New wrinkle against a1abama

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was seeing Jefferson and Marshall lining up in the backfield. I'm assuming giving CEH a better one-on-one matchup from the slot? Makes me believe that we may see a two back set at some point.

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If the defense puts a corner on CEH out wide guess who the LB has to guard out of the backfield?

Massive advantage Chase.

(I don't remember seeing Jefferson or Marshall lined up as RB. I do remember Chase.)

I was just thinking the same exact thing, when Marshall scores his TD, Jefferson was in the backfield next to Burrow and drew the attention of the defense in the flats leaving the middle of the field wide open

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I'm assuming giving CEH a better one-on-one matchup from the slot?

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Gets a LB on Chase. Go watch the Thad Moss catch replay. Chase ran an option route out of the backfield and was wide open. It probably would've only gotten 10 yards and I guess Joe liked the matchup with Thad. It all worked out.

Burrow had wide open TD to Moss too on that play if he wanted.
Another time we ran it Bama covered the flat route well.

There was a play blown dead that Chase was in the backfield and CEH was in motion from Left to Right

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I'm assuming giving CEH a better one-on-one matchup from the slot?

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You assume right. It does two things, really.

1. Reveals the coverage as man vs zone.

2. Match up either CEH on a linebacker in space where he can't get sucked into the line or a WR on LB going towards the flat. Win win. Saints do this with Kamara a lot.