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Welcome to Patriots Daily's Film Room! CLNS Media's Taylor Kyles analyzes how New England Offensive Coordinator Bill O'Brien schemed for success vs the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 1.  Fanduel Sportsbook is the exclusive wagering partner of the CLNS Media Network. NEW customers can bet $5  and get $200 in BONUS BETS – GUARANTEED. Plus, all customers who bet $5 will get $100 OFF NFL SUNDAY TICKET from YouTube and YouTube TV. Now is the best time to join FanDuel! The app is easy to use and you can be on everything from spreads to player props and more! So, visit  https://FanDuel.com/BOSTON and kick off the NFL season with an offer you won’t wanna miss.  21+ and present in MA. First online real money wager only. $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets that expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at  https://fanduel.com/sportsbook. Hope is here. GamblingHelpLineMa.org or call (800)-327-5050 for 24/7 support. Play it smart from the start! GameSenseMA.com or call 1-800-GAM-1234. NFL Sunday Ticket Offer ends 9/18/23. No refunds. Terms and embargoes apply. $100 off NFL Sunday Ticket, not YouTube TV. YouTube TV base plan required to watch YouTube TV. Redemption requires a Google account and current form of payment. Commercial Use Excluded. Subscription renews; cancel anytime.  Ever wished you could navigate the betting field with the confidence of a pro? Enter Download the Odds-R App! They're not a sportsbook, but they're the sports betting advisor you've always needed. It's like having a playbook for smarter bets right in your pocket. I've been absolutely loving the experience, and I think you will too. Especially since Pats Interference listeners get a 30-day free trial! Elevate your game day and join the smart betting revolution! Go get it at https://oddsr.com/presspass

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00:05 It's Taylor Cowles here for CLNS Media.

00:09 In football, a lot of the time you hear, "Put players in the best position to succeed."

00:14 Now like a lot of things in football, that can completely be interpreted as jargon because

00:19 what exactly does putting players in the right positions actually mean when you're looking

00:23 at the X's and O's and schematics of everything.

00:26 So I'm going to try to use Bill O'Brien's strategies against the Eagles to try to gain

00:30 some clarity and show how you can use personnel groupings, alignments, formations, and motions

00:37 and shifts to put players in the best position to succeed.

00:42 Taylor, what does that mean?

00:43 I'll show you.

00:44 This offense really struggled to get anything significant going on offense in the first

00:48 quarter of the game against the Eagles.

00:50 A lot of that was due to their own mistakes, but you also have to credit the Eagles for

00:54 being on top of a lot of things that Patriots wanted to try.

00:57 And you didn't really see a spark from the offense until the second quarter when they

01:00 started incorporating more bunch formations, which get three receivers close together and

01:06 can oftentimes force the defense to check into certain rules to avoid them getting picked

01:11 off, miscommunications, and certain things like that.

01:13 But Bill O'Brien did a great job exploiting what the Eagles are doing early and then building

01:18 off that once they tried to counter.

01:20 So we're going to show that here, third and five in the second quarter.

01:25 Patriots come out, 11 personnel, three receivers, one tight end.

01:28 You see Hunter at the top of the bunch formation, Kendrick Bourne next to him, and Juju Smith-Schuster

01:33 as the inside most receiver.

01:35 Now based on this initial alignment, Juju Smith-Schuster is actually going to be covered

01:42 by the safety right here, the inside most defender.

01:45 But you're going to see him shift to the outside, going from the number three alignment to the

01:50 number one alignment, counting outside in.

01:53 This gets him matched up against Darius Slay, who's got outside leverage.

01:58 Now we're going to see that the Patriots run basically a smash concept with Hunter Henry

02:03 running a deep corner and then Juju Smith-Schuster running an out behind it.

02:08 But because of Juju Smith-Schuster's release, it's going to create a pick play where Hunter

02:12 Henry just basically gets in the way and creates a bunch of traffic for Darius Slay to have

02:17 to fight through.

02:19 So we're going to see Juju releases right behind Hunter Henry, and then you see the

02:24 mess.

02:25 Darius Slay makes contact with Hunter Henry just because the big guy's getting in the

02:29 way and it gets Juju wide open underneath, right at the sticks.

