BDL 2021 Week 1 - Antarctica Katabatic Beasts @ Seoul Dragons

[Whicker]

BDL 2021 Week 1

Match: Antarctica Katabatic Beasts @ Seoul Dragons

Away Owner: @Pickle Rick

Home Owner:  @RedGold

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Edited September 12, 2021 by Whicker

[Whicker]

Offensive Starters:
QB - Lamar Jackson
RB1 - Saquom Barkley
WR1 - Stefon Diggs
WR2 - Antonio Brown 
WR3 (Slot1) - Chris Godwin
WR4 (Slot2) - Ceedee Lamb
LT - Rashawn Slater
LG - Brandon Brooks 
C - Ryan Kelly
RG - Trey Smith 
RT - Tytus Howard 

Offensive Bench:
RB2 - Chase Edmonds 
RB3 - Mark Ingram
C2/OG3 - Tyler Biadasz 
OG4 - Aaron Brooks
TE1 - Cole Kmet
WR5 - Tre'quan Smith
WR6 - Van Jefferson 
QB2 - Tua 

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Defensive Starters:
LDE - JPP
DT1 - DeForest Buckner
DT2 - Ndamukong Suh 
RDE - Frank Clark (Brandon Graham is FC is out)
LB1 (SLB) - Roquan Smith 
LB2 (MLB) - Demario Davis
LB3 (WLB) - Harold Landry
CB1 - Joe Haden
CB2 - Marshon Lattimore 
CB3 (Nickle/Slot) - Jeff Okudah
FS - Nasir Adderley 

Defensive Bench:
Dime CB4 - Steven Nelson
LB4 - Hamsah Nasirildeeen 
DE3 - Brandon Graham
DE4 - Josh Sweat
DE5 - Jerry Huges
DE6 - Tarron Jackson 
DT3 - Jordan Elliot
SS - Anthony Harris

 

 

 

 

 

Offense:  12 Personel (60%),   11 Man Personel(40%)
QB:  Matt Ryan
RB:  Antonio Gibson
WR: Brandin Cooks
WR: Tyrell Williams
TE: Travis Kelce
TE2:  Andrew Thomas
LT: Ronnie Stanley
LG: Rodger Saffold
😄  Andre James
RG:  Gabe Jackson
RT:  Riley Reiff

Bench:

Flex:  Javonte Williams
WR3 -  Mecole Hardman
WR4 – Russell Gage
BenchTE – Pat Freiermuth
BenchG -  Alijah Vera Tucker
BenchC – Josh Myers

 

Defense:   4/3 Under Base(40%),   4-2-5 Under Subpackage(60%)          
LE:  John Franklin-Myers
UT:  Jarran Reed
NT:  Andrew Billings
RE:  Matt Judon
LEO: Leonard Floyd
MLB:  Krys Barnes
WLB: Isaiah Simmons
CB:  Chidobe Awuzie
CB:  Bashaud Breeland
FS: Marcus Williams
SS:  Kyle Dugger
 

Bench:

DL3: DJ Jones
DL4: Leki Fotu
Edge3:  Joe Tryon
LB4: CJ Mosley
LB5: Joe Schobert
CB3: Cameron Sutton
CB4: Levi Wallace
S3:  Richie Grant

[Whicker]

Motivation: Time to make a splash and show what our team can do. 

Personnel Changes: None, start of the season. 

Offensive Formations: Spreading Seoul way way out with traditional shotgun formations, playing a lot of 4WR sets this week.  Will also be mixing in 3WR/TE and 5WR as well.  

Tempo: Playing a traditional tempo with lots of motion before the snap to help LJ see formations and reads. 

