking at that being like, "Don't turn the ball over.
51:35
Don't do something stupid."
51:36
Yeah, and- He's the sack … and to your point, the, it, if that's,
51:39
I forget who the ba- who the running back is at that point.
51:41
Harmon.
51:41
Yeah, okay.
51:42
So the, the running back, it's, it's not like he's late or whatever it is, but
51:46
he also didn't come across whatsoever, so like sight line-wise- Yeah … he's
51:50
just behind a wall of dudes also.
51:52
Yeah.
51:52
So it's like, he's not there.
51:53
He's not open.
51:54
Yep.
51:55
Not a lot there for, for Milroe in the offense, so, and that gets you behind
51:59
the sticks and then things start getting, you know, really exciting,- Mm-hmm
52:03
as a player.
52:04
So here we are again, again.
52:05
We're gonna throw the football one more time here, boys and girls.
52:07
We're going empty.
52:08
Harmon- Mm-hmm … goes out to get Trips on the right, and
52:11
we're reading that bottom side of the field to start with here.
52:14
So we're gonna hit our back foot now.
52:18
And guess what?
52:20
Oh, my stars, we're getting beat up.
52:23
[bleep]
52:23
Like, it's, it's instant.
52:26
Yeah.
52:26
It's instant.
52:27
I, I mean, he's, the nice part of the, the area here that he has a little bit
52:30
of ability here is the interior held up, so he can step up and I'm assuming
52:34
that he at least attempts to step up.
52:36
Right.
52:36
I forget how this one goes.
52:38
But knowing Milroe, I'm sure he tries to buy a little time by,
52:41
by climbing the pocket a bit.
52:43
Yeah.
52:44
And so in this moment as he hits his back foot, and we're reading this
52:48
side of the field, I'm sure he's trying to read the deep guy first and
52:52
reading this top down because, again, our first down's all the way over here.
52:55
Yeah, exactly.
52:56
Right?
52:56
Yeah.
52:56
Like, I don't know what down it is at this point, but, you know, we're, we're,
52:59
we're needing some, some yardage here.
53:02
So- We need a chunker.
53:03
We need a chunker.
53:03
Yeah.
53:03
Yeah.
53:04
Because, you know, obviously if you're just looking at this and being like,
53:06
"Well, how come we didn't go here?"
53:08
And it's like, well, okay, I mean, we're reading here first, so- Right … let's
53:11
see what happens after he reads there.
53:13
And again, this all happens in about a quarter of a second.
53:15
We got one hitch.
53:17
He looks at that.
53:17
He's still looking at this and going, "Yeah, no."
53:20
The dude's in a paral- he's in a literal parallelogram there.
53:22
Almost a, almost a pentagon, you know?
53:24
There's another- Right … a fifth side coming in.
53:26
Yeah.
53:27
Yeah, we don't, we don't like those if we're him- No … as a quarterback.
53:29
We're not throwing there.
53:30
Now, after that second hitch and we've stared this down and we see all of
53:34
those dudes out there, do we need to immediately get to the check down?
53:37
Yeah.
53:37
We do.
53:38
Yeah.
53:38
We do.
53:39
So we don't get to it.
53:41
We drop our eyes because we see our lineman come across our face
53:46
here- Mm … although he's not blocking anybody, and we panic.
53:48
There's no reason.
53:50
There's no reason.
53:50
This is still a good pocket thingy.
53:51
Yeah.
53:52
Just hang here.
53:53
Just hang here.
53:54
Let your guys work.
53:56
So he gets out and then turns a nothing into a positive, which
54:01
is, this is why he's special.
54:03
Gets outside of the pocket, hits Vannett, and we get, pick up a few yards here after
54:10
there wasn't much there to start with.
54:12
Okay.
54:13
Yep.
54:15
But at the end of the day, Clinton, I don't know Like get to our check, we
54:21
need to get to our check down here.
54:22
And not that we can see any of the receivers, but- But he should be-
54:25
We've already, we've already got back.
