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The Zimmer Report - Absolutely the Worst
The Cowboys defense put an all-time stinker of a performance out in Week 2.
Bob Sturm
Sep 18, 2024
Here we go. Our objectives today will be:
The one play that explains Sunday.
We can complicate the game of football because it is often complicated. I always think that this sport is one where the more you learn, the more you enjoy it. At the same time, the more you learn, the more you find out what you have left to learn. At every turn and twist, you can unlock an entirely new topic that you know nothing about, and you start again to try to go to school on this new area of interest.
Yet, it isn’t always complex.
Our dads might explain it to us with a common trope that is as old as time.
“This sport comes down to blocking and tackling,” is one that has never become outdated.
Another is how we explain the concepts of offense and defense.
“Offense is about creating and exploiting space. Defense is about taking that space away.”
That is one of my favorites. It seems clear on the edges of the formation, but I would like to show you a play that was in the first five minutes on Sunday. This was on the Saints' first drive – before Dallas ever touched the ball. And if you watched this play live, you had to have a sinking feeling that the Cowboys were not up for this.
I invite you to slow it down (the 3 dots in the bottom right corner) and watch each Cowboys defender lose their block. This is the 1st quarter of your home opener. The two defensive tackles are 93 - Linval Joseph and 98 - Jordan Phillips. The left defensive end is 99 - Chauncey Golston. The linebackers are 50 - Eric Kendricks and 18 - Damone Clark. 21 - Caelen Clark is there, and 6 - Donovan Wilson is the safety.
As you can see below, 7 - Diggs, 28 - Hooker, 11 - Parsons, and 35 - Liufau are also there, but are probably unable to do anything much on this simple run out of 21 personnel.
But now, back to what happened on that play. It is not complex in any way. The Saints created space, and the Cowboys just allowed it. They did not take it away. NFL Next Gen Stats suggested that the Saints had a 36% chance of a touchdown on this play based on the formations and such. The Cowboys defended it like you might expect the defensive line at UTSA or maybe McNeese State to defend an NFL run play. It is atrocious. It is embarrassing. It is beyond unacceptable.
Let’s go man by man.
93 - Linval Joseph: gets instantly reach-blocked by 62 - Lucas Patrick. If you are playing over the center in a deep red zone run play, you cannot get reach-blocked by the backside guard that easily, which takes him out of the play, and he knows this. The center doesn’t even have to touch him and just gets right to Kendricks, at which point the touchdown is secured. Awful. F
98 - Jordan Phillips: If Joseph was bad, check out Phillips. He is the 3-tech, and with his size, he should be able to stand his ground if there is no double team. He should be able, at 330, to not let RG 51 - Cesar Ruiz get a surge. Well, not only does he get a surge, but Deuce Vaughn can get pushed back into the end zone. What is this? Horrendous. F
99 - Chauncey Golston: Golston’s job is to set an edge, and I guess Kamara didn’t go outside him, but did RT 70 - Trevor Penning just choke-slam him with his left arm? F
50 - Eric Kendricks: He is the guy you want to make this tackle, but since Linval Joseph does not even hold up C 78 - Eric McCoy for a second, he has no chance. F, but probably more on Joseph than on him.
18 - Damone Clark: Clark gets taken out by FB 46 - Adam Prentice. Yes, he plays the leverage right, but this is where I need you to win your block or even make him miss to try to save the play yourself. Instead, he gets easily displaced and pushed out. F
21 - Caelen Clark: is probably doing his job, but has been a poor run defender for two straight weeks.
6 - Donovan Wilson: Like most plays in this game; he fires a bit too late and is not a factor on the right side of the goal line. If you want to assist in run support, you need to get out of the end zone to meet the ball if the LOS is the 5.
I am more than happy to hear from our coaches if my grading is poor or I am not being fair. But, holy heck, could one guy at least earn a draw with their single-team blocks? At least make the Saints try something complicated. This is the most simple play, and Dallas conceded like they had no chance. And, I guess they didn’t.
Evaluate the defensive efforts or lack thereof vs Saints
This won’t take long.
They gave up 44 points, 432 yards, and 190 rushing yards to the Saints, including six touchdowns on six drives to start the game.
If we use our stathead game-finder, we are unable to find hardly any games in the NFL in the last two seasons that hit those thresholds. We have two. Sunday and the time Miami put 70 points on Denver last September.
