 Desmond Rick at his first start in this game and he did a lot of good things Let's talk about some of the things he did pre snap as opposed to post snap They give him a chance to win now. I love this formation here. You got a spray in formation So the spray formation gives him an ideal look of what's going on on the outside in the perimeter So first thing I want you to watch is where's the leverage of these particular defensive back now pre snap He knows okay. Look at this third guy. He's uncovered now uncovered He knows somebody has to go to him So they're acting like they're blitzing but this is the guy who's actually going to run to him and also he's gonna throw away From rotation safety rotation goes down. Let's talk about the route combination on the outside You got what I call a basic on the inside and you have a slant on the outside You got a hitch on this side now on the front side here You got a slant by Drake London and then you got an outside release go route now pre snap You want to know where he wants to go to football? He has to know leverage of DB's but also where guys are going This particular defensive back has inside leverage It's not really good to throw a slant burr inside leverage on the snap of the ball He's actually going to get outside leverage from him would gives him a easy path to throw this football in on the snap of the ball So watch what happens at the snap of the football. He's gonna come out and then boom now look at the rotation Here's the linebacker that will stand here. He's running to the inside He's gonna take away whatever's on the inside is basic. You also got this safety coming down Garn this way now look at the leverage again leverage on this guy Let's work away from that now you work to the bottom. You got the big receiver at the bottom Look at the outside leverage him understanding where the ball should go Pre-snap as opposed to post-snap and now you got leverage to hit this inside slant with him running away from coverage And you have this huge void in the middle of throw the football This is a nice job will hit his back foot and watch this football comes out. Boom. You love that Easy completion third down and it's an easy completion like I mentioned look at the down is third to six now This is a nice job of hitting his back foot and the ball coming out on time with all this separation Now you give your receiver a nice catch of a ball nice job of recognizing pre-snap versus post-snap coverage Thank you guys for joining me. This is Falcon film review powered by Microsoft Surface Next let's talk about what he does inside the pocket as far as toughness and letting the football go on time But also recognizing what he needs to recognize when the ball is snapped You're gonna get play-action this way and you're gonna get a blitzer off the edge This doesn't look like he wants to blitz, but he ends up coming off the edge here Now here's the ropes he wants to hit he wants to hit this slant over the middle So you're gonna get a switch release switch release means he comes here And he's gonna go outside and run a like semi-post a little basic route as well And you got motion coming across and you got a little out route here but watch the play action that goes here his head goes away from the defense and Like I mentioned, this is the blitz coming at it The first thing he has to do is get his head around so that he has eyesight on what's happening So watch here play action boom look how fast he gets his head around now He has time to see this blitz and defender and now this route is not open yet This is the route he wants to hit coming across but watch how he gets his head around and then stands in there Look at this. He has a guy barreling down on only right here standing here showing the toughness and to live to deliver a strike Look at all this room He has to run but delivering a strike here standing there making a big time throw the last thing I just want you to see how important it is for him to get his head around at the snap Soon as he goes off this play action The number one thing is to get his head around immediately to see this pressure sometimes It's the defensive in but on this particular play is the nickel coming off the edge wash the head snap around now You got eyes look at his head snapped around He sees the voided area that he wants to throw to while he deepens it back is barreling down on him and completes this Nice strong throw good toughness standing in the pocket delivering the football his teammates will respect him a lot for that All right, we got another play action here inside the pocket I want to show you but he does a good job of called ball placement on its particular route You're gonna get two over routes here Drake's gonna come across you got an over route Then you got Michael Pruitt coming across on the override as well But the thing you have to pay attention to are these underneath defenders, especially in zone cover You don't get play action and they're gonna get sucked up just a little bit But they do actually do a pretty good job of getting back underneath these over routes that you're gonna see happen Play action comes across look at linebackers. They're up here now up here now They're doing a good job of you selling the fake they're getting up But after this watch them get back underneath now. Look at this guy. He's getting back underneath this coming across Here's the crossing route. He wants to hit Pruitt on coming across here But watch what he does instead of throwing him across the field where this guy is going and underneath this particular defender He holds him up here in the little zone right here and pulls them up watch how you make some stop a little bit She stopped right there Here's that backer that was running to this area where the ball was going to go But this is a good job of the tight end and the quarterback Understanding coverage and seeing the field because a lot of guys would throw it across the field trying to throw him open but he does a good job of standing in there and Throwing him open to the open spot in the field instead of trying to lead him across This is what you call seeing the field really well, but understanding coverage Understanding what you're seeing and doing it at a fast pace watch it one more time Really is a good job coming off this fake watch the head snap around boom finds those linebackers first thing He does is where the linebackers comes across nice job here a finishing boom put it on him That's another big time completion on first down that keeps those chains moving and he understands exactly where to go The football regardless of coverage, but he's showing the poise inside the pocket that you like the most This has been Falcons film review. 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