Chiefs Game-Winning Plays, Explained | The QB Room

[Music] welcome to the QB room sponsored by happy Dad my name is Jordan Palmer former NFL quarterback and training a bunch of quarterbacks right now what's up I'm Kyle Allen current quarterback for the Buffalo Bills what I haven't seen to be honest KY I haven't seen a current NFL quarterback and a former who talks about this stuff all like I haven't seen that breakdown I've Seen pundants On TV I've seen some former people tweet some stuff so as flooded as as it is right now with commentary about the Super Bowl I think we're going to come from a different perspective and what we want to do is look at three plays that won the game for the Chiefs and three plays that cost the game for the San Francisco 49ers and dive deep into it what we like to do is we like to get down and nerdy with it we're in these QB rooms all the time we're talking through scheme we're talking through protection issues we're talking through coverages and and I think there's a couple really interesting things that happened for both teams where if something goes a little bit left or you you do it a little differently maybe that the game has a different outcome and I think when we talk about games and I've been told this since high school there's always five or six plays a game that really decide the game and they can happen at any moment we've got a handful of plays we're going to break down and I'm pumped because a couple of these like I literally I was watching them with Mike who I coached with and I was like I don't know I kind of want to see what Kyle thinks about that because you're in it and you're looking at things differently um as opposed to watching the game on TV like everybody else so let's dive into it so let's start with the play that ended the game this is there's 3 seconds left in overtime it's first and goal and for those of you who have been watching and seeing on social media and all that stuff I don't know what's going on with the ners them knowing the rules not knowing the rules but the Chiefs clearly knew the rules and they can't just change the their opinion after the fact and make it sound like they did the fact that there's 30 seconds left they throw a screen to K Kelce and they don't freak out they go to the sideline they talk about it and then if this Ball's complete in bounds and the clock keeps running clearly they didn't have a sense of urgency they had two timeouts they didn't use them so they knew well we're going to we still get our possession in the second half so we're good we're going to take our time we're not gonna hurry up and just get a playoff I was freaking out I was cussing my screen telling Andy Reed to call freaking timeout because I was like what are we doing we're going to let the Super Bowl run out like on live TV what are we doing right now so I didn't know the rules as well I don't know how many people did I literally think the Chiefs are the only people that knew the rules it's crazy I would say the overwhelming majority of people did not um all right so let's get into this play here okay so we're we going to see Miko Hardman come down in motion and get out but maybe explain from your perspective what they're trying to do right here yeah so this is very similar to and they kept talking about after game the corn dog motion from last year the corn dog play Andy Reid always has great names for all his plays um but when you look at this motion right when you look at this tight Bunch so think about it from the top when you're when you're thinking about these plays down here in the Red Zone from an offensive perspective you're thinking about getting people in formations that's going to put the the defense into into binds into fits and they have to make calls to figure out how they're going to do things right so at the top of the screen you got these guys in a tight formation up here so they can't just play lock man coverage right you want to play Man coverage at these moments in the games but if people are going to be moving you got to be able to pass people off you don't want pick plays to happen so when when micole Hardman goes in Motion in here right he sends him in motion when he goes inside Kelce he becomes Logan Ryan's guy you got to pass him off and then if he goes inside I think that's Blake Bell could be Noah gray but if he goes inside him too then he becomes the safeties guy so what I think happened is once he gets on inside Kelce Logan Ryan loses him thinks he's passing him off to the next safety and he's taken 83 right here right look at him he gets hands on 83 he thinks that's his guy and he thinks the safety as micole Harman but what happens in on these motions and we have a lot of these plays too is you lose them you go right back out their rules are all messed up right the corner the corner guy turns into Kelsey Logan ry's guy's really mcole Hardman and he's just in a bind where he can't react quick enough to make the play you get you get Pat out on the edge you get you get him a good throwing L by running a naked you take Bosa out of the play right he's crashing on the run and then it's just an easy walk-in touchdown this is awesome Bosa right here has to run be able to run this line and stay down he cannot let them just run the ball up the middle they're pulling a guard so this is a little different action interesting yeah pulling the guard here so it's telling the guys up front it's telling the linebackers inside keep in mind then we got a backup linebacker in here when green L went down which was just such a bummer and the safety went down too so you got a backup safety backup linebacker in here this is in the interior portion of this this is telling them this is a run all the way and I it looks like from an offensive perspective this is a run look at 65 and 74 double teaming and pushing these guys down the field I think from I think this is an RPO I think this is a run in versus man or single high he's pulling it and throwing this flat route and look at k K right here too this is one notable thing so just look at Kelsey he's at the point we're in a bunch right now so one two and three watch Kelsey's route which I thought was crafty a lot of times we see the pick where somebody comes from outside and then this person goes in the flat picture DeShaun Watson is a similar play right deshun Watson beat Alabama um the national title game um but watch Kelsey widen