returnofjakedog
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Watch S-Blair in your animation. He moves up to take the Cover-3 zone handoff of Aiyuk from Jones, but Jones doesn't disengage, which leads to a double team on Aiyuk and no one covering Deebo. The ONLY criticism I have at all for Adams on the play is that he should have floated back-middle farther in his own zone but that was irrelevant to the outcome, and would not have covered for Jones' mistake.
i like this animation as it shows Bobby Hooking up and locking onto Kittle Jones turning and running with his man and Adams Dropping his man to cover ... no one as Kittle is being followed by Bobby.
Say all you want you will NEVER convince me not in a million years this was not Adams fault or 100% bad play design. As far as safeties running with wideouts, yes in the Hawks Defense this happens often. Adams has been Burned on this same play before when he has tried to flip and run and it was against the 49ers last year. No doubt they had this in here for him.
Yes, there was no one in Adams area when all is said and done but that is how a zone "works". There was also at no point anyone in Brooks' area on the left side but that doesn't suddenly mean he was out of postion or blowing a coverage. In fact it would have technically been a mistake in the coverage scheme if either Adams or Brooks had left their zones.
You can blame the scheme, and the coaching staff for the situation. You can also blame Jones for missing his assignment but I don't hold him too accountable being his short time with the team. But blaming Adams is laughable. He literally did everything he was supposed to within the confines of the Cover-3 scheme.