We had our second game of the season yesterday night…fucking nuts.
our opponents were as athletic as us, which came as a slight surprise.
We scored our first TD on our first possession. It was pretty much a jump ball and our WR turned and broke a few tackles, taking it to the house.
The other team’s ball, they came out with this very strange formation-
It was basically a 2 wide set with 2 WR 7 yards or so behind the line of scrimmage (LOS) (and the QB as well). they used alot of laterals/option stuff and it really threw us off our game at first.
The primary routes for the 2 WRs were either fly routes or quick slants. Their QB was good, and he moved well against pressure and was deceptive in his eye motions (he’d look off and then bomb the other way)…which is something that works against better opponents and not downies (the downie opponents won’t even watch the QB’s eyes, they’ll only focus on the receiver alone).
Our defensive game plan (which took tweaking throughout the game) was this-
The Green areas are obviously the coverage areas. The outside CB would get all fly routes, or if the QB lateraled it to the back receiver of their side, they had the back receiver. The inside CB/LB had all inside stuff, slants, etc, as well as linemen going into their area.
The DL was usually one rusher and the other played zone with the two linemen (with S help over the top). I’m not quite sure what they did on the other side of the field for defense, but I assume it was something similar (we weren’t all on the same page sadly).
We had some issues with their DL…our QB had like 2 seconds tops to throw, and we couldn’t get the short stuff there. Alot of the passes were very risky and we won that side of the variance (as in, many of our passes could have easily been deflected/picked off).
We scored through mainly big plays. We didn’t do very well in terms of grinding down the field, but really just throw some hugely blown coverage. Our QB was fast enough to get away from some of the pressure but we really just need to do a better job blocking.
We went up 20-14, but couldn’t finish our last drive. They got the ball near their 10 (field = 80 yards long, not sure how wide…fairly wide though). They drove down the field, and they were at first and goal at the 5 yard line with about 2 minutes to go.
We held together though and had a goal line stand. We ran the clock out and came out with the win.