Taylor Kyles has posted some of the film for these runs. I’ll link the tweets instead of embedding so they don’t take up a bunch of space.
Scramble 1
Man coverage with Phillips in zone underneath. He cuts off the crosser, as expected. Often, they’ll switch responsibilities after the crosser to keep the original man defender back in the underneath zone. Here, that would mean Phillips cuts off the crosser and then sticks with the TE after that, while Dugger drops off to replace Phillips in the middle of the field. That didn’t happen here (I’m not sure if it was supposed to or not), and instead both defenders ended up on the other side of the field with nobody in the middle watching the QB. Bentley could have made a play, but he also was facing the other direction to cover a potential receiver.
Scramble 2
Man with a spy, just like we all wanted. Fields drops the snap, and Wilson abandons spying to go blitz instead. I don’t know what to do here, because I don’t think I’d be coaching the spy to just sit back and watch the QB pick the ball up. Not really something teams can replicate anyway.
Three designed runs
The first two are against a Wise-Ekuale-Guy DL, and frankly I’m not sure what else you’d expect to happen there. I don’t know if Godchaux and Davis were kept off the field with a hurry up or if this was just how the rotation went, but at the very least it’s an example of where they miss Barmore. With a deep safety (who eventually makes Fields go out of bounds) and 3 Patriots vs 2 Bears receivers on the far side away from the run, the Bears had 8 blockers against 7 Patriots at the line of scrimmage on the third play. CBs had a chance to make plays on these, and while the general lack of size hasn’t been a huge deal in coverage, it has showed up on outside runs. Jack Jones did have a good run stuff against the RB last night, at least.
Three more designed runs
Feels like Judon needs to take the TE on the first one to let the CB have a chance on Fields. Instead they get two blockers on two DBs. Last two were better, with Bryant defeating a block and Jennings making a tackle in space.
