Buckeneye
I lead, you follow.
That's insane. I'm going looking at this from a defensive perspective, were the roles flipped, because those are my waters.
It really doesn't take much, but a key piece of info, to fuck the whole thing up. If you know the front I'm running and any pressure called with that... you're pretty much toast defensively. Fronts and coverages, even if they're called separately, go hand in hand. So if you have my front, you can correctly get into your running check without having to think and taking too much time pre-snap. If you have my front and/or likely my pressure, then pre-snap checks, playing the odds of the chess match, is pretty much gone. If you know I'm sending a fire (3 deep, 3 under. Or 2 deep 3 under) then you can signal in your check with absolute certainty on what you're doing. Which also means you know there's no chance of my call/look just being a bluff. You'll either have the correct protection called, or the best possible route combination, or both in some cases. Because you beat pressure either by blocking or throwing out of it. And even if I'm running a delay on that pressure, holding water and disguising until the snap, you'll have such an intimate understanding of where to go with the ball that the actual "processing" has been all but removed. You'll know, with an absurd degree of accuracy as a QB, where to start your eyes and your progressions.
I don't need coverages at that point. Hell, I don't even need to look at the personnel grouping. You could trot out a parade of all-American players, I still have the upper hand.
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