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The TD at 2:42 - 2:53 was INSANE.
Speed, power, agility, everything.
Speed, power, agility, everything.
Very good point. Dan Campbell has done a wonderful job with the TEs and is one of my favorite coaches. It took Clay a couple years to have his breakout year and maybe Campbell can do the same with Egnew. Egg is 2 inches taller and runs a 4.5 compared to Clay's 4.7 if we can get Egg to get on the same page and live up to his potential like Clay we will be set at TE. Then add Sims to the mix and TE might be a strong position instead of the weakness we thought it would be last year when Keller went down.
Pish tosh ... stupid videos. What we need is some good old fashioned spreadsheets and percentages
The thing with clay is he he is less a TE and more of an offensive weapon....line him up in the backfield, inline, out wide....he's going to be a match-up problem for most teams.
And polls , lots of polls. All asking the same question from different angles. Hear that guy got a job with Gallop.
Couple of points I took away from the video [great job OP on this by the way]
1. You can see subtle developments in Tannehill's game through the season with a simple little hitch step up and into the pocket - makes a difference for sure as it doesn't provide the D with a stationary target at the top of this drop - with the hitch step, he changed the hit zone and therefore made it tougher for DL to target a spot and stick with it - real nice to see and I'm hoping more development in this.
2. Re Clay - was interesting to see his pre snap movement on a number of plays and has been mentioned by a number of the posters in other threads on the hope that OC Lazor moves Wallace around. I suspect he will, and I suspect that we will probably see more of Clay in an outside WR alignment and have the likes of Wallace etc. moving around inside against slower defenders.
Some of the routes Clay had, off of the motion, Id love to, 1. continue to see as it was very effective, and 2. see the WR's and even RB's used as in the same motion/route action. Mismatching by alignment, package and movement is one thing I'm really hoping to see this year.
I agree, and throw in a couple of screen passes to Moreno or Miller and were off to the races...
I agree, and throw in a couple of screen passes to Moreno or Miller and were off to the races...
We still need Sims or Egnew to develop as Clay can't play on the line as an every down traditional TE.
If Sims or Egnew can play better this coming year, we could kill it in 2 TE sets with Clay able to move around.
2 TE sets would tremendously help our run game.
It's an interesting thought. I do have a slightly different view on if we need that traditional every down TE, thumper type [my words]. The beauty of the Zone Blocking Scheme is, you can in fact mask some gaps in physical blocking prowess of the TE spot because you can rely more on the needs of ZBS with movement, technique and body/hand position, versus the old style, in-line physically dominant TE who may have limitations in the passing game.
In my view when it comes to blocking for TE's in the ZBS - you just have to do enough to keep the defence honest. Others may disagree with me on that, and that's fine - there's many ways to skin a cat. For me, it's about one key word for this sort of discussion I used to use when coaching and that was 'Multiplicity'*. It's about having that player, package, formation that allows you, as a coach, to do multiple things with the same personnel therefore forcing match up advantages by default.
The perfect example of this is New England and the 12 personnel package with Hernandez and Gronkowski and the numerous ways in which they forced opposing defences to line up with a relatively 'heavy' type defence where they ended up putting themselves in conflict with what the NE Offence was doing because they simply couldn't match up with the Offensive strategy.. i.e. they go heavy against 12, NE O would go to the air... if they went Nickel, the NE O would go run heavy. Simple really and from them, I became a massive fan of the 12 personnel package - that is, if you have the people that enables you to be effective.
Eric Ebron would enable us to do that - coupled with Clay. Add these two, to Wallace & Hartline on the outside and a perfect complimentary back of Jeremy Hill in Rd 2, maybe at a push 3 [he's a thumper who can hit the hard years inside and break some long ones - plus he has incredible vision and lovely body lean/movement - I'd also be over the moon with Tre Mason] - would give a very challenging package to defend.
* I 'borrowed' the term Multiplicity from Trent Dilfer when hearing him on a sport radio program a ways back, when he was talking about the difference of the New England offence and in particular it's use of Randy Moss, the year after McDaniels left to be HC of Denver and the fact that the current OC at the time [don't recall the name] had kept Moss in the same place on most every play, a la Sherman with Wallace, versus the multiple approach McDaniels had taken in moving him around - he described it as the 'multiplicity' of the McDaniels offence which generated considerably more productivity, not only for Moss, but subsequently everyone else.