RedGold Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 BDL 2023 Week 5 Match: Cancun Kaiju @ Baltimore Corviknights Away Owner: @Blue @MWil23 Home Owner: @Xmad Vote for who you think would win the game. Rules: One vote per person, duplicate accounts will be banned and action taken against those attempting to rig the results. One vote per team involved in the match. Co-owners may vote in every match up except their own. For members, who have been following along, and wish to vote. Please join the conversation and maybe give a reason you voted as you did. This will alleviate any suspicions of unusual voting and will promote discussion. Note: Players that have a (D) next to their name indicate that they are doubtful or unlikely to play. Players with (Q) are game-time decisions. Good luck to you both Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGold Posted October 8, 2023 Author Share Posted October 8, 2023 (edited) Cancun QB Patrick Mahomes RB Aaron Jones WR DJ Chark WR Josh Reynolds Slot WR Chris Olave TE Foster Moreau LT Laremy Tunsil LG Nick Gates C Ryan Kelly RG Zion Johnson RT Broderick Jones RB2 Rhamondre Stevenson RB Devin Singletary H-Back Kyle Juszczyk WR Elijah Moore WR/TE Mike Gesicki TE Michael Mayer OL Rasheed Walker OL Cordell Volson DE Greg Rousseau (Q) DT Jonathan Allen DT Justin Jones DE Cameron Jordan LB Zaire Franklin LB Ernest Jones LB Pete Werner CB Cameron Sutton CB Steven Nelson FS Kevin Byard SS Jalen Pitre DE Kayvon Thibodeaux DE Dorance Armstrong DT Shy Tuttle DT Lawrence Guy DT Travis Jones CB Zyon McCollum S Marcus Williams (Q) S Geno Stone Baltimore Corgiknights QB – Lamar Jackson RB – Alexander Mattison WR – Mike Evans WR – Jahan Dotson WR – Darnell Mooney TE – George Kittle LT – Penei Sewell LG – Jonah Jackson C – Creed Humphrey RG – Alex Cappa RT – Luke Goedeke RB – Jaylen Warren RB – Justice Hill TE – Connor Heyward TE – Logan Thomas WR – Devin Duvernay OL – Dan Moore OL – Morgan Moses DE – Brian Burns DT – Leonard Williams DT – Javon Hargrave DE – A.J. Epenesa LB – Bobby Wagner LB – Leo Chenal LB/S – Jeremy Chinn CB – Carlton Davis CB – Chidobe Awuzie S – Xavier McKinney S – Jevon Holland Edge 3 – A.J. Epenesa INT3 – Raekwon Davis INT4 – Jonah Williams LB3 – Cody Barton CB3 – Byron Murphy CB4– Tre Herndon CB5 – Michael Jackson S3 – Xavier Woods Edited October 9, 2023 by RedGold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGold Posted October 8, 2023 Author Share Posted October 8, 2023 (edited) Cancun Offense: With our offensive line getting healthy again, we want to challenge the Baltimore defense at the second level, taking advantage of a weak linebacker group and smaller corners. Up front, we’re going to double Javon Hargrave with the center and a interior lineman as much as possible. We want to give Broderick Jones help from the tight end or fullback when lined up against Brian Burns in the pass game, but otherwise we’re happy leaving Jones on an island against the underwhelming Corviknight pass rush. Protection up front should give us plenty of time to attack the defense through the air. Olave is playing from the slot this week to hopefully draw Carlton Davis inside, where he’s less suited to deal with Olave’s quickness and route-running without being able to press him at the line. Olave will function as a deep threat running corner, post, and fade routes. At outside receiver, both Chark and Reynolds should be effective winning on corner, post, dig, and out routes, with the occasional curl and slant thrown in to attack the middle of the field. We want to force the safeties to pick their poison between helping the smaller outside corners or shading over the top of Olave. At tight end, we’re continuing our rotation of Moreau/Mayer/Gesicki. Moreau and Mayer will split snaps for most of the game to give us more blocking help as needed against Burns, while Gesicki will get most of his snaps split into the slot with Juszczyk in as the lone back. We want to utilize a lot of shotgun and RPO this week to stretch out the defense, typically with Burns as the read for Mahomes. There will be a handful of designed QB draw plays up the middle to take advantage of clearing out the linebackers underneath and grab some easy yards. While we don’t plan on featuring the run game, we do want to get both Jones and Stevenson around a dozen touches each between receptions and runs to keep them involved and force Baltimore to account for them in the pass game. Tl;dr: Spread the defense out, rely on size outside to split safeties in Cover-2 and open up the middle for Chris Olave and tight ends down the seam. Use Mahomes as a runner to force the defense to account for him. DE Greg Rousseau (Q) DT Jonathan Allen DT Justin Jones DE Cameron Jordan LB Zaire Franklin LB Ernest Jones LB Pete Werner CB Cameron Sutton CB Steven Nelson FS Kevin Byard