Keep in mind the NFL plays 272 games each year and 16 games per week. So, of 272 games in the NFL regular season, the only comparison to Sunday’s debacle was the Broncos giving up 70 and becoming the laughing stock of the league.
The fact that we were in this space seven days ago, carrying Mike Zimmer on our shoulders for his upgrades over Dan Quinn, certainly tells you the week-to-week nature of this league. Congrats on being great last week; your next opponent is still going to show up and make you prove it again.
Now, let’s use that same threshold for Cowboys history. Again, 44 points allowed by the defense, 432 yards or more allowed, and 190 rushing yards or more. The Cowboys have played about 850 regular season games in their history, but I did not recount all of them. But, be assured it is a lot.
Here are the five other games in Cowboys history it has happened:
The expansion year of 1960, against the Colts. The 1962 trip to St. Louis. Apparently, the 1985 visit to Cincinnati went very poorly too.
Then, the three games I have covered. The Browns game during COVID in the Mike Nolan era was about as bad as it gets, but I was amused to find this Saints game paired with the 2013 Saints game in New Orleans that was on Sunday Night Football. That was the Monte Kiffin year, and that particular game was probably the rock bottom of that season. If you were to ask me the one thing I remember from that day—except that my friend Jake Kemp was at that game—it would be the drive chart for the Saints.
Here is the 2013 Saints drive chart. Apparently, they caused a punt, but then it went TD, TD, TD, TD, Halftime. Then, missed FG, TD, TD, TD, Game over.
And now here is Sunday’s embarrassing Saints drive chart:
If your defense gives up 42 points in six drives – just like they pretty much did against Green Bay in January – the evaluation is pretty simple.
So, what happened? And how does it be fixed? I talked about it on Monday, and I think it is an issue:
The Cowboys are a small and fast defense that can rush the passer as well as anyone. But if you get an early lead and force them to stop the run, they seem to tap out. We blamed Quinn for this, but he isn’t here now. So, those who are left behind need to show they are not a finesse defense anymore. Sunday suggested they have not moved much, and now, every single opponent is going to challenge them to a street fight in the trenches.
The Ravens, Steelers, Lions, and 49ers are coming. And trust me; they will be watching this closely. We talked about their biggest need being DT, and they added a few. The trouble is, they were probably the two worst players on the defense on Sunday.
The 4th Drive was probably the worst of them all.
When a team scores on six straight drives, this is perhaps a strange exercise to rank the drives. But, I found the fourth drive to be particularly demoralizing. The Cowboys had just cut the score to 21–13 with a long pass to Lamb. The stadium was pumped. It was time for the defense to make a stand.
Let’s take a look at how it went. Kevin Utz put together a reel of the seven run plays in slow motion, and you can decide which play the Cowboys defended like they are a top defense.
The final play might have been as bad as it gets. Kamara going in untouched with horrible job done by everyone over there. Joseph, Overshown, Wilson, and Carson all had failing grades on that.
From that point on, this game was a wrap.
Jordan Phillips is a problem and not in a good way.
I don’t know what happened to Jordan Phillips, but now we understand why he was available for such a nice price when the Cowboys wasted draft capitol in paying for him from the Giants. It wasn’t much, but I want my sixth-round pick back.
Our guy exhibited no anchor and no resemblance to what he has been for a decade in this league. The scouting report looks pretty clear. He is interested in rushing the passer a bit, but if you got him to stand up to the run, I have very bad news. Linval Joseph has a chance to improve, but I would probably move on from Phillips.
BREAKING NEWS AS I TYPED THIS: Phillips has just been put on the IR with a wrist. This is either a way to explain this tape or a way to stash him in hopes he can help again later in the season.
And yes, the fact that these two guys are playing is also an indicator that Mazi Smith has not been the guy they wanted, either. But, comparatively speaking, he is less bad.
Where was DeMarvion Overshown?
Overshown played just 18 of 56 snaps. I was asked by many the obvious question after his performance in Cleveland: why?
Let’s look at the plays he was a factor on – good or bad – from the Saints game and discuss:
I would say that he is elite in open space, running down threats in space. He is a perfect QB spy or backside defender when unblocked.
However, linebacker is not safety. On most plays, the offense tries to block linebackers, and in those situations, he is not very good yet. So, the more physical the game, the less we will see of Overshown until he learns to better play like a linebacker and less like a safety.
