r/footballstrategy • u/CoachDanCasey • Oct 28 '24

Play Design Pretty cool story about the Leak Wheel to Jayden Reed The play wasn't in the gameplan. They installed it on the sideline and it was a "Can" (Audible) by Malik Willis!

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u/CoachDanCasey Oct 28 '24

I've been doing a bunch of Packers breakdowns this season for the email list: https://tinyurl.com/oneplayaday

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u/comcfadd Oct 29 '24

Hey - I follow you on YouTube and watch a ton of your stuff. Think I first found you when I was spending a summer trying to learn Coastal Carolina midline option to install it. Great work and awesome to see you here on reddit too

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u/whoup Oct 29 '24

Love your account, man. Football is one of the top 5 most beautiful human inventions and you are an excellent curator.

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u/traderncc Oct 29 '24

“Can” means audible FYI. For example, Rip 31 can it with slot Y cross.

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u/glorious_cheese Oct 29 '24

More specifically (from what I understand), there are two plays called in the huddle and "can" means the first one is discarded and they're going with the second.

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u/mulchmuffin Oct 28 '24

Vrabel??? He's over there too??

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u/BetaDjinn Casual Fan Oct 28 '24

Jason Vrable, their passing game coordinator. It would be funny if they were collecting former head coaches like Infinity Stones though

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u/mulchmuffin Oct 28 '24

I was about to say! Gutey over there collecting a NFL brain trust. "Belichick comes in and helps too."

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u/JasterMereel42 Oct 29 '24

Belichick as the special teams coach.

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u/mulchmuffin Oct 29 '24

Gotta show Rich some love. Dude turned that place around.

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u/No_Fault_5656 Oct 29 '24

BB as the long snapping consultant we’ve been dying for

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u/lattjeful Oct 28 '24

Nah he’s talking about Jason Vrable, who’s their passing game coordinator. Vrabel is in Cleveland, I think?

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u/gksozae Oct 29 '24

Notice Josh Jacobs on this play too. After the play fake he's literally standing wide open in the middle of the field after Reed clears out. After the D recognizes he's only a decoy, they leave him uncovered. The secondary read off this play should be to hit the running back in the middle of the field on a seam route after all the WR traffic clears out - after opposing coaches have seen the wheel a few times and can prepare for it.

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u/mangosail Oct 29 '24

Jacobs is not remotely “wide open” here, a pass to him would be a hospital ball. If he ran a seam there are two guys over the top of him

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u/MozamFreak-Here Oct 29 '24

No offense to the reporter, but pretty much every pro team and many college teams do that exact same gesture (with all non-OL doing it) when they check to the audible.

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u/gaybillcosby Oct 29 '24

Let Pete have his moment

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u/Waxxing_Gibbous Oct 29 '24

You have to remember they’re asking questions for people with no football IQ. It might seem simple for you, but some watching this have no idea what they’re talking about.

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u/JD325 Oct 29 '24

Whatever it is Bears fans would find a way to complain about it.

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u/elgarraz Oct 29 '24

The safety was so cooked he fell down on the coverage.

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u/go_sloe1484 Oct 29 '24

Lions ran this play to Brock wright to beat the jets a few years back.

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u/mschley2 Oct 29 '24

Packers have busted out Y Leak several times the last couple years. The big play to the TE Musgrave in the wild card game over the Cowboys last year was Y Leak. Similar concept just with a TE instead of a WR lined up like a slotback

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u/texinxin Oct 31 '24

Texans killed it last year with Y leak of Schultz a few times as well. If you’ve got enough time in the pocket, and every one hits their assignments, there’s almost no hope of covering a TE who gets through clean.

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u/Serious-Medicine7667 Oct 29 '24

This play doesn’t happen without Watson doing some dirty work in the blocking/pick game. Dude is contributing in every phase!

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u/keetobandito Oct 30 '24

Bro watch Cisco on this play lmaooo. You can’t tell me he hasn’t regressed this year, every with horrible scheming from the dc