re: Skycam view of OL in pass protection

1. In several of those you can see that what they are calling protection for, isn't what comes at them. FSU wasn't that tricky with it either. Many times what they showed was going to be unblockable so the protection adjustment was just a guess and was a very low chance of success. The adjustment in those cases it to account for a rusher with your routes, and make it quick.

2. Many of those windows are tough on a QB. It's like we were splitting the field in half and making JD look over the entire field to find a guy. He should, most of the time, be able to spend most of his drop back/set time looking vertical through his progressions, not left and then all the way back horizontally. Probably part of the reason he's not seeing so many open guys. By the time he's scanned a zone he's under pressure or has his eyes elsewhere. He should have a much narrower horizontal window with receivers either moving through it in quick succession or within it vertically. The horizontal outside that window is for mismatches and hot routes; once you turn your head into that zone it's over- you are either running it or throwing it to that one guy.

3. are we always putting the RB to the boundary side? That's helping the opponent disguise more where they can show LBs on either side coming or close the LoS where the OL has to account for them. If on the field side they either have to move a S or you can assume a LB within striking distance doesn't need to be accounted for by the OL. We're helping them split our assignments. That's how you end up with a RB one on one with a DE.

4. If they are making you account for 6 or 7, some Bunch will force those LBs to start accounting for receivers and take the initiative back somewhat.