So, basically, I think it will be situational for now. And that is okay. It is not easy to change positions, and it is also not easy to step up to the trenches in the NFL. We are still very high on Agent Zero.
Okay, let’s do some clips and call it.
FILM STUDY
1Q - 11:34 - 1-10-DAL 44 - D.Carr pass deep right to C.Olave pushed ob at DAL 5 for 39 yards
One of the most amazing things about this debacle is that the Saints only had 3 explosives (20+ yards) in the entire game, but they happened in a flurry. The first one is this Cover 3 beater called the Yankee concept and one of the reasons that Cover 3 as a default 1st and 10 coverage can hurt.
So your corners play outside leverage on Cover 3 and funnel things to the deep safety. The deep safety has to stay on top of the biggest downfield threat, so Rashid Shaheed (more on him in a moment) is properly picked up by Wilson as the deep post. So, the obvious route beater is to then give Chris Olave the deep in-route behind it, and Trevon Diggs is going to funnel him inside to...nobody. You can also see that this is play-action for Derek Carr, and they motion the tight end to help with Micah Parsons. If we are going to take a shot, Parsons is not going to ruin it for us. Smart idea. The whole objective for this game was to make Derek Carr stay in the pocket and beat you. Instead, he really didn’t have to throw very much or get hit much at all.
1Q - 4:14 - 1-10-NO 30 - D.Carr pass deep middle to R.Shaheed for 70 yards, TOUCHDOWN
How would you like to see the Saints run pretty much the exact same play, but this time Carr goes to the other guy in the Yankee Concept?
This time, the Cowboys look to be in Cover 6 and the Saints are in 21 personnel again. Here comes the motion protection help with the entire line slanting to not let Micah beat them. Here comes the play-action fake, and Carr fires a bomb that beats both safeties as apparently they weren’t prepared for how fast and good Shaheed is at all of this.
I think Donovan Wilson could do better here, but the honest truth is that sometimes the other team hits a home run.
Only Tyreek Hill has more 50-yard touchdowns than Shaheed since he was brought into the NFL. Perhaps beware.
2Q - 9:41 - 2-7-NO 43 -D.Carr pass short left to A.Kamara for 57 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
Here is the third touchdown and the last of the big plays, and a very frustrating moment because this is the definition of 'too easy.'
The Cowboys are in Cover-1 and the Saints are in 12 personnel. The motion perhaps distracts, and everyone is on their man, so the timing of the middle screen is excellent. Once Eric Kendricks awkwardly engages the lineman, Dallas is in trouble now. That is his man, and he needs to avoid the block, as everyone behind him has their backs turned. This should not have been a touchdown, but the rallying to the ball is weak. Other than DeMarcus Lawrence, who is running like the cop in Terminator 2, the other 10 could stand to run a bit harder in my opinion.
3Q - 4:33 - 1-10-DAL 26 - D.Carr pass deep left to F.Moreau for 26 yards, TOUCHDOWN NULLIFIED by Penalty. PENALTY on NO-C.Ruiz, Ineligible Downfield Pass, 5 yards, enforced at DAL 26 - No Play.
This play didn’t count because the right guard ran downfield, but this is being shown just to illustrate how turned around the Cowboys were in this game. The Saints know now that Trevon Diggs is going to chase the deep crosser and that there is probably nobody watching the left side once he vacates it. So, play-action pass off an outside zone to the left and the right side tight end will sell the run and then slip behind the Cowboys' defense. Carr sells that he is looking to pass to his right, and you can watch the entire secondary flock over there because they have been beaten on this already. Now, the Saints throw it back to the left side, and it was an easy touchdown—if their guard didn’t go one step too far. Sort of a nitpick penalty, but Dallas will happily take it.
3Q - 1:14 - 1-7-DAL 7 - A.Kamara left end for 7 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
This is your rookie linebacker not playing the run correctly. 35 Liufau has to get outside the guard and 'show color' to force the run back inside. He simply has to get to the outside of Lucas Patrick and not be sealed inside. Once he fails to do this, the gap is wide open, and Alvin Kamara demonstrates what he does to a vacated gap.
Like everything else here, it is just not good enough.
And with that, I end this. Let us never have to do this again.
The Cowboys defense put an all-time stinker of a performance out in Week 2.