54:28
All right, that's read one.
54:29
Listen to your feet, right?
54:31
Like Sam says.
54:32
You're ripping that to one if you think it's open.
54:34
It's not open, so now we're hitching.
54:35
Now we're to two.
54:36
Right here we're to two, but yet we're still looking at one.
54:40
Yeah.
54:40
A- and, and two was open, as we saw in the, you know,
54:43
the frame previous basically.
54:45
Yep.
54:46
And, now we leave a clean pocket for, like, no reason.
54:50
I mean, a- again, are we Shedeur Sanders?
54:52
Like, here we go.
54:54
We get out, and then we make something good happen.
54:56
I'm gonna give it a neutral.
54:57
Should be a minus probably.
54:59
Let's give it a minus.
55:00
Who's the, receiver in the middle of the field that actually is coming open?
55:04
So, like, he's, he's flagging it there, right?
55:05
But- Oh, we got the mailbox up here?
55:07
Yeah, so- Yeah … if he hangs, like you're asking him to
55:09
hang a little bit longer- Yeah
55:11
like shuffle the feet and don't take off, I do wonder if he had
55:14
an opportunity when it was back here, to g- you know, to, to…
55:18
it'd be a bit of a br- backyard play at that point.
55:20
But if you hang in the pocket, maybe, maybe there was an opportunity that,
55:23
he ends up- Well- … not seeing … here's, here's the thing about that.
55:26
So this receiver up here you're talking about, 84, he's running an inbreaker.
55:31
Oh, that's- Okay … Henderson, I think.
55:32
Is that Henderson?
55:33
Yeah, I think so.
55:34
And so when we're looking at that, we're running- He- … right
55:37
into coverage here … ru- yeah.
55:38
And, and he's starting to go left also, so it's probably- Yeah.
55:41
So now- … not the last place to-
55:42
the Millro starts to escape out the pocket.
55:44
Now, because of scramble drill rules, you're gonna see
55:46
Henderson break and start.
55:48
Right.
55:48
Exactly.
55:48
And that's when he gives, throws up the mailbox.
55:51
Yeah, see, that's- Look, it's all wide open.
55:52
Here I am.
55:52
Yeah.
55:53
Now he's, now he's- And it's like, okay.
55:55
I've got, this guy wants to kill me, that guy wants to kill me,
55:57
I think I'll just go right here.
55:59
You know, you know who would've thrown this ball and put it o- on, on a line?
56:03
I don't know.
56:04
Caleb Williams?
56:05
Drew Lock.
56:06
Drew Lock.
56:06
Okay.
56:07
The hose would've tried it.
56:08
He would've tried it.
56:09
He would've tried it.
56:09
Probably.
56:10
Probably.
56:10
But, you know, yeah, it's a positive play in terms of, you know, we get,
56:15
we get a completion, but eh.
56:17
I don't know.
56:17
So what, what are you giving it?
56:18
I'm gonna give it a minus.
56:19
I, I- Okay … I just feel like you need to get to that check down soon.
56:22
I agree.
56:23
I agree.
56:23
And, you know, this is, it- the scoreboard's evening out a little
56:27
bit at this point- Yeah … but it's still, it's still…
56:30
M- again, remember, remember that, neutral is like, it
56:34
doesn't even really register.
56:35
You know?
56:35
It's not like, oh, it's neutral, therefore- Yeah … it's kinda bad.
56:38
That's not what it means.
56:39
Neutral means- You did your job- Y- … you're a professional.
56:41
Yeah.
56:42
Or there was nothing there you could've done, period, right?
56:44
Right.
56:45
So that, that's the other- Yeah … neutral.
56:46
So, okay.
56:46
So you did all you can do.
56:47
Yeah.
56:48
You know?
56:48
That, that's kinda where neutral is.
56:50
All right, in the gun again.
56:52
Let's see what we got.
56:53
A lot of gun.
56:54
We go empty.
