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  Speaker 1: In this edition of Disguised Coverage, we're going to dive
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  Speaker 1: into the pistol formation, what it means conceptually, the best benefits,
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  Speaker 1: why it potentially fits the Bills, and the increased usage
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  Speaker 1: we saw against the New England Patriots tying into a
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  Speaker 1: bit of an upticking usage against.
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  Speaker 3: The Detroit Lions.
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  Speaker 1: The pistol offense is something I've been clamoring for a
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  Speaker 1: bit over the past several seasons for the Bills to
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  Speaker 1: incorporate more just because of the benefits it can have
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  Speaker 1: overall for any offense conceptually and schematically, but specifically how
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  Speaker 1: that would tie into the Bills offense given the skill
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  Speaker 1: set of Josh Allen, given how he likes to work,
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  Speaker 1: the traits that he has, what he's able to do,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought the pistol would really be something that
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  Speaker 1: could potentially unlock Allen and this offense further be kind
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  Speaker 1: of a force multiplier of sorts. And again that's just
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  Speaker 1: aside from the regular benefits that it offers the running
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  Speaker 1: back position, the quarterback position, the offense as a whole.
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  Speaker 1: Schematically and conceptually, we're going to get into those pieces.
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  Speaker 1: In this episode the benefits of the Pistol, We're going
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  Speaker 1: to dive into some film from the Bills victory against
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  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots to show some of those aspects
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  Speaker 1: and some of those pieces, and overall have a conversation
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  Speaker 1: about this formation, because again, it could just be a
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  Speaker 1: two week you know, one off or two off, I
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  Speaker 1: should say, with what we saw against Detroit, but the
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  Speaker 1: uptick we saw with it against the Patriots, We're starting
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  Speaker 1: to see more wrinkles in this offense in terms of
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  Speaker 1: concepts and schemes, and then this formation wrinkle. I think
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  Speaker 1: this could be something they start to lean into further
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  Speaker 1: going down the stretch. And again, regardless if they do
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  Speaker 1: or don't, I really do think it is a beneficial
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  Speaker 1: piece for this offense two wheeled now and or in
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  Speaker 1: the future, given the presence of Josh Allen, and again
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  Speaker 1: what it means conceptually overall. But to set the table
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  Speaker 1: for this conversation, there are reason I wanted to dive
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  Speaker 1: into it. During the game against the Patriots, just watching
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  Speaker 1: it on TV, I started to note all the plays
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  Speaker 1: in pistol. Not necessarily officially, I did that once I
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  Speaker 1: went through the tape and charted everything, but I just
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  Speaker 1: kept noticing pistol, pistol, pistol, because again, it's not something
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  Speaker 1: they really live it. It's not a dominant piece of
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  Speaker 1: their offense. It's not something that's just oh hohm, they're
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  Speaker 1: in pistol again. When they are in it, it makes
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  Speaker 1: me perk up a little bit, not just because I've
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  Speaker 1: always wanted them to incorporate more of it, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not something they regularly do. So game finished day after
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  Speaker 1: pulled some numbers. Wanted to see what that kind of
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  Speaker 1: reflection was in terms of usage rate out of pistol
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  Speaker 1: against New England Patriots, so that's what I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: bring up first here. So I have this graphic that
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  Speaker 1: shows pistol usage rate, shotgun usage rate, and under center
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  Speaker 1: usage rate against the New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 3: And you can see that.
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  Speaker 1: First column there out of the pistol thirteen plays for
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  Speaker 1: a twenty two point four percent usage rate, eight point
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  Speaker 1: nine yards per play, a plus one point two to
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  Speaker 1: one epa per dropback, which is crazy high. A plus
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  Speaker 1: zero point two to two epa per rush, also very successful.
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  Speaker 1: And then take a look at the black font on
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  Speaker 1: the bottom there that bills pistol usage rate against the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots this past Sunday was the highest pistol usage rate
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  Speaker 1: since Week one twenty twenty versus the New York Jets,
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  Speaker 1: where they had a rate of twenty four point seven percent,
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  Speaker 1: So a significant jump in terms of the volume, but
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  Speaker 1: also in terms of that percentage usage rate out of
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  Speaker 1: the entire offensive script they ran for this game, and
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  Speaker 1: then got shotgun usage rate in the middle under center
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  Speaker 1: usage rate to the right. You can see there for shotgun,
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  Speaker 1: the plays, the yards per play, the EPA per dropback,
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  Speaker 1: the EPA per rush, same thing for under center, shotgun
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  Speaker 1: being the dominant flavor for this game. But if you
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  Speaker 1: look at pistol, they're starting to creep in, almost like
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  Speaker 1: it replaced the under center game potentially for the Bills
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, or at the very least started to
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  Speaker 1: become a third incorporation in terms of alignment and formation.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's interesting to note that, just given how
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  Speaker 1: significant that usage rate was, the success they had out
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  Speaker 1: of it. Again, sample size isn't crazy. Thirteen plays, eight
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  Speaker 1: point nine yards per play. They had three passes out.
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  Speaker 3: Of it ten runs. Again, those three passes.
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  Speaker 1: Sample size does affect this, but a positive one point
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  Speaker 1: two one dropback, which is extremely successful, and then a
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  Speaker 1: positive zero point two two EPA per rush, which is
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  Speaker 1: a very good stat from an EPA perspective for the ground. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it could be just a two game blip. Saw a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of an uptick versus the season average against Detroit,
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  Speaker 1: even further against New England. I think this could be
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  Speaker 1: something that they will incorporate going forward. I would like
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  Speaker 1: them to incorporate it going forward, but again, could be
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  Speaker 1: just a two game blip either way, I do think
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  Speaker 1: it's important to note.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: You might be sitting there and say, why should I care?
