Pitt Film Study - Matt Canada's Offense puts up 76 on Syracuse

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The play is Pitt’s bread-and-butter, which is an inside zone handoff to James Conner or the jet sweep to the flanker. It can be run either way and is blocked pretty similarly. Syracuse starts with eight men in the box. The outside linebacker bites hard on the fake to Conner, leaving Henderson with two blockers in Aston and O’Neill with just a safety to beat.

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The beautiful part of the play is that if Syracuse had come out with fewer guys in the box, Peterman could have just handed to Conner. Pitt used the multiple motions to force Syracuse to reveal its intentions and then took advantage.

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Particularly in the early part of the game, the jet sweep wasn’t moving the sticks for the Panthers.

I don’t expect it to cause Canada to lose any sleep, though, and here’s why. Watch how the Virginia defense reacts to these two early jet sweeps by Jordan Whitehead and Qadree Ollison.

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But what the Cavaliers allowed by being aggressive against the sweeps probably hurt them just as badly. With the sweep-side inside linebacker focused on motion man, the inside zone handoff became a much more valuable tool for the Panthers.

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