02:33 Unfortunately, he doesn't make the catch, but this was something that Bill O'Brien would

02:37 go back to later.

02:39 So this is, again, a later third down in the second quarter.

02:44 Once again, Juju Smith-Schuster's inside most alignment gets him matched up on the safety,

02:48 who's the inside most defender, and what the Eagles are trying to do to defend this bunch

02:54 concept.

02:55 Again, Juju shifts to the outside to become the number one and is covered by Darius Slay.

03:01 But this time, they're actually going to run more of a high-low concept inside where Hunter

03:08 Henry once again is setting a pick, just going vertical to try to get in the way, and Darius

03:13 Slay is going to have to fight through that traffic.

03:15 But instead of fighting where his leverage already is outside, he's going to have to

03:19 go all the way inside to try to chase Juju Smith-Schuster, which, as you might expect,

03:23 is not going to go well.

03:26 So we'll see right here, similar release.

03:28 It looks like the same thing, but you see Juju drifting inside.

03:32 Darius Slay has to catch up, but oh look, Hunter Henry once again is right in his way.

03:38 Juju is wide open underneath.

03:39 Catch and run, first down.

03:43 A lot of issues for Darius Slay there.

03:45 So the Eagles said, "All right, we're not going to let you do that anymore."

03:48 So here you're going to see that Avanti Maddox, the slot defender, has actually backed up

03:52 so that the point receiver, that's the player who's on the line of scrimmage in the bunch,

03:57 can't create that conflict and make a big mess.

04:00 Instead they're going to use what's known as a spot check.

04:03 That means that Darius Slay, rather than having to chase the outside most receiver, this time

04:07 it's Demario Douglas, he just takes the first deep route that's kind of going outside and

04:12 is going to squeeze on that.

04:14 Avanti Maddox is going to either run up the seam, take the flat defender, which means

04:19 he's going to go outside, or he's just going to take whoever the number two receiver is.

04:25 Now when I say final number two, I mean that based on the releases.

04:28 So as we saw in the other clips, Juju released behind Hunter Henry, which essentially made

04:33 him the number two receiver.

04:35 And then you're going to see the inside defender, N'Kobe Dean, is going to take either the hook

04:41 or the final number three, so the third receiver who releases into the route.

04:48 Now again, they're going to make this look like the same play they used earlier, where

04:53 the point man, now Kendrick Bourne, runs a pick with Demario Douglas, the outside receiver,

04:59 running underneath it.

05:00 But what they're actually going to do, and I'm sorry, go back real quick.

05:04 So if this were to be the route that they expected, N'Kobe Dean would come down on the

05:09 drag where he has leverage, and you'd see Evante Maddox carry that route from the point

05:14 receiver.

05:15 But instead, the Patriots are running a deeper smash concept, with the point receiver running

05:19 a very, very deep corner, which is essentially just a clear out route, and Demario Douglas

05:24 running a corner route, but essentially making it look like a drag or shallow cross early

05:30 in the route to create confusion.

05:32 So now, Darius Slay is going to be responsible for taking that deeper route that comes out

05:38 initially, and Evante Maddox is going to be responsible for the second route, which

05:42 is going to be Demario Douglas on the corner.

05:45 But his release for Demario Douglas is going to make that confusing, because as you can

05:49 see, he's right behind Kendrick Bourne.

05:53 So Evante Maddox squeezes on that first route because he's responsible for the seam, but

05:58 then also sees that Demario Douglas is underneath him, and you're going to see him start to

06:02 get into a bit of conflict here.

06:04 The eyes are on the quarterback, but Demario Douglas is already in his blind spot, and

06:10 by the time Evante Maddox realizes, Demario Douglas is already open and Maddox has to

06:16 recover.

06:17 All that grass to run into, great ball from Mac Jones, first down, and that's a great

06:23 example of, as you can see, we'll run that back one more time, Demario Douglas creating

06:33 conflict with his route stem, doing a great job getting in the blind spot.

06:36 Maddox eyes on the QB, doesn't realize he's being attacked by the time he does.

06:41 Too late, Demario Douglas already has a ton of space.

06:44 Great job by Bill O'Brien.

06:47 First two times he sees man coverage and attacks it with essentially pick plays.