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  Speaker 1: What's the big deal about pistol? Why does it matter?
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  Speaker 1: Why is it good?
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  Speaker 3: Why should we note this uptick in usage rate? What
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  Speaker 3: does it mean?
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  Speaker 2: So?
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  Speaker 1: I want to start with the benefits of it conceptually
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  Speaker 1: and what it means. I want to start with a
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  Speaker 1: quote from Sean McVay that he gave in an interview
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  Speaker 1: with Robert Mays of The Athletic back during the summer,
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  Speaker 1: tremendous video. If you have not watched it, or if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't listened to it on the podcasting apps or platforms,
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  Speaker 1: I suggest you do. It's about fifty nine minutes long.
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  Speaker 1: It's filled with tons of great details about football schematically
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  Speaker 1: and conceptually, but also a lot of just good life stuff,
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  Speaker 1: how McVeigh sees the game, how his approaches to coaching
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  Speaker 1: and being a leader, and culture and just as a
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  Speaker 1: father and person in general. It's really a tremendous job
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  Speaker 1: from McVeigh and Robert May's putting it together and orchestrating
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  Speaker 1: all of that. But this quote from Sean McVay, because
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  Speaker 1: the Rams did see a significant uptick in pistol in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and May's asked him about that. May's
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  Speaker 1: answer was, quote, pistol gave us the ability to activate
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  Speaker 1: different parts of our offense that maybe we would typically
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  Speaker 1: only run out of shotgun. And I thought there were
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  Speaker 1: some things about the run. The phasing and the spacing
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  Speaker 1: of the run game was very similar to being in
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  Speaker 1: the dot meaning under center. There's some differences, but it's
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  Speaker 1: very similar timing. You can keep the landmarks for the
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  Speaker 1: way you're hitting blocks the same because the back is
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  Speaker 1: still starting in the same location. And then he followed
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  Speaker 1: up with another comment after saying, you can just present
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  Speaker 1: more pre snap while not losing any part of your
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  Speaker 1: dot run game again dot meaning under center. So what
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  Speaker 1: do we pull from that From one of the best
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  Speaker 1: offensive mind in football talking about pistol, why he went
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  Speaker 1: into it, and again some of those advantages tying into
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  Speaker 1: what McVeigh said, but overall just conceptually of why teams
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  Speaker 1: lean into the pistol. The whole idea is being able
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  Speaker 1: to kind of marry and merge the best pieces of
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  Speaker 1: the under center game with the shotgun game, so you
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  Speaker 1: can stay in shotgun essentially for your quarterback while being
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  Speaker 1: able to use a more expansive menu of zone and
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  Speaker 1: gap run concepts from the under center world. Your run
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  Speaker 1: game menu is more limited out of shotgun, and it's
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  Speaker 1: harder to also get a downhill game and at you
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  Speaker 1: through you type of run game out of shotgun because
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  Speaker 1: of the running backs placement, under center limits you a
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  Speaker 1: bit from maximizing your quarterbacks mobility. It limits RPOs also
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  Speaker 1: makes your quarterback have to turn their back to the
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  Speaker 1: defense in order to run. Play action pistol can allow
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  Speaker 1: you to get downhill in the run while still being
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  Speaker 1: able to attack the width of the defense and incorporate
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  Speaker 1: the QB is a run threat for more natural organic
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  Speaker 1: type of dynamic and so that's kind of the overall
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  Speaker 1: advantages of it. When we're talking and high level and
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  Speaker 1: we break it down, I want to get into it
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  Speaker 1: conceptually and then from the QB position in the running
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  Speaker 1: back position conceptually, and I talked about this a bit
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  Speaker 1: and the advantages it allows you to more naturally organically
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  Speaker 1: incorporate a quarterback's mobility like boots or read elements, for example,
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  Speaker 1: while still being able to get to core under center
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  Speaker 1: run concepts. Like I mentioned earlier, your run game menu
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  Speaker 1: is reduced in Shotgun, especially with regard to gap scheme
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  Speaker 1: runs in terms of what you can get to and
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  Speaker 1: how effective you can be with what you can get to.
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  Speaker 1: With pistol, there's more variety in the run game along
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  Speaker 1: with built in answers versus multiple fronts. It's easier to
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  Speaker 1: both run through a defense or around a defense. Like
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  Speaker 1: McVeigh talked about in that quote that I read, the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line aim points and angles the quote unquote landmarks
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  Speaker 1: that McVeigh talked about are similar or the same as
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  Speaker 1: they are under center. So the angles your offensive line
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  Speaker 1: entertaking or the blockers, you know, if we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: tight ends and guys attached to the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: The angles that they're taking plus the track of the
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  Speaker 1: running back means you can still hit those under center
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  Speaker 1: run concepts that give you that versatility. Out of pistol.
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  Speaker 1: You can effectively work gap schemes and zone. You can
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  Speaker 1: lean into outside zone, or you could spam duo or
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  Speaker 1: a counter or power, and you can do this without
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  Speaker 1: sacrificing the beneficial elements that shotgun provides you overall for
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  Speaker 1: the offense and for your quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: You can also disguise your.
