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(03-28-2023, 10:39 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: That’s true but as we saw in the Tyler Boyd TD one game and a Hayden Hurst TD on the goaline they show a play several times then change it up resulting in big plays. That was Oklahoma in there solid run from 2000-2005. The OC most of those years was a good friend of mine. He said the best OC’s weren’t necessarily the best play caller or trickster but one who decisively knew their matchup advantages well and wore it out. Each matchup throughout the lineup and then strategize how to set up big plays later in the game.

They do run some but its pretty significantly less than league average. Teams like the Chiefs and Chargers are always high on the play action not because they need it but because that playaction motion in shotgun will hold the linebackers for half a second allowing the receivers to get just that much deeper into their route. Motions getting guys on the move at the snap is just another type of matchup usually a speed matchup on the edge. 

Although it is funny watching teams react to Ja'Marr Chase in the backfield. He would line up and run a simple RB Curl from the backfield and half the defense would converge on him.