How to (completely) ELIMINATE Elite Receivers.

when your Elite receiver lines up on the line they can break the game open at any moment Elite receivers can dominate week in week out throw up a 100 yards a touchdown seemingly every week but once in a blue moon out of nowhere they have absolute stinkers the games where a defense completely sells out to stop them game plans to get rid of them completely ruining his day and your fantasy Sunday today we'll dive into three different times team shut down three Elites Jamar Chase Justin Jefferson and Devonte Adams but before we do I have an announcement well folks if you wanted another py white guy on camera instead of the actual football content you just clicked on here I am and what's better yet we have a sponsored ad from prize pick prize pick is a daily fantasy sport site where you can pick players every day and win money every day with football already started this is my time to shine and the way it works is you choose two to six players and select whether or not you think they will 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guy and saying hey we're going to take two of our guys and put them on their guy but that has serious ramifications in football I like to say that defenses have one guy called a joker who they can use in many different ways how they use the Joker defines what they want to do on defense if we're playing man coverage across the board we should always keep at least one safety deep as insurance help over the top our Joker is the guy that shows the defense's intentions if we have him playing too deep we're defending the Deep pass but we're light against the run and have less help underneath if we have him play underneath we have help in the middle but still only have one eye safety so there's not much help vertically outside if we have him Blitz once again that's even more pressure oneon-one so if we have him double just one guy we're still one-on-one everywhere else and light against the Run and have limited help deep and underneath you must have an extremely solid plan for the rest of your defense if you're going to commit to double teams throughout the game which is why each defense will study today made subtle tweaks in their own respective games to stop these three Elites against the Lions in 2022 Detroit held Justin Jefferson to just three catches on six targets for 14 yards they used cover one double jersey number the most straight up and the most defensively limiting type of double team in the book cuz you're using two guys on their guy no matter what this is a bill bellich classic it's cover one meaning man coverage with one deep safety and then since Jefferson's jersey number is 18 it's cover one double 18 no matter what structurally speaking it's not too difficult to double a guy when he's lining up outside every snap where typically you'll have a cornerback playing low and outside so any out Breakers then a safety playing high and inside ready to take away any in Breakers over the middle or nail down on any quick Slants or crossers obviously this makes it much more difficult on Jefferson cuz he has to literally beat two guys and it's obviously easier on the Defenders cuz it's cutting each of their responsibilities essentially in hat to counter these Devils coaches have gotten smarter and are moving guys around more than ever whereas in the past past they just keep them in one position outside and to the left every play but now they'll bump them into the slot and also put them in motion on Third and five with Jefferson inside here the lines are playing the same cover one 18 but look how hard it is to double him this is more of an inside out bracket to keep him from picking up the quick first down but he almost splits him right down the middle deep however Kirk doesn't throw it to him when setting out to stop these top tier gun you're committing extra practice time not just to work your different types of double teams but also the specialty plays these monsters run as well we've seen Devonte run this in the past in the 2020 divisional rounds and the Rams didn't have an answer well the Lions know to use their safety to essentially double Jefferson since the man up cornerback can't follow him through all this traffic underneath and Detroit shuts his mother down however the Vikings won this game 2824 which shows us in our Jamar Chase example as well when defenses commit all these resources to selling out to stop the offense is number one if you have a number two who can win his matchups that's when we see a t Higgins type blow up in week 2 2023 Chase didn't have the worst game ever five catches for 31 yards against the Ravens but Higgins went off for eight catches 89 yards and two touchdowns you have to sacrifice to take chase out of the game the Ravens use much more cover to Zone which allowed them to still play within a normal typical structure rather than just moving their Joker all around matching wherever Chase was there Joker played the second safety deep in cover two Zone and what made Baltimore's plan effective they use coverage disguises to drop into these cover two zones making it harder for Joe burough to read the coverage before the snap which also affected Chase here this looks like tight man coverage with one high safety meaning Chase thinks he's going to be one-on-one in man so he'll try and win outside on the speed route away from the safety but the cover two Zone cornerback is playing underneath sitting in his Zone Chase gets delayed off the line cuz he has to release inside instead of outside and he has the second safety over the top of him anyway so burrow has to look elsewhere when the Ravens use more traditional double teams as I said it opened everything else up for the other receivers since they're getting those oneon-one quarterbacks are trained to First Look at the weak safety often The Joker right after the snap cuz he's the clearest indication of what the defense is doing in coverage the strong safety is a safety that lines up over the side with more receivers and the weak safety as I said sometimes the Joker lines up where there are less of them so when burrow takes a snap and sees the weak Joker safety doubling Chase he knows he is one-on ones across the board cuz the Ravens simply don't have enough other their bodies in coverage Baltimore showed burrow a ton of different double teams whether it was the straight doubles or the cover two Zone pseudo doubles and they also knew how to play off of those looks to fool him they know his read key is the weak Joker safety over Chase so right at the snap the safety turns towards Chase to make Bros scan back to the other side he's thinking Chase is doubled not thrown over there which forces his reed away from the safety who easily comes back and picks it off deception was the name of the game for the Ravens to stop Chase pre- snap they'd show him one thing like here one ey safety so burrow is thinking okay it looks like they're playing Zone with the cornerback off typically that means cover three Zone with three deep both cornerbacks back so the quick out to chases money every time but when the Ravens roll into cover two Zone again meaning the quarterback is responsible for the flat and not deep burrow has to come off Chase again Baltimore even went as far to invent some coverages for him that I've never seen before Tampa two zone is to Deep Cover two Zone with a middle Defender kind of guarding the center gap between the safeties but instead they put him on Chase in man designing new coverages to take care of the Bengals Elite guy and it worked the Ravens won 2724 in week 2 which transitions us to another 2023 game the Raiders upsetting the Chiefs 20 to 14 last year in week 16 however Devonte Adams had just one gatch for four yards the Chiefs played him more similar to how the Lions played Jefferson than the Ravens played Chase except the Chiefs used a ton of press coverage to pound him at the line knowing that larius need has a second guy in case the Press doesn't work the chief's plan was to take devonte's strength his releases at the line of scrimmage and make the his weakness they mixed up a few looks to throw off his timing like when they use sne to look like he was going to press him Sneed gets his foot back all ready to go like he always does when he's pressing which throws off Devonte Just a Touch even though he still gains a little separation against his cover two Zone look the Chiefs also made it a point to play tighter coverage underneath on him too here's his only cach where they're playing this match Zone like they like to play match zone is still Zone coverage so you're still guarding in area but it's got some man principles where you're not fully looking at the quarterback you're more playing the concepts well the Chiefs don't just have a game plan they made before the game they adhere to they adjusted theirs in game two as well so you can see Nick Bolton alert Willie gay that the same concept is coming and they blanket Adams of the three games we talked about the team with the elite receiver one two of them yes it's important to take away an offense's best weapon and make them beat you with their second best guy not first but when you go to these extreme lengths to do so it doesn't always work out this is why we don't see it happen as often and especially don't see it when a team has a second good receiver when The Joker Is Over Chase Adams and Jetta every snap you're literally telling the quarterback to Target the second receiver every single time so while your Elite guy might not be eating at least at the end of the day he's eating d this is why having one of these Elites is so important defenses welld design their entire game plan around them I had to go back to find extremely specific examples of when teams actually did shut these guys down cuz Jamar Chase Justin Jefferson and Devonte Adams are so good that sometimes even when teams do double them they still explode [Music] my

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