Playcalling Distribution: 60% pass and 40% run 

Run Scheme: our runs will focus on power running with a large amount of traps, counter traps, pulling sweeps, and pulling counter sweeps and read options.  These plays are going to focus on the outside/ends from Seoul, which we view as a weak point for them. Both Floyd and Judon were poorly graded by pff last season, but when they did thrive it was from being unblocked a lot..  We feel they will have a too aggressive approach when seeing themselves run free and we will use that to our advantage. We are going to look to trap the crap out of them and make that aggressiveness work for us in the run game. We don't want to overwork Saquon Barkley in his first game back so the RB duties will be split about 50/50 between SB and Chase Edmonds, with CE being a bigger part of the passing game and SB getting more of the runs.  

Audibles: screens and slants will mostly be our check down plays to move out of poorly called pass plays or run plays.  If LJ recognizes blitz pre-snap he will look to check into a screen/quick slant play.  We will have a number of variations of the screens, even WR screens to Lamb and Godwin we will use.

Passing: we are going to be playing a lot with 4 WR/RB sets this week to spread Seoul way out and let Godwin and Diggs work the middle of the field and give easy wide open targets to LJ.  We will look to utilize slants, posts, and crossing routes layered to exploit our advantage in the Seoul-DB matchups.  We have 4 star WR's so we will be looking for the advantagous matchups and target those a lot.  Whoever is being covered by the weakest defender will be main target for the passing game.  Our RB's will be used 50/50 in helping chip/block anything that gets through and faking that and slipping out to be a check down outlet or running a number of wheel routes.  When we run the wheel routes we will clear out the one side of the field with crossing/slants moving everything to the opposite side of the field and Edmonds or Barley will be the primary target on the wheel route to the freed up side.  Brown starting on the outside allows Godwn to shift to the slot.  We will look to take deep shots to Brown and Diggs with Godwin and Lamb manning the underneath/safety routes.  We will look to target Godwin a lot out of his slot position.  With playing a speed out style offense, it will also help create large running lanes for LJ to escape the pocket and gain big yards on broken plays.     

Playaction and RPO's: these are going to be thrown in a good bit to take advantage of the spread out field. 

First play of the game: LJ comes out, in a 4WR set (Diggs, Brown, Godwin, and Lamb).  This play is going to be a flea flicker deep bomb to one of the two WRs running go routes (Diggs and Brown) with Godwin and Lamb underneath for the check downs.  Time to have fun boys!!!  
 

Defense Base Formation: playing a base Nickle defense this week with man heavy tendencies. 
 
Playstyle: going with nickle as our base D this week as we feel Seoul is going to look to be a more pass heavy team.  We will use a higher percentage of man whether in nickel, dime or 4-3.  We will look to disguise this by showing blitzes before the snap.  Playing more man and disguising the look will hopefully throw off Matt Ryan and take away all of the short/quick/underneath plays. 

Run defense.  We will be using our middle LB's to load up the box tight to the line on clear run plays.  Runs blitzes will be heavy on big formations and early downs.  We want to get penetration and blow up the plays before they get started.

Passing Defense: we think if we take away the quick/underneath/short passing game from Ryan that we can win the game. So as much as we can, we will be showing blitz and fall back into man with bump and run coverage at the line on the outside and an underneath zone from the LB's when possible.  Our DB's are up to the task of sticking with the WR's and allowing our D-line to get pressure on the QB.  

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e olokaa na manawa maikai

 

 

 

 

Offense:    12 Man Personnel – 60%

                                                         50% - Run out of this formation               

                                                          10% - Pass out of this formation

                    11 Man Personell  -   40%
                                                          20% -  Run out of this formation
                                                          20% -  Pass out of this formation        

Offensive Gameplan:

Seoul believes they can control the trenches in this game.   Antonio Gibson and Javonte Williams will both receive 20+ carries,  as we will be running the ball 70% of the time.    We anticipate a lot of subpackages from Antartica, so we want to focus on hitting Gibson/Williams off the C & B gaps.    With the 12 man personel we believe we can create some one on one opportunties for both backs to create chunk plays.   Andrew Thomas gets the start at TE2, and will stay in Pass Pro on passing downs for this formation.   Passing scheme out of the formation will consist of quick hitters to Kelce across the middle and slants from the outside,  with a few sluggo’s thrown in during the 2^nd half.