56:54
A lot of gun, a lot of empty, and- Yeah … that is prevalent.
56:58
Yeah.
56:58
Well it, remember, he played primarily in gun, like exclusively in gun
57:03
a- Alabama even before Grubb, and then he got tainted by Ryan Grubb.
57:07
And, so this is what, this is what he's most familiar with.
57:12
So okay, let's throw him in gun.
57:13
So then we go empty.
57:16
We hit the top of our drop, back foot, and looks to be that we're trying to go middle
57:21
of the field at one, if I had to guess.
57:24
And that looks like the first…
57:26
'Cause this is, this is basically, like, maybe three or four because it's
57:30
one of your more of your underneath routes, but this is the first of your
57:34
deeper routes that's coming open.
57:37
Boy, I, I'm not throwing that football.
57:39
Nope.
57:40
Shouldn't.
57:40
So he doesn't throw that, and he, he, he wanted to for half a tick.
57:47
Pump fakes, steps up, and takes off Picks up two, three yards.
57:54
So let's look at it from the end zone angle, 'cause I think that's
57:56
a little more informative here.
57:58
again, remember, hard knocks.
58:01
Take the Ferrari out of the garage, Jalen.
58:03
The, the running is what makes you special, Jalen.
58:06
This is what makes it so we can't play man, Jalen.
58:08
We want you to run, Jalen.
58:11
He sees one, doesn't like it.
58:13
After he sees one, doesn't like it.
58:16
The Red Sea parts.
58:17
Yeah.
58:18
I, I, I- You've been coached to do this.
58:19
I hear you.
58:20
I mean, I, I think you and I would prefer, he's got 83.
58:24
He's just sitting there five yards, 10 yards downfield.
58:27
He's open.
58:28
He's open.
58:28
He's got space.
58:29
There's nobody there.
58:30
Yep.
58:30
It'd be nice to put that ball in his gut and let him turn around
58:32
to get, you know, two more yards.
58:34
Yep.
58:34
Not only that, but you're facing zone, you know, defender is facing you, so
58:38
they're gonna be able to track you down pretty quick, which they did, right?
58:41
Yep.
58:41
And, limited to a, a pretty, minimal gain here.
58:45
But yes, I, I don't, I don't see the reason to bail from this pocket other
58:50
than, run Jalen, take the Ferrari out of the garage- Yeah … Jalen.
58:53
You know?
58:54
The, to me, this is one of the worst ones on film so far because- Yep … A,
58:58
I think the pocket is still fine.
59:00
There's a pocket there.
59:01
Yeah.
59:01
And I think he has an outlet just sitting right in his, r- right in
59:05
his line of sight that he really just could have taken the easy yards that
59:10
quarterbacks need to take in the NFL.
59:12
Yep.
59:13
So didn't love that rep for Jalen.
59:15
that's a minus for me.
59:17
I agree.
59:18
Okay.
59:18
All right.
59:19
Last play right here, boys and girls.
59:21
It is fourth and two.
59:22
They are going for, a touchdown here to try to cap off, this drive
59:28
that the special team set up for him.
59:29
Foster Jr.
59:31
is actually gonna run the same exact route that he ran for
59:34
Drew Lock on the touchdown.
59:36
He's just doing it on the other side of the field.
59:38
So you're gonna see Foster Jr.
59:39
come, kind of bend it inside in…
59:42
Or let's see.
59:42
Break it outside and then bend it inside.
59:44
That's what we're trying to do.
59:45
So he's gonna come up, try to bend it outside, create some
59:47
separation, bend it inside.
59:49
And that's read one here for, for Milroe.
59:54
He takes the snap back foot.
59:55
This is where we're going.
59:57
We're trying to get to Foster Jr.
59:59
But look what happens.
1:00:01
This backer comes down.
1:00:03
It's a fortuitous bust.
1:00:03
A fortuitous bust.
1:00:07
Okay, Sean.
