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BDL 2022 Week 11 - Lancaster Werewolves @ Rome Eternals


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BDL 2022 Week 11

Match: Lancaster Werewolves @ Rome Eternals

 Away Owner:  @rackcs

Home Owner: @bcb1213

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Lancaster

Offense

QB: Jalen Hurts
RB: Miles Sanders
WR: Michael Pittman Jr.
WR: Diontae Johnson
WR: Tyler Boyd
TE: Mike Gesicki
LT: Braxton Jones
LG: Quenton Nelson
C : Drew Dalman
RG: Robert Hunt
RT: Kaleb McGary

Bench

RB: AJ Dillon
RB: Tyler Allgeier
WR: Quez Watkins
WR: Ben Skowronek
TE: Greg Dulcich
TE: Chigoziem Okonkwo
OL: Ted Karras
OL: La’el Collins 

Defense

DE: T.J. Watt
DT: Kenny Clark
DT: Justin Madubuike
DE: John Franklin-Myers
LB: Fred Warner
LB: Willie Gay Jr.
CB: Jalen Ramsey
CB: Jaire Alexander
CB: Dane Jackson
FS: Minkah Fitzpatrick
SS: Darrick Forrest

Bench

EDGE: Arden Key
EDGE: Julian Okwara
INT: Tedarrell Slaton
LB: Malcolm Rodriguez (Q)
LB: Akeem Davis-Gaither
CB: Kindle Vildor (Q)
CB: David Long
S: Rodney McLeod

Rome

 

Offense

QB Justin Herbert

RB D’Andre Swift

FB Patrick Ricard

WR Jaylen Waddle

TE CJ Uzomah

TE Cade Otton

LT Bernhard Raimann 

LG Michael Onwenu 

C Mason Cole 

RG Chris Lindstrom

RT Ryan Ramcyk 

Bench

WR Amari Cooper 

OW Taysom Hill 

C/G  Luke Fortner 

TE Cameron Brate

RB Najee Harris

WR Josh Palmer

WR Scotty Miller 

RB Jerrick McKinnon 

Defense

Edge Matt Judon

NT Mike Purcell

UT Denico Autry 

Edge Justin Houston 

LB Matt Milano

LB Nick Bolton 

CB Marlon Humphrey

CB Jamel Dean

Slot CB DJ Reed

S Malik Hooker 

S Andre Cisco 

Bench

Edge Jaelan Phillips

Edge  Carl Lawson 

INT Broderick Washington 

INT Logan Hall

LB Alex Singleton 

CB Michael Carter II

CB Isaiah Rodgers

S Kyle Hamilton 

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Lancaster

 Offensive Strategy:

This week is a huge week for us in regards to the playoff hunt. We control our destiny and if we win out, we’re in. For a team that was often predicted to be one of, if not the worst teams, coming into this season, we’re hungry to prove everyone wrong and get in. With that said, we want our offense to focus on playing smart offense, moving the ball regularly and preventing turnovers. We want to again commit to our running game to eat up the clock, gas the defense, and open up the passing game.

Once again, we’re going to mix in all of our running backs, with Sanders starting and getting roughly 45% of the carries with Dillon getting about 30% and Allgeier getting about 25%. We want to run a varied rushing attack in this one, attacking the interior and exterior equally. We know our offensive line can run block and we want to just keep the ball moving regularly. We will do a lot of runs that will get our guards pulling to take advantage of their ability in that area, whether it’s traps on the interior or tosses or sweeps to the outside. Either way we expect to consistently move the ball this way. As usual we’ll also be mixing in read-option looks and designed QB runs so that Rome has to account for Hurts as a rushing threat.

As always we will open the passing game up more as the game goes on. We start the game with just quick passing concepts, RPOs, slants, curls, screens. As we establish the run we want to open things up and attack all over the field. Rome has a good group of corners but their safeties aren’t world beaters so we won’t be afraid to attack deep on them. If Hurts sees a WR get past his man deep, we want him to throw it. We also want to open things up for Boyd and Johnson in the short and intermediate parts of the field but having more guys go deep. So we’ll be subbing in Quez Watkins and Greg Dulcich regularly to get them going downfield and make the defense respect that. When going deep, we’ll be keeping in our running back to block more often than not. And finally we want Hurts to have the green light to run when he doesn’t see something downfield as he can do damage with his legs and force a defender to account for him.