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  Speaker 1: Intentions and high tendencies a bit more because you can
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  Speaker 1: get to more from a formational perspective in terms of
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  Speaker 1: bodies that you're attaching to the line of scrimmage or
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  Speaker 1: who's hipped off, the personnel that you can lean into
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  Speaker 1: as well. All of these little additives and auxiliary pieces
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  Speaker 1: that add to disguising your intentions and hiding your tendencies
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  Speaker 1: all within that idea of just having your quarterback be
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  Speaker 1: in the pistol. The alignment of the quarterback and running back,
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  Speaker 1: so all of these things kind of stack, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where that force multiplier piece I talked about earlier comes
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  Speaker 1: in again. The defense knows your run game is limited
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  Speaker 1: to a degree out of shotgun, So when you get
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  Speaker 1: into pistol, they have to account for more because they
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  Speaker 1: have to account for those under center elements and no
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  Speaker 1: shotgun elements. And that downhill run presence that the pistol
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  Speaker 1: affords you also means you could potentially open up the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the defense a little bit more with play action,
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  Speaker 1: suck them in a little bit more, create more separation
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  Speaker 1: between that second and third level when we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: from the quarterback standpoint. Again, I mentioned a couple of
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  Speaker 1: these pieces, but being in the shotgun in general, it's
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  Speaker 1: a better vantage point for a quarterback. So being in
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  Speaker 1: the pistol still allows the quarterback to see the field
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  Speaker 1: more or from a better vantage point like they would
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  Speaker 1: in shotgun, which is obviously beneficial to them and to.
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  Speaker 3: The entire pass game.
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  Speaker 1: By extension, you can run play action with or without
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  Speaker 1: turning your back to the defense. When you are in pistol,
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  Speaker 1: you have the option of either Some quarterbacks like it,
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  Speaker 1: some quarterbacks don't in terms of turning your back to
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  Speaker 1: the defense. When you turn your back to the defense
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  Speaker 1: or play action, it can help you hide the ball
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  Speaker 1: and sell that play action or that run fake a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more. But it can also make life a
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  Speaker 1: little harder or more difficult on a QB because you
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  Speaker 1: have to turn your back and then turn back around
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  Speaker 1: read the coverage or any pre to post snap chain
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  Speaker 1: from the defense. So it can be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more added stress from a mental perspective, and then also
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  Speaker 1: again from a quarterbacks perspective, you can still maintain traditional
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  Speaker 1: passing concepts in pistol while also having that blend to
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  Speaker 1: play action. Again, it really is that marriage or merging
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  Speaker 1: of the best elements from under center and the best
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  Speaker 1: elements from shotgun. When we talk about the running back,
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  Speaker 1: the vision for the running back is similar or the
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  Speaker 1: same as being in the dot like Sean McVay referenced earlier,
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  Speaker 1: and being in that type of position, having that space
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  Speaker 1: and that depth to work with. It gives the running
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  Speaker 1: back more time to read and attack as they have
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  Speaker 1: a runway to work from a deeper depth as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to a shallower depth and less runway slash time when
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  Speaker 1: they're lined up in the shotgun. You give the running
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  Speaker 1: back the opportunity to build up speed, have more time
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  Speaker 1: to flow, to read, pick their spot, get north and
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  Speaker 1: south and attack or you know again, you can bounce
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  Speaker 1: it outside, there's just more options while giving the running
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  Speaker 1: back time, vision, the runway to get downhill attack.
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  Speaker 3: And variety of forms and fashions.
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  Speaker 1: So there's benefits to the running back, there's benefits to
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback. There's benefits conceptually and schematically to the offense
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  Speaker 1: as a whole, all of that tying into pros for
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  Speaker 1: the offense.
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  Speaker 3: And then cons potentially for the defense.
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  Speaker 1: So I wanted to put all of that into perspective,
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  Speaker 1: the metrics and some of the data from this past
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  Speaker 1: game against the Patriots, why that matters, Why that's important,
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  Speaker 1: what pistol means. I thought that quote from Sean McVay
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  Speaker 1: again one of, if not the best offensive mind in
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  Speaker 1: all of football, putting that formation into perspective of why
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  Speaker 1: he pivoted to it in twenty twenty three and what
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  Speaker 1: it allowed him to do. Again, a little bit different
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  Speaker 1: because of what kind of quarterback Matthew Stafford is versus
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen. But that's why I think the pistol is
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  Speaker 1: even more exciting for a team like the Bills. Pistol
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  Speaker 1: allows you to incorporate more natural run game elements from
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  Speaker 1: your quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Even again if.
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  Speaker 1: It's just read read option stuff or boots, any type
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  Speaker 1: of movement. The pistol allows you to take advance and
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  Speaker 1: or maximize that mobility even further. And when you've got
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback like Josh Allen who is great on the
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  Speaker 1: move in terms of by design with the run or
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  Speaker 1: scrambling and running or scrambling to throw, being able to
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  Speaker 1: maximize his athleticism, being able to maximize that mutant alien
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  Speaker 1: unicorn ability that he has, really is a tremendous piece.
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  Speaker 1: And especially as you go towards the playoffs and get
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  Speaker 1: into the playoffs, this isn't the aspect of the season
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  Speaker 1: where Okay, you know it's early on, it's September, it's October,
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  Speaker 1: let's keep some things.
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  Speaker 3: In the bag. Well, let's make sure we keep everybody healthy.
