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I'd love to see a part 2 about how defenses are successfully handling this, once it starts happening.

Understanding football on a deeper level has refined my perception on the sport. I don’t even trash talk about players anymore. Especially on defense. This game is so mental.

I used motion as a Pop Warner coach and was criticized by the local HS coach for being "too mental". I have never understood why teams of all levels didn't use motion more, especially at the snap. Shifts are also excellent at creating "speed vs slow" matchups. QB's, even at a Pop Warner level, should be able to read simple defensive movements if their coach understands how to explain their keys. With everyone always in copycat mode, these motions will soon be at every level - unless coaches continue to keep their heads buried in the sand.

A huge part of this is just how talented the players in Miami or SF are. You’re seeing a lot of teams attempt to copy this but simply don’t have the players to execute it. Speed of Hill, Waddle and the RB’s combined with Tua’s quick processing speed and accuracy allow this to happen. Green Bay just ran a similar outwards motion with Musgrave and it was just slow and clunky.

Every team would motion on every play if it was easy. I do not recall the Dolphins committing a single pre snap penalty so far which is amazing with how complicated their offense is.

I really wish the official broadcasts used the more zoomed out camera angle. Watching the live game you can’t see any routes and are forced to just watch the QB. Feels like i’m missing half of the game

This was EASILY the most informative explanation of NFL route/motion concepts I’ve ever seen. Thank you!

Ben Johnson is definitely doing all of this. Maybe not to the extent the Dolphins are but it is all over the Lions offense. The Lions also run and pass from the same sets and motion. It is hard to know what the Lions will do based on pre-snap reads. I haven't watched Miami becasue the are not on TV around here, but wow, they are good.

The Chiefs have been motion heavy for years. While motion can be used to confuse defenses, it's even more useful as a way to read a defense pre-snap. It pressures defenses because you can use motion to overload a side, then snap the ball while the defense is still trying to adjust to the formation. The Chiefs 2 short TD passing plays "Corn Dog" were both designed to take advantage of the way the Eagles would adjust to motion. The result was two WIDE open TD's in goal line offense in the Superbowl. Even if defenses "figure it out" we'll always see motion because it will never become useless.

As a Carolina fan, I am shocked that it's possible to run anything other than Run, Run, Screen behind the line of scrimmage, punt.

You guys make the best breakdowns! Keep up the great work!

The CFL has always already allowed mutliple players to be in motion behind the line of scrimmage before the snap (know colloquially as "the waggle" lol)

Thank You for the video on the concept of motion for the pass and run on offense.

My compliments and thanks to you. Very well done! Graphics, analysis, voice over, all excellent. And no annoying music😊

It’s such a unique balance between using the motion and not. If you’re dead 50/50 on using it/not, there’s no way the defense can know if you are GOING to motion. Meaning they have to be ready to defend what you give. Then, they have to also know every single possibility you can motion INTO. It’s one player on the offense causing complete chaos for the entire 11 men on defense. Really cool stuff, how simple yet effective it is

Your videos are incredible brother. Please never stop, I will watch them for AGES. You break down such complex concepts very effectively

Wonderful job of explaining this, graphics are so so helpful. Glad you were able to find the footage and put graphics in it and not over complicate things.

Excellent video. Every time I watch your channel, I feel as if I am up to date on what is going on in the N.F.L.

All this motion is just so hard to defend, it really messes with the rules of coverage especially these days where most defenses are running match zones instead of true zones.