Bob Sturm
Sep 18, 2024
Here we go. Our objectives today will be:
- Watch one play that explains Sunday.
- Evaluate the defensive efforts or lack thereof versus New Orleans
- The 4th Drive was probably the worst of them all.
- Jordan Phillips is a problem and not in a good way.
- Where was DeMarvion Overshown?
- Look at some All-22 film and the coverage issues.
The one play that explains Sunday.
We can complicate the game of football because it is often complicated. I always think that this sport is one where the more you learn, the more you enjoy it. At the same time, the more you learn, the more you find out what you have left to learn. At every turn and twist, you can unlock an entirely new topic that you know nothing about, and you start again to try to go to school on this new area of interest.
Yet, it isn’t always complex.
Our dads might explain it to us with a common trope that is as old as time.
“This sport comes down to blocking and tackling,” is one that has never become outdated.
Another is how we explain the concepts of offense and defense.
“Offense is about creating and exploiting space. Defense is about taking that space away.”
That is one of my favorites. It seems clear on the edges of the formation, but I would like to show you a play that was in the first five minutes on Sunday. This was on the Saints' first drive – before Dallas ever touched the ball. And if you watched this play live, you had to have a sinking feeling that the Cowboys were not up for this.
I invite you to slow it down (the 3 dots in the bottom right corner) and watch each Cowboys defender lose their block. This is the 1st quarter of your home opener. The two defensive tackles are 93 - Linval Joseph and 98 - Jordan Phillips. The left defensive end is 99 - Chauncey Golston. The linebackers are 50 - Eric Kendricks and 18 - Damone Clark. 21 - Caelen Clark is there, and 6 - Donovan Wilson is the safety.
As you can see below, 7 - Diggs, 28 - Hooker, 11 - Parsons, and 35 - Liufau are also there, but are probably unable to do anything much on this simple run out of 21 personnel.
But now, back to what happened on that play. It is not complex in any way. The Saints created space, and the Cowboys just allowed it. They did not take it away. NFL Next Gen Stats suggested that the Saints had a 36% chance of a touchdown on this play based on the formations and such. The Cowboys defended it like you might expect the defensive line at UTSA or maybe McNeese State to defend an NFL run play. It is atrocious. It is embarrassing. It is beyond unacceptable.
Let’s go man by man.
93 - Linval Joseph: gets instantly reach-blocked by 62 - Lucas Patrick. If you are playing over the center in a deep red zone run play, you cannot get reach-blocked by the backside guard that easily, which takes him out of the play, and he knows this. The center doesn’t even have to touch him and just gets right to Kendricks, at which point the touchdown is secured. Awful. F
98 - Jordan Phillips: If Joseph was bad, check out Phillips. He is the 3-tech, and with his size, he should be able to stand his ground if there is no double team. He should be able, at 330, to not let RG 51 - Cesar Ruiz get a surge. Well, not only does he get a surge, but Deuce Vaughn can get pushed back into the end zone. What is this? Horrendous. F
99 - Chauncey Golston: Golston’s job is to set an edge, and I guess Kamara didn’t go outside him, but did RT 70 - Trevor Penning just choke-slam him with his left arm? F
50 - Eric Kendricks: He is the guy you want to make this tackle, but since Linval Joseph does not even hold up C 78 - Eric McCoy for a second, he has no chance. F, but probably more on Joseph than on him.
18 - Damone Clark: Clark gets taken out by FB 46 - Adam Prentice. Yes, he plays the leverage right, but this is where I need you to win your block or even make him miss to try to save the play yourself. Instead, he gets easily displaced and pushed out. F
21 - Caelen Clark: is probably doing his job, but has been a poor run defender for two straight weeks.
6 - Donovan Wilson: Like most plays in this game; he fires a bit too late and is not a factor on the right side of the goal line. If you want to assist in run support, you need to get out of the end zone to meet the ball if the LOS is the 5.
I am more than happy to hear from our coaches if my grading is poor or I am not being fair. But, holy heck, could one guy at least earn a draw with their single-team blocks? At least make the Saints try something complicated. This is the most simple play, and Dallas conceded like they had no chance. And, I guess they didn’t.
Evaluate the defensive efforts or lack thereof vs Saints
This won’t take long.
They gave up 44 points, 432 yards, and 190 rushing yards to the Saints, including six touchdowns on six drives to start the game.