getting the guy's way not touch him and then cut inside of him just you're just preoccupying him this is a V in move right here I'd say this is an unbelievable play by Travis Kelce and yet a casual fan would look at this and be like Dude tell me he's just jogging off the ball what he's doing he occupying this Defender yeah you go back just a little bit too and he's he's occupying 33's eyes too Logan Ryan look he he kind of comes off he gives him a little shimmy he occupies Logan Ryan and then he gets in Shari's Ward Way and and just like that it's a Walkin touchdown I mean kind of block two guys without touching anybody and he does that way more often than you think you know on the there's a player we're going to show later too where they the first Chiefs touchdown after the Muff punt where he's running and he takes two guys and he's literally pointing at the receiver as the ball's in the air throwing a touchdown I mean he understands space and getting Guys open and getting himself open but but really better than anybody setting picks and and understanding where everyone's at and the defense is at like it's an awesome Play All Around by them gangster all right so now let's go to fourth and one in overtime set this scene for us so it's fourth and one right now right the 49ers decide to take the ball the Chiefs get theall second everyone's talking about it's a highly debated topic right now but what's great here right so if the Chiefs so say the Chiefs took the ball first and they have the ball right now if it's fourth and one they're probably punting this ball right and now since since they took the ball second they know that all they need is a field goal or the the 49ers just kicked a field goal now they need to go at least get a field goal get a touchdown but they have that extra down to play with so fourth and one on your own 35 what are you going to call right here right so I think this is a very interesting call by them and I think think it's it's kind of goes along to the same motion we just talked about before right it's getting guys in formations that gives the defense fits and you got to really really get your quarterback on the edge and help them make a play on the edge so if you look at the 49ers right here right and this is interesting because when you think of cover two you think of deep safeties keep everything in front of you like you're thinking of Big Shot plays you're thinking of deep pass plays but a lot of teams in short yardage situations Run cover two to stop Crossing routes they're stopping the quick Flats they're stopping the crossing routes stopping any spots over the ball because you got a lot of guys in that underneath area too so you basically have you basically have five under and then two deep yes so you're giving up kind of that intermediate range but you're you're stopping the Deep shots and really in these short yardage as you just tell your Mike linebacker Fred Warner don't get too much depth here stay in there and be ready for crossing rout so what they do right and the 49ers actually play this really well but it's a great great way to show you why it's really important in these short yardage situations to get your quarterback out on the edge right so if you play it right here they motion Kelsey across so they're starting in a bunch really similar to the last one only difference is they've got a nub tight end over here as opposed to um nvs or mvz whatever it is uh and the last one split out wide so Kelsey comes across which is important for Pat right so the reason they put tight ends down there is to give Pat a man Zone read so it's a tight end down there you got number two number two is not covering Noah gray or Blake Bell right number two's a safety he's either or number two is a corner right number two is a corner he's not going to be covering him right so Pat knows right away it's Zone coverage you motion Kelsey across no one follows him now it's confirmed its Zone coverage so he's reading Nick Bosa but really he's pulling this all the way right this probably a game plan thing where they know Nick Bosa crashes the Run versus open sets like that and goes and he gets the ball on the edge so if you rewind it a great run by P the 49ers actually do a great job of passing this off you're trying to run two guys down you're trying to run mvs and Rasheed rice down to set a pick for Travis Logan Ryan does a great job of seeing it passes it off picks up Travis but it's a great reason to show you why it's important to get your quarterback on the edge and this is a man beater he's coming down he's coming down he's leaking into the flat if this is man coverage it might be a 25 Y game you know what I mean you're kicking it to the flat kind of like we see on the shallow cross later in the game that ends up being a 22 yard gain on a 5 yard completion this is a great man beater but to your point in cover two this is we're you know looking at a lot of tape figuring out what does he play because obviously Nick Bosa can ruin any play but getting out of this this is a fake all the way look at the the cheesy overly done fake by the running back okay so he's pulling this is not an RPO he's pulling this and if this is man then Kel's wide open in the flat they pass it off he knows it own and so he's got two options right here he's got Rashid rice spotting up with his hands like this whether he flips that with his left hand he underhand it with his right or he steps in throws but when it's fourth and one and you know you can get it or it's you know one a goal to go and you know you can run it in there's no point in even giving yourself an opportunity for a drop ball a bobble anything and so this is not about yards this is about moving the sticks and Pat does a great job look at from behind Kelsey comes across to your point there's a corner over here we do not have Corner over man alert if this was Corner over man you'd see most likely a a single high but you'd also have a safety down right here outside Leverage The Corner would be out here in the slot and that would be your man zonel here like you said this is Zone Kyle or Kelsey comes across that confirms it look they pass it off well too Fred Warner sees mvs he picks him up Logan Ryan says I got him four is open the corner didn't squeeze on him but what Pat does so well late in games in the playoffs especially in the Super Bowl you can see it in the fourth quarter and overtime