SS Jalen Pitre DE Kayvon Thibodeaux DE Dorance Armstrong DT Shy Tuttle DT Lawrence Guy DT Travis Jones CB Zyon McCollum S Marcus Williams (Q) S Geno Stone Defense: This week we get Baltimore, led by Lamar Jackson who is having a bit of a rebound year. With Mooney struggling and Dotson not really doing much and Evans nursing an injury , I’d look for them to try to lean on the running game with Jackson and Mattison behind a pretty solid OL, and then them trying to get the ball to Kittle off of playaction passes. We like our Front 7 this week and plan on playing Thibs at DE if Rousseau is unable to go, with Cam Jordan in a JAM position over Kittle to disallow him to get a free release. We anticipate a heavier dose of Lamar in the running game, so we will be utilizing Byard as a bit of a chess piece, moving him in the slot apex, with a 2 high look on longer yardage situations, and also in the box at times if heavier personnel dictates it. Our main focus on earlier downs is to show off coverage, playing most cover 3, and daring Lamar to beat us outside the numbers from the pocket, something he has never done in his career, while allocating Byard down in the box as a bonus defender, playing gap responsibility assignment football and treating Lamar as a ball carrier. We like Werner as the scrape exchange LB with Byard and our other linebackers as crease defenders to help vs the RB. We will mix in some exchanges and give Lamar “give” reads to the teeth of our interior blitzes as well to keep them honest. Pitre will be aligned towards Kittle’s side, denying the seam. In more obvious passing situations, we will run a Cover 4 box to deny big plays and create 4 on 3 and 2 on 1 opportunities when they go 3 eligible WR to one side and try to isolate Evans to the other: Pitre will be towards Evans, Byard to the formation strength. From a perspective of pressure, our #1 goal is to keep Lamar in the pocket, so when we do send pressure, it will be from Byard in the apex throwing side (his right) and up the middle with a linebacker, with the DE playing contain and not getting upfield to disallow creases. Lamar will have to have a hot read, namely likely a slot receiver with Kittle getting jammed, and frankly we don’t think Mooney or Dotson have the talent to get it done or Lamar has the ability to get the ball out quickly. Baltimore Offense TL;DR – Designed runs for Lamar, attack a depleted secondary, use lots of TEs. We are going to let Lamar do his thing. Lots of RPO action, lots of playaction, letting him find the open guy, running around, Running Game We are going to rotate all three RBs in and out throughout the game. All three can catch reasonably well, so they will get a few opportunities out of the backfield. We are going to make use of plenty of RPO action, let Lamar read the D, and give or keep the ball. Lamar is our best runner, so we want to get him 10 or so designed QB runs at least. He will also have the freedom to take off if something doesn’t open up. Passing Game Without Tre, the CB group of Cancun is pretty sad. We are going to give Mike Evans and Jahan Dotson a lot of opportunities to make plays. Kittle will also be heavily involved. We will typically start him out inline to help block in the run game or chip in the pass game before releasing out away from the formation. We want the LB or S defending him to have to leave the box to clear running lanes for Lamar. Mooney will get some targets as well. 3 WR – 40% - Evans/Dotson/Mooney/Kittle/RB – Our base set. Lamar will be in shotgun regularly for RPO action. We will have some standard runs and playaction from this set as well. 2 TE – 40% - Evans/Dotson/Kittle/Logan/RB - We want to get Logan involved a fair amount this game as we like him against Cancun’s 3rd LB or S. Look for a fair amount of playaction here. Also, Lamar loves his 2 TE sets. 3 TE – 15% - Evans/Kittle/Logan/Heyward/RB – Heyward will line up as a FB. We will use this set in short yardage, goalline, and occasionally middle of the field. We will frequently split the RB out wide in this formation to force a LB or S to leave the box. Then Lamar will run behind Heyward. If the defense sucks up hard, we will throw behind them. 4 WR – 5% - Evans/Dotson/Mooney/Duvernay/RB – We will sparingly use a 4 WR set in hurry up situations if need be. If they run man and clear out the middle, Lamar may run. Defense TL;DR – Load the box, take away the deep ball, spy Mahomes. We want to take away the run game and take away the deep ball. So we will play a mix of Cover 1 Man and Cover 3 Zone that look similar pre-snap. Defensive Line Tunsil may be back, so Burns is going to line up across from the RT and be in Mahomes’ face all day. Also, we think Leonard and Hargrave are going to absolutely violate the Cancun interior all day. Epenesa lines up at RE. Tavius rotates in as need