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  Speaker 1: As you get into the playoffs, you are emptying the
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  Speaker 1: clip with anything and everything you got, trying to survive
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  Speaker 1: in advance with each week, and that means maximizing everyone
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  Speaker 1: in everything. So the pistol being able to maximize what
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen can do with his arm, but also with
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  Speaker 1: his legs, it gives you the opportunity to fully empty
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  Speaker 1: the clip, not just for Josh Allen, but for the
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  Speaker 1: entirety of this offense in weaponizing Josh Allen and what
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  Speaker 1: that means by extension for the rest of the players
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of the as a unit conceptually and schematically.
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  Speaker 1: With that being said, let's dive into the tape and
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  Speaker 1: see how the pistol works for the Bills against the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: This past weekend got eight plays that we are going
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  Speaker 1: to dive into from the Bills victory against the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots. Again, like I mentioned earlier in Like the
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  Speaker 1: Graphics show thirteen plays out of pistol for the Bills
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  Speaker 1: in this game, We're going to go through eight of
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  Speaker 1: them to highlight the conceptual pieces, the advantage pieces that
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  Speaker 1: I talked about earlier that Sean McVay mentioned in that
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  Speaker 1: quote that I read several of these plays myself and
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  Speaker 1: Eric went over in the film room. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to dive into them as much as we did
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  Speaker 1: in the film room from an individual player standpoint or
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  Speaker 1: play standpoint, but I want to highlight them in this
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  Speaker 1: conversation in the scope of pistol, what it means, the
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  Speaker 1: advantages and the benefits, like we talked about earlier, and
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  Speaker 1: like we went over earlier in this episode. So this
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  Speaker 1: first play is the James Cook touchdown, run the outside
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  Speaker 1: zone or stretch look from the bills out of offset pistol,
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  Speaker 1: Cook gets shifted into the backfield by Josh Allen. We
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  Speaker 1: saw that a bunch in this game, kind of initial
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  Speaker 1: shotgun alignment, Cook being next to Josh Allen. Allen would
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  Speaker 1: shift Cook behind him, or he'd do it with Ty Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: We saw this a multitude of time, shifting from shotgun
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  Speaker 1: to pistol, which I thought was a nice little touch,
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  Speaker 1: Just another little wrinkle to throw at defenses. Anytime you
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  Speaker 1: can throw more stuff at a defense, I'm a fan of,
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  Speaker 1: as long as you're not gumming up that works too
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  Speaker 1: much and putting too much stress on yourself. Offensively offset pistol. Look,
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  Speaker 1: here's Allen, here's Cook got the pistol offset. Just alluding
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  Speaker 1: to Reggie Gillium being over here. Reggie Gillium had a
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: good game in this one. Saw an increased snapshare and
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: usage rate this week. I don't think it's coincidental that
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: it happened in line with more pistol usage. He's a hammer,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: but also gives you some versatility because of his athleticism.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: You can align him as a true fullback, kind of
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: a quasi tight end or h back. What he can
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: do as a blocker against a variety of body types
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and skill sets. Also has enough athleticism kind of get
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: out in the past, maybe catch some balls, get two
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: or three catches a game type of deal.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Incorporation of more regigillium into the offense, and what he
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: means from a physicality and athleticism perspective in terms of
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: that overall combination.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Outside zone. Here we go. Al's gonna snap the ball here.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Really good job up front, highlighted here by Connor McGovern,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: just really attacking his man, almost jump sets him on
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: the snap. He snaps the ball, he's out of the gate,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: chops down, gets great positioning, turn leverage established, but butt
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and back to James Cook to create that alley. Reggie
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Gilliam's gonna do a really good job partnering with Alec
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Anderson here to widen the hole. You're gonna get nice
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: communication and tandem work between David Edwards and Dion Dawkins
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: here on that block.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: And then this is where we kind of.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Talk about that runway a little bit, right, So let's
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: watch James Cook get this ball go in real time
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Now we'll go slow motion. So here we go.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: He's taken that outside zone angle, eyeser up, and this
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: is when I talk about that runway. He's got the
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: time because he's coming from a deeper depth, because he's
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: coming from the dot. He's got the time to survey,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: see what's going on, and then he has the juice
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: to put his foot in the ground, get north and
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: south and get downhill. Maybe this isn't the best concept
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: if you have a slower, more plotting type of running
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: back without the juice or the explosivity that you would like.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: So you can take Cook and.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Allow him that time, allow that runway, and then when
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: he sees it, he can hit it and pop off
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: for a big run because he's got the juice and
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: because he's got the explosiveness. Also, because the Bills have
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a good offensive line, they can hold onto these blocks
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: a little longer, affording James Cook the time to read,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: get downhill, hit the hole, and take advantage of that runway.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: If you have an offensive line that can't hold their
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: blocks as long, or like I mentioned, if you have
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: a running back that doesn't have that juice or that
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: kind of foot speed. Maybe this isn't something that you
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: can kind of hit with regularity. But Cook as the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: juice the offensive line is good. Also, Let's watch o
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Cyrus Torrance getting on as giddy up to get to
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the second level and make a good block. And this
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: is Cook just taking advantage of the runway, figuring out
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: where he wants to go. This could be an option,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: This could be an option, but it's still.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: A little muddy.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: He's reading, he's watched, He's taking advantage of the runway.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: He sees what starts to develop, and here he sees
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the great block from Connor McGovern, he sees Torrens climbing,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: he sees Edwards, so he's like, you know what, let
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: me put my foot in the ground, let me get here.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Mapu is coming from depth.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: He's here. Cook is going to go here, take advantage.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: He's off to the races. Matt Collins knows it. He's pointing.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Brown is pointing, Torrens is pointing, Gilliam is pointing. One
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: last piece I want to point out here. Eric and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I talked about it in the film room this week,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: the impact of Josh Allen's mobility on the defense. Watch
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: as Alan gives the ball here to Cook, he executes
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: kind of like that playfake, like okay, you know my booting?