1:00:08
So he comes down and he does a great job, this backer, of getting
1:00:13
up on the receiver to muddy the picture, but then also continue down
1:00:17
to try to cover the back that's, that's coming out of the backfield.
1:00:20
Yeah.
1:00:21
Yeah.
1:00:21
I think the back coming out, who, who does, go basically, ends up getting
1:00:25
horizontal in a, a frame or two more is still interesting to me, but he's, but
1:00:29
the, the cowboy that you're pointing out to certainly took away the- Right.
1:00:33
But we only get time for one read here, Clinton- Yeah … because looky, looky.
1:00:36
Yeah, yeah.
1:00:37
What's going on?
1:00:38
Oh, we're getting beat a right tackle again around the edge, so that's fun.
1:00:42
Yeah … so also watch, watch Jalen's feet on this drop back.
1:00:48
There we go, and boom.
1:00:50
We're settled.
1:00:52
He wants to throw it right now.
1:00:54
He wants to throw it right now so bad.
1:00:55
I mean, yeah, you're at the two-yard line, right?
1:00:56
But, you know, and, and I'm not making a Seahawks joke.
1:00:58
I'm making a, everything's condensed down here.
1:01:01
This- Right … that's the timing is that's when you wanna get rid of the ball.
1:01:04
Otherwise- So- … it gets usually worse … yep.
1:01:06
So we do this little foot shuffle.
1:01:08
Watch his feet.
1:01:09
Little, like, rock front to back right here, just to try to buy
1:01:13
him some time because he feels that linebacker coming downhill.
1:01:16
Now he wants to throw it again, but by now, our other backer here has
1:01:21
recognized it, and he's gonna close.
1:01:25
I guess it's a safety type.
1:01:27
There we go.
1:01:28
He gets in, closes the lane.
1:01:30
But by that time, you're getting, you're getting harassed.
1:01:34
We're trying to get out of the pocket.
1:01:35
Cue the Benny Hill music.
1:01:37
Yeah.
1:01:37
we slip, right about here.
1:01:40
Jalen's like, "[bleep] my life."
1:01:44
"I hate this."
1:01:46
And, it's a sack, another touchdown.
1:01:48
Would not recommend.
1:01:49
Yeah.
1:01:50
Do not recommend.
1:01:51
Zero stars.
1:01:51
Zero stars.
1:01:52
Zero stars.
1:01:54
But yeah, you can see from the end zone angle here, he wants to throw it now.
1:01:57
I also don't love, you know, hopefully, again, this vanilla stuff.
1:02:02
You're not gonna break out your best on a fourth and two in the, in
1:02:05
the first preseason game, but boy, oh boy, are we really seemingly
1:02:09
purposefully with these routes jam in the middle of this field, too.
1:02:13
Like, there's- Yeah … there's four dudes, right, and, and
1:02:16
if he- Yeah, we're converging here, we're converging here- Yeah
1:02:18
and we got dude man in the middle, right?
1:02:20
It's just like you're, you're, it's already a condensed
1:02:21
space, and you're not…
1:02:23
Now I guess the other antithesis of that is you go, "Well, then what
1:02:25
do you wanna do, go throw a fade?"
1:02:27
Honestly, on fourth and two, not really.
1:02:29
I don't love a 50/50- No … fade on fourth and two.
1:02:32
I'd rather try to do a rub, get a guy open, and scheme it.
1:02:35
It just seemed like it just, they w- they, you know what, you
1:02:37
know what it seems like, Adam?
1:02:39
Yeah.
1:02:39
It seems like it was covered well, and they got pressure.
1:02:40
Yeah.
1:02:41
And, it also seems like if, yeah, the backer didn't take and kinda
1:02:46
help out with Foster there right at the beginning, this is a touchdown.
1:02:49
Yeah.
1:02:50
And it looks just like Drew Rock, Drew Lock's.
1:02:52
Well, Drew Lock has stones and threw it before, Foster
1:02:55
even, even turned around.