be. We will rotate in DL as needed and may use one of our DTs as a DE on obvious run downs LB/SS – Wagner is going to have Jusczyk in man coverage. Both are savvy vets, so Wagner is the right guy to match up with him. Chinn will have the TE in man as Gesicki isn’t the best blocker and we want more speed. McKinney will be up in the box and have the RB if he leaks out. Chenal is going use his athleticism to be our Mahomes spy. He will mirror Mahomes and make sure that 1. He doesn’t stay comfortable in the pocket and 2. He can’t hurt us with his legs. CB – Awuzie and Davis get the start with them playing sides. If they go with a 3 WR set, Chenal will come off for and Wagner will be the Mahomes spy. FS – Holland will play deep centerfield where he is best and will always have an eye out for where Olave lines up. He will not uncommonly shade to Olave’s side. 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Ragnarok Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 This "If they go with a 3 WR set, Chenal will come off for and Wagner will be the Mahomes spy." should say... If they go with a 3 WR set, Chenal will come off for Byron Murphy and Wagner will be the Mahomes spy. Should be obvious, but missed that edit while formatting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnarok Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 With Awuzie out, Byron takes his role and Herndon takes the Byron role in the slot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoundrel Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Baltimore is gonna win this one. Cancun didn’t even bring a defense on the flight… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcb1213 Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 2 minutes ago, Scoundrel said: Baltimore is gonna win this one. Cancun didn’t even bring a defense on the flight… it's in the defensive plan. I'm not sure if it was a format error or what 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoundrel Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 1 minute ago, bcb1213 said: it's in the defensive plan. I'm not sure if it was a format error or what Oh weird I hadn’t gotten to that part yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoundrel Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Guess Baltimore gonna lose now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 1 hour ago, bcb1213 said: it's in the defensive plan. I'm not sure if it was a format error or what I put the lineup in front of the defensive gameplan instead of at the top of the PM and I guess RedGold just copied and pasted without reading it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGold Posted October 9, 2023 Author Share Posted October 9, 2023 Edited Defense in. I just copied it straight over, didn't even notice the Defense wasn't at the top. Didn't change anything, just left it in the body of gameplan also. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWil23 Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 3 hours ago, Scoundrel said: Baltimore is gonna win this one. Cancun didn’t even bring a defense on the flight… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Aaron Jones inactive so I guess Devin Singletary picks up his snaps or something, idk anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAOJoe Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) I dock a few points for Mike Evans being hurt early last week and being on bye. He can still play here but I'm not voting like he's as healthy as when last week started. Cancun isn't focusing on the run much but losing Jones hurts and his backups aren't giving me too much confidence. Baltimore is respecting the run game on D a bit too much but it should give Mahomes a bit less time and room to scramble. I think Cancun sees success but I see more success from Baltimore's O but it's close since I think Cancun has a more trustworthy D atm. 26-23 Baltimore Edited October 11, 2023 by LAOJoe My y key doesn't always respond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcb1213 Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 Batlimore wanting to take advantage of a depleted corner group by tunning multiple TE's over half the game is a ....choice. Also they want to sub in someone they didn't bring to the game which is a bummer leaving them with two edge guys who are going to get tuckered out. Cancun has offensive tackles finally which is great. Nick Gates suck but the other options aren't inspiting much either. Not having Roussau is a big hit down to Kayvon. None of these offensive players on either side really stood out this week but Kittle, but Baltimore is using him to chip first (why not Thomas when he's in idk) Cancun 13-10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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