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Am I booting? Do I still have the ball? Here?
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: I go? And he goes.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It just holds some defenders back here, and it's a
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: big impact on this play because it holds Dougger. If
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: we watch number twenty three, it holds Dugger just enough.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Number twenty three right here does a good job holding
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: him just enough.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: He comes down, he stops a little bit.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: It's just that little hesitation and honoring Josh Allen and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: then Cook has the juice.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Dougertas isn't able to get there and Cook is off
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: to the races.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: So nice play to start off with a big house
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: call for James Cook out of the offset pistol. The
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: next play that we're going to get into is counter
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: with blast motion again from offset pistol. Extra offensive lineman
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: in the game, as we did on that first play
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: to James Cook.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: This is that first play again. What do we have here?
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Reggie Gilliam in the offset Alec Anderson is the sixth
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: offensive lineman, but essentially he's lined up as a tight
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: end here, but he's not a tight end, he's a
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: next offensive lineman the Bills continuing to lean into that
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: with this next play. Also notice the formational similarities here right,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: We've got the formation into the field side here where
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Gilliam is, where Anderson is, and then all the space
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: on the field over here because they are in the
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: boundary on this side. So we've got the formation to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the field, extra offensive lineman, offset pistol, very similar to
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: what we had on this first play. This is own
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: run to James Cook. This house call, extra offensive lineman
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Reggie Gillium over here, formation into the field ball on
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the far hash right. So a similar formation, a similar
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: personnel grouping, a similar presentation. But now we're gonna get
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: a gap scheme run, and we're gonna get it with
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a unique presentation. We talked about it in the film
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: as well, So I'm not gonna dive too much into
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the blast motion piece here. I just want to highlight
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the versatility of coming out with same personnel grouping, similar formation,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: formation into the field, presenting that same type of Look
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: what Sean McVay mentioned, what I mentioned after that, you know,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: being able to make the defense have to account for
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: multiple things, because you can come out with this same
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: type of look and get to a multitude of schemes
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and a multitude of concepts, all within a similar presentation
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and similar initial design pre snap. So we're gonna get
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: that counter. Alec Anderson's gonna come in that blast motion.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Reggie Gilliam's gonna follow him. What I really like about
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: this play is that blast motion from Alec Anderson Number seventy.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: This play is a counter.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: It essentially plays out like GF counter, which just means
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: you know, you have the guard and the full back,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: are your pollers there. It essentially just plays out like
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: GF counter because of where Anderson is on the snap,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and again we have that similar presentation to the Cook play,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the play before that we just looked at. So here
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: comes Alec Anderson in that blast motion. He's peeking inside,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: he's already waiting. Alan gives him the signal. Here he
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: goes great snap timing here, so Alan snaps it and
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: when the ball is snap, this is what I'm saying,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Like normally in a GF counter, you know, there's your
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: guard pulling and then here comes the full back to
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: lead through. Now you've got Anderson, who's the tight end
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: leading that through and then Gilliam is following behind him.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: But it's the timing of it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: So essentially, Anderson, even though he's the tight end and
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: he's coming in that blast motion, it's almost like he's kind.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Of pulling from the guard spot based on the time.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, on this snap, we'll let the play run here,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Eric goes Anderson, He's gonna meet the edge. Nice collision
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: with Anthony Jennings. Gilliam is looking for that playside backer.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: It gets a little muddy ray Davis sees the crease
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: develop and he hits it. Also a nice little backside
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: element here if you watch, here's Kyle Duggar on the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: screen up here, We're gonna get a push crack from
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Mac Collins who is off screen here, but he's gonna
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: come and he's gonna push.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Crack on Kyle dugger There.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Play this play in real time a couple times so
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: you can see blast motion. There goes Anderson, edge, Gilliam's
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: looking for that playside backer. You saw Holland's crack on Dougger.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: So again, similar presentation to what we just saw, but
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: instead of running outside zone, you run a gap scheme,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and a gap scheme that the Bills don't lean into
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: a lot. The Bills haven't run counter a bunch this year,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and they definitely haven't run with this type of blast
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: motion that we see. We see the Packers run this
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: blast motion. You'll see the Rams run this blast motion again.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: College NFL. You're seeing a lot of the trends that
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: we're seeing across good football offenses at multiple levels. College
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, you're seeing Joe Brady start to incorporate
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: more of those elements into the Bills offense this season
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: to start the season, and as the season has gone on.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Next player we're going to look at is pretty much
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the same play that we just looked at, except as
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: being run with James Cook instead of Ray Davis. But again,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: notice the similarities to the previous two plays. Formation into
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the field, extra offensive lineman aligned as that tight end,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: offset pistol, Reggie Gilliam in the game again, formation in
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the field, all that kind of stuff. First time we
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: showed it, they ran that house call outside zone at
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: James Cook. The second time we showed it, we got
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: that counter look with Ray Davis and Gilliam and Anderson.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Now we're gonna get that same counter look again we're
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: gonna get that blast motion from Anderson. We're gonna get