he kind of just like saves himself for these moments right and then he knows how to run he's an in like you saw that picture of him he has a dad bod whatever underneath there yeah he's an insane athlete and he works hard at it and he knows when it's time to run and he has that burst and to get it and I think you see it time and time and time again from the first Super Bowl he won to now these plays where the game's on the line he's making a ton of plays with his legs ton of plays with his legs without them being highlights they're never highlights he's not juking hurdling stiff AR I mean you play with a guy who has three to five highlights a game running the ball Lamar Kyler there's a lot of guys doing it like that Pats runs are not highlights they are effective you know it's the sum of six eight 12 yard gains which can allow you to be and I've always said it's not about how fast you are at quarterback it's can you change direction as 75% of your top end speed or more can you change direction running three4 speed or more consistently Pat can so when you can do that I don't I no longer care if you're a 47 if you're a 48 if you're a five flat I watched Blake Bortles his first two years in the NFL lead all quarterbacks in rushing that was Peak Russell Wilson Peak Cam Newton and he ran 489 at the combine he was an effective understood win to go change direction at full speed and that's what we're seeing out of Pat is his ability to do that so it's not the Highlight play it's not the sick ass run he had it's the effective runs and it's when they count when the defense plays it passes it off perfectly and they still got us it's a ton of time on third down and fourth down when defenses are in man coverage and I think for Pat and and for Josh when I I know especially for Josh when he sees a defense and man coverage your your alert to run comes up way quicker right you see its man coverage you got guys running around if there's not a guy open right away and you can find a lane to run you got to go all right last one Chiefs offense this is going to look eily similar to the last play we just broke down different situations set us up with this one so this is a third down on their last drive and regulation right and it's it might not seem like a huge play but if you if you see what the plays we're talking about right we're talking about Red Zone fourth down third down all these situational plays and and situational football is where you win and lose football games and I think that the coordinators that really separate themselves the offensive Minds that really separate themselves are guys who can dial up plays for the to beat the specific rules of the defense and I think if you can if you can catch what their Tendencies are what you know they do their rules versus certain formations versus certain motions which is Kyle Shanahan and Andy Reid might be the two best examples of this in the NFL and I think you see Pat Mahomes becoming almost the pseudo offensive coordinator and if you roll this clip you'll see it this is a check by Pat Mahomes right it's third and two on the 43 yard line if they don't get this they're kicking a long field goal to try and tie the game instead of driving it down where they kick the field goal at the end of the game that's 27 yard it's easy hit right here so if you go back to the top right here it's 32 right so which part's the check and what do you see in right here so pause it right here all right I don't think they get it on film because of the way they cut film they only cut during the play so if you're looking at this play right here right Pat sees this as cover zero which is a hard cover zero look to see right normally in cover zero they're bring in everyone and they're playing everyone else manto man normally you're going to see guys man over man locked on and you know who has who right now they kind of got the safety the field deep right he's a man they got a safety to the boundary who get who probably has the back if he flares out that way right normally in cover zero you're going to put that safety towards the back side so if the the back free releases that side you cover him if he doesn't you're blitzing and on this right here so there's five Defenders if this is zero like this there's five Defenders for five pass catchers which means there's six remaining guys inside that can come there's only five that can block so they've got one extra and the part where you said the film cut off wner is coming off of being in a double mug MH so Warner was right here next to him so we got two three techniques where they're lined up outside the guards and two backers filled in right there any combination of guys can come because he can pop and help out to number three he can come or he can pop and he can come and they can play all sorts of coverages off of it so go ahead yeah so this is just straight film study off of Pat this is just him seeing a thousand different reps of cover zero and cover zero is becoming more and more and more rampant in the game today because it's so hard to figure out it's so hard to pick up and defenses you don't always to be right in cover zero right you just got to get there fast enough but what Pat does is awesome and this is a this is a great check and I think he's probably been waiting to use this check all year because it's awesome so he sees this right so a lot of times I mentioned the DB up top by the running back if the running back flares to the top the DB has him in man coverage right what happens is the DB on the other side of the field has the same rule most of the time but he doesn't see a running back Lin up on his side pre- snap so he's not even thinking about the running back flaring right he's just thinking Blitz and think about about this moment too it's third and two Super Bowl on the line he's probably thinking I'm going to make a play to win the Super Bowl right here so what Pat does is he he gets to his zero beater or zero check so a lot of times what you'll see is you slide the line you leave one for the back the back ends up blocking the guy in the line of scrimmage right Jerick McKinnon kind of sets him up here and real quick they're not sliding the line for him they're actually sliding it for him so this is we're going as wide as the widest Defender so watch this left guard and Tackle work together looks like they're both blocking I think that's Chase Young no that tackle is