1:02:56
Yeah.
1:02:56
But- Yeah … he, but he could not do that here, Milroe, 'cause
1:03:00
he just, he was never open, so.
1:03:01
Oh, that stunk.
1:03:03
All right.
1:03:03
There we go.
1:03:04
So there, there you have it, folks.
1:03:06
Cool.
1:03:06
That's all of Jalen Milroe that we have for you guys today.
1:03:10
Well, let's tally, shall we?
1:03:11
Let's tally.
1:03:12
All right.
1:03:12
So let's give the, the volume first and foremost.
1:03:15
I'm gonna, I'm gonna count, to myself with- not aloud.
1:03:21
Okay, so Clinton's counting.
1:03:23
I think it was 17.
1:03:23
Everybody take a beat.
1:03:24
This could be a minute.
1:03:24
Yeah, I think it's 17.
1:03:26
Let me count that again.
1:03:27
Yeah.
1:03:27
Four, 10, two, three, four, five, six…
1:03:30
Yeah, 17.
1:03:31
So 17 drop backs.
1:03:33
17 total?
1:03:33
Yep.
1:03:33
All right.
1:03:34
Okay.
1:03:34
So where do you think…
1:03:36
How, how many pluses out of 17 you think we got?
1:03:38
Pluses.
1:03:39
Six?
1:03:40
We were seven.
1:03:42
Seven, okay.
1:03:42
Which is not like, you don't just divide this, folks, and go,
1:03:45
"Oh, seven out of 17, he stunk."
1:03:46
No.
1:03:47
Neutrals, we had one, two- Yeah … three, four, five- Are, are fine … six.
1:03:50
We had- Neutrals are fine.
1:03:51
We're not mad about neutrals.
1:03:52
No, again, it, again, neutral is, in this exercise, he did everything he could do.
1:03:57
Yeah.
1:03:57
Right?
1:03:57
It's not a negative.
1:03:59
Yeah.
1:03:59
There was six.
1:04:00
So 13 out of 17 were either neutral or positive, leaving four, and I
1:04:05
think if you watch this, and thank you, hit the subscribe, hit the like.
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Yeah.
1:04:09
If you watched this so far, I think it was pretty fair.
1:04:12
There were some neutrals that could have been positives.
1:04:14
There was some negatives where they were positive plays- Right … but
1:04:18
we think he made the wrong decision.
1:04:20
So I think- Yeah … you led this exercise in a really strong way, but
1:04:23
7 out of 17 purely positive, 13 out of 17 either neutral or positive.
1:04:29
And remember, some of those neutrals, he had, he could not do anything about it.
1:04:33
Right.
1:04:34
And if I'm looking at that, and we, we grade it out that way,
1:04:38
and if you guys disagree in the comments, please, like, let us know.
1:04:41
Yeah, let…
1:04:41
Please, please.
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Come share.
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that was a productive day for Jalen Milroe.
1:04:45
Lots of things to learn from.
1:04:47
Some positives, some negatives, some good no decisions, right?
1:04:51
Mm-hmm.
1:04:51
Like, don't throw that ball into traffic.
1:04:53
Don't do this, don't do that.
1:04:54
We didn't see the accuracy issues, you know?
1:04:56
We saw some getting through your progressions when, heaven forbid, the
1:05:01
threes gave him a, a beat to do it, right?
1:05:03
And I think that's a, a productive, overall positive day for your third-string
1:05:09
quarterback at the beginning of his second year, who hasn't seen live
1:05:14
bullets in almost a full calendar year.
1:05:17
Yeah.
1:05:17
The thing, looking back on the exercise, which I think was super,
1:05:21
super worthy, I hope people share this.
1:05:22
You know, please put it out there back on Twitter.
1:05:24
Share this with people.
1:05:26
Cl- take a, a segment, take a clip and, and give it to some
1:05:29
folks who might be screaming that Milroe's just no good at all.