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Reggie Gilliam following him, and then James Cook following both
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: of them. This time it works out a little bit
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: more as designed. You're gonna get boom and there on
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the edge. Gilliam is going to flow through to the linebacker,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and then James Cook is just going to follow and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: get a field. Another eight yard game again, some good
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: blocks and a good job from the offensive line. But
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: my point in highlighting it is what the pistol affords you,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you know, being able to get to this type of
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: counterlook and the runway again for James Cook similar to
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the runway for Ray Davis on that play before Davis
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: was able to read the how the blocks were developing,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and then he punctured and got up inside and got
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: north and south really quick. Cook here he's gonna step,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: he's gonna follow. Look how he's able to pace it
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: an attack the hole. You get that runway, you're able
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: to come from depth, you have the time, you have
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the vision to be able to survey, to read and
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: then get north and south in attack. A good downhill
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: aspect here that can puncture in a multitude of ways,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: depending on how the front develops, depending on how the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: blocking scheme aligns and plays out. That's part of the
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: advantage is too, like I mentioned earlier, right, being able
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to use this against a multitude of fronts because you've
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: got more bodies attached to the line of scrimmage. So
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you just have to have rules for who's picking up who.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: But you have those rules in place, knowing, okay, if
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: your backside gap is filled, what your responsibility is. If
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: it's not, what your responsibility is, So you can come
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: out here and still work some double teams. You can
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: still get some one on ones. The angles are still present,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the landmarks are still there, advantageous and or similar to
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the under center game, all while being in shotgun and
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: having the opportunity to have advantageous pass game aspects if
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: they wanted to pass out of this similar look. This
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: next play that we're going to look at is going
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to be another offset pistol formation into the field like
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: we showed for the first three plays. This time we're
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: gonna get Reggie Gilliam motioned into the offset pistol. Gillium
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: is far outside here before the play starts, Alan is
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: going to motion him in and we're gonna get more
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: of a traditional counter with Matt Collins kind of setting
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: an influence block on the edge on an for Jennings.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: So when I say more traditional counter, it's kind of
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: what I talked about earlier, kind of you know, you'll
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: get GT counter gf GH. That guard is the polar
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: he's kicking out the edge, and then you're getting a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: tackle or an h back or a full back leading
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: through looking for that linebacker that first guy in through
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the hole. Good job here form Mac Collins. Like I
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: mentioned on Anthony Jennings, this is a mismatch. Anthony Jennings
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: is great against the run. You don't want Mac Collins
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: blocking him. That's a disadvantageous aspect for the Bills. So
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: you're going to get Hollins influencing him a little bit,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and then you can get a pull from Torrance, and
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get Reggie Gilliam following Osirius Torrance in that regard.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: So let's watch Hollins first number thirteen on the snap
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: lines up. Hey, I'm gonna block you. I'm gonna block
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: you and go to block you psych I'm moving forward.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Now here comes Torrance to crack the edge. Not literally
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a crack bug, I just mean crack like pop him boom,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and then we get Gilliam boom onto Vy.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: So we get hat on a hat.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Hollins after that influence is now climbing up to get
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Kyle Duggar.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Inside is all muddy and all gummed up.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Ray Davis does a good job bouncing this, gets one
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: on one with the corner, makes him miss, gets first down.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: So now what have we shown out of this? We've
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: shown outside zone, we've shown that blast motion counter, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: now we've shown more of a traditional counter. Watch how
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen is opening and again keep that in mind too.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: We talked about it maximizing the mobility of the quarterback,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: whether it's on bootlegs and stuff tied to play action
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: or if you want to run read option or zone
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: read or RPOs and have more of that modern ad
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: triple option type of feel. Watch how Allen goes here,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and this again is what you can build on for later.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Here goes Alan, he opens up, he's given it to
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Ray Davis. This is just a run play here, but
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: maybe this ties into a read later and he's keeping it,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: or maybe this turns into a read and he's keeping
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: it and maybe we're leaking Dawson Knox over or we're
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: running a little tight end delay it a little bit.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: There's all these levels and layers to which you can
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: build off of of this formation, this design, and where
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: things go from there because you can get to multiple pieces,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: initially as a foundational aspect conceptually with the pistol, and
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: then all the little layers and bells and whistles you
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: can attach to it going forward, fun and exciting stuff
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: for the Bills to get to a good job by
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Ray Davis seeing the muddiness, bouncing it, making a guy miss,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: gets the first down. This next play we're going to
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: show is Ty Johnson running midzone, showing this one to
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: kind of again put into perspective the shotgun, and then
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Alan motioning or shifting the running back into the back.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: We saw it a bunch in this game, but it
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: made each play longer, and I didn't want to keep
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: showing it and showing it and showing it. But it
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: was happening on a multitude of these plays, including several
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: of the ones we've already shown. So here's Ty Johnson
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: initially aligned at Josh Allen's depth, Alan signals to him,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: hey go back there, and he's like, hey, did you
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: not see me?
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Go back there? Sweet?
