Packers Film Room: Malik Willis to Jayden Reed goes for 51 yards

With 1:13 remaining in a tie sport, the Inexperienced Bay Packers confronted 2nd & 6 from their very own 34-yard line with backup quarterback Malik Willis underneath middle. However let’s again up for a second. Actually, let’s again as much as precisely 1 quarter earlier.

With 1:13 remaining within the third quarter in a sport by which the Packers had been trailing 17-13, they confronted 1st & 10 on their very own 42-yard line with Willis. They’re in 11 personnel (1 RB, 1 TE, 3 WR) in a decent formation (if I’m not mistaken, the title of this formation is Deuce LT Off, signaling that the power of the formation is on the left and telling the TE to align off the ball as a substitute of on the road). Jayden Reed [11] is aligned in-line (however off the ball) on the appropriate, away from the power of the formation. This will probably be necessary in exactly 1 quarter.

On the snap, the Packers run their commonplace PA Boot idea (of their playbook, this idea is solely often known as “Hold”). They pretend a large zone run to the left, then Malik Willis [2] boots to the appropriate to discover a Sail idea ready for him (a three-level flood idea, with a deep nook/Sail route, an intermediate crosser and a flat route).

Off the appropriate aspect of the road, Reed is working a Slam route. Principally, he has an preliminary down block, then releases to the boot aspect. This route works within the area created by Ben Sims [89] on the slide path to the flat. The thought is that Sims will drag the protection horizontally to the sideline, which is able to depart area behind him. Reed’s job is to easily work in that area and be open if Willis works again to him.

Willis is seeking to thrown downfield, nevertheless it’s not there and stress is in his face so he scrambles for 20 yards.

The way in which Willis boots is de facto fascinating. Often, the QB continues his boot to the sideline and throws on the transfer. On this play, Willis pulls up brief, though there isn’t any stress off the sting forcing him to take action. Primarily based on how the Packers educate this play, I’ve to imagine this was intentional. We normally solely see the sort of pull-up on the boot on a designed throwback idea that performs off of PA Boot. So stick a pin in that for the briefest of seconds.

Now we fast-forward precisely 1 quarter and find yourself again the place we began.

With 1:13 remaining in a tie sport, the Inexperienced Bay Packers confronted 2nd & 6 from their very own 34-yard line with Malik Willis underneath middle. As soon as once more, the Packers are in 11 personnel, Deuce LT Off formation. Jayden Reed is – as soon as once more – aligned in-line (however off the ball) on the appropriate, away from the power of the formation. They present vast zone to the left, then Willis boots proper, as soon as once more pulling up brief as a substitute of carrying it out to the sideline. No large deal there for the protection; that is precisely what they noticed earlier.

They’re displaying the Sail idea to the appropriate, with the TE (Tucker Kraft [85] this time) releasing underneath the formation. Reed initially releases inside as if he’s going to down block. Up to now, this seems to be precisely just like the “Hold” rep we noticed earlier.

Then issues look totally different. As an alternative of releasing to the flat, Kraft pulls as much as present safety to Willis on the appropriate aspect of the road. In the meantime, as a substitute of releasing on the Slam route, Reed releases over the road and emerges from the opposite aspect of the sector. He “Leaks” out the alternative aspect of the anticipated idea, you would possibly say.

With the Jaguars making an attempt to get well from the play pretend – then making an attempt to get well from the anticipated PA Boot idea – Reed finds himself vast open up the appropriate sideline.

Willis places it on the cash and Reed hauls it in for a achieve of 51, finally getting pushed out of bounds on the Jaguars 17-yard line.

The Packers decide up 11 yards on their subsequent two performs, then kneel the clock out to 2 seconds left to win the sport as time expires

Matt LaFleur talked about this play after the sport:

The “Can” talked about here’s a mechanism utilized by the Packers (and just about each offense). On some performs, they may come to the road with two calls, joined by a “Can”. The offense will run the primary play, however, relying on what the QB sees post-snap, he can “Can” the primary name and run the second. The QB will put his arms as much as his ears as he yells “CAN CAN CAN,” and the talent place gamers will mimic that movement to point out that they acquired the sign. (I talked loads about how this all performs out in a chunk I wrote this previous offseason.)

On this case, the “Can” was seemingly a results of the Jacksonville Jaguars’ security rotation. When the Packers ran PA Boot within the third quarter, the Jaguars had been displaying a single-high security. When Bo Melton [80] launched on his crosser, he pulled the boundary defender with him. With the security following the flood to the appropriate, the left aspect of the sector was fully open.

On Leak, the Jaguars initially align with two excessive safeties, however they rotate all the way down to the sturdy aspect (over the TE) pre-snap. Willis Cans the decision when the security rotates down, anticipating the identical protection.

Certain sufficient, the Jaguars had been taking part in this the identical manner they performed PA Boot. Good recognition by the teaching employees to see this in the course of the sport, nice recognition by Willis to see the rotation and nice execution.

Let’s simply watch these two performs back-to-back and get out of right here.

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