actually stepping out you can see 79 even though he's just getting a hand on him they are sliding for the widest Defender and now Jerick McKinnon comes across any of you guys who used to watch Gruden's quarterback Camp right and he'd always get on the board and have the guys go spider 2 y banana this is spider 2 y banana essentially where we're going full slide to the left normally spider 2 you have a fullback Bluff the defensive end and go in the flatten of the running back Cuts him this is a six-man spider 2 this is just we're we're going to just straight Bluff there's no running back there to cut so 33 you're coming free bro and we might just Bluff you for a second see how McKinnon kind of hops just watch McKinnon right here he's just gonna kind of hop and you're like what's he doing he's trying to make 33 think he's getting ready to hit him and then he slips right by him and that's when Logan Ryan goes oh yeah Logan Ryan thinks he's coming across like he's seen this a million times he's seen the line slide he's free the back has him in protection right and just when you've seen it all then they hit you with something different and he slips right by him and this has the potential to be a huge play they're lucky that it's only a five or six yard play but but this play is so important to the game and maybe people saw and were like oh that's another easy little quick third down conversion but they convert that they don't have to kick a 52 yard or 58 yard field goal or go for it on fourth down they convert that they go all the way down the field and kick an easy field goal this is not a great play call this is better than a great great play call this is a great check which means you stashed this worked this not called this waited for it you said you might be waiting all year for this to come up versus somebody who has who shows this look uh this is where studying people week two week three week four in the season when you're getting ready to play them in week 24 yeah pays off shout out to the analyst breaking down all the film yeah for sure but look at this communication Pat's checking to this thing everybody's on the same page looking back inside McKinnon's like what I got no way all right perfect like thank God we've been waiting for this one 31 thinks he has W like you said but as soon as he leaks across Logan Ryan is just not expecting this if he is he's he's looking to run through him yeah if you look 31's off the ball slow right when he gets off the ball he's not really going full speed he's thinking oh I got free release back to my side Logan Ryan down here is thinking I'm sacking Pat Mahomes to win the game you just slip right by him and so it's a little play it's the little intricacies like that right it's situational football when the game's at it at its height are you gonna execute are you gonna get to the right Play Are You Gonna understand what the defense is trying to do and beat it and that's why Pat continues to win he understands what the defenses is doing in all the biggest moments so so far we've shown the three biggest plays that the Kansas City Chiefs had on offense none of them were highlights none of them were sick none of them was a one-handed catch or an unbelievable throw we're talking about throwing a flat route a flat route and another flat rout and a 5 yard run yeah plays of the game but at this level of chess those are the moves that are killers that create Checkmate all right let's shift and get into what the ners did that might have cost them the opportunity to win this game we're going to stay on offense with the Chiefs and look at an issue that the ners had so we kind of just showed you three plays where like the Chiefs beat the ners on that play the Chiefs offense beat the ners defense on that play yeah they could have done something different they'll coach it up but at the same time like I I don't know they were in a position to make a play that was them this is where this is is a mistake and this is not a concept we've never seen before a bunch of people have probably tried to run this against the Niners all year I would assume and and they probably you know executed it better than they did right here so set us up with this situation yeah so this is right after the Muff punt right muff punt is I don't think anyone's talking about the Muff punt enough and it's a play that it's really nobody's fault you know it's kind of a freak accident freak play it's not Ray Ray mccloud's fault I know that and I know that Tony Romo saying you got to yell Peter it's like there's a there's a people in here like I'm sure he was you know what I mean it's super loud yeah exactly and so you're right after the Muff pun this the first play after the Muff punt I think it gives the chief some juice they come up you're the 17 yard line I'm calling my best shot play right so the 49ers come out well real quick I'm calling my best play against the defense I think they're going to run which is really what this is this is an open versus everything exactly and in the the 49ers defense is a two high defense predominantly and then when you get in the Red Zone they run some one high and so this is what you see here so the 49ers try and hide cover three single high they're trying to hide that safety deep to start and they're going to run them down quick right and so what the 49ers do is is a lot of times you'll just try and run regular verticals right so if you want to drop just like regular verticals with Kelsey over here a lot of times teams will just try and run forvert run Kelsey up the seam run h on the outside and then swing the back into the into the boundary and you're creating somewhat of an issue for them right someone's got to take the back someone's got to carry the seam and then the corner is probably going to carry the outside seam but what the Chiefs do well and this is another piece of Travis Kel's game right when you have a player like Travis Kelce we do this with Stefon Diggs is sometimes you're going to run them on routes where you're trying to retract people to get other people open right call it being the salesman sometimes I say carry the briefcase yeah exactly and so what they do is they motion him right the 49ers are like ah is he going to go across no he's not we're going to stay in our play right and so they run down into cover three so if you play it the safety playing from depth it's hard for him his responsibility