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Ty Johnson gets into the dot, gets behind Alan. We
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: are now in the pistol and showed that first run
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: for James cook outside zone. This one more of a
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: mid zone type of run. Outside zone run, your aim
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: point is the inside leg of the tight end. The
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: mid zone run is more on that inside leg of
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the offensive tackle. So it's just a difference of you know,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: going this way versus going this way. With the track,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: it can be a little money to read it times
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: because you're hitting a move in target. But you can
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: see the difference between Johnson's trajectory here on this run
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: versus what Cooks was on the first play that we showed.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: No offset pistol here. We don't have Reggie Gilliam in
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the backfield, we don't have a six offensive lineman in
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: in Alec Anderson. This time, we've got knocks attached to
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the formation. We've got Mac Collins attached to the formation here,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: so we got a seven man surface, but we don't
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: have a heavy look and we're just gonna run.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Mid zone to Ty Johnson. There goes tie. You can
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: see his track.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: This actually develops nicely, but Anthony Jennings number thirty three,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: gets free.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: He gets through.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Knocks, but Johnson does a really good job here making
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: a miss. Hollins is blocking Gonzales downfield. Johnson's able to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: put a shoulder down and get through Dugger a little bit.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Turns this no five yard game kind of probably maybe
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: should have been dead to rights in the backfield as
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Jennings gets through. And again, what do we have here,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Ty Johnson coming from the pistol, coming from that depth,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: having that time to read and react and survey and attack.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: What is going on in front of him?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Alan's gonna put him to the dot, gonna get the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: ball again, gets that runway.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Where do I want to go? Do I want to
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: put my foot in the ground and get north and south?
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Now? Do I want to string this out and maybe
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: think I can turn the corner? Do I maybe want
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to string it out a little bit and then get
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: north and south and puncture the defense. He's able to read,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: have that vision, have that landscape, to be able to
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: see and assess and survey, have that time, and then
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: he's got the ability to make a move and attack,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: and then the offensive line again we talked about it earlier,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: like the offensive line and even Hollins like, these guys
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: hold their blocks, so he's got that time to survey
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: and attack. Spencer Brown does a good job climbing and
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: this turns into a nice five yard game because those
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: blocks are sustained, because they're moving downfield, because they're getting
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: hats on hats and being effective, and a good job
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: by Tid Johnson, but again having that runway coming from
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: that depth, affording him that time to survey and assess
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  Speaker 1: and go forward. The next three plays we're going to
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: show are the three pass plays that the Bills had
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: out of Pistol. Again, a one point two to one
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: EPA per dropback in this game, which is just absolutely
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: unreal from a numbers perspective. And this person one here Again,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get too much into the concepts or
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: everything that's happening here, but it's just Josh Allen to
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Khalil Shakir.
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  Speaker 3: Why does this matter?
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: In the concept of pistol, Alan is in that shotgun depth.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: He has the field vision, He's able to read and
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: scan and go through his progressions in order to find
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Khalil Shakir. So we're gonna get some pistol. Here, here
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  Speaker 1: goes to snap. Let's watch Alan. He's immediately going to
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: his left to the bottom of the screen. He's going
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: from one to two. Do I like what's going on
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: down there? And it's a little muddy. Gonzalez is on Knox,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Jennings is underneath Hollins. I don't like that. Let me
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: get my eyes back to the right. Okay, I'm starting
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: to scramble a little bit. Sequrre does a good job
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: working to open space. Alan throws him too that open
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: space and he hits Khalil secure. When you are in shotgun,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: you have that ability to see the field better and
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: or just have a better vantage point to survey and
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: see the field instead of being under center. And then
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: that combined with you don't have all the steps and
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: the footwork requirements to go from under center to hit
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the top of your drop. Alan's able to just get
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the ball, take a couple of steps comfortably. He's able
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: to survey while he is taking those steps. And those
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: those steps, even if I'm not playing it in slow mo,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: those steps in real time are just calm and cool.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to hustle and get to the top
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: of his drop like he's coming from under center. Bo
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: surveys and he hits sequiro show from the end zone
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: angle here at the end zone angle would do a
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: good job if this feel post just wasn't stupid and
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: literally right in the way of the camera angle. But
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: you can still see the little bit. Alan snaps it.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: He's looking to the left. You can see doesn't have anything,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: doesn't have anything. Okay, let me go to the right.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: But he's able to sit and bounce at the top
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: of his drop. Survey scan get through his progressions tied
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to that shotgun depth, but coming from the pistol, and again,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: good job from Secure to make that move to find space.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Another pass out of pistol here this time we're gonna
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: get this escort swing, something we've seen from the Bills
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and a lot of teams in football now college and
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: the NFL becoming kind of a favorable thing.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: To look at.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: So we've got the pistol, Reggie gilliam is in the game.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get, you know, some fake blast or jet motion,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: and then he's gonna get a return.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Alan, there you go.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: What do we see again that initial kind of shotgun
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: look Allen signals the back to get into the backfield.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: So we saw a ton in this game. So now
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: we are in the pistol.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: There goes Reggie Gilliam coming in blast motion or jet psych.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: I'm going back.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: We're gonna fake the toss a little bits or fake
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: the pitch, I should say.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Alan looks to the middle of the field.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: It didn't really suck up these defenders in the second level.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Knox is pretty well covered, Hollins isn't necessarily coming away
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: with anything. So Alan sits surveys, takes his time, checks
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: it down to Cook, who has advantage because it's Gilliam
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: one on one with a corner as a blocker. And
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: now this is really good run defender. Anthony Jennings out
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: in space. Him out in space is not something the
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Patriots want and definitely don't want that against James Cook
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Bank Cook with the juice to get up field. But
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: again tying this into pistol, the depth that Alan is
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: at watch as this play action comes through. He doesn't
