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This post is going to help to break down the Morehead offense.
There are several things to recognize with the Morehead that will directly translate to The Bears and Justin Fields’ particular skill set, accordingly.
First: The ability to use one formation to attack the Defense.
Second: RPO based on manipulating the eye range of the RO.
Third: Motion used to expose the Defense.
Getsy was with Morehead in 2018.
This is a great video where Morehead breaks down Scissors, primarily from Trips. He only really discusses it from the lens and responsibility of the skill position players, WR, QB, and RB, but I would have liked to have seen him discuss it with variations of Power and RPO/RO.
Just watch this video straight through to get an understanding of how Reads are made from the skill positions. It is a perfect introduction to the Getsy system.
This video
discusses the second concept of the Option, as used lethally by Morehead. One of the ways to defend the Option is to read the angle of the QB’s helmet. Yes, technically, you’re reading the QB’s eyes, but, on a football field, that’s not always possible. The check is actually the cone (field of vision) a QB has on the give. During the give/mesh The QB will usually read a key defender, traditionally, the play side DE.
At :50 seconds, this play functions as both an RO and an RPO! While it looks like the QB is reading for the handoff, he’s also using the mesh to read the TE. The same vision cone can distribute between the mesh RB give and the TE route into the far side shallow flat.
At 4:30, we see a play I think we will see Getsy employ a few times. Yes, it’s a bit gimmicky, as it’s a direct snap to the RB, but, with Fields’ skill set, this would have to be a give that needs to be taken seriously. Also, there’s no reason to think that as Monty does the handoff to Fields, Fields couldn’t advance towards the line of scrimmage as a runner and then chuck the ball to a WR who released downfield.
With this next video, pay particular attention to the use of Trips, mirroring the discussion Morehead explained in the first video I posted.
at 2:20, we can see Trips right. This was used to draw the D right so that they can go left with misdirection. Now, they didn’t pull anybody. The line blocked down right on the give, while the QB read left with the TE release. By 2:31, we see a single TE on a single defender and the QB with a nice choice of letting him beat his man or tucking and running for a nice gain, towards the sideline, and with the intention of not taking a solid hit while still gaining some yards.
The point of this attack was using the strong side look as a way of attacking the weak side. Of course, as Morehead explained, a team can’t sleep on the WRs that are running their routes on the trips side. Once that starts happening, then the QB can really feed.
So, at 5:00, we are back to the RPO left; we see the importance that a TE that can catch and block has in this O. Kmet needs to make these short catches. The dude can block, but he needs to excel at short catches. He doesn’t really need YAC. He can play a “War of the Flea” and take 5 yards at a clip. He just needs to catch the fucking ball.
At 6:15, the play that this guy breaks down, he notices that they use the TE to block, but he misses that the pull the LG. Here, we see Morehead utilize Power. The video does a good job explaining why combo blocks are so important, revealing why we need fast OL that can move quickly. So, it’s not solely due to pulling and power, but it is also due to combo blocks moving to the next level. As Steve Letizia pointed out, FGB didn’t really run a lot of Power. So, a focus on double teams peeling off into combo blocks is important, so that’s why we really need athletes at OL.
8:00: Watching how Morehead abused Man coverage and imposed his will on Ohio State to open up the passing game really helps me to envision how Fields is going to feast. Imagine Pringles, Mooney, and VJJ feasting on that shallow crossing route for YAC-a-mania!
There’s nothing to stop Fields, at the :20 in this video, from turning the Trips RO that the Penn St. QB runs here into a deep pass if Mooney is the single boundary and the DB comes up as he keeps it.
The scheme will be the star of the show. Luke Getsy integrating what he learned from Morehead and the FGB/Shanahan scheme will allow Fields to win games. Having a talented, fast, and hard hitting secondary that doesn’t spot the other team 2-3 tds per game means that Fields doesn’t have to throw more than he needs to.
I’ll try to get some more film breakdowns and analysis up if people enjoy them.
