Also, I was only at 7:30 into this video -- where Gilmore baited Daniel Jones into the throwing the quick slant (and nearly picking it off) - and I was already questioning the knowledge of the author of the video, especially when he makes this point:
"In poker terms, Gillmore figured out Jones's tell and he almost punished him severely for it"
Uhh, that's nonsense. It has nothing to do with a "tell" from Daniel Johnson. The Pats just baited Daniel Jones with the blitz and he made a rookie mistake. How?
The Giants are in a 3x1 formation and the Patriots are playing single high safety (so, think Cover 1 or Cover 3). Now, anyone who even so much as
tries to read/comprehend NFL/college playbooks and reads coaching blogs & watch videos (i.e. like me!) can tell you:
A) Throwing a quick slant to an isolated WR in a 3x1 is an obvious defensive weakness, because it's a quick inside route vs an easy
1-on-1.
B) So, to take away this 1-on-1 advantage; basic defensive coverage rules will always assign a defender to help that CB by aligning to jump that quick slant (i.e. the curl-flat defender; think Will or FS in-the-box). So, what was once a 1-on-1, is now a 2-on-1 against that route. Again, the very first read of that curl-flat defender is to check for that quick slant, before dropping into coverage (i.e. whether it's zone or man). Belichick and Saban call this rule "
4/1st crosser." So, again, basic defenses are always prepared to take away the quick slant in 3x1.
Here's more on "4/1st crosser"
(the example is in cover 6 Skate w/ the weak safety, but also it's used C0ver 3 for Rip/Liz, Mable with the OLB too.)
C) So, how do offenses adapt to defenses taking this away with such basic rules? Well, offenses have their own basic rules, particularly "sight adjustments." Which means, regardless of the play-call/route in the huddle; when there is a weakside blitz (which makes it a 1-on-1 again)
then that WR will change the route to a quick route, like a slant (or hitch, hook, etc) in order to exploit the blitz. Again, this rule is built into the offense's protection.
Here it is in the Patrots 04 offensive playbook:
So, with all those basic rules in place; how did the Pats bait Daniel Jones into throwing that quick slant & why did Jones think it was open? Well, if you re-watch the video, you'll see, pre-snap, Van Noy (and Winovich) on the LOS showing blitz. See, Daniel Jones fully expects a weakside OLB to drop into coverage in order to defend that quick slant, right? So, when both defenders rush the QB - and leave Gillmore in a 1-on-1 - Daniel Jones fully expects an easy completion to the slant. But nope! As the video's author (now) successfully points out, Gillmore was in position to jump the slant, and he can do so because that Single-high safety was really shading over to the weak-side.
So, again, Daniel Jones didn't have any "tell." At least no more than any other QB in any other system, when you study how they attack blitzes. Rather, Jones got baited into following the basic rules on a not-so-basic coverage. All because he saw NE showing blitz & then blitzing, which -- 99 times out of a 100 -- would be perfectly successful vs the slant. But, because it's the NFL, he didn't notice the deep safety shifting over, or account for the personnel he'd be throwing to (Gillmore!) and he didn't realize it was a trap. He's a rookie. That's all.