Next play we switch to nickel against their three-wide and play Bandy. They spread us out and run the draw. The G gets out to Quarterman, who has a tough job here. He has to understand that Redwine has the outside gap (B gap) and he is responsible for the A gap. He allows the OL to turn him towards Redwine, which opens up that middle gap far too easily. You can see the RB is behind the OL who is handling Norton here. We tried to twist our DT’s and stunt the edges and they hit us right up-the-middle, leaving Quarterman exposed to a blocker right on him. You might see McCloud and think he’s responsible for this gap, but he’s responsible for the cutback to that huge lane you see by the number 20. Gain of 24.
Net play we run the X stunt again and they gashed it by running a quick hitter right into the gap created when we stunt. That’s two big running plays that have occurred because we stunted and they run right behind it. I’d prefer we reserve the stunt for third and long situations where the run doesn’t hurt us as much. This run goes for 23.
This is a big run that gashed us for 27 yards. We have it defended. Shaq needs to hit this OL with some thump to shock him back and plug that hole. Jaquan brings him down on the back-end, which is another of those “saving” tackles you hear about. Hopefully we need fewer of them in the future.
Instead, he tries to sidestep the blocker and actually took himself to this place. In a way he’s helping to block Redwine as well since he’s shielding him from the runner.
[URL=https://www.canesinsight.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=7]#7 5[/URL] pulled around and kicked out the weakside LB. The LB has to beat that puller into this hole and plug that hole as well, but our LB’s were just bad on this play. Look at Dungey, he knows this is a big play as he’s already got his hand up and the RB hasn’t even gotten past McIntosh who is obscuring the view of the RB here. Our run defense has some holes due to inconsistent or poor run fits.
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