1:05:32
The thing that stands out to me the most is not just like, okay, this is
1:05:35
pretty competent quarterback play.
1:05:37
That's evident by what we just went through.
1:05:38
Yeah.
1:05:39
And I was…
1:05:39
I did not know what this was gonna be.
1:05:41
I, I didn't see this footage nor know what you were gonna say about these, so that-
1:05:44
that's my, my, my legit live reaction.
1:05:47
The thing, the most important thing to me, Adam, is when his one was open- Yeah.
1:05:53
He fired the ball to the one when it was open, read it the right
1:05:57
way, and the placement when he had a little bit of time was good.
1:06:02
Yeah.
1:06:03
And it leads you to believe that with maybe a different supporting cast
1:06:07
around him, say, you know, guys that…
1:06:09
Like, they're okay at what they do, like Jaxon Smith-Njigba, or, you know, A.J.
1:06:14
Barner, or Shaheed, or, you know, be, be supported by a, a running game, or,
1:06:19
I don't know, maybe have tackles that, are, you know, they're, they're
1:06:23
mediocre I guess you'd say- … with, Charles Cross and Abe Lucas.
1:06:28
Like, golly.
1:06:30
It's just like with Sam Darnold, right?
1:06:32
Like- Yes … when he had garbage around him, like not a lot you can do with that.
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He finally started to get some real coaching, real players around
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him, and real opportunities, and now he's a Super Bowl champion.
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Yes, he is.
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Yes, he is.
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We, we are all Super Bowl champions because believe it or not, the Rams
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didn't win the Super Bowl last year, and they haven't been crowned- No
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Super Bowl champ this year, although the media still likes to do that.
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But this was fun.
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Hey, we're gonna put this out we think Thursday night, maybe
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Friday morning at this point.
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we'll figure that out.
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But I say that to say we get another bite at this apple in a couple of days.
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In fact- Yeah … we're gonna get the, the Tennessee practice reports
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streaming in to see, like, okay, that's gonna be some, some really cool stuff
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to see what's happening in Tennessee.
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But then we're gonna get, get a game Sunday where you can bet your
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bottom dollar we'll see more Milroe, and we'll get another chance to
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see, okay, I, I wanna, I wanna see, is he gonna, like…
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Is he gonna quote-unquote "let the Ferrari out more," or are we gonna block a little
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bit better for him this time around and he's gonna even improve from here?
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My biggest takeaway when, again, Mookie was on with us with Brandan
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at the, the after show- Yeah … I was like, "Hey," like I didn't
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think it was perfect, but markedly better from last year to this year.
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Yes.
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Like a big improvement.
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And with a team with three quarterbacks that just won the Super Bowl, that
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plays great defense- I, I, I don't know.
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I couldn't be more, it's not like happy, it's just more like this is the right
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pace to try to get Milroe to be a pr- really productive NFL quarterback.
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He's in the perfect scenario to see what he can be.
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So let it mature, and don't throw the baby out with one preseason
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game's worth of bathwater.
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That wasn't poor.
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Correct.
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That wasn't poor, right?
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Correct.
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Because to Mookie's credit, what he said, his, the way he described
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it, like there was some good stuff, but also too, like, you know,
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room for improvement in some spots.
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Like, Mookie's spot on.
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Tape don't lie.
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We just went through it.
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And if you guys found this valuable- Yes
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like, again, we're, we're not going crazy deep on all of these.
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If we did that, this would be a five-hour video.
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It's already an hour long.
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Like, if you like this, please do subscribe, share, and like, because we
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are likely gonna get m- demonetized, for doing this sort of content.
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And if you guys like it, we'd love to do more for you, because I
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actually find it quite enjoyable.
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I, I really do think that it's a good time.
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look, help us out if you can.
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And again, NFL, we're making you more money.
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We're making- … more fanatics and sickos like us to consume your product.
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So be, be nice.
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Be nice.
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And, and Adam, I think with that- There's only one thing left to say Go Hawks.
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Go Hawks.