Interesting article on illegal men downfield...

[Barking 13]

I just don't understand this argument... from the picture I saw they had one guy that was down field... highly doubt during practice last week he told that one guy to run down field in order to throw the defense off... that didn't happen... you know what draws the defense up? It's the QB running towards the line of scrimmage... its a lot like the "Tebow Jump Pass" except its outside of the pocket... Personally I would like to see us to run this play..

There would be flags flying everywhere the first time we tried it.

[DancingRabbit]

first time OM has run it, Nick Marshall ran it constantly. We should run it with Dak a lot but Dan only likes the inside runs, so it's only the Tebow jump pass.
The problem OM had was timing, Kelly held it too long (geez the core kid was open by 20 yards don't overdo it so much) and the one OL got antsy and took off too soon. Clean that up just a hair (2 yards by one OL) and it's deadly and legal.

Maybe first time this year. But OM runs that play.

[confucius say]

Go watch the cornerback and tell me whether he was looking at Kelly or the lineman down field when he left his man to come up to stop the run...

It's not the corner that matters. It's the safety in a two deep shell who is responsible for deep half that comes screaming down bc his keys tell him it's a run.

[Really Clark?]

It's not the corner that matters. It's the safety in a two deep shell who is responsible for deep half that comes screaming down bc his keys tell him it's a run.

I can't remember which safety it was but the lineman that was down field was blocking a safety. Not a LB but goes up field to engage the safety coming down. But it might have been the opposite side safety

[Percho]

I get that but on that particular play the touchdown had nothing to do with the linebackers or the middle of the field, it had to do with the cornerback leaving his man down the sideline in order to come up on Kelly. My point is the lineman down field, although it's illegal, had nothing to do with the score

The corner thought he had safety help but the safety read the OL as run and came up thus the WR was wide open.

[scottycameron]

The corner thought he had safety help but the safety read the OL as run and came up thus the WR was wide open.

I don't think he read anything but kelly running a read option keeper. I don't blame him they hadn't thrown out of that all year, kelly had rarely if ever even kept it. They had that in their back pocket waiting for a spot to use it and they picked it perfectly. I'm telling y'all we need to run that with Dak. It's hard to stop, if you defend the pass Dak will pick up yards in chunks.

[confucius say]

I don't think he read anything but kelly running a read option keeper. I don't blame him they hadn't thrown out of that all year, kelly had rarely if ever even kept it. They had that in their back pocket waiting for a spot to use it and they picked it perfectly. I'm telling y'all we need to run that with Dak. It's hard to stop, if you defend the pass Dak will pick up yards in chunks.

We have it in our system. Fitz scored a rushing td on it in the spring game.