BDL 2019 Week 7 - Oklahoma City EF5s @ Seoul Dragons

[Xmad]

BDL 2019 Week 6

Match:  Oklahoma City EF5s @ Seoul Dragons

Away Owner: @Whicker

Home Owner: @TedLavie

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Good luck to you both

Edited October 20, 2019 by SwoleXmad

[Xmad]

Oklahoma City EF5s:

QB: Matthew Stafford
RB: Joe Mixon
WR: Adam Thielen
WR: Allen Robinson
WR: Robert Woods
WR: Michael Gallup
LT: David Bakhtiari
LG: Quinton Spain
C: Rodney Hudson
RG: Brandon Brooks
RT: Brian O'Neill

QB: Kyle Allen
RB: Melvin Gordon III
RB: J.D. McKissic
RB: Frank Gore
WR: Emmanuel Sanders
TE: Mark Andrews
TE: Trey Burton
OL: Morgan Moses

 

LOLB: Von Miller
DT: Cameron Heyward
DT: Sheldon Richardson
ROLB: Matt Judon
LB: Devon Kennard
LB: Cory Littleton
LB: Dont'a Hightower
LB: Quincy Williams
LB/S: Adrian Amos
CB: Tre'Davious White
FS: Jordan Poyer

OLB: Ryan Kerrigan
DT: Corey Peters
DT: Lawrence Guy
DT: Margus Hunt
CB: Marcus Peters
CB: Joe Haden
CB: Pierre Desir (Q)
CB: Michael Davis

 

Seoul Dragons:

QB Kyler Murray

RB Jordan Howard

WR Demarcus Robinson

WR Jamison Crowder

TE Travis Kelce

TE Austin Hooper

LT Ronnie Stanley (Q)

LG Rodger Saffold

C Austin Reiter

RG Mike Person

RT Donald Penn

 

Bench RB Kenyan Drake

Bench RB Chase Edmonds

Bench RB Wayne Gallman

Bench WR Keke Coutee

Bench WR Antonio Callaway

Bench TE Gerald Everett

Bench OL Ty Nsekhe

Bench OL Laurent Duvernay Tardiff

 

DE Derek Barnett

NT Eddie Goldman

DT Grady Jarrett

DE Romeo Okwara

MLB CJ Mosley (Q)

CB Levi Wallace

CB Ronald Darby (Q)

CB K’Waun Williams

CB Taron Johnson (Q)

FS Marcus Williams

SS Jacquiski Tartt

 

Bench Edge Alex Okafor

Bench Int Maliek Collins

Bench Int Tim Settle

Bench SLB Shaq Thompson (Q)

Bench LB Damian Wilson

Bench CB Kevin Peterson

Bench CB/S Quincy Wilson

Bench S Terrell Edmunds

 

Edited October 20, 2019 by SwoleXmad

[Xmad]

OKC Gameplan:

We are past the midway point in the BDL season and we find ourselves fighting for the number one seed. Although we are happy with our position, we must continue to bring our best every week with multiple teams hot on our heels. We continue our quest for the top seed with a road trip to Seoul against one of the longest tenured and strongest owners in the league.

 

Offense:

We are going to continue riding our strength this week with a pass oriented offense that looks to attacked another ill-equipped secondary. We are going to look to isolate the lesser corners of Seoul and be aggressive with our deep passing to abuse a weak safety tandem.

We will utilize typical Air Raid concept routes such as motion, mesh and option routes to equip our receivers against any coverage scheme from Seoul. Our primary goal is to find a one on one matchup that we like deep, but we will consistently abuse shorter routes when the matchup dictates. We have respect for Levi Wallace, but we do not believe that any of Seoul's other corners can play with any of our pass catchers.