There are several things to recognize with the Morehead that will directly translate to The Bears and Justin Fields’ particular skill set, accordingly.
First: The ability to use one formation to attack the Defense.
Second: RPO based on manipulating the eye range of the RO.
Third: Motion used to expose the Defense.
Getsy was with Morehead in 2018.
This is a great video where Morehead breaks down Scissors, primarily from Trips. He only really discusses it from the lens and responsibility of the skill position players, WR, QB, and RB, but I would have liked to have seen him discuss it with variations of Power and RPO/RO.
Just watch this video straight through to get an understanding of how Reads are made from the skill positions. It is a perfect introduction to the Getsy system.
This video
discusses the second concept of the Option, as used lethally by Morehead. One of the ways to defend the Option is to read the angle of the QB’s helmet. Yes, technically, you’re reading the QB’s eyes, but, on a football field, that’s not always possible. The check is actually the cone (field of vision) a QB has on the give. During the give/mesh The QB will usually read a key defender, traditionally, the play side DE.
At :50 seconds, this play functions as both an RO and an RPO! While it looks like the QB is reading for the handoff, he’s also using the mesh to read the TE. The same vision cone can distribute between the mesh RB give and the TE route into the far side shallow flat.
At 4:30, we see a play I think we will see Getsy employ a few times. Yes, it’s a bit gimmicky, as it’s a direct snap to the RB, but, with Fields’ skill set, this would have to be a give that needs to be taken seriously. Also, there’s no reason to think that as Monty does the handoff to Fields, Fields couldn’t advance towards the line of scrimmage as a runner and then chuck the ball to a WR who released downfield.
With this next video, pay particular attention to the use of Trips, mirroring the discussion Morehead explained in the first video I posted.
at 2:20, we can see Trips right. This was used to draw the D right so that they can go left with misdirection. Now, they didn’t pull anybody. The line blocked down right on the give, while the QB read left with the TE release. By 2:31, we see a single TE on a single defender and the QB with a nice choice of letting him beat his man or tucking and running for a nice gain, towards the sideline, and with the intention of not taking a solid hit while still gaining some yards.
The point of this attack was using the strong side look as a way of attacking the weak side. Of course, as Morehead explained, a team can’t sleep on the WRs that are running their routes on the trips side. Once that starts happening, then the QB can really feed.
So, at 5:00, we are back to the RPO left; we see the importance that a TE that can catch and block has in this O. Kmet needs to make these short catches. The dude can block, but he needs to excel at short catches. He doesn’t really need YAC. He can play a “War of the Flea” and take 5 yards at a clip. He just needs to catch the fucking ball.
At 6:15, the play that this guy breaks down, he notices that they use the TE to block, but he misses that the pull the LG. Here, we see Morehead utilize Power. The video does a good job explaining why combo blocks are so important, revealing why we need fast OL that can move quickly. So, it’s not solely due to pulling and power, but it is also due to combo blocks moving to the next level. As Steve Letizia pointed out, FGB didn’t really run a lot of Power. So, a focus on double teams peeling off into combo blocks is important, so that’s why we really need athletes at OL.
8:00: Watching how Morehead abused Man coverage and imposed his will on Ohio State to open up the passing game really helps me to envision how Fields is going to feast. Imagine Pringles, Mooney, and VJJ feasting on that shallow crossing route for YAC-a-mania!
There’s nothing to stop Fields, at the :20 in this video, from turning the Trips RO that the Penn St. QB runs here into a deep pass if Mooney is the single boundary and the DB comes up as he keeps it.
The scheme will be the star of the show. Luke Getsy integrating what he learned from Morehead and the FGB/Shanahan scheme will allow Fields to win games. Having a talented, fast, and hard hitting secondary that doesn’t spot the other team 2-3 tds per game means that Fields doesn’t have to throw more than he needs to.
I’ll try to get some more film breakdowns and analysis up if people enjoy them.
