Cam Gives Further Breakdown of Canales’ TMac Strategy

[Proudiddy]

It still boggles my mind that it took them 11 weeks to figure this out?  Idk man, I don’t think I’m some kind of football savant, and things shouldn’t be dumbed down to “anyone that plays Madden knows…”  but, honestly, most people worth their salt on madden figure this stuff out and do it every game.  The game is about matchups.  I cannot understand why we hadn’t been using more motion and/or putting TMac in the trips, inside, or the slot before.  Doing that plus motion forces a defense to declare and show what they’re doing early, which also helps Bryce diagnose what he’s looking at presnap.  Last week was legit the first time I’ve seen us apply these principles in a long time, so I hope it continues tonight and for the rest of the season.

[mav1234]

It's possible we hadn't been doing this because TMac was still adjusting to the NFL/learning his position. 

[Jackie Lee]

We'll see if he can draw it up two weeks in a row or if it was just something he knew he could exploit vs the falcons. Also we've had varying degrees of health with XL and Coker this year and seems like last week was the first time he got all 3 on the field to stretch the field out a little more

[ImfromClayton]

I think a lot of fans severely underestimate how difficult the mental side of an NFL playbook is, especially on offense, and especially for QB's and WR's. Clearly, T-Mac could handle it, but the dumbest thing you can possibly do is wreck the head of your rd 1 draft pick in his rookie year. 

Here's hoping we can keep taking advantage of this. 

Edit: And Tight end. Goodness gracious. There's a reason so many tight ends flame out. You have to have a complex understanding of the run game, the pass game, and any packages requiring multiple TE's to play that spot. 

Edited 1 hour ago by ImfromClayton