Players are turning on Zac finally

[*bengalfan74*]

(10-11-2022, 03:55 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: This starts an interesting conversation. Play action DOES work, and it works incredibly well. However, it doesn't work any better if your running game is strong. It just works. This is because defenses have to read and react. Each defensive call has run fits built into it, and defenders have to play those run fits. If you don't the running game goes wild. 

Take this example.

I created this GIF, and it is one of my favorite plays to show to demonstrate this. Look where my cursor goes prior to the snap. Lance Briggs, #55, doesn't play his run fit and instead sprints out covering the TE in the flat. Best takes the ball and runs right where Briggs vacated. That is what happens when you don't play your run fits, you give the back a ton of room to work with and he scored the ball there from 88 yards out. That is why PA works. These guys have to read the play and then react. If they react wrong, shit can hit the fan. 

I can see that