I dont think he will make it especially with shorts out defenses are going to be gameplanning for him as our main weapon which means double coverage.


If it was me I would do everything I could to stop that slant route by running something like cover 2 man (with a nickel and a single deep safety) trust my outside corners to handle the other wr's man to man, use my olbs to cover the tight end and the rb out the backfield and use my mlb to cover the middle of the field (rotating the zone coverage between olb and mlb depending if blackmon is in the slot or out wide )


In the slot i'd put my most physical corner on press to try and slow blackmon as much as possible and hopefully delay the route enough to make henne read the linebacker across the middle. Outwide I would make the cornor drop off so you can cover the deep route and let the olb squat on the slant.


The jags have been rubbish against as little as a three man rush so hopefully there would be decent pressure meaning as the slant isn't instantly available henne either rushes the throw or checks down or goes outside.. In the slot it leaves you vulnerable to the out route and down the seam. Though you do have a press coverage corner still on him which sort of takes away the out route with our current qb situation and there is a gap to every coverage


Anyway this has been made up by an idiot in 10 minutes with a laptop. I'm certain nfl head coaches and d co-ordinators with years of experience and film on tap can come up with something to slow him down.... when shorts comes back thats when i start to get excited

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