If we use our stathead game-finder, we are unable to find hardly any games in the NFL in the last two seasons that hit those thresholds. We have two. Sunday and the time Miami put 70 points on Denver last September.
Keep in mind the NFL plays 272 games each year and 16 games per week. So, of 272 games in the NFL regular season, the only comparison to Sunday’s debacle was the Broncos giving up 70 and becoming the laughing stock of the league.
The fact that we were in this space seven days ago, carrying Mike Zimmer on our shoulders for his upgrades over Dan Quinn, certainly tells you the week-to-week nature of this league. Congrats on being great last week; your next opponent is still going to show up and make you prove it again.
Now, let’s use that same threshold for Cowboys history. Again, 44 points allowed by the defense, 432 yards or more allowed, and 190 rushing yards or more. The Cowboys have played about 850 regular season games in their history, but I did not recount all of them. But, be assured it is a lot.
Here are the five other games in Cowboys history it has happened:
The expansion year of 1960, against the Colts. The 1962 trip to St. Louis. Apparently, the 1985 visit to Cincinnati went very poorly too.
Then, the three games I have covered. The Browns game during COVID in the Mike Nolan era was about as bad as it gets, but I was amused to find this Saints game paired with the 2013 Saints game in New Orleans that was on Sunday Night Football. That was the Monte Kiffin year, and that particular game was probably the rock bottom of that season. If you were to ask me the one thing I remember from that day—except that my friend Jake Kemp was at that game—it would be the drive chart for the Saints.
Here is the 2013 Saints drive chart. Apparently, they caused a punt, but then it went TD, TD, TD, TD, Halftime. Then, missed FG, TD, TD, TD, Game over.
And now here is Sunday’s embarrassing Saints drive chart:
If your defense gives up 42 points in six drives – just like they pretty much did against Green Bay in January – the evaluation is pretty simple.
So, what happened? And how does it be fixed? I talked about it on Monday, and I think it is an issue:
The Cowboys are a small and fast defense that can rush the passer as well as anyone. But if you get an early lead and force them to stop the run, they seem to tap out. We blamed Quinn for this, but he isn’t here now. So, those who are left behind need to show they are not a finesse defense anymore. Sunday suggested they have not moved much, and now, every single opponent is going to challenge them to a street fight in the trenches.
The Ravens, Steelers, Lions, and 49ers are coming. And trust me; they will be watching this closely. We talked about their biggest need being DT, and they added a few. The trouble is, they were probably the two worst players on the defense on Sunday.
The 4th Drive was probably the worst of them all.
When a team scores on six straight drives, this is perhaps a strange exercise to rank the drives. But, I found the fourth drive to be particularly demoralizing. The Cowboys had just cut the score to 21–13 with a long pass to Lamb. The stadium was pumped. It was time for the defense to make a stand.
Let’s take a look at how it went. Kevin Utz put together a reel of the seven run plays in slow motion, and you can decide which play the Cowboys defended like they are a top defense.
The final play might have been as bad as it gets. Kamara going in untouched with horrible job done by everyone over there. Joseph, Overshown, Wilson, and Carson all had failing grades on that.
From that point on, this game was a wrap.
Jordan Phillips is a problem and not in a good way.
I don’t know what happened to Jordan Phillips, but now we understand why he was available for such a nice price when the Cowboys wasted draft capitol in paying for him from the Giants. It wasn’t much, but I want my sixth-round pick back.
Our guy exhibited no anchor and no resemblance to what he has been for a decade in this league. The scouting report looks pretty clear. He is interested in rushing the passer a bit, but if you got him to stand up to the run, I have very bad news. Linval Joseph has a chance to improve, but I would probably move on from Phillips.
BREAKING NEWS AS I TYPED THIS: Phillips has just been put on the IR with a wrist. This is either a way to explain this tape or a way to stash him in hopes he can help again later in the season.
And yes, the fact that these two guys are playing is also an indicator that Mazi Smith has not been the guy they wanted, either. But, comparatively speaking, he is less bad.
Where was DeMarvion Overshown?
Overshown played just 18 of 56 snaps. I was asked by many the obvious question after his performance in Cleveland: why?
Let’s look at the plays he was a factor on – good or bad – from the Saints game and discuss:
I would say that he is elite in open space, running down threats in space. He is a perfect QB spy or backside defender when unblocked.
