RedGold Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 BDL 2023 Week 6 Match: Berlin Blitzkrieg @ Lancaster Werewolves Away Owner: @Ragnarok Home Owner: @rackcs 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 15, 2023 Author Share Posted October 15, 2023 (edited) Berlin Blitzkrieg QB – C.J. Stroud RB – Isiah Pacheco WR – Garrett Wilson Slot – Brandon Aiyuk WR – Drake London TE – Dallas Goedert LT – Kolton Miller LG – Ben Powers C – Jarrett Patterson RG – Nate Davis RT – Tristan Wirfs RB – Tony Pollard RB – Kenneth Gainwell TE – Darnell Washington WR – Romeo Doubs WR – Jayden Reed OL – Spencer Burford OL – Mike McGlinchey DE – Trey Hendrickson DT – Quinnen Williams DT – Derrick Brown DE – Samson Ebukam LB – Jordyn Brooks LB – Terrel Bernard CB – Devon Witherspoon CB – Deonte Banks CB – Benjamin St-Juste S – Antoine Winfield Jr S – Juan Thornhill DPR - Nik Bonitto Edge 4 – Justin Houston INT3 – Kurt Hinish INT4 – Mazi Smith LB3 – Tremaine Edmunds CB4 – D.J. Turner S3 – Amani Hooker Lancaster QB: Jalen Hurts RB: David Montgomery WR: Michael Pittman Jr. WR: DeVante Parker WR: Tyler Boyd TE: Chigoziem Okonkwo LT: Jawaan Taylor LG: Steve Avila C : Mitch Morse RG: Robert Hunt RT: Evan Neal (Q) QB: Trevor Lawrence RB: Tyler Allgeier WR: Skyy Moore WR: Dyami Brown WR: Kyle Philips TE: Greg Dulcich OL: Trevor Penning OL: Sam Cosmi DE: T.J. Watt DT: Kenny Clark DT: Justin Madubuike DE: Preston Smith LB: Fred Warner LB: Willie Gay Jr. CB: Jaire Alexander CB: Tyrique Stevenson CB: Brandon Stephens FS: Minkah Fitzpatrick SS: Darrick Forrest EDGE: Ogbo Okoronkwo DL: Calais Campbell INT: Tedarrell Slaton LB: Eric Kendricks LB: Malcolm Rodriguez CB: Akayleb Evans CB: Dane Jackson (Q) S: Brandon Jones Edited October 15, 2023 by RedGold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGold Posted October 15, 2023 Author Share Posted October 15, 2023 (edited) Berlin Offense TL;DR – Run the ball, playaction, get the ball to our playmakers We will use a lot of playaction and rollouts to impact the second level of the defense and move the pocket so that Stroud can make the read and get the ball out. Lancaster has some good passrushers, so we want to make them defend edge-to-edge. We will also incorporate a few draws and screens to keep the pass rush honest. Running Game We want Pacheco to get 25 touches if at all possible. We want to get Pollard at least 15 touches. Gainwell will get a few as need be. We are going to stay committed to the run game to open up our passing game. Passing Game We will make use of an underneath and intermediate passing attack to allow Stroud to read the defense and get the ball out quickly. That said, Stroud has been very good at explosive plays this season, so we will take a number of deep shots to pick up chunk yardage and keep the defense from creeping up. 3 WR – 75% - Garrett/Drake/Aiyuk/Goedert/RB – Our base offense. Garrett and Drake will be outside running every route. Aiyuk starts out in the slot. Sometimes he will motion across the formation, sometimes he will motion out to stack with the WR on his side, sometimes he will stay in place and we will snap quicker. He will also run every route. Goedert serves as a security blanket who occasionally pushes deeper. 2 TE – 20% - Garrett/Drake/Goedert/Darnell/RB –We will use this in short yardage and goalline situations. We will make use of Darnell’s size in the red zone to score TDs and blocking abilities in short yardage to move the chains. Between Drake, Goedert, Garrett, and Darnell, we feel confident about winning a jump ball. 4 WR – 5% - Garrett/Drake/Aiyuk/Doubs/RB – Spread offense for hurry up and 2 minute drill. Stroud will typically be in shotgun here. Defense TL;DR – Man coverage, spy Hurts, limit the run game. We are going to use a lot of man coverage this week. Our CBs are playing well, so we want to have them follow their man everywhere and play a lot of Cover 1 Man. We will play some Cover 3 and Cover 6 zone to mix things up and keep Hurts guessing. Defensive Line Hendrickson lines up across from Taylor. Quinnen and Derrick do their thing on the inside. Ebukam will start, but Bonitto will rotate in on obvious passing downs to speed rush Neal. Our DTs will rotate in as necessary with Hinish coming in more frequently on early downs. LBers In man coverage, Bernard will have the RB and Jordyn will have the TE. If they go 2 TE, Tremaine comes in and has the 2nd TE. Cornerbacks St-Juste takes Pittman. Deonte takes Parker. Witherspoon takes Boyd. Benford takes the 4th WR. If they go 2 RB, Witherspoon will have the 2nd RB. SS Winfield will be up near the LOS at all times and will be the Hurts spy. He will sit in a zone and mirror Hurts everywhere. FS Thornhill will always line up deep middle. If we are in Cover 1, he may shade to one side or the other. Lancaster Offense: We're going to keep rolling this week with our run-based offense while continuing to open things up more in the passing game. Berlin's secondary is talented but young so we think we can put them in conflict positions and make plays that way. We also want run a more fast-paced, hurry up tempo this week to wear out Berlin's defensive front. Berlin has a stout interior defensive line but the depth is lacking. We think our hurry up offense can help us get favorable matchups on the defensive line as Berlin brings in their backups. The more runs we can have against Nik Bonitto and Kurt Hinish, the better. David Montgomery will be our featured back this week, getting 70-75% of the carries with Tyler