00:00New York Giants offensive coordinator Matt Nagy didn't call plays in Kansas City even though he
00:11did have the title of offensive coordinator but he does have play calling experience from his time
00:17in Chicago and he comes from that Andy Reid offensive coaching tree. Andy Reid we can all
00:23agree is one of the most innovative play designers in the history of the game plus it always helps
00:29when you have a quarterback named Patrick Mahomes. Last season the Chiefs offense underperformed and it
00:35was nowhere near as explosive as it was in years past but they still found ways to get creative by
00:41design and get different guys and playmakers the football. So here's a couple of plays that I think
00:47that Nagy takes from Andy Reid and brings with him to New York to get the ball into Malik Nabors and
00:54his running backs hands and most importantly to get the most out of Jackson Dart in this Blue Rush
01:01breakdown. We're going to show you guys how Andy Reid gets creative with his play calling especially
01:09when it comes to taking a shot down the football. If you're a Giants receiver you want Matt Nagy to
01:16bring this to East Rutherford. So let's watch the play and then we'll kind of quickly deep dive into
01:22what happened. See Juju Smith Schuster motioning over to the bunch. He runs the dig. You've got
01:29Thornton running right up the seam. They got exactly what they want out of being creative with the play
01:36design. Motioning giving you some smoking mirrors and putting the defense in the bind. The communication
01:43has to be there. So right now as you can see they're in a stack format stack. They're in a stack.
01:49Stack means there's two receiver. Bunch means there's three. So Juju Smith Schuster is going
01:55to motion over and make this into a bunch formation. Now the eyes are going to be on Thornton
02:02and Juju because this is going to be the route concept or the part of the concept we'll pay
02:08attention to most. I think this is worthy right here. He runs the deep over. He's still alive in
02:13this play as well but for right now we'll look at Thornton and Smith Schuster. You see the switch
02:19release. Switch releases whether it's man or zone always puts the defense in some sort of terrible
02:26situation because their communication has to be there. Juju Smith Schuster has a wide depart dig
02:33because this is the seam concept. You've got the seam and you've got the end. You call it an end. You can call it
02:41a dig or whatever you want. Eyes on Thornton here. Pause. If it was middle of the field open. If the
02:50middle of the field was open meaning there was two high safeties. He may have to post that. He may
02:56bend that depending on where this safety is. But right now the middle of the field is closed which
03:01means that there is a safety in the middle of the field. He's identifying this as middle of the field
03:07closed. So all he's going to do is stay up the seam. Split the difference between this corner who
03:14looks like it's a cover three corner who has a deep third and this safety who has this deep third. So
03:21stay right up the middle so this corner can't come off and play this safety. Juju has the in route.
03:29So if this seam isn't there then Mahomes would look for Juju on the in route. I don't know why he
03:36didn't hit worthy on the deep cross or the deep over. But it's not about that. So the fact that
03:43Thornton keeps running. Keeps his distance. Gives Mahomes a chance to put the ball up and over this
03:53safety. He sees this safety is not flat footed. But he sees this safety is ready to drive this deep
04:01over. And now he throws it right over top of that safety's head and throws a dime in there. We saw
04:07Jackson Dart do that against the Denver Broncos last year. I feel like it was Daniel Bellinger who
04:14just kind of stayed up the seam. Jackson Dart found them late after scrambling for a little bit.
04:20Boom. Touchdown. Touchdown Chiefs. Touchdown Giants.
04:23Next play against the Giants. Something real simple y'all. Real simple. All you're gonna see
04:32is a smash concept. But I like the way they ran it out. They ran it from moving the pocket. No play
04:39action. No naked boot. All they're doing is moving Mahomes to his right because they're on this left
04:46hash. You got all this field out here. You're on this left hash. You move the pocket. Get away from a
04:52guy. A pass rusher like Brian Burns. And then you have a simple smash concept. A simple read for
04:58Jackson Dart with the ability to take off if he needs to. So let's watch the play. Good route,
05:06Hollywood. Good route. And then we'll bring it right back. So right here. So you see it.
05:13Smash concept. You've got the corner route with a hitch. You usually run at a hitch. But since the
05:19ball's coming towards you, you run a wide depart hitch. We call that a wide depart. You just clear
05:24it out all this space. So you see Patrick Mahomes on the move. Could he take it? Probably could. Would
05:33have to throw it to the outside shoulder. But now he knows that Marquise or Hollywood Brown has
05:39leverage. He's captured that outside shoulder of this defender. And he's the smash route. The corner
05:45route is in play here because he knows he can get him the football. Boom. Ball out. Right there.
