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00:05I suggest everybody go out there and buy Malachi Fields stock right now because the post-buyweek
00:12stock is not going to be the same price as the pre-buyweek stock. This man continues to get
00:19better and get more comfortable within this Giants offense and continues to make plays.
00:23And some are going to say, oh, he's off to a slow start. 16 catches, 248 yards and one
00:29touchdown on 30 targets. I actually think he needs more targets on the second half of
00:35the bye week than what he got in the first seven games of the season. And he showed that
00:39in the Houston Texans game, five targets, four catches, 87 yards. Each one of those catches
00:45were a first down, huge first down in that win. So I'm going to show you guys how Matt Nagy
00:51is scheming plays up to get him the ball and how JJ McCarthy trusts his first year wide
00:57receiver in this week's Blue Rush Player Breakdown.
01:05All right. They ran a lot of out-breaking routes with Malachi Fields and the receivers as a whole,
01:11the speed outs, the deep bench routes, queue routes, corner routes. You saw a lot of that.
01:17And I saw JJ McCarthy pull Malachi Fields and Malik Nabors into the practice, indoor practice
01:23facility after practice on the Thursday leading up to the Texans game to get the timing down on a lot
01:29of these throws. And it worked. You saw big plays across the board when he was throwing these
01:34out-breaking routes, specifically the Malachi Fields and Malik Nabors. So we'll watch the play here
01:40and we'll talk about how the scheme, Matt Nagy's scheme, gets his big receiver open
01:47for an easy throw and catch. It's like routes on air. It's like stealing candy from a baby.
01:52So you see him starting here in the slot. This is by disguise. You want to see what this,
01:59you want the defense to declare. Right now it's looking like cover three. This guy's going to have
02:04the deep third. I mean, this guy's going to have his third, deep third, his third right here.
02:10And this safety looks like he's going to be the guy to play the hook to curl, the flat to
02:17curl.
02:18So now Matt Nagy motions down Darnell Mooney and Malachi Fields now becomes the number one receiver.
02:25Now with this ball right here on the hash, that means we've got all this space to the field.
02:32So motioning down Mooney now has created all this space for Malachi Fields to run this out route.
02:41It should be pitching catch because you're running a deep out or a speed out against an off cover three
02:47corner. It's routes on air. It's just like stealing candy from a baby. So here at the snap,
02:53you see Malachi Fields with his right foot up. You see with the right foot up, he's going to take
02:58six
02:59total steps on that six foot, which would be the inside foot. It's going to be that right foot.
03:06The inside foot is going to touch. It's going to touch. He's going to roll out and then he's going
03:13to run. It's a speed out. That ball is coming towards the sideline. You're throwing it out there.
03:17And here's what this does. So you motion Malachi, you motion Darnell Mooney out and he runs kind of
03:23like this deep over, this deep crosser. That's to hook this flat to curl defender. That's to keep
03:30him occupied for a bit so he doesn't just run straight under number one and try and play the
03:36out route or the hinge route or whatever you could run or throw out here. What he also does in
03:43terms of
03:43Matt Nagy is he puts Isaiah likely on this sit route or choice route, whatever it is, whatever
03:51it is, because now this is kind of, this is also adds a little bit of, of cheese, a little
03:58bit of
03:58bait for this flat to curl, hook to curl defender, because you want him to jump something and again,
04:04not play underneath Malachi Fields. So now that Isaiah likely has set it down and kind of scooted out
04:10just a little bit. This now attracts this curl, the flat, this hook to curl defender. So again,
04:17instead of running underneath and trying to rob that, uh, that out route, he, his eyes are now
04:23fixated on Isaiah likely. He jumps down and makes this throw even easier for JJ McCarthy in Malachi
04:32Fields. Again, it's like routes on air. It should be pitch and catch, but quickly, let me break down
04:38something about this route for Malachi Fields. You see how he starts in this minus two from the
04:43number split. When that right foot hits the ground there, he's almost at the numbers. And we have a
04:49little wide departure on our stem when we come off the ball, because it's not like we want to get
04:55head
04:55up. It's what we want to chase this, this corner. We want to run at him to make him think
05:00we want this
05:01stem to look like we could be running the quick glance, which would be fifth step and then keep
05:07a skinny angle, a bang eight or a bang eight. I'll break that down another day. We can run a
05:12quick,
05:13quick glance route where that ball's on you right away. Uh, you can run the, you can run an in
05:19route
05:19where you wide depart and then you break in. There's so much you can do off of this stem. And
05:25by,
05:25and what that does, you see this corner here because Malachi Fields is pushing at him, digging
05:32at him. He's still backing up. Now, when he puts that right foot into the ground, rolls and runs,
05:38look at the separation here. Easy throw and catch.