06:51 The third time, the Eagles check and counter to make sure they don't get picked, but the

06:56 Patriots are ready for it with the concept that takes advantage of that corner, I'm sorry,

07:01 the slot corner in Evante Maddox, and they get a big play off of it.

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08:03 We're also going to see that Bill O'Brien did a great job using formations to create

08:07 conflict as well.

08:08 Here, the Patriots go with an empty formation, and they have a wide receiver outside who's

08:14 covered by a corner.

08:15 That makes sense.

08:16 A wide receiver in the slot to the bottom who's followed by a slot corner, and a tight

08:20 end followed by a linebacker.

08:21 Now, all these things are pretty standard, but the Patriots also have a running back

08:26 in Ramond Dury-Stevenson all the way on the outside to the bottom of the screen, which

08:30 gets him an assignment against Darius Slay.

08:32 Now, obviously, this is not an advantageous matchup for the offense, but what is is wide

08:38 receiver Mario Douglas ending up basically in a bracket between an inside leveraged linebacker

08:45 and a safety who's going to drop down to cover the flat.

08:48 Now, neither of these players are equipped to handle DeMario Douglas' quickness, and

08:52 we're going to see that here as DeMario Douglas runs basically a staggered in-breaking route

08:57 where he's going to close space on the linebacker and run an inside breaking route with the

09:03 linebacker trying to match.

09:04 But again, with DeMario Douglas' quickness, this is not an ideal situation.

09:09 So Douglas is going to close that space, kind of stagger, as you can see, just to get into

09:13 the linebacker's grill, kind of square him up and see where he reacts.

09:17 The linebacker is going to have inside leverage and DeMario Douglas is going to break towards

09:20 that.

09:21 But because of his quickness, it's going to allow him to get separation, as you can see.

09:25 Now, see, Dean tries to jam him to slow him down, but DeMario still slips underneath and

09:30 gets open, as you see.

09:33 But the pass from Mac Jones is a bit high.

09:37 And it bounces off DeMario Douglas' hands.

09:39 But creating a matchup where you have a wide receiver lined up against the linebacker,

09:44 especially someone with the stop-start ability and the explosiveness of a DeMario Douglas,

09:50 great job by Bill O'Brien creating that mismatch.

09:52 And they actually did this again later in the game.

09:57 Now this time, it's a bit of a more confusing situation because the Patriots, once again,

10:03 you're going to have two receivers on one side of the formation, both covered by cornerbacks,

10:07 and then a tight end in Mike Yosiki in the slot covered by a safety.

10:10 Again, pretty standard.

10:12 But this time, with the running back being matched up against a cornerback on the outside,

10:17 again, because the Eagles are in zone, that's going to create a mismatch with, I say, offensive

10:22 weapon Ty Montgomery, because he's a running back, he's a receiver.

10:25 If I were a defense, I would just consider him a receiver and say that this is 11 personnel.

10:30 But because Ty Montgomery does both, it can create conflict in what the defense matches

10:35 with.

10:36 Here, the Eagles match with a nickel defense, but because Ty Montgomery is on the inside

10:41 most position against a zone defense for the Eagles, it's going to get him matched up against

10:46 a pair of linebackers.

10:47 Again, big mismatch.

10:49 Initially, Ty Montgomery is going to stem to make it look like the Patriots' juke concept

10:54 where he sits between the two defenders, but he's actually going to get the linebacker

10:59 to bite on that and break back outside on a whip route.

11:04 So we're on the play.

11:05 You see him start to stem inside.

11:08 Both linebackers inside for the Eagles bite down on the route, but then Ty Montgomery

11:13 breaks outside.

11:14 He's open.

11:16 Mack Jones puts it on him.

11:17 First down inside the 10 yard line.

11:20 So that was just week one from the Patriots offense.

11:23 Really exciting stuff and some really great examples of Bill O'Brien moving guys around

11:28 the formation, using different shifts to play with coverage rules and getting guys aligned

11:33 inside what he calls the playmate positions at the number three spot, as we saw with Montgomery

11:39 in the number two week spot, as we saw with Mario Douglas to get them matched up against

11:43 linebackers and make their jobs a little bit easier.

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