is to flat and so what he does is he runs so heavily to the flat quick right and Pat does a good job of kind of keeping his eyes low getting his eyes to the boundary and this is what I was talking about earlier you can see Kelsey pointing of the seam right but right now Kelsey's going on the wheel so the Corner's like I got the wheel look at the Corner's hands no one's there the safety's playing to the field over here on the hash because they're trying to hide too high they're trying to hide their too high shell hopefully to confuse Pat so he's staying to the field he's not really getting over there to help play the seam the backer doesn't get enough depth and that's really not his issue he's not ready to carry and so you're creating a huge bind for the 49ers defense right now I just think the safety down here is wrong too because if they do just run straight two verticals up top I I still don't know how they're right well a lot of times what these defenses do right if they cheat the safety of the field so circle to the safety of the field if they cheat him to the field what they're going to do is they're going to tell that nickel over number four Logan Ryan hey you're in zone pass him off to the safety and what they'll do to the boundary is hey you're the safety to the boundary you got to carry that vertical that number two vertical right so you got to run and then the backer will go take the running back but what happens is because they switch it right he doesn't see it as four verts the safety sees it as a flat and maybe a corner route and a post which is another very very common concept down here and so he just runs to the flat immediately and this just opens it up wide open and all Pat hases to do is throw a little l it's probably one of the easier touchdowns he's thrown in his career yeah this is a a jumper from the elbow for curry this is auto look at him he doesn't even I said he looked off people earlier he doesn't even look people off he's not even looking at the safety down to here I just think this this is an issue in their coverage down here and it's something that the Chiefs understood and try to exploit and and coming off of a mu punt right at this point in the game the Niners had all the momentum they had everything going for them the Chiefs weren't really moving the ball down the field they had that one drive where they got in the red zone and they fumble now you give them a short field and they call their best play and they execute and now all the momentum's on their side perfect call vers that luck to create like an uncontested it's like a basketball right you want to set screens and do all the stuff to create an uncontested shot that's an uncontested throw and an uncontested catch on essentially first and goal you know versus what we'd all say is the best defense in the league so great schematics it worked out perfect they did not invent that concept that's not the first time we've ever seen this it's a very com I think that's in 32 different NFL Play Books just bus and coverage bus and coverage and great execution all right let's look at the Niners on the ball for the first time now we're going to highlight something that Steve Spagnola did on defense uh credit to our boy Trent McDuffy I think he's underrated and he has won two Super Bowls and been all pro in his first years in the NFL I still think he's underrated unbelievable um and this is him coming off the slot he can play corner he can play safety he can play Nickel in this case he is the slot Defender he's the slot nickel uh he is a problem um and this is a fantastic disguise set us up with this I think it's third and five right yeah so it's third and five it's the ners last Drive in regulation right they've been driving they're going down it's a tie game at this point they're going down trying to take the lead obviously you want seven points they end up getting three here so what I want to start with with this is with Steve Spagnola in general right when we play the Chiefs it's one of the hardest defens we play all year because they have so many different Personnel groups and when I say Personnel groups they can have three D linemen on the field two linebackers and six DBS they can be in 4-1 dime which is's four four D linemen one linebacker and 6bs and then they can bring this guy on the field this so they have so many different packages they can run and they have so many different things that can run out of every package so you have to be ready for everything right here I can't tell if that guy over the nose is a a d tacle or or linebacker in this view but it looks like they're in 3-2 dime right now right so let's just call it three D linemen two linebackers and the rest of the guys are DBS on the field that's Chris Jones that's Carl lus yeah I think these are both linebackers it could be two like it just there's you never know and from a perspective of quarterback right you're used to four d linan three linebackers or four D linan two linebackers and then you kind of know what's coming off of that right so the Chiefs do a really good job of having a lot of density in their game plan they do a lot of a really good job of running that so here right if you go back to the top Jordan chrisan mcaffry starts in the back field right they kind of got a lot of guys up at the line of scrimmage you don't really know who's where um it's tough when you have two guys in the backfield right and so they put them up start them in the backfield put them up so doing that is the same thing as we talked about before right they're trying to give Brock a man Zone read so Justin Reed goes out there and covers him you know it's man coverage so pause it here right if you pause it right here and you're looking at this it kind of just looks like two man which is Five Guys underneath covering the five receivers and you got two deep safeties playing over the top which is a very normal coverage to be running in a scenario like this right looks like two man A lot of times they'll have 32 spying they'll have these guys spying they're not going to run around they're not going to rush so when py snaps the ball right that's probably what he's thinking it's TW men he snaps the ball Trent McDuffy does a great job of disguising and hitting it right when the ball's snapped he's coming in full speed um carus down here goes outside Trent Williams he takes him outside opens up a huge gap for Trent to