 Defensive Strategy:

We have a big advantage/lucky break this week against Rome with them having multiple injuries on offense. Both Juju Smith-Schuster and Zach Ertz are out. On the offensive line, James Hurst is out and Braden Smith is questionable. Even if Smith plays, this means that Rome has to play one of his right tackles out of position or start one of his struggling rookie offensive tackles. Either way, we think that the offensive line struggles/injuries are going to be the key for us in this one, especially with TJ Watt back and dominant. We want to have our defensive line attacking them in the pass rush. Herbert strugglers in real life when his offensive line struggles so we think if we can get a good amount of pressure on him, that can be the big difference.

In the passing game, the injuries to Rome’s passing weapons certainly helps us but can make it complicated as it makes us unsure of what personnel they’re going to play with. We think it’s most likely that they’ll continue running 11 personnel or potentially going with 21 personnel so we’ll focus on those two possibilities. If they are going with base 11 personnel, we’ll play our usual 4-2-5 man coverage defense. In this package we will have Jalen Ramsey covering Amari Cooper, Jaire Alexander covering Jaylen Waddle, and Dane Jackson covering the 3rd wide receiver. Willie Gay Jr. will be keying in on the running back, covering him out of the backfield or playing a middle zone if he stays in to block. Fred Warner will cover the tight end. Our safeties will be playing 2 high with both being able to take on multiple responsibilities. We could keep both back to cover the deep parts of the field, or one of them could come up at the snap and take one of the linebackers' responsibility and allow the linebacker to blitz. When this happens, the one that stays back to cover deep will shade to Waddle’s side so that we almost always have someone watching for his speed. 

If they come out in 21 personnel with only 2 receivers, Dane Jackson will come off the field and be replaced by Malcolm Rodriguez. He will key in on the 2nd running back the same way Willie Gay Jr. does the first and most everything else will stay the same. If they come out in 12 personnel then Rodriguez will also substitute for Jackson, cover the running back, and Gay will cover the second tight end.

We expect Rome to run the ball a bit more this week with so many of their passing game weapons out. If so, we think their offensive line injuries will still be an advantage for us there. We have a good run stopping defensive line as well and will fairly often have a safety coming up into the box after the snap, adding an extra man up closer to the line.

Rome

Offense

This week we face a Lancaster defense built to stop the pass.  We are going to counter that by going with a heavy formation and run right at it.  We are going to run a lot of no huddle this week to keep the Lancaster starters on the field as their is a marked drop-off in the reserves and we want their guys tires by the second half. . Just because we are running no huddled does not mean hurry up. We want to today bleed they clock and dominate time of possession 

The strength of our offensive line is in run blocking so we aren't going to be doing a lot of flashy things  Line them up and run behind them. We're hoping Lancaster makes the same mistake they did last week and only brings two LB to the party.  Regardless Kenny Clark has struggled mightily this year against the run and Onwenu consistently plowed him over when the Patriots ran all over Green Bay earlier this year.  Madibuke is fine but he's more of a pass rush guy and we feel we can move him as he's on the lighter side for a DT.  Willie Gay  and Rodriguez are atrocious against the power run as they are more Athletic LB then power guys while both S are more Centerfielder types 

Add that all up and we plan on running 30-40 times this week    We also are going to increase the number of Taysom Hill packages this week as well as giving some Waddle reverse action and giving it to him once or twice 

When we do pass we'll be using motion and rub routes to get those high quality corners in traffic as Lancaster prefers to play majority man.  We also are going two bootleg Herbert out and let him use his legs as well against a defense with their back turned. Play action will be a large of the basement offense sneaking Waddle past a creeped up defense. As good as the Lancaster corners are, they can't match history speed and Herbert has the arm to hit it.   We'll also throw a quick pass if we see the corners backing off and get him one on one outside. 

We'll run two RB packages as well out of shotgun with two wide outs and Brate at TE. We will try to get the ball out to McKinnon and Swift in space against a LB and can continue our run heavy offense using counters and screens as well. 

Defense 

This week we face a nicely balanced Lancaster offense. 