05:44That's third down right there. You can see it. That's a third down. Third down conversion. Big throw
05:51and catch. All right, let's go to this next one because we've got Malachi Fields here. Neighbors
05:59in the slot. Uh, man, Neighbors is the number three in slot. Likely is number two in this true slot.
06:05And then you've got, uh, Mooney out of here as the number one receiver. Now you've got Malachi Fields
06:12at the X. You're moving him around in different positions. Let's see the, the play and then we'll break
06:18it down. Now he runs that corner route. Boom. Throw and catch. Pitching catch. Pitching catch.
06:27Again, I told you they're working these out routes and corner routes. Now he's running what,
06:32I mean, I like to call them Q routes, depending on the, depending on the offense you're in,
06:38different terminology throughout the NFL and the CFL. You know, I spent eight years playing
06:42professional football. If it's a single man corner route, we've used to call them Q routes,
06:48Q route, single man. But what you're getting here is a variation of kind of like a smash concept. I
06:56know usually number one will run, if it's a true smash is number two, the slot runs the corner and
07:02then number one runs some sort of hitch, uh, return, snag, whip, anything for flat control.
07:09Right now what they're doing for flat control is just releasing the back. Devin Singletary,
07:14they're releasing him to the flat because right now you're getting cover two. You're getting a
07:19cover two look, cover two look, cover two look across the board. Two high safeties playing over
07:25the top and then these corners have the flat. So what this does and what I like by what Matt
07:32Nagy does
07:33here, you feel fine with the protection. It's four on five. You can get this back out because now
07:39it's like Malachi Fields is running this corner route out of the slot. So right when he gets here
07:45to make his break, this corner at third and five, it's about third and five right now, this corner has
07:52to honor this flat route by the running back because you can just dump it, throw it to him,
07:57and that's an easy throw and catch to get the first, uh, the first down. So this corner has to
08:03hold on
08:04to this flat route, which we, again, we call it flat control. He has to hold on there and that
08:10leaves
08:10Malachi Fields one-on-one with the safety that's playing deep over the top and he's inside.
08:19So Matt Nagy scheme this route, this route concept schemes his player, the X's and O's got the Jimmy
08:27and Joe open. And now it's time for the Jimmy to run the right route, get to your spot and
08:33the Joe
08:34or the JJ in this situation to make a heck of a throw and put it in there, put it
08:40right there in
08:40that cover two honey hole. But one thing what I like about what JJ McCarthy does here, look at his
08:45eyes,
08:45look how he holds this corner to the flat, because if he doesn't hold this corner, this corner can
08:51just kind of metal there, have no work and then play underneath to rob the corner route, right?
08:57You see him kind of doing it late. He has to honor that. So that's what makes him late. But
09:02also look
09:03at JJ McCarthy's head. Look at his head. Look at his eyes. You can see the New York logo kind
09:07of be,
09:08uh, East West because his eyes are to the back. You got to really make that corner. Look,
09:13you got to really make that corner think that there's an opportunity for you to throw this
09:17flat route. Because again, now that gets him to jump it. And now you've got Malachi Fields,
09:24this receiver one-on-one versus a cover two corner running a corner route. And now you see him fire
09:30that there pigskin in there, fires it in there. What a throw. Look at that. Look at the room for
09:36error,
09:36small room for error, small margin for error. Because again, if he didn't hold this corner
09:43on this flat route, if he didn't threaten or at least show that he could throw that flat route,
09:49that corner would have came straight off, ran right under this and pick this ball. But instead,
09:54boom, another throw and catch on third down. We've seen two third downs, two outbreaking routes on
10:01third downs to Malachi Fields. And you've seen two first downs so far.
10:09Last but not least, this was a big one. Big play here. Big play, big boy. Big play. And I
10:15feel like
10:15we're only going to see the best of Malachi Fields after the bye week. I feel like they're going to
10:19continue to get him targets, implement him in this offense. Because one, the boy can play. Two,
10:24the boy is showing that he could deserve it. And I don't even like, boy, I'm not in no disrespect
10:28when I
10:29say boy, like the grown-ass man. Big boy play. Get off me. I told you, he's a lot faster
10:36than what
10:36he looks, too. You see the way he was chopping just now. Look at that. Look at that. 47-yard
10:41catch
10:41and run. Big play. Another big play. And this one is off of, what's the down the distance here? I
10:49can't
10:49see it. Is that third down again? I think it's another third down. Yeah, this is just a single
11:00man, single man bench route. Single man bench route. He is running out. All right, let's break
11:08that. Let's break that down. Let's break that back. Plus two split. You got likely in the slot.
