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Welcome long-suffering Dawgs! My goal is to bring Cleveland Brown’s fans a detailed look at the schemes, plays, and techniques we see every Sunday from our beloved football team! This blog is a work in...
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QB Reads vs. Progressions: What’s the Difference?
First article! Thanks for giving me a look! We’re going to start by examining two plays from the 2014 season to differentiate between “progression” reads and “coverage” reads. Before going any further...
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Previewing Flip’s Offense: Getting Vertical with Switch Routes
At this point we all know that the Raider’s offense ran a fairly WCO-ish scheme, with LOTS of ball going to the RB/FB out of the backfield. We’ll look at some common short/intermediate route concepts...
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Previewing Flip’s Offense: Beating Cover 4’s “Box” Coverage out of the Bunch
Over the course of the 2014 season the Raiders often threw out of a “bunch” alignment in the read zone. I thought this play was interesting because it illustrates a very creative way to defeat a...
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Previewing Flip’s Offense: The Shallow Cross with a Twist
Mark Richt has run a highly successful shallow cross series since his days as Florida State’s offensive coordinator in the mid-late 90’s. He brought the play to Georgia and continues to run it to this...
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Packaging Coverage Beaters
*Be the first to read my newest posts by following me on Twitter @All22ChalkTalk Thanks!!!!!* Over the previous week I’ve spent several hours watching Raider’s film from the 2014 season to get a feel...
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Previewing Flip’s Offense: Merging Old School with New School in the Run Game...
After devoting my previous three “Previewing Flip’s Offense” post to pass concepts I want to pivot and look at the run game. We’ll look at some IZ, OZ, power, and counter over the course of our...
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Previewing Flip’s Offense: WR Motion and the “Swap Boot”
Like many I have awaiting some specific, up-to-date information about what we should expect to see from Flip’s offense this season. We finally got a nugget from Terry’s Talkin’ this week: 1. They have...
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The Running Back Wheel Route
With Flip coming in as the new OC, Brown’s fans have heard rumblings that the backs will be a big part of the passing game this year. During last week’s minicamp we were treated to this Vine showing a...
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Bluffing Blake Bortles into an Interception
This post by the always great Jim Light motivated me to go back and look at some defensive film from the 2014 season with the goal of finding some creative defensive schematics that led to turnovers....
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Getting the Ball Carrier to the Ground: Team Tackling 101
Many football junkies are familiar with Pete Carrol’s outstanding teaching video detailing the Seahawk’s use of “rugby” style tackling. While watching a some film earlier today I noticed a great...
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Team Tackling 101: The Seahawk’s Compression Tackle
Compression tackling 101…. If you haven’t already, go back to “Getting the Ball Carrier to the Ground: Team Tackling 101″ and get the basics of team tackling down. Brief review… -Spill players...
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Ohio State Chalk Talk: Beating the “Bear”
OSU fans were introduced to the “Bear” front after Virginia Tech Defensive Coordinator Bud Foster held the vaunted Buckeye offense to 327 total yards and 3 turnovers in an opening night 35-21 victory...
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The Hue Jackson Run Game
With the announcement that head coach Hue Jackson will call his own plays, All-22 film provides a wealth of knowledge and insight into what to expect from the 2016 Cleveland Brown’s offense. Several...
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Cleveland Browns Film Room: Beating an Odd Front with the Pin-and-Pull
With the announcement that newly-appointed Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson will call his own plays, a review of the 2014-2015 Cincinnati Bengals’ offense provides a potential template of what...
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Super Bowl X’s & O’s: The Counter Trey Read
After looking at a version of the Counter Trey in a previous post (the Counter OF), I want to breakdown another variant that we’ll see the Carolina Panthers run tonight. The film is pulled from the...
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The Carolina Panthers’ Sweep Read
Breaking Down the ‘Sweep Read’ RPO The idea behind RRO’s (run-pass options) is surprisingly simple: merge a pass play and run play into a single concept. The offensive line will run block while the...
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Running the Mesh Concept with Hue Jackson
After several hours of film study it is very clear that New Cleveland Browns’ head coach HueJackson wants to get the ball into his playmakers’ hands. The former Bengals’ offensive coordinator does an...
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Hue Jackson Passing Game Preview: Going Air Raid with the ‘Shakes’ Concept
A Hue-Jackson favorite that shows up over and over again on tape is the split-safety beating ‘Shakes’ concept, an old-school Air Raid classic. The Shakes combo is a Cover 2-killer, putting the flat...
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Running the ‘Split-Dig’ with Hue Jackson
Another HueJackson-favorite that shows up on tape several times against split-safety coverage (Cover 2, Cover 4, and Cover 6) is the ‘Split-Dig’ concept. Split-Dig is a popular three-man concept that...
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