come through and Brock's trying to keep his eyes inside so he can flip his eyes quick and then throw the slant rout to auk real quick lowy what Trent McDuffy does I played with a guy named Leon Hall he's a first- round pick Corner in Cincinnati played forever second half of his career switched to nickel and people are like oh yeah he's not fast anymore he can't no he was so good at nickel and this was one of the things that he was saying when you scan or in these cases watch Trent mcduffy's first couple of steps he stays wide wide wide now gets inside because at this point what does Brock pie see when he looks this direction sees the back of Trent Williams and he sees a defensive end coming at him and so carus coming up field McDuffy hiding I bet you Brock doesn't see him until now that's too late to be able to gather get your foot in the ground get the ball out and feel good and we we hit pause and go oh Brandon auk's wide open well yeah yeah after a second you got to get the ball you got to get your eyes up you got find him and poof there's a MAG magic there's a nickel right in your face and then another thing that McDuffy does he doesn't I know he leaves his feet but he doesn't jump way up in the air he sends himself at him so if M if Brock does pull this ball down he can still grab him he's still got a chance of a it's just like so technically sound to hide yourself behind the the pass rush and the tackle slip inside get a hand up his left hand's the first hand that's up that's going to block the passing Lane like just just like so technically sound as a nickel it's not just like like oh he's fast as he's good at nickel it's like no it's these subtleties and when you talk about having that many different packages you got to have smart people who can execute that many different packages so there's some brains in the secondary safety coming from dep this is scary when you're one-on-one with Brandon iuk and it's third and five and you're going expecting a short route that takes balls to leave that much cushion because what you want to do is make sure you don't get beat for a first down it takes balls to trust that like I can play with a cushion and then attack it late so across the board this is just so Good by the defense I don't think it's bad I think it's a great I think it's a a better disguise by the defense than it is more of a mistake by the offense and misidentify I don't there's just nothing unless they ran this the last three games the same way there's nothing that gives this away yeah is such a good cover zero so hard to play cover zero these guys are like 12 yards deep they're deep right so you're not expecting cover zero and that's the Chiefs are one of the top teams of running cover zero in the entire league but they disguise it so well and and they're willing to play off in rally in Disguise and that's kind of the way the League's going right now people and teams are willing to disguise over cover better because you're confusing guys right and they're and they're expecting to get there before you can figure out what's going on and and if Brandon IU catches this if pry sees this early and he catches it Brandon iuk is a strong he might catch this and break a tackle and score that's the other thing with cover zero is you got to have some balls to call it because if he breaks one tackle there's not many people left totally how about look at Christian mcaffrey up top here what if they get this blocked up which the one to get to next how do you block it up watch mcaffry on a choice route and he starts outside and Crosses his ass over and beats him to the inside geez that's a big play right there huge play so let's talk through how to block this up so let's say that they white Cadence this so right pause it right here first okay so that's not even a d linan I thought over it that's wiie gay they're linebacker so they only have two D lineman on the field right now they only have two linebackers on the field and the rest of the guys are DBS so when you're back there as a quarterback right as a the from a starting position at o line you're thinking all right who are the four guys that are down we're going to down four guys because that's normally what a basic formation is on defense right you're going to down the 40 lineman but here they're they're stacking the center they got a linebacker in this Gap they got safety over here who the hell are who the hell are you iding here it's impossible right especially let say you put those four down now when the quarterback points and says Mike's 52 Mike's 31 Mike's whatever that's essentially who you're going to allocate your fifth protector for which is the other guard and again pretty snap this looks like two man so you're not you know hind sight 220 air conditioned room with a laptop I'm going oh well then point McDuffy and by the way if they Point McDuffy as the fifth guy they're blocked up and he's either hitting auk for a big play or he sitting Christian mcaffry for a big play so again this isn't they didn't beat him by confusing him they beat it by making it look exactly like something anything other than cover zero otherwise if you get him on a double Cadence and McDuffy shows it all right hey easy easy Mike's 22 now you got these four down guys and that Fifth and if you do get an issue where somebody else comes over here and he drops then the tackles and any of the offensive line can sort it out yeah let play I'm I'm interested so KD so what happens here is this is also what's interesting about what the 49ers do and some teams do this but when you motion your best running back out there right you have a great running back receiver it's a it's a matchup issue right and you put KD in the back field what happens sometimes is is these guys who don't have as much experience at blocking mess it up so Jordan if you press play real quick so KD the line is sliding to 27 right they ID 27 they're sliding to 27 so if Christian was in there I guarantee you that he sees 27 gets blocked he looks to the left and he scans and picks up the nickel KD isn't used to being back there and being the running back so he forgets the scan or he doesn't see it because he doesn't have enough reps at it and 22 comes free and so it's little intricacies like that and I think when you're thinking of Kyle Shanahan right you're thinking of all right this is a big down I need to get my best players out in cover or out in in