11:16I don't know. Who is that? I think it's Fedoni. What up, Fedoni? Again, likely in the slot. You're
11:23going to see him push up, break down, and run this deep out or this bench route. And I'll tell
11:28you why
11:29he ran it the way he did. Boom. All right. So again, we got cover two down here. We've got
11:36cover four.
11:36We've got cover two to the field. We've got cover four to the boundary. All right. Cover two to
11:42playing over the top. Trying to drop, take Malik neighbors out of there, get somebody over the
11:47top. But we've got cover four to the boundary. And again, these two guys for cover four, he's got his
11:53deep fourth. He's got his deep fourth. And everybody, this triangle here is reading number two. They're
11:58reading number two, who is Isaiah likely and runs a bunch of these in cuts, option routes. This,
12:04this safety is reading number two and his eyes are going to turn to number two and he's in there
12:09going to play him man to man, which makes this a man to man throw or a man to man
12:15concept for this
12:17corner at this cover four corner, even though he's playing zone. So you see Malikai Fields take
12:22that in break. You see him in the number plus two, plus two from the numbers split with the ball
12:28on the boundary. Watch how his stem dives in a little bit. You see here he's touching paint. So
12:37he went from a plus two to the top of the numbers and what that's doing now you can run
12:42the corner,
12:43you can run the end, you can run post. Again, he's keeping that stem the same. He's keeping that
12:49stem, the stem of his route. He's keeping it the same. So no defender gets a tell on what he's
12:57running.
12:59At the now watch at the top of this break, you see the explosion at the top of it. And
13:04now he
13:04drops weight because he knows he's got to get out of this break and come running right now. This
13:11corner still has the outside leverage. So we know that we've got a cross face. What makes it easier
13:17is that this corner is not on us. He's, he's not on us. There's no collision at the top of
13:22the,
13:22of the, of the, of the, of the route. That's what makes it harder. Sometimes the slows down
13:27the timing of routes is when there's that collision, you got to fight to win back across
13:33or win, win across his face. And then you're not in your spot as, as where, when you need to
13:39be.
13:40So it made it a lot easier that the Texans are in this cover four and this corner is playing
13:44off.
13:45And he's even looking to play, he's playing through receiver to quarterback, looking like
13:50he's ready to jump some sort of route, jump some sort of in breaking, in breaking route. You see it
13:57that looks like he's ready to jump something to curl or in. And again, I told you about this cover
14:02four safety, how he's going to be eyeing Isaiah likely number two, the number two receiver.
14:09So boom, he's jumping that in route. There's nobody underneath because this curl to flat defender
14:16or this triangle, this, this defender right here, who's supposed to be underneath that
14:20is holding underneath Isaiah likely, which as he should, because Isaiah likely catches a lot of
14:27passes for this offense with Matt Nagy and those guys know that. So this is how they schemed up again,
14:33their big body target, their big receiver on second and what looks like 20 second and long
14:41second and 20 to get him that bench route, that out breaking route to now catch the balls on target.
14:48The ball is where it's supposed to be. He's accurate. He's on time that allows your big body
14:54receiver to catch it, break a tackle and go and get some yet. No, big boy, big boy, big boy.
15:03Look at
15:04the sideline. Look at the sideline. Look at Jay Penny. Look at Taye Banks. These are guys, these are,
15:09these are DBs. These are guys you go, you've been going up against since the spring. Then you go
15:15through training camp. You're tired of going up against the DBs on your team. They're tired of going
15:20up against you, but they know about the work that you've been putting in. And when you see it as
15:25teammates, you see it because you know, you got something in the rookie. Look at Shelby Harris
15:30here. Look at Darius Alexander here. Look at the Giants coach. Look at the staff right here. Everybody
15:35knows 88 is the next, is next up and deserves more targets. And he's playing like it. And you can
15:43tell
15:43by the response of his teammates that he's playing like it. The best part about what Malachi put on
15:51tape that game is to me is Isaiah likely only had two catches on two or three targets. I believe
15:59didn't do much that game. They tried to take him away. And as you saw in one or two of
16:05the plays,
16:06when you try and take likely away, you try and take Malik neighbors away. Somebody within that
16:12offense is going to have to step up. And who, not who better than a Malachi Fields with extreme catch
16:20radius is a lot faster than what people think and has sure hands. Who better to throw the football to
16:28and to emerge as that second perimeter pass catcher outside of Malik neighbors than Malachi Fields? Go buy
16:36his stock now because the kid is only going to continue to make plays and get bit better.
16:42throughout the course of this football season. Matt Nagy knows it. This team knows it. And now JJ McCarthy knows
16:49it.