Adam Thielen (~90% of snaps) will operate primarily from the slot. He will be armed with option routes to give him a post-snap read of man or zone. We expect him to win any one on one even against Wallace. Robert Woods (80%) will be our utility receiver similar to his real life role. He'll work inside and outside and do a little of everything, including being featured on a couple of jet sweeps. Allen Robinson (90%) will work primarily outside. We will work him in the intermediate and deeper areas and target him often in single coverage as we like his contested catch abilities. Michael Gallup (60%) will work as our primary field stretcher and deep threat. Mark Andrews (50%) will rotate in and help work the seams. Emmanuel Sanders (50%) will relieve all receiving roles and receive a few featured targets. Joe Mixon (50%) will receive most of the RB snaps with Melvin Gordon and J.D. McKissic splitting the remaining 30% of snaps.

As is typical for us, our running game will be used to keep the defense honest. We will run both inside and outside. Our inside runs will typically be draws. Our outside runs will feature a pulling guard as a lead blocker. While passing, our runners will be used as outlet receivers primarily as we're not too concerned about Seoul's defensive front against our offensive line.

 

Defense:

We do not want to do anything too fancy of defense this week. We want to play disciplined and conservative as we feel as though our offense will put up enough points to put away this game. We will play a primarily Cover-1 man with a spy this week.

Seoul has been very creative recently with its offensive formations, but they come into this week with limited options. We expect them to utilize all three of their TEs, likely with Travis Kelce split out wide. Adrian Amos will follow Kelce wherever he goes. Jordan Poyer will play a deep zone, but he will have primary bracket responsibility on Kelce if Kelce is to try to work on a deep route.

Cory Littleton will cover Austin Hooper and Dont'a Hightower will cover Gerald Everett. Devon Kennard will operate as a spy on Kyler Murray. Quincy Williams will be responsible for the running back. Tre'Davious White will cover their WR.

Against 2 WRs, Williams will come off the field for Marcus Peters. Against 3 WRs, Kennard will come off for Joe Haden. Against four, Dont'a Hightower will come off for Pierre Desir. We will shift man coverage assignments around as appropriate.

We will occasionally mix up to Cover-2 zone. We think Cover-2 zone is the best option for this game since we expect Seoul to flood the shallow areas with tight end routes.

Von Miller will operate on the left side of the line against Donald Penn. We want our edges to do their best to keep Murray contained in the pocket. We will primarily rush only four this game.

 

Seoul Gameplan:

 

Offense

 

With are going to get back to a straight up offense and split our formation between a 2WR 2TE this week. Our goal is to run the ball. OKC pass rush is fierce but they’re less dangerous in run defense and we think we can have success there. Jordan Howard will see the majority of carries with Kenyan Drake giving him a breather from time to time. Our goal is to attack inside where we think OKC might be more vulnerable, especially if they line up without a true NT. Kyler Murray will also have some QB runs designs as well.

 

In the passing game we will principally target OKC LBers though our TE and inside routes with Jamison Crowder. As always, the name of our offense is Kelce and we will target him relentlessly if not double teamed. We will also target him and Everett deep to give our offense another dimension to defend. 3TE offense is going to be again a culprit of this game with around 30/40 snaps played in that formation. Again we might want to split wide one or two of those tight ends and check OKC coverage assignments. If a TE is lined up vs a DB then it will be great for our run game. If a TE is lined up vs a LB then we will want to isolate that matchup outside. 

 

In this game we will go with a lot of unbalanced formations, putting 2 WR on one side of the line and 2 TEs on the other side. The goal is to disorganize that defensive front. We want to manufacture a matchup between an outside corner vs a pure slot WR in Crowder where his lateral quickness can be used. Plus, the two TEs on the same side might give us a better idea pre-snap of OKC defensive alignments. It also allows us to isolate a TE outside if we choose to. Again, if Kelce is double teamed, we will not hesitate to isolate him outside to give us a lighter from we can run on

 

Defense

 

