Texas Tech Friday Morning Notes - They and Them Edition
Double-T Nation —
DTN's Top Six:
The Big Picture with some very cool photos from the 2009 Dakar Rally (hat-tip US).
My little brother shared it, so I am too . . . Disco Ballers, a portable party.
Big 12 Men's Basketball Outlook from Bring On the Cats.
Smart Football with a good look at the deep crossing route.
Genius. Corn Nation, "The Return of Bradford, Tebow, and McCoy - The Equivalent of College Football Hell on Earth".
ESPN Big 12 blogger Tim Griffin ...
Strategy Session: Cross the Deep Crossing Route off FSU's List
Tomahawk Nation —
... Chris really liked the way Arizona ran the Deep Crossing Route. His article appears here. Read that article and then come back here. ...
Missing Pieces?
The Blue-Gray Sky —
... The inability to protect the quarterback has proven a major obstacle in returning to the offensive dominance seen in 2005 and 2006. Another concrete example of that dominance was the deep crossing route, which has been fairly non-existent in the Jimmy Clausen era. Only three times did I seen the route last season, twice against USC and once against Hawaii, but on all three plays the pass to the deep crossing route was not even attempted. In ...
Deconstructing: Out of the wilderness at last, the Irish want it all
Dr. Saturday —
... Of course, we know that Weis really just wants to get his outside guys singled up and to throw them long bombs. There was the spectacular long ball to Floyd last week where the Nevada defender fell down on the coverage, but Weis also called up a deep crossing route several times, where Clausen was instructed to throw the deep go route to the receiver whenever it was open. Watch how the safeties below react to the other receivers -- to the tight end in on the double-post play to Floyd, and to the backside receiver running the cross on the deep bomb to Golden Tate -- and the ...
Smart Football On Texas-Texas Tech
Burnt Orange Nation —
... guy with two career starts. But Potts proved himself a pretty gritty performer, and made enough plays to keep Tech competitive. And with a good offensive team versus a good defensive team, there's going to be some guessing on both sides and sometimes it works well for one and sometimes for the other. For example, Leach three times played Rock in the second half, and Muschamp called Rock himself, then scissors, then paper: On the first play of a drive in the second half, Leach called a deep-crossing route, but Taylor Potts missed the open receiver. Sure enough, ...
Deconstructing: Auburn's Malzahn at the gates, again
Dr. Saturday —
... and keep it safe" kind of coach, with a passing attack resembling the pass-heavy spreads at Missouri and Texas Tech. Now, however, Malzahn bills himself as a play-action pass guy, and he's right. He runs to set up big passing plays; gone is the true ball-control assault on which he first made his name. The two passes he calls the most are probably the NCAA pass -- a deep-post by one receiver with a deep-square in (or "dig") by another at around fifteen yards -- and the deep-crossing route. Malzahn's version, as always, looks a little funky. ...
Walkthrough: Get Smart
Football Outsiders —
... for a big play. Shortly thereafter, the Dolphins expected another blitz so they rolled Henne out (Fig. 1). The original route combination -- a deep "mesh" play where two receivers run deep crossing routes -- was not there. Camarillo was on a simple clear-out route deep, but Henne saw that his first option was covered and also that he could deliver the ball to Camarillo as a de facto comeback. It was excellent quarterbacking. Mike: Thanks for the contribution, Chris. See you on the Fifth Down! Posted by: Mike Tanier on 15 Oct 2009 0 comments