routes and have some guys who maybe would be better to blocking in there and he kind of gets that but with KD not coming back and scanning you got a free guy on your face when Brock pie in his in his mind doesn't think he should be hot here in which he shouldn't be hot in the six-man protection yeah and this is technically an odd front right so you've got head up on the center and you've got two guard bubbles right here yeah so think about the o line just basically saying we got these Five Guys right and really those three for those three 74 is going to 27 yep he can sort between uh between him and then if if or if somebody else comes if this guy comes right here and he drops out that guard can take him same thing on the left that left guard is going to take 32 so yeah I I wonder there's not that many times where you have a six-man protection and the protector doesn't scan that's how you like install it in training camp and then by the time you get to the Super Bowl so one of my question marks is is that KD's guy it's got to be it's got to be 27 he's got a scan for McDuffy he has to and which is like you're putting you're putting your guy in a weird position at that point Who's one of your best pass catchers he's a great run blocker but then you put him back there as a a pass protector in a running back position something he probably has minimal reps at he's not thinking to scan right no and what McDuffy is not going to do to George KD is knock him on his ass into the quarterback that's not what's going to happen so that's that's kid'll just stand there put body presence and McDuffy has nowhere to go and he might be looking at a touchdown to somebody there got so that's why when we're pulling up these plays and we're looking at it and that's why all these plays are situational third down fourth down Red Zone plays the little things the little execution errors can be the difference between a non-con converted third down and maybe a catch and run for a big player touchdown crazy all right final play uh also the final play on offense defense in overtime for the San Francisco 49ers we all saw it we've heard about it afterwards Chris Jones came unblocked he thought it was a screen potentially because literally nobody blocked him which is why this is the play I've been wanting to watch with you on tape to see what your thoughts are so there's the scene got to have it situation third and goal from the eight or nine they end up picking a full goal yeah let's just set the scene two as well so all these all these plays have been got to Habit situations which is what we call it in the NFL is got to habits it's it's third down it's it's fourth down it's it's these big situational plays where you just got to have it right and so what the the biggest play call that most defense have and got got to have it situations is cover zero you we've talked about cover zero probably more than we've talked about this in a long time but in these situations right A lot of these defenses are saying we're going to play man on your guys and we're going to heat up your quarterback we're going to see if you can figure it out quickly and so it's really no different in this situation right play the clip real quick from the start right now you got an empty set fivan protection you you got Christian mcaffry is going to come in motion right so they're bringing cover zero again but what's interesting about the situation and why we pick this as as a play that's going to cost the 49ers a Super Bowl right you look at this play and you're like how do they let Chris Jones free on a play like this Chris Jones is the best player on the field it's one it's one of the most important plays of the game how are they letting a guy free right here right and they almost let two guys free right here the safety stops his feet because he thinks it's a screen too because no one's blocking either of them so if you want to play it from the back view for me Jordan so right here it's cover Z right if you pause it I want to explain this protection real quick so what's going to happen is they're going to pull this guard on the screens left but it's the right guard on offense so they're going to pull him we call this counter protection it's made to make it look like a run play so you can bring up the linebackers and you can throw it right behind him and real quick if you knew it was cover zero you wouldn't want to do that protection no you if you know it's any type of Blitz we have checks to get get out of this protection this type of Blitz and actually this is pretty cover two pretty cover four I know nobody's coming so they don't even pull the the guard here they actually pull the center which is a check that they make but they pull the center right but what happens is is in blitzes you don't have the scanning ability you don't have the running back you don't have the rules to pick up these blitzes and so what happens is this tackle they're down a guy over there so the tackle's job is to step down and then go back out on 56 and then the guard's job is to to go down bang hinge back on 95 but since they have so this tackle block down for a second get back out to 56 lock down for a second literally step with your left foot you got a great old line coach and and Aaron chomer step with your left foot put your left hand on 32 to help set the block on him then open step with your right foot and get back out to be able to get on Chris Jones so when you look at this protection right the tackle doesn't get much hands on him the guard is heavy Down On 30 2 and then the best player on the field is Scott free in a play where if you go back to the other view there's a lot of guys open so this is what was very interesting to me about this play and I didn't really see it until I went back and watched the tape of it let's start down here is if you're if you're in a God to Habit situation and you know they're going to Blitz this is one of the last protections you'd want to be in and everyone's screaming like oh they didn't block him like the guys wide open the guy is wide open it's not Brock P's fault there's a guy in his face right away the best player on the field is right in his face right away by the way so there's a potential for really four people to be open right here so this safety 27 is cutting okay he's going to run into Debo Debo right now is running across the field as fast as he can essentially on an over