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Tua Week 1 Breakdown

Tua, has been doing this since forever. He won a national championship as a freshman by looking off a safety for a walk off TD. This is an elite gift that will serve the dolphins well for many years.
 
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Excellent video. It highlights so much of what Tua does that is elite, but most fans don't notice. Those seem like little things, but they are what impressed me so much about his Alabama tape. It's the kind of stuff that Brady always did to us. The little things that make the game seem easy that most just chalk up to luck, bad defenses, etc.
 
Excellent video. It highlights so much of what Tua does that is elite, but most fans don't notice. Those seem like little things, but they are what impressed me so much about his Alabama tape. It's the kind of stuff that Brady always did to us. The little things that make the game seem easy that most just chalk up to luck, bad defenses, etc.
It also backed up the thinking the offense isn’t on the same page…receivers in the wrong place, etc. That kind of stuff can make the QB look bad, when he had nothing to do with it. Just need time and repetition...gotta come together.
 


Tim Jenkins runs Jenkins Elite which helps train prospects for the draft. He was also a former college QB at Fort Lewis that did make it to camp with the Rams.


Great stuff and so happy he went over the Tua INT play. Now it makes more sense why he threw it. I'm not saying he shouldn't have. But now it's more clear that guys ran the wrong wrote.
 
View attachment 85627View attachment 85626Great video.

One question though: can anyone here explain why that last play isn’t the same as the first one? Looks the same to me.
They are the same formation and all the same routes. The difference (IMO) is that Tua is actually reading the defense in the first play and deciding whether to hand it off or throw it (RPO), to the same side of the field. That play was either a hand off to the back or a throw to Waddle based solely on what the LB and DE do on that side of the field. Take a look how long he has the ball in the belly of the RB. The already crashed the LOS and Waddle is open behind him.

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On the second play, he holds the ball out for a second but never sells the fake because he is intending to throw the ball to the other side of the field and Parker is expecting it. It even looks to me like Parker is running harder on the second play and Waddle is running less hard on the second play.

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They are the same formation and all the same routes. The difference (IMO) is that Tua is actually reading the defense in the first play and deciding whether to hand it off or throw it (RPO), to the same side of the field. That play was either a hand off to the back or a throw to Waddle based solely on what the LB and DE do on that side of the field. Take a look how long he has the ball in the belly of the RB. The already crashed the LOS and Waddle is open behind him.

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On the second play, he holds the ball out for a second but never sells the fake because he is intending to throw the ball to the other side of the field and Parker is expecting it. It even looks to me like Parker is running harder on the second play and Waddle is running less hard on the second play.

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not sure what there is to read post snap. theres 8 in the box. he's not running into that.
the diffrence is where he decided to go with the ball presnap which was determined by waddle having off coverage the first time and press the second.

the guy in the video has no idea he showed the same play twice and if you pointed this out to him he'd laugh and say he missed that. it is clearly the same. exact. play.
 
not sure what there is to read post snap. theres 8 in the box. he's not running into that.
the diffrence is where he decided to go with the ball presnap which was determined by waddle having off coverage the first time and press the second.

the guy in the video has no idea he showed the same play twice and if you pointed this out to him he'd laugh and say he missed that. it is clearly the same. exact. play.
It’s what I was going to say. He made a decision pre-snap on where to go with the ball, so there was no need to fake it.
 
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