 Ryan in the gun, tied in two receivers left. One to the right is sharp. And Ryan going to take the deep shot looking for OZ. And Zacchaeus makes the catch at the 10. Another great home run ball caught by Alameda Zacchaeus against Josh Norman for the first time. Hey, what's up, Falcons fans? I am DJ Shockley. Well, thank you guys for joining me. This is Falcons Film Review, powered by Microsoft Surface. Let's jump right into a couple of plays. I got a good one. I got a bad one for you. But let's talk about a good play. A big play to OZ. Big 49-yard catch in how he was created and how he did a great job on his route to create separation. Now, this particular coverage, it all starts with the coverage on the outside. These guys on the back end are playing what's called cover four. So cover four is everybody has a quarter of the field. Quarter, he has a quarter, he has a quarter. But the thing on this particular route is OZ is going to run this deep post here. He's going to run a post, and he's going to come across the back. This is a great play versus quarters, because if you get something coming vertical, this safety must take him. That's his responsibility. And what the fire is going to do, they're going to run a nice little end cut here that forces him to come up. And now you get this right on the outside. Now, the other good thing about quarters is, this guy must play outside leverage because he has help on the inside. So he's going to play outside leverage to OZ's post right on the outside. So you're going to get post here. You're going to get a dig on the inside. And then you're going to get a little flat route right here by the tight end. And on the backside, also, you do a good job of running this little hook route that keeps him right on this play here so he can't fall off on the backside and go get it. So you got a lot of things that's holding these safeties to watch it happen. Now watch on this particular route here, playing quarters, coverage here. Now here's the quarters, coverage here. Now here's his safety, look at his eyes. He's looking at Gage coming here vertical. Now he has to take him because he's attacking him coming across. We got this guy occupied on the backside by this curl route. But the one thing I want you to watch is, OZ is right here. He's probably about a yard or two inside the numbers. What he's going to do is, he's actually going to lean on his defensive back. And by the time he makes his break, he's going to be on top of the numbers. Now what that does is, when he leans on his defensive back, it forces him to widen even more. By him widening even more, that gets him further away from the safety when he runs this post. So a nice job of him widening, boom. Look at him breaking. He's on the numbers now. Look how far outside he is. And now that he's come across, he is so far away from this safety and he has all this field of work. And then he lays it out to him. And this is a big 49 yard catch by OZ. All the details of the route, all the details of Gage running his route to occupy that safety, all these things work together. Even the backside route works together so that OZ can have that big 49 yard catch and ultimately a big time play for the Falcons on offense. All right, George Kittle had a pretty big ball game. He had a lot of ways where they got him the football, but I'm gonna show you by disguise, by formation, by motion, how they're able to get him in space and just create some running avenues, I should say, to throw it to him. So this particular play here, here's Kittle. He's in the slot right here. Right now, the Falcons are in good position. You got a guy over him, you got a safety over him. And what they want to do is they want to bring him in motion across here. When they bring him in motion, they create a three by two. So you can have one, two, and he becomes the third guy. And now when he comes in motion, the Falcons are only gonna have two guys over top. So here's a three by two now. You got one guy here, two and three. Now they want to run the bubble right here to him right on the outside. But when you're talking about reading the box, that's what the quarterback does. He can even hand this football off here or he can throw the bubble. It's all about the numbers in the box. When I say the box, this is considered the box. And right now the Falcons have six guys in the box. One, two, three, four, five and six. Kind of Deion is kind of in the no man's land here. He's trying to play in between these particular receivers and also playing inside where he can get to the run. But on the snap of the football, they're gonna see exactly what I'm talking about. So here it is. You got six guys in the box. They only have five guys to block. So he is not gonna hand his football off because the Falcons have numbers. But on the outside, this is where they have numbers. We got one defensive back and you got one nickel guy on the inside. Well, inside linebackers Deion Jones. So now they have leverage on us now. Remember, we're throwing this bubble, they're throwing this bubble on the outside. So he's gonna come across and he's gonna block the inside guy because he has his leverage there. And then this receiver who came in motion, he's gonna block the corner and now they have three over our two guys. Our safety is 15, 20 yards deep, playing cover two, not his fault, but this is just a particular coverage. It's a great job of pre-snap reading it for the quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and understanding they have an advantage of numbers on the outside as opposed to handing it off on the inside. Now you see the blocking here. Block here, block here still on the outside. And now the closest person is this safety. And now because of the numbers and the formation they have created this avenue to get him to football in space. And ultimately they do a good job of blocking on the outside. And now you get one of your best players in space. So it was all about formation. It was all about design. It was all about the quarterback pre-snap understanding where to go with the football depending on the box count. So that's a great job of them understanding the numbers and executing it to the best of their abilities. All right, well thank you guys for joining me. I'm DJ Shockley. This has been Falcons Film Review, powered by Microsoft Surface. We'll see you next week after the Detroit Lions game.