Allgeier spelling him. As always we don't want to forget to highlight Jalen Hurts' rushing ability. He'll be getting option looks as well as designed runs to force the defense to account for him at all times. And on short yardage plays, we will absolutely run some push sneaks with him. We want our run game to wear out the front of Berlin while also helping us set up our passing game. For the passing game, we want to really attack the inexperienced Berlin secondary. Our receiver depth may be lacking but we have faith in our starting trio to make the plays needed to win. We want to create conflict and use the to make plays. We want to run play action plays to open things up downfield, particularly once we've established the run more. We'll use this to hopefully bait up the safeties and take some deeper shots. We also want to attack underneath with flood and drag routes where Hurts comes out on a bootleg. We'll force the cover man to make a decision to stay in coverage or come up for Hurts. Either way, we can take advantage and get some good yardage. Lancaster Defense: We fully expect Berlin to switch over to CJ Stroud this week. Even without him in the lineup this offense has been clicking. It's a tough challenge and we know we won't end this game with a shutout on defense. Stroud has played very well but he's still a rookie so we want to put him under pressure and try to force him into making some mistakes. We want to run a mix of man and zone coverages this week out of the same or similar nickel looks. In man, coverage assignments will be Alexander on Wilson, Stephens on Aiyuk, and Stevenson on London. Warner will cover Goedert and Gay will cover the running back. The safeties will play cover 2 with some cover 1 looks mixed in where the other safety comes up to play a middle zone. Our main zone coverage will be cover 3 with our outside corners and one safety playing deep coverage with the other members of the back 7 filling in the zones underneath. The safety will rotate who goes back and who comes up. Our corners will stay lined up on their man assignments and play zone or man out of that positioning. We have a defense with some experienced veteran leaders like Fred Warner and Minkah Fitzpatrick so we don't expect to have too many issues running this. We think the best way to beat this offense is to get pressure on Stroud. So we plan to blitz a decent amount this game, with the blitzes coming from different directions. We particularly want pressure to come against the interior of the OL so expect to see single or double blitzes against the interior. We also like our odds to get pressure with just our front four and our rotation so we really want to put the heat on and get Stroud rattled. We also trust our front 7's ability to get after the running game and keep that limited as well. Having an extra safety coming up into the box often should help in that area as well. 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Ragnarok Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 Darrick Forrest went on IR last week. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuskieTitan Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 1 hour ago, Ragnarok said: Darrick Forrest went on IR last week. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackcs Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 19 hours ago, Ragnarok said: Darrick Forrest went on IR last week. Thanks, missed that completely lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT14 Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 2 hours ago, rackcs said: Thanks, missed that completely lol If only you had someone to help you out with that who also roots for that team and completely whiffed on it too 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoundrel Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 This is one where you just wish Jalen Hurts had more help. Pittman can be a number one but Parker and Boyd even though Boyd scored this week aren’t reliable enough right now to support Hurts and Pittman with the passing game. I know Lancaster had faith in the trio and play action will help but I’m just not sure how much support those main two are going to be getting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 11 hours ago, Scoundrel said: This is one where you just wish Jalen Hurts had more help. I have the same feeling here. Lancaster has got a good gameplan and I'd like to vote for them, but I just don't see enough explosiveness or production out of their offensive weapons to carry them to a win. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TedLavie Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Yeah I'll echo Blue and Scoundrel here. Gameplan for Lancaster is sound but I think they lack the talent on offense to execute it. Berlin 27-10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGold Posted October 18, 2023 Author Share Posted October 18, 2023 Berlin is really rounding out their entire roster this year. I like Lancaster's strategy, but I think Berlin is getting good enough production in those areas right now to combat it enough for the W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuskieTitan Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Close, but I'll give the edge to Lancaster at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnarok Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 GG @rackcs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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