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We ran 5 WR once against Indiana… madness.

I got the opportunity to sit and rewatch all the offensive snaps from the Indiana game and noticed a tendency that might be "tipping our pitches". When Emmett is in at RB and we are in shotgun formation, where he lines up in relation to the QB almost always tips whether we are doing a run or a pass play.

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On pass plays, he lines up even or often slightly ahead of the QB.

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On run plays, he lines up often time a full yard behind the QB. The only times we passed the ball when he was offset like this were on what appeared (to my untrained eye) to be RPO plays, where he could have been handed the ball by design. I found zero instances where he lines up even or slightly ahead of the QB and it ended up being a run play.

I found this odd, so went back and found the highlights/snaps I could find from the Ohio State and Rutgers games. While Dowdell and Rahmir also lined up similarly in different situations, there wasn't the same sort of consistency in play type tipping that I saw on Emmett snaps. Dowdell had a few runs where it looked like he was even with the QB at the start of the run and Rahmir had some snaps where it looked like he start offset on a pass. Emmett's pretty consistently held with the trend outlined above (with the main exception being some play action passes (which could potentially have just been RPOs).

This might be nothing, as I am far from a trained eye. However, it could be actually inadvertent play tipping, and if it is I'm sure someone more football savvy on another team's staff picked up on this, if I was able to into 20-30 minutes of looking at film on YouTube.

The reason this would be of increasing concern, if it is indeed tipping what we are doing, is that we've seen Emmett take over as the primary running back since his breakout game at Purdue (46% of the snaps over the last three games). Despite having a good game at Purdue (averaged 6.3 ypc), he has been held to 2.8 ypc since and the offense as a whole has floundered, putting up just 12.6 ppg.

Tipping run or pass on some plays, might not be that big of a deal (obvious pass or run downs), but it can make a big difference if you are trying to catch someone off guard. Regardless, there are a number of plays where it seems like the defense is in way too good of a position to stop what we are doing. That tells me that we aren't just not executing, but we are giving the defense an edge to stop us.
Check put the linemen in these photos. Up on passes, down on runs.

The announcer in the last game mentioned this.
 

Check put the linemen in these photos. Up on passes, down on runs.

The announcer in the last game mentioned this.
Kansas City has a similar issue with their offensive tackles that got pointed out in the first broadcast of the year last season and never seemed to get fixed. Maybe it just isn't that big of a deal, but to me seems like something you wouldn't want to have as a tell.
 
Kansas City has a similar issue with their offensive tackles that got pointed out in the first broadcast of the year last season and never seemed to get fixed. Maybe it just isn't that big of a deal, but to me seems like something you wouldn't want to have as a tell.
The UCLA game shows two things. The RB placement isn't as easy to predict.

But other than the times when Dylan audibles out, the offensive tackles give run/pass away on almost every play (especially Benhart). The only other exception is the little dump pass to Fidone or Jacory in the flat.

My son and I have a game on how correct we will be with the run/pass option. If we are predicting the plays, the other teams damn sure know as well.

This has been going on all season. I was away on Saturday, but did re-watch the game only to see the same stuff this past week.
 
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Kansas City has a similar issue with their offensive tackles that got pointed out in the first broadcast of the year last season and never seemed to get fixed. Maybe it just isn't that big of a deal, but to me seems like something you wouldn't want to have as a tell.

Thankfully the Chiefs have the best quarterback in the world to improvise when the protection/play breaks down.
 
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Thankfully the Chiefs have the best quarterback in the world to improvise when the protection/play breaks down.
Yeah, you can get away with a lot more when you have one of the best QBs to ever play the position and a great play designing coach.
 

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