 Seen so much improvement this year from Drake London and as the season progresses You can watch some of the things that happens in games that he starts to become a better What I call filler of the game when this particular play here You're gonna have a clear out by OZ on a post route And then you're gonna get Drake coming here on a corner out But he feels it in a way where Destroy these routes up for you feels it in the way that he sits down in the zone You got a couple plays I'm gonna show you where the feel of Drake is really why he's able to get the football in his hands now Here's the corner out coming they're playing cover three. So you got a deep safety You got this corner playing deep third That's the point of OZ is to clear this guy out so that when Drake comes in here on this corner out He has a zone to run through but they do a good job actually of dropping deep into the zone here and I'm not allowing him really get the football there But watch as Drake comes out of this. He knows that there's a cover three corner here So he runs to him. He's gonna run himself into a cover area But he does a good job of what I call just selling into this hole and then really does a nice job I just landed to him high and gives him kind of a back shoulder throw now He goes up against his ball now Look at the area he comes the throttles into because he could easily run into this and then you see this corner Already trying to fall off into it But he has a good feel a great feel to sit in this little void that you have here in the NFL That's open. There's a little voice you got to send it to he has a good feel for it and watch what a ball Plays me into this ball a little high a little behind him Which you perfectly like if you don't throw him into this corner and you throw it high Well, you're drinking either big six four six five frame and watch him come down and go up and get it Nice job of going up and get it watch it one more time play it all the way through and watch them Just feel that boy settle in there just enough not gonna get the football nice feel by Drake right there Now there's a reason why the last two weeks Drake has had Career catches and yards because of like I mentioned the feel he has in coverage This is a guy who's understanding what defenses are trying to do to him So now you're gonna go play action away from him and you're gonna get some little flow this way from the linebackers But this is the backside dig that you're gonna hit now all these guys are gonna gain debt once they see it's not run So they're gonna try to get into their particular zones So you got to watch what Drake does he doesn't come all the way into the zone on the next level He sits down in this voided area has a great feel for coverage And what a defense is trying to do to take away this particular right on the backside now watch him as he comes in here Now here's the zone then there's some kind of zone coverage here safety's deep But here's the underneath defender that he has to kind of connect He's got this first window throw this guy you see him He's trying to look him up, but he doesn't he's too shallow for Drake comes in here Nice depth here on the route, but watch look at his eyes as he's coming in here You can see him looking for that next defender. So you talk about window throws for quarterbacks and for receivers This is a first window throw soon as he comes inside here on the first window He's just gonna settle down in his void and now you can see the field that he has look at that Doesn't move doesn't run into it because here's the guy that can take that ball away because if he comes all The way across guess what he's gonna take it away and now you got to go somewhere else But watch him coming here and sit down look at this sit down right in this boy Now look at the triangle they have around them They think they probably can have it covered pretty well They got eyes on the quarterback and like I mentioned if Drake came across here He would take it away and it doesn't give anywhere for your quarterback to throw the football other key thing is Give the quarterback your numbers. He gets squared to the line scrimmage. He tells the quarterback I'm sitting here and now it makes it an easy completion for Drake London Love the field love him sit down in that void These are the things that allow him to get open and get the football here late in the season when you have a report with your Quarterback you understand where the ball should be and where the ball has to be This is the particular player that you love here This is what I call a fade stop basically what happens here is you're running a fade and you can get on top of them You keep going if you can't you come back off of what I call a stop right on the outside And you're gonna do a good job of coming off of so on the top of the stem here You get press coverage on the outside So first off, you know, you're running an out breaking route You have to make sure you give your quarterback room over here on the sideline when you're running this particular route And he does a great job of being physical at the point of a tag and not giving up the sideline here So you see here you got about five yards away from the sideline on any practice field There is a big red line that's five yards from the sideline to Into the field the purpose of this is when your quarterback throws a football It gives him room to lay the football Drake does such a good job of staying on that red line and staying vertical Other part thing look at the top of this route Look at this DB pulling on tugging on him But he's just as physical with the DB which is great because it doesn't like him to push him to the sideline Or push him off his route. He's physical in the top of it as well And the other part is I talked about the face stop right here. It doesn't look like you can get on top of it So as he gets up to his proper dip, he's gonna break it off and now the timing of the throw is even more perfect Ball is out Drake is still fighting with the guy but watch at the point of attack when the ball gets halfway there He's created the separation now Look at that and then he still gives his quarterback room the latest football case He wants to throw it outside no quarterback wants to throw the football back to the inside There's a great job of throwing it outside Drake gives him a big body throw here Once again goes up high and outside and now you see the athleticism going down get a foot down and that elbow in bounds That we remember from the ball game Nice job of physical at the point of attack at the top of the route coming out of it having a good feel and then Using athleticism to make another big time catch Also talk about the nuances of making sure that you do the right thing and showing the right thing to your quarterback Never leaving your quarterback out of the dry. This is a great great example of that Drake's gonna come in here He has a bit of an option right here. He's gonna end up breaking inside This is the guy he wants to work off this inside linebacker Now the when you come up and you come across The most important thing is to make sure that you come flat and when I say come flat They're gonna reroute this tight in here He's gonna end up running what we call an inside basic and now you got a underneath Little shot across that comes across but the main thing is once he makes this break He has to come flat if he goes a little bit too deep Or you go behind him. This will be picked off your quarterback Trust you and look at this. You see where he's at now. He wants to sit down here Now we're gonna throw them a little bit inside But because he throws inside he has to come flat He does a good job of coming flat and look at him attack the football comes underneath and stays Underneath the defender you go around this defender or you confuse your quarterback That's gonna be interception nice job of coming flat to the quarter quarterback and then nice tough physical hands Another good field knowing what the defender is as you can see him kind of angle his body away from his defender and Now you have a nice clean catch and now you got some catching run after The catch here nice job becoming vertical the income flat doesn't take it up field This is a nice job by drinking drinks on a great job at the end of the season of understanding field understand coverage and Being available for his quarterback the skies continue to be one of the top receivers in the game I'm DJ Shockley. This has been Falcons film review powered by Microsoft Surface