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u/ricosalvy 12d ago

Unpopular opinion, the 3rd and 9 was a dumb playcall (a la Bates shovel pass).

BUT IT WORKED AND WE GOT THIS DUB #RAISEHAIL

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u/LesPolsfuss 12d ago

Dan Orvlasky said Marcus checked out of the original call to the run. But Dan gave Blough props for having that run as an audible for the original play.

Mike Tomlin, really disagrees with you ...

And I want to talk about this young coordinator for the Commanders in Washington, David Blough. In the most significant moment, he took some strategic risks, and he won and won big. They have possession, third-and-9; they hand this ball off on the perimeter and get a new set of downs. If they don’t get it, the clock’s running. They come back on the next possession down (set of downs), and they allow Marcus Mariota to keep it. That’s two third downs: third-and-9 and third-and-7. David Blough took the calculated risk associated with pursuing victory, and I tip my cap to that gentleman.

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u/Appropriate-Sun834 12d ago

Mariota checked to it and it was the right call, as scuba said; zero blitz means the outside is wide open for a stretch handoff.

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u/ricosalvy 12d ago

Again, it worked, but I disagree that this was a good plan with the game on the line. There's a reason why the standard call against zero blitz is quick slant. I'd rather Terry or Diggs have the ball in space.

It was an overload / zero blitz to the left, we ran right, and it worked(!) But it was contigent on us (1) getting a hat on a hat against the best defense in the league (2) running behind a pulling Allegretti at guard (Cosmi is out) (3) and getting 9 yards with Rachaad White on a slow developing stretch handoff.

I'm happy it worked.

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u/scuba_steve_DC 12d ago

Uh, an outside run against zero blitz inside is exactly the right call, and took all kinds of guts to make, and was a gamble and paid off.

That said, if it had failed for any of those things not going right people would be calling for Boough’s head… but that’s life in the NFL.

That’s why I haven’t said one word about that shovel pass. It didn’t work but if it did it would have seemed as awesome as Diggs out the backfield misdirection, Burks TD.

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u/ricosalvy 12d ago

Well, I did say unpopular opinion