11 Man Personel -   We have a 50/50 split between Gibson/Williams,   they will both play the same regardless of personel.    We have Russell Gage replacing TE2.    This will be the formation we use between the 40’s.    Same basic concepts, we still believe we can control this game through the C&B gaps running the football.     We will be a little more balanced out of this formation though,   passing scheme will still run off play action and focus on hitting the middle of the field.   

 

Defensive Gameplan: 

We’ll be running a standard 4/3 Under inside both 30’s.   Between the 30’s we’ll rotate to a 4-2-5 Under, with Cameron Sutton sliding into the slot, and Billings coming off the field.     80 

Anticipating a ton of 4 WR and bunch sets,   we’ll be running predominantly Cover 3 and Cover 2 on the back end.  CB alignment out of zone coverages will stay off a majoriy of the game,  while coming up to jam on 3^rd and short.  Man coverage will be few and far between this game,  will call a majority of Press Man inside the red zone.      With a front 4 of Floyd – Myers – Reed – Judon in a subpackages we think we can get solid pressure without blitzing.    We are going to sit back in zone and see if Tua and Lamar can carve us up with their reads.      It will be a very vanilla defensive gameplan for Seoul,   not going to send many blitzes and we’ll have no QB spies.   Let the front 4 work,   Simmons and Barnes get the start at LB to give us some athleticism in the middle of the field.      

[EaglesPeteC]

Antarctica just has an overwhelmingly better roster. Hard to see Seoul winning this 

[VigilantZombie]

Neither one of these defenses impress me tbh. But I think Antartica has enough weapons offensively to make the difference.

24-14 Antartica 

[Scoundrel]

Seoul is going to get behind against this offense. Running the ball 70% of the time may help to keep Lamar and friends off the field but what about in catch up time? Then the 30% they are passing are quick slants and hitters to Kelce until the second half. Well you played into Antarctica’s game plan of taking away the underneath stuff and forcing Ryan to beat them deep. Antarctica wins.

[bcb1213]

Both these teams have their flaws.  This should have been easier but Antartica thinking Seoul would be pass heavy for some reason allows the dragons to hang around in the first half churning out some first downs and running clock.  Hopefully for Seoul Matt Ryan performance  this week is more a new offense thing than age but I just don't think he does enough to win to keep them balanced here as Antartica can put up points (though the right side of that o line is rough to put it lightly) 

Antarctica 27-16

[Pickle Rick]

3 hours ago, bcb1213 said:

the right side of that o line is rough

0 QB pressures allowed and a few massive pancakes in the running game for Trey Smith in his first career game.  He will quickly become a top tier G imo.  

[bcb1213]

42 minutes ago, Pickle Rick said:

0 QB pressures allowed and a few massive pancakes in the running game for Trey Smith in his first career game.  He will quickly become a top tier G imo.  

He got pushed around a lot in the run game outside the couple splash plays. We don't need to discuss Howard in hope lol 

[pheltzbahr]

Have Antarctica pretty easily here, there has been a proliferation toward 4 WR sets and theirs is a  really impressive group.

[Ragnarok]

Antarctica gets this one.  Their OL is so very vastly improved from last season.

[MD4L]

I think Antartica is the better team on both sides of the ball. That WR group wins games when they can protect Lamar too.

[rackcs]

I'm not sure I get Seoul's strategy to stay with just 2 CBs on the field between the 30s when he acknowledges that Antarctica is going to use plenty of 4 WR looks. I do however like their idea of doing ball control and running a decent amount to keep Antarctica's offense off the field as much as possible.

Ultimately I think Antarctica is going to have plenty of success in the passing game in this matchup anyways with a very talented group of receivers. Antarctica takes this one.

[RuskieTitan]

Antarctica will win this one. better roster, and i think a better gameplan as well. Good game, sirs.