This week again our goal is to dare OKC to run the ball. They usually are comfortable passing on around 80% of the snaps and we will go with an ultra-light formation to counter that with 6 DBs. The key factor in this game will be the play of our safeties/LBs. We don’t expect our corners to survive 1vs1 all game vs OKC weapons but the strength of our team is not there. Marcus Williams will almost always be in deep coverage assignments, if possible on Ronald Darby/Quincy Wilson side. CJ Mosley (Shaq Thomspon if out) will play zone in the middle of the field, hopefully taking away crossing patterns OKC like to use. Jacquiski Tartt will play a mix of everything. He will play a lot of deep zone, but he will also drop in the middle to assist CJ Mosley/Shaq there, blitz or compensate for a blitz. Whatever OKC chooses to do, Tartt role will be to adjust to better counter it. We will blitz around 40% of the time in which case Tartt or Mosley/Shaq will always be in the middle of the field to compensate for the blitz

 

We will alternate between cover 3, cover 6 and man coverage. In man, coverage will be:

 

Wallace vs outside WR1 (woods if outside, ARob if not)

Darby vs outside WR2 (ARob or Gallup)

K.Williams vs Thielen

Johnson (Peterson if out) vs Woods/Sanders

 

So yeah there’s no coverage for Joe Mixon. Quite simply, we don’t expect him to be heavily targeted. Mosley and Tartt will keep an eye on him while doing his middle coverage assignment, but we expect him to be option #5 for OKC on almost every snap and if that’s the case then we bank on our pass rush to get there by that time. If he starts getting the ball and burn us, then we will adjust by putting Tartt on individual coverage on him.

Edited October 20, 2019 by SwoleXmad

[Scoundrel]

8 minutes ago, SwoleXmad said:

BDL 2019 Week 6

Match:  Portland Horned Owls @ Hungary Hippos

Away Owner: @Whicker

Home Owner: @TedLavie

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Good luck to you both

Change the matchup teams good sir

[TedLavie]

Darby, while active, didn't play this week. Quincy Wilson takes his spot outside. 

[bcb1213]

Well not covering mixon definitely doesn't pay off as Okc uses him as the out let receiver here for a couple easy  gains.  The seoul secondary can't keep up here while I did think their offense finds success early til they have to start playing catchup 

Okc 35-16

Edited October 22, 2019 by bcb1213

[Scoundrel]

OKC has this game on the bag. Talent level and game plan are superior. Don’t need to say much.

[Xmad]

Seoul on a 1 point win at home.

[rackcs]

OKC is just hands down a better team right now and thus will be able to execute their gameplan better than Seoul will.

[Jlash]

I think OKC's LB's match up pretty well with the TE's and RB's Seoul want to be involved. I'm not sure why Jamison Crowder would factor in against the OKC LB's, since Whicker isn't covering him with a LB it seems, but I don't know. Darby came back this week, but didn't play and when he has played recently he hasn't had a largely positive effect. I think OKC has enough horses in this race to out pace Seoul. 

[TedLavie]

16 minutes ago, Jlash said:

I think OKC's LB's match up pretty well with the TE's and RB's Seoul want to be involved. I'm not sure why Jamison Crowder would factor in against the OKC LB's, since Whicker isn't covering him with a LB it seems, but I don't know. Darby came back this week, but didn't play and when he has played recently he hasn't had a largely positive effect. I think OKC has enough horses in this race to out pace Seoul. 

It was mostly destined for zone snaps where I assume LBers will cover the middle of the field 

Also nice understatement on Darby haha 

Edited October 23, 2019 by TedLavie

[pheltzbahr]

Talent + Effort = Win.  Easy win for OKC.  Some good pieces on Seoul and seeing Murray have success early has to be encouraging.  Just too many holes to ignore.  No homo.

[Pickle Rick]

Too much offense for Seoul to handle this week.

30-20 okc 

[The Orca]

The TEs and Kyler Murray make the difference for Seoul

Seoul 24-21

[SirA1]

Woof Crowder is not a BDL starter.