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I’ll be posting some threads regarding thoughts and observations on the previous season as well as the upcoming season until the season begins.
One of my favorite Eddie Jackson plays of 2018...
It’s week 13 against the NY Giants. It’s the Giants second possession early in the first quarter. The Giants have a 1st and 10 with Saquan Barkley in the backfield.
Nevertheless, Vic Fangio sends out 5 defensive backs and keeps both safeties deep presnap...
On a running down, and with the ultra talented RB on the field, Vic Fangio puts only 6 defenders in the box...
Vic Fangio is trying to bait the Giants into running the ball in between the tackles here. That’s the thing aboot Fangio. While most defensive coordinators try and react to what the opposing offense is doing, Fangio tries to dictate what the offense does. Then he sets traps for the offense to fall into.
Immediately at the snap of the ball, Fangio sets his trap by sending Eddie Jackson into the box to plug up the pre snap vulnerability...
But the Giants catch Fangio off guard by still running a play action fake into the soft presnap look...
The play action fake opens up a big hole in the defense. Eddie Jackson is caught up in the box less than 5 yards from the line of scrimmage. Adrian Amos is covering the deep middle and the short side of the field. This leaves a vacant area on the opposite sideline, and that is exactly where Odell Beckham jr is headed...
Odell Beckham jr is an elite route runner with devastating explosiveness. From the slot, he could beat you inside just as easily as he can beat you outside. To play him straight up is a tall order. Bryce Callahan concedes the inside, and Beckham pulls away...
This leaves one man to try and stop this runaway locomotive. Once Eddie Jackson reads the play action fake, he stops in his tracks.
Jackson needs to quickly reassess the situation. He begins to backpedal and pauses for a moment while he tries to read where the QB is going...
A moment later he sees Odell Beckham JR making a cut towards the middle of the field.
Jackson quickly diagnoses the situation and turns on the gas...
Jackson’s only shot here is to first understand exactly where Beckham is trying to get to, and then either to somehow beat him to that spot or intersect his route before he gets there...
What he ends up doing, incredibly, is in fact intersecting and undercutting Beckham’s route to the sideline...
Not only does Jackson catch Beckham right past the 40 yard line, he disrupts his route and takes him further away from the ball. He essentially boxes him out. Each stride Beckham took towards the sideline took him less than a yard upfield. The moment Beckham sees Jackson closing in, he feels he needs to get some more separation and begins striding further upfield than he had planned...
As Eddie Jackson converges on OBJ, he reads his eyes to gauge when the ball is in the air...
From such a trailing position many CB’s would not even attempt to turn around in fear that they would lose too much ground. Eddie Jackson does it effortlessly while losing no ground at all. The moment he strides over the 45 yard line, he becomes the offensive player and OBJ becomes the defender...
Just a masterful display of first getting back into coverage, catching an elite receiver, rerouting him, and then even going for the turnover to top things off.
NEXT UP: thoughts on Haha Clinton-Dix
One of my favorite Eddie Jackson plays of 2018...
It’s week 13 against the NY Giants. It’s the Giants second possession early in the first quarter. The Giants have a 1st and 10 with Saquan Barkley in the backfield.
Nevertheless, Vic Fangio sends out 5 defensive backs and keeps both safeties deep presnap...
On a running down, and with the ultra talented RB on the field, Vic Fangio puts only 6 defenders in the box...
Vic Fangio is trying to bait the Giants into running the ball in between the tackles here. That’s the thing aboot Fangio. While most defensive coordinators try and react to what the opposing offense is doing, Fangio tries to dictate what the offense does. Then he sets traps for the offense to fall into.
Immediately at the snap of the ball, Fangio sets his trap by sending Eddie Jackson into the box to plug up the pre snap vulnerability...
But the Giants catch Fangio off guard by still running a play action fake into the soft presnap look...
The play action fake opens up a big hole in the defense. Eddie Jackson is caught up in the box less than 5 yards from the line of scrimmage. Adrian Amos is covering the deep middle and the short side of the field. This leaves a vacant area on the opposite sideline, and that is exactly where Odell Beckham jr is headed...
Odell Beckham jr is an elite route runner with devastating explosiveness. From the slot, he could beat you inside just as easily as he can beat you outside. To play him straight up is a tall order. Bryce Callahan concedes the inside, and Beckham pulls away...
This leaves one man to try and stop this runaway locomotive. Once Eddie Jackson reads the play action fake, he stops in his tracks.
Jackson needs to quickly reassess the situation. He begins to backpedal and pauses for a moment while he tries to read where the QB is going...
A moment later he sees Odell Beckham JR making a cut towards the middle of the field.
Jackson quickly diagnoses the situation and turns on the gas...
Jackson’s only shot here is to first understand exactly where Beckham is trying to get to, and then either to somehow beat him to that spot or intersect his route before he gets there...
What he ends up doing, incredibly, is in fact intersecting and undercutting Beckham’s route to the sideline...
Not only does Jackson catch Beckham right past the 40 yard line, he disrupts his route and takes him further away from the ball. He essentially boxes him out. Each stride Beckham took towards the sideline took him less than a yard upfield. The moment Beckham sees Jackson closing in, he feels he needs to get some more separation and begins striding further upfield than he had planned...
As Eddie Jackson converges on OBJ, he reads his eyes to gauge when the ball is in the air...
From such a trailing position many CB’s would not even attempt to turn around in fear that they would lose too much ground. Eddie Jackson does it effortlessly while losing no ground at all. The moment he strides over the 45 yard line, he becomes the offensive player and OBJ becomes the defender...
Just a masterful display of first getting back into coverage, catching an elite receiver, rerouting him, and then even going for the turnover to top things off.
NEXT UP: thoughts on Haha Clinton-Dix
