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I'll throw this in here as well, as this was an interesting comment about him from Belichick's press conference today:
"He's gotten better, especially the last couple of weeks. He's gotten more reps. I know last week was a walk-through week, but even those walk-through reps help. So, I would say he's gaining on it. The biggest thing for any running back is pass protection. He's done that. It's not that he hasn't done it. It's just terminology and rules and adjustments. It's not as simple as just blocking one guy. Especially against these guys, there's some moving parts where there could be multiple factors involved, depending on what we're in and what they give us."
"That's where it's hard to catch up on all of that in a short amount of time. There's the multiples. So, you just can't sit in one protection against these guys. I don't think that would be a good idea, unless you had some way to handle the multiples that they give you. But, it's even on third down, their 4-1 dime, 3-2 dime, 4-2 nickel, 3-3 nickel, with not all of the same players always in the same spot. So, you just start doing the multiplication tables."
"You need to get a lot in. Five or six protections against multiple fronts, multiple personnel groups, multiple fronts, odd, even, overload, start walking safeties and linebackers up in the line of scrimmage, you're into some pretty high numbers in a hurry."
Sounds like the issue is obviously with blitz pickup, which the Chiefs were tough with and went after Josh Allen a lot last week against Buffalo. I wonder where Kevin Harris is with that, as he's another guy who they could use to take some of the load off of Zeke.
Last Thursday Night, not a single other running back had a carry. Zeke carried 22 times for 68yds, Zappe carried 3 times for 13. That obviously won't work this week.
"He's gotten better, especially the last couple of weeks. He's gotten more reps. I know last week was a walk-through week, but even those walk-through reps help. So, I would say he's gaining on it. The biggest thing for any running back is pass protection. He's done that. It's not that he hasn't done it. It's just terminology and rules and adjustments. It's not as simple as just blocking one guy. Especially against these guys, there's some moving parts where there could be multiple factors involved, depending on what we're in and what they give us."
"That's where it's hard to catch up on all of that in a short amount of time. There's the multiples. So, you just can't sit in one protection against these guys. I don't think that would be a good idea, unless