However, linebacker is not safety. On most plays, the offense tries to block linebackers, and in those situations, he is not very good yet. So, the more physical the game, the less we will see of Overshown until he learns to better play like a linebacker and less like a safety.
So, basically, I think it will be situational for now. And that is okay. It is not easy to change positions, and it is also not easy to step up to the trenches in the NFL. We are still very high on Agent Zero.
Okay, let’s do some clips and call it.
FILM STUDY
1Q - 11:34 - 1-10-DAL 44 - D.Carr pass deep right to C.Olave pushed ob at DAL 5 for 39 yards
One of the most amazing things about this debacle is that the Saints only had 3 explosives (20+ yards) in the entire game, but they happened in a flurry. The first one is this Cover 3 beater called the Yankee concept and one of the reasons that Cover 3 as a default 1st and 10 coverage can hurt.
So your corners play outside leverage on Cover 3 and funnel things to the deep safety. The deep safety has to stay on top of the biggest downfield threat, so Rashid Shaheed (more on him in a moment) is properly picked up by Wilson as the deep post. So, the obvious route beater is to then give Chris Olave the deep in-route behind it, and Trevon Diggs is going to funnel him inside to...nobody. You can also see that this is play-action for Derek Carr, and they motion the tight end to help with Micah Parsons. If we are going to take a shot, Parsons is not going to ruin it for us. Smart idea. The whole objective for this game was to make Derek Carr stay in the pocket and beat you. Instead, he really didn’t have to throw very much or get hit much at all.
1Q - 4:14 - 1-10-NO 30 - D.Carr pass deep middle to R.Shaheed for 70 yards, TOUCHDOWN
How would you like to see the Saints run pretty much the exact same play, but this time Carr goes to the other guy in the Yankee Concept?
This time, the Cowboys look to be in Cover 6 and the Saints are in 21 personnel again. Here comes the motion protection help with the entire line slanting to not let Micah beat them. Here comes the play-action fake, and Carr fires a bomb that beats both safeties as apparently they weren’t prepared for how fast and good Shaheed is at all of this.
I think Donovan Wilson could do better here, but the honest truth is that sometimes the other team hits a home run.
Only Tyreek Hill has more 50-yard touchdowns than Shaheed since he was brought into the NFL. Perhaps beware.
2Q - 9:41 - 2-7-NO 43 -D.Carr pass short left to A.Kamara for 57 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
Here is the third touchdown and the last of the big plays, and a very frustrating moment because this is the definition of 'too easy.'
The Cowboys are in Cover-1 and the Saints are in 12 personnel. The motion perhaps distracts, and everyone is on their man, so the timing of the middle screen is excellent. Once Eric Kendricks awkwardly engages the lineman, Dallas is in trouble now. That is his man, and he needs to avoid the block, as everyone behind him has their backs turned. This should not have been a touchdown, but the rallying to the ball is weak. Other than DeMarcus Lawrence, who is running like the cop in Terminator 2, the other 10 could stand to run a bit harder in my opinion.
3Q - 4:33 - 1-10-DAL 26 - D.Carr pass deep left to F.Moreau for 26 yards, TOUCHDOWN NULLIFIED by Penalty. PENALTY on NO-C.Ruiz, Ineligible Downfield Pass, 5 yards, enforced at DAL 26 - No Play.
This play didn’t count because the right guard ran downfield, but this is being shown just to illustrate how turned around the Cowboys were in this game. The Saints know now that Trevon Diggs is going to chase the deep crosser and that there is probably nobody watching the left side once he vacates it. So, play-action pass off an outside zone to the left and the right side tight end will sell the run and then slip behind the Cowboys' defense. Carr sells that he is looking to pass to his right, and you can watch the entire secondary flock over there because they have been beaten on this already. Now, the Saints throw it back to the left side, and it was an easy touchdown—if their guard didn’t go one step too far. Sort of a nitpick penalty, but Dallas will happily take it.
3Q - 1:14 - 1-7-DAL 7 - A.Kamara left end for 7 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
This is your rookie linebacker not playing the run correctly. 35 Liufau has to get outside the guard and 'show color' to force the run back inside. He simply has to get to the outside of Lucas Patrick and not be sealed inside. Once he fails to do this, the gap is wide open, and Alvin Kamara demonstrates what he does to a vacated gap.
Like everything else here, it is just not good enough.
And with that, I end this. Let us never have to do this again.