05:52On time. Nice rhythm throw. Not everything has to be some sort of deep play action or some naked
05:59boot run boot action. You can run simple concepts just by moving the pocket. And what this also allows
06:06Jackson Dart to do? Let's say that that corner route wasn't there. By moving the pocket and keeping
06:12Kelsey in to wall. To wall off this defender right here. Mahomes could take off if needed. He could
06:20take off and get five, six, seven yards and slide. Keyword slide Jackson Dart if he needs to. Good throw
06:28on the run. First down. On a second down. On a second down throw. Completion. It's all about
06:34completions. So right here we talk about how we just love creativity in the screen game. You got guys
06:40like Cam Scadaboo, Tyrone Tracy Jr. Both those guys did a great job with the screen game last year.
06:47Now with Matt Nagy taking plays from Andy Reid, you could get more out of it. Look at this. The
06:54deception, y'all. It's all about the deception. Look at the pre-snap design. You've got the running
07:00back. That's lined out here as number one. A couple key points. He's lined out here as number
07:08one. They're all looking like they don't know what's going on. I don't know. Kelsey looks like
07:13he's texting Taylor Swift right now. They've got this defense. This defense can't play fast because
07:19they don't know what's going on. Anytime you can create some sort of hesitancy or have them not
07:26playing fast, you're winning because they have to react to you. So through this, you got through the
07:32play design, you got the running back not knowing if he's motioning back because usually you see
07:37running backs kind of motion down and come back to the backfield. This confusion and all makes it look
07:42like they don't know what's going on. But at the snap of the football, a quick snap, now that gets
07:47your linemen out there faster. You got two linemen out there and you've got Juju. I believe that's
07:52Juju Smith-Schuster one-on-one with the corner for the block. You've got a lane there. You've created
07:58a lane here. And now it's all about a running back like Cam Skadaboo or Tyrone Tracy Jr. to do
08:05something with the football. So again, I don't want to be, you know, I don't want to kind of rehash this.
08:10But again, let's watch this play one more time. Everybody looks like they don't know what's going on,
08:17but by play design, they know exactly what's going on. And you want Matt Nagy to add that or
08:23to bring that to the Giants offense this year in 2026. Last but not least, and I should have started
08:32with it. This one's for you, Malik neighbors. I don't know if you're watching or not, or you're
08:37listening to some NBA young boy while you're doing your rehab, but you got to be excited about this
08:42because you're dealing with the offensive coordinator who's dealt with a play calling
08:47guru who knows how to design plays to get his playmaker the football. And that's exactly what
08:54they did here with Hollywood Brown. Let's watch the play. Oh, wheel route. Got the wheel. You got the
09:04post wheel, post wheel, post mash, post rub, because you know, you're getting man to man here. You know
09:10that they're in man to man here, man to man coverage. He's man up, man up. And this guy's
09:16coming down playing man. It looks like it could be some sort of cover tube man. This post route or
09:21this, I guess he's running the post, but he's really trying to pick this defender. So for this
09:27wheel route by Hollywood Brown, this is by play design, scheming for your weapon, scheming for your
09:34guy. And you see it here takes the hard inside release to dive inside and to know to use a natural
09:42pick. You don't want to run into this guy too many times. Giants receivers have been called for, for
09:48getting too much hands on, on these pick routes. But now all Hollywood Brown has to do is flash the
09:55out route. And you're getting up the field. He's created this receiver has done his job, took one for
10:02the team and created in, uh, created space, got his receiver, his homie, his boy open by, by running,
10:11by taking one or taking two for the team right here and running this, this post route and picking and
10:18running through it. Now it's on Jackson dart to deliver this football in this tight window.
10:23Well, I mean, I guess you can't really call that that tight of a window, but in the NFL, it gets into
10:29the tight window when the safety comes over. But now by play design, he has space ball is already out
10:35before this defender, this corner can recover ball in first out. So Matt Nagy needs to bring a Andy
10:46Reed like approach to New York and get his weapons, the football. You see it, they underperformed last
10:55year, but it doesn't matter because in years past, the KC and Andy Reed offensive system has worked.
11:02It's won and it's taken Patrick Mahomes, God giving skill sets and talent to a completely different
11:09stratosphere. I'm not here trying to compare Jackson dart to Patrick Mahomes, but it's all about a system
11:16that's going to put you and your playmakers in the right position to win, to eat, to cook,
11:22to ball. The mismatches, the motions, the deception, the smoke and mirrors, they're all used as advantages
11:28to get guys in the right spots and attack a defense. Players over plays, but call plays for your
11:36playmakers. Andy Reed did it. Andy Reed has success with it. Now it's time for Matt Nagy to bring it to New York.
11:44Matt Nagy.
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