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: have to turn his back. The initial run action from
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the pistol flows into the escort swing, so the natural
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: flow of everything, Alan being able to scan and see
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: that the play, isn't there. Similar to what we talked
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: about in the first play, right, he doesn't have to
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: take as many steps, he doesn't have to hustle. With
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: this footwork and with this pace to get to the
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: top of his drop coming from under center, he's able
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: to fake that little pitch and now look at he's
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: already at the top of his drop, allowing him to
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: scan and look and see what he's got going on there.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Doesn't have anything cool, just check it down.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: This is first down, nice easy button type of play,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and cook makes something out of nothing and gets the
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: first down. Also, I pointed this out in the film room.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I want to point it out again here. Amari Cooper
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: just absolutely cooks the corner down here with his release.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Bang.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, poor guy one more time.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: It looks more like he loses his footing more than anything.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Oh just yeah, falls rug gets pulled out right from
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: under him, but again tying into the pistol right. Having
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: this formation but not losing those quarterback friendly shotgun passing
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: elements even though you are in this formation and it
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: allows you to get to more within a run game world.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: This last play that we're going to look at here
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: is play action from the pistol. Now we have that
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: offset look with Reggie Gilliam in the backfield, no heavy look,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: traditional tight end here over here, No Alec Anderson got
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: that offset. This time we're gonna get the play action.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: We are going to have Josh Allen turn his back
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: to the defense, which again can be a benefit because
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: you're hiding the ball a little bit more, playing more.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Games with the defense.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: But again the key less footwork and less steps needed
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: to hit the top of his drop because he is
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: in shotguns. So you still have that downhill run game threat.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: You still have that conceptual schematic potential diversity variability that
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the pistol affords you. But you've got some of those
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: shotgun passing elements attached that are QB friendly, making it
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: easier on the quarterback.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Alan's gonna snap the ball, turns his back.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Again, Boom, he's at the top of his drop. We
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: get a nice pocket. He's got time. He's already scanning
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and reading and at the top of his drop and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: now he's just bouncing on the balls of his feet,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: waiting for the route distribution to unfold, waiting for the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: coverage to unfold. And he does a really good job
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: you're gonna watch him just peek a little bit towards
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: James Cook down here, which is gonna move Kyle Dugger
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: just enough this way so Alan can fire into this
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: window and hit Keon Coleman.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Little peak there from Alan.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: There it is let me open up a little bit
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: to move Dougger, bang and fire at dot to Keon Coleman.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: So this is really good stuff from Alan, right, But
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: talking about it within the idea of the pistol. He's
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: afforded that time, he's afforded that vantage point. He's afforded
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: this all because of the formation those quarterback friendly shotgun
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: elements being merged and married with the potential of under
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: center core run game work, that blend of both worlds,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: that marriage of both worlds, that meshing and marriage of
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: all of it coming together. And this all right, this
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: is just running back runs and Alan making three successful
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: plays through the air with his arm.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: This isn't even getting into the crazy world that I
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: talked about of the quarterback run game stuff like what
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Philly does with Jalen Hurts. This isn't even unlocking your
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: quarterback as a weapon with his legs and on the ground.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: We didn't see a ton of boots here. We didn't
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: see a ton of QB design run stuff or read
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: elements or option elements. This is just like the bare
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: bones of it, and we saw success because of the
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: formational advantages with it and how the Bills are from
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: a run game standpoint with their running backs and offensive line.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: So this is kind of like the base layer foundation.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: This isn't even really getting into the hell you can
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: fully put a defense in. This is just the core
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: ideology of pistol at this point. So if they continue
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: to build on this and add layers, and they decide
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: to unleash Josh Allen to his full potential and empty
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: that clip come playoff time or going forward, this is
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: something I expect to see.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: I expect them to lean into the pistol a little
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: bit more.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: And maybe that's just you know, the heart wanting what
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: it wants from me potentially. So those are eight of
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: the thirteen pistol plays that the Bills ran against the
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: New England Patriots and had success with against the New
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: England Patriots. Again, like I just mentioned, I do expect
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: this to continue a little bit and I just really
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: really really really hope it does. The base level stuff
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: that we just saw there. The run game, versatility and
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: the overall dynamics you add to the offense were present
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: in some of what we showed, right, it all just
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: gets amplified when you start to add the read elements
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: and the Josh Allen design run game and now maybe
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: do we want to incorporate some bash and do we
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: want to have some RPOs or do we want to
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: have read option or just you know, QB power and
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: QB sweep stuff, and then tying that into having some
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: tight end delayer and some leak stuff like it can
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: get really fun and expansive and extensive for this offense.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Which is a problem for defense is considering they already
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: have to account for the Bills really good run game
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: with the running backs, Josh Allen's legs as a scramble,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen scrambling to throw, and then the regular Bills
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: pass game that's gotten better in structure, and then what
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: it has been successfully out of structure and off script.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: There's just a lot for defenses to have to account for.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: And I do think pistol is a really good tool
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: in football today, but especially given Josh Allen's skill set
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: with his mobility, his arm, his play style, how it
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: fits with this Bill's run game which is so diverse.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: They can work zone, they can work a multitude of
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: gap schemes. Being in the pistol allows you to marry
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: those zone and gap schemes almost perfectly and be able
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: to get to both of them and then extend them
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: to your play action game, your pass game, and allow
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: to have similar looks and presentations for a multitude of
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: run and pass concepts play action or not. There's just
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: a multitude of fund that can really start to develop
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: here from the pistol in terms of being a force
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: multiplier and what it can unlock for this Bill's offense.
• 41:55
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