How To Get Raiders WR Randy Moss Open - Part One

[zennie]

I've been so critical of Oakland Raiders Offensive Coordinator Tom Walsh's approach, I figured it was only fair to place my own ideas out there.

Here's how I would solve the Raiders offensive line problem and get famed wide receiver Randy Moss open all at the same time.

Then formation here calls for a personal grouping of really three wide receivers and one back, but the third wide receiver plays flanker (Z) in the play, and Randy Moss is three-and-a-half-yards behind the weakside tackle where the fullback would normally be.

We place Moss in motion to the wide weakside before the snap of the ball. This forces the defense to 1) reveal its overall coverage and 2) place a slow defender -- more than likely a safety on first down -- on the fleet Moss. But this manuever also forces the defense to spread out to get Moss, thus leaving a nice passing lane for the tight end, who runs a five-yard out pattern. This second receiver in the pattern set will see the ball most of the time.

Note that Moss has an option to run either a fly pattern against man coverage or a kind of skinny post (break at 12 yards) into the seam of a three-deep defense, should the safety already be back in that position. It's not logical to try to run by the safety; we take our chances with the idea that we can drill our QB to make the throw on time to Moss should he chose to run the skinny post. We also chose the fly as the base pattern, in case the defense makes the mistake of not accouting for Moss in motion out of the backfield...

The rest of this -- including o-line blocking -- is explained here:

http://nflbiz.blogspot.com/2006/08/h...moss-open.html

[Shawn78]

If Brooks gets the protection he NEEDS then he will have time to throw it to Randy, and Company!

Moss is a ab-lib type of player and he runs routes but not like Tim Brown did! So it IMPERATIVE that Gallery and the rest of the line pay attention in the game protect your QB and block. If the Run can be successful then that will open up the pass! Just look at Denver they run so well and that is why Jake Plummer had a good season he benefited from a excellent line and good running game. Thus Moss will get his and just should try to bear with our new QB and we will be fine!

[zennie]

Originally Posted by Shawn78

If Brooks gets the protection he NEEDS then he will have time to throw it to Randy, and Company!

Moss is a ab-lib type of player and he runs routes but not like Tim Brown did! So it IMPERATIVE that Gallery and the rest of the line pay attention in the game protect your QB and block. If the Run can be successful then that will open up the pass! Just look at Denver they run so well and that is why Jake Plummer had a good season he benefited from a excellent line and good running game. Thus Moss will get his and just should try to bear with our new QB and we will be fine!

I agree about Denver. They and the Colts and Falcons are the models for the modern offensive line.

Well, ok there was that problem with the Steelers 3-3-5 in the playoffs. But The Seattle Seahawks wrote the book on how to move the ball against it: short passes, preshifting, and either five wides or max protection.