Hou-Tex, I never said playaction boots and rolls. A lot of times moving the pocket using sprint rollouts which gets the defense moving from side to side is what i'm talking about. Sprint the qb out and set outside of the rt and read dragging routes. Then you can come back with some of that same action and throw backside screens. Guys like jenkins,haynesworth, and rogers who carry 330 plus don't like moving side to side and most times give up because they're pentrating to a point, but the point is no longer there. That's what the criticism was on how badly brady was hurt during the sb. Normally they would move the pockets with semi rolls or full rolls away from pressure, but since his ankle was in bad shape, they left him at the midline all game. Schaub was in the same situation. No half rolls or full spprint rolls to get away from pressure. AJ on the opposite field dragging all the way across with a high low makes for easy completions against a ultra aggressive defense. It didn't happen because schaub is hurt.
From the Anthony Alridge's thread, this play is actually one of the examples of actually moving the pocket that I was thinking of.
It fits right into our scheme on the O-line.
The QB is in shotgun, he doesn't need the extra movement of taking the snap from center, drop back and/or turn to roll out.
Less footwork = easier on the ankle.
He's ready to strike from the get-go if needed.
Any blitzer would find it not an easy task.
In this case, the D is in an OVER front, with the NT to the weakside.
But the Jets can be in their prevalent UNDER front with the NT on the strong side and the SAM outside (or on) the TE, and MS would be OK just the same.
Or they can be in a 5-man front, it doesn't matter all that much.
They can even line up Jenkins on top of Myers, and at best (if he can time the snap perfectly) he will find himself shooting straigth through the gap untouched, surprised, trying to regain balance and veer left toward the QB.
At the very worst, the QB can easily throw the ball away.
A 6-man front here would be very dangerous for the Defense.
There will be somebody in one-and-one, and/or either the slot receiver or the RB can easily become the hot receiver in the soft zone.
Either wide-out can run a home-run fly route if the CB play press-man coverage.
Or he can run a comebacker quickly if the DB play off-man.
The 3-3 with Jenkins playing like MLB will take forever to get there.
The nickel back would also find it difficult to blitz whether he lines up outside the slot receiver or inside.
There are so many things I like about this play.
Another one is that the QB can survey the whole field with ease.
His viewing angle might be the same (I'd say it's a little smaller) but his peripheral vision should improve.
He can survey the receivers on his right hand side on the roll out to see whether there's a situation he likes.
Before he plants his foot he would have already seen the receivers on his left as well.
Yet another one is that he can see his backside clearly as the other.
There should be no QB hit on this play.
, that experiment should be dead in the water.
