 Hey there Falcons fans. I am DJ Shockley. Well, thank you guys for joining me. This is Falcons Film Review powered by Microsoft Surface and got a bunch of plays man. I want to show you guys and let's start on the defensive side of the ball and what this defense is starting to look like on the D&P's and how they're trying to plan it all together. This is 39 here. Here are the sticks right here about the 40 yard line. What the Falcons are going to do is they're going to bring what's called a zone blitz. So zone blitz means you're going to blitz two guys from here. You're going to blitz another guy here and you're going to drop this linebacker actually into space here. But when you play zone blitz that means you're going to always have eyes on the quarterback even though you're blitzing. You're blitzing. You want him to get the ball out of his hands faster but you also have eyes on the quarterback here. As the play starts to develop it looks like you're going to get a blitz here right over the middle. But now you're disguising. You can't tell these guys are coming just yet and then you got a safety here. He's going to end up being in a high hole. He's going to be in a high hole as well. So everything changes from pre snap to post snap. On the ball snaps now look at everybody fly out. Going to their zone. Going to their zone. You got eyes on. Here comes the blitz and here's your linebacker running underneath to catch anything that comes underneath right here on this rock concept here. Now the Falcons do a good job of keeping contain on the outside. You can see everybody has eyes but look in the secondary. Eyes are going to the backfield. Eyes are looking at the quarterback. Eyes on the quarterback here. So everything underneath you have a good chance to do. You do a good job of keeping everything in front of you. But now all they have is this check down. Now you can have three guys rally to the football and get home. That's exactly what you want. It's a nice job of open field tackling and a nice job of disguising it pre snap and making it looks totally different post snap. And you come up with a big player you get off the field and now you get a ball back to your offense. Let's jump on the offensive side of the ball. We're talking about just play design and how Arthur said this really creating a lot of space for these guys to be productive. And this particular play quarter passes end up going to make this catch. Here's quarter right here in this bunch slot. Now we've seen him in the backfield. We seem to spread out wide. Now he's in this bunch set. Now you're already creating a space because you have these tight splits. Look how far they got to play off now because they get up in here and you run any kind of crossing routes they can get picked off. So Arthur Smith first off by formation puts him in this bunch set and you're going to have a play where he ends up in this particular area. But the route that I want you to watch say this is great play design is on the back side usually on these what we call three vertical routes here. You're going to have three vertical routes going here and usually have an outside release go route as well. So you have four verticals. Well in this particular play where Arthur Smith does is he runs him on a little pivot route. Now running him on this pivot route. It forces this guy who will usually be back in this zone where quarter pass is headed. He ends up being right up here because of the route. Now as the play gets started you can see exactly what I mean by watch the top route on the top by OZ. Everybody starts to push up field now because he runs just underneath route it forces him to stay up just a tad and here's quarter running to this open zone. Now remember if he runs an outside release go route this guy will fall off and now he can be right here for this particular throw but you also have Hayden Hurst running through the scene that occupies this safety. Got an outside release on the outside by Cal Pitts. Now you have this huge void over here to throw and now you create a positive play for the Falcons and boom look at that nice yards nice catch and look at the the space here. Everybody distributed well on the field even if he wanted this check down he can come back down to it. Just love the play design love the formation and love how the execution of it comes to hand after you put it all together. I want to thank you guys for joining me. I am DJ Shockley for Falcons Film Review powered by Microsoft Surface.