out going to the back pylon okay so we already know Jawan Jennings is open right here we all saw that Debo runs into the cutter right the safety who's cutting for Christian mcaffry because remember mcaffry went in motion 27's going around and he gets lost in the shuffle but there's a chance Debo's open because I know who's not covering dbo on the over oute that guy that guy has KD who's also I would say open right maybe he gets it maybe not that's a yards after catch guy how about Brandon iuk up top wide depart insane route yeah kills him I think it's the concept that I think this is you tell me is we're running the whip we're running the speed over and then we've got a backend line dig late and then you know 23 window dressing if you really actually want to extend it and get out of the pocket to the left and then we've got a late check down to KD 100% okay so that all that Brandon auk's route he's not running that route he's going oh my God it's zero the guy just fell on the ground putting his hand up in the air and obviously he's frustrated he didn't get the gamewinner and obviously not Computing everything that happened right there but there's a chance 27 like there's a chance there's four people over on this maybe five and this is a great so when you're going through your play call sheet right you're going through your Red Zone plays you're going through it you're like what's our favorite calls this is a a great play call this is a play call that I love to have in every week it's a great it's an easy read you're going right to left and a lot of times guys are on runaways it's great vers man coverage but it's a first and second down type of play call because you're not getting cover zero you're getting more basic looks it's blockable and that's why it was just so interesting to me that maybe it was just one of his favorite plays on the sheet he wanted to get it up he liked the routes but it was interesting to me with how much the chief spring cover zero that he decided this is the protection I'm going to put on it and he's going to call it in this situation and in the first half I don't have the stats in front me in the first half I I just know they they brought four times more pressure in the second half than they did the first half the second half adjustment for spags was was quadruple down it was like 19% versus four it went from four to 19% I think in the first half second half pressures so what you're not going to do at halftime is go hey we got this play in the call sheet but we're going to change the protection we're going to do it a little bit different I never really played with people who changed the call sheet on game day no if anything you'd say if we get this look we're going to kill it to either this different play or get to a different protection right U because this is not the protection you want this is the play call you want so it's like 50% of this is a great play call for this situation but 50% of it cost you a touch and and then that's the that's execution that's the the the insane fine line in football and that's why it's it's the that's in my opinion that's why it's the best sport is because there's there's so many little things that go into it and normally the teams that win is the team that executes the little things right they think of all those things they have plans for what the defenses does best I remember every time we play the Chiefs it's like all right we need to be great in cover zero if we're gonna want to win this game we have to be great against cover zero because if we don't protect it they're gonna bring it even more and then we're going to have even more issues and I think spags and his all his different packages and all his his great players that that understand the packages and can execute them it's it's just one of the best defens out there and I think that's the main reason why this the Chiefs won the Super Bowl and Pat playing insane down the end what's so cool about this we talk about the level of football and intelligence is we just picked the six gamechanging plays and zero of them were spectacular physical no crazy highlights nothing yeah nobody hurdled anybody nobody had a one-handed back shoulder diving catch nobody did any they were all very basic from a from a watching TV guy open throw it to him in flat perspective but that's why we wanted to do this episode is because like hold on that wasn't slant flat and the guy played it wrong this is some complicated highlevel that hopefully we help you better understand whether you're mourning the loss or celebrating the victory or indifferent don't care just wanted to see a great game and glad we saw one um hopefully this breakdown clears up a little bit of what happened honestly it did for me I was like kind of pumped to do this with you cuz I want to hear your perspective because you're just in it like I'm not um but hopefully this was fun and a good watch if this was if you have a pissed off Kansas City Chiefs or I'm sorry a pissed off ners friend or a Chief's buddy who's still gloating um send him this episode um and uh and share this because I've been all on social watching everybody's takes I I think we just did one that's totally different than what I've seen um from different perspective and uh hopefully you enjoyed it I'm sure you enjoyed the game uh one of my most memorable Super Bowls for me I in my opinion we didn't talk about this I think the best halftime show I don't know it was my favorite I grew up in an usher era uh me and dod's first concert we ever went to was us the only guy that didn't love that the halftime concert I was big hater Vibes on the halftime no no no no it was great it was good posty was great before it was great across the boy was great I love posty um but anyways hope you enjoyed this episode uh if you haven't already subscribe share this uh we appreciate happy Dad and the sponsorship and we appreciate you for tuning in now the football season's over but QB room is not we're going to keep breaking down interesting stuff we got the draft coming up we got free agency coming up we've got all sorts of exciting stuff uh that we're going to continue to unpack as long as you keep watching as long as you keep telling people about it we'll keep coming to our little studio and talking into cameras thank you appreciate [Music] you [Music] oh

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Published: Wed Feb 14 2024