We bring in BDLs best preforming defensively line with 2 of the too five leaders in sacks and three in the top 10.   This is a huge advantage against an RPO based QB as it allows our LB to be flow freely. 

We love our starting corner trio and we will be using heavy press man coverage this week. Lancaster has a nice WR trios but we don't have a lot of seep ball fears here and the press also hurts the RPO timing based offense.  Sanders is a solid back but we feel our interior and LB can bottled him upon without having to do much scheme wise as Lancaster doesn't run a lot or traditionally offense and replies more on the RPO.   The press coverage also helps against a play action as the corners won't be looking into the backfield anyhow 

Coverage wise, Dean gets Boyd, Reed gets Johnson and Humphrey gets Pittman.   Milano has Geslecki and Bolton gets the RB.   We'll be playing a cover one QB Spy this week  with Hooker playing the deep S role in and Cisco is the QB Spy matching speed with Hurts.  While this could hurt some teams, our front four is a providing enough juice to get the extra rush without needing to blitz without our advantages of edge vs tackle. .  Carter gets wr 4 with Rodgers getting WR 5. Generally Lancaster just runs these dudes deep so that they'll be in off coverage  Singleton subs in for two TE sets. Takes the spy role and Cisco gets the second TE /RB 

Up front, Autry won’t see much action on early downs with Washington seeing some looks inside.   We will rotate our DL to keep everyone fresh as we like a lot of our reserves to not provide a dropoff in quality. 

As normal, we will mix up some base cover three and some cover 2 zone blitz just to make them honest but this week we want to make Lancaster beat us using pure talent as we think our defense has the edge 

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6 hours ago, wwhickok said:

We expect Rome to run the ball a bit more this week with so many of their passing game weapons out. If so, we think their offensive line injuries will still be an advantage for us there. We have a good run stopping defensive line as well and will fairly often have a safety coming up into the box after the snap, adding an extra man up closer to the line.

 

6 hours ago, wwhickok said:

This week we face a Lancaster defense built to stop the pass.  We are going to counter that by going with a heavy formation and run right at it. 

This should be fun

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24 minutes ago, bcb1213 said:

They also have their defensive line concentrating on attacking via the pass rush 

Yeah when they are pass rushing...

“We want to have our defensive line attacking them in the pass rush. “

“We have a good run stopping defensive line as well and will fairly often have a safety coming up into the box after the snap, adding an extra man up closer to the line.“

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7 hours ago, Scoundrel said:

Yeah when they are pass rushing...

“We want to have our defensive line attacking them in the pass rush. “

“We have a good run stopping defensive line as well and will fairly often have a safety coming up into the box after the snap, adding an extra man up closer to the line.“

I mean the safeties moving forward after the snap doesn't really concern me.  With more inside running they still won't get there til the RB is a couple yards past the line of scrimmage from their two high look 

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Uhh....certainly an inventive strategy from Rome.

A couple big defensive additions for Lancaster in Watt and Gay, plus Minkah coming back after a week off gives Lancaster the talent to stop the run-focused Eternals while the offense, while I don't think it's lighting up the scoreboard, should do enough to keep the defense off the field and score.

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20 minutes ago, Blue said:

Uhh....certainly an inventive strategy from Rome.

A couple big defensive additions for Lancaster in Watt and Gay, plus Minkah coming back after a week off gives Lancaster the talent to stop the run-focused Eternals while the offense, while I don't think it's lighting up the scoreboard, should do enough to keep the defense off the field and score.

These are my thoughts as well. I don’t feel great about a Swift lead rushing attack right now. I do like how Rome prepared to use rubs and called out the usual man coverage I just wish they had attacked it more. They want to sneak Waddle past a crept up defense but they are shading over him deep. Play action will help I just think the passing game being the main focus could lead to a different result. But I get the approach with injuries just think they could have done more here. Blue and I are pretty in sync this week. 
 

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So here's the thing, I have never been the guy to look at Individual weeks statistics. Despite all of the Box score scouting going on lately By other people that's just not my style.

I have read through both game plans I think both of them are very good. Having said that With TJ Watt coming back, I think that gives the Lancaster' defense enough of an edge to disrupt the basketball Game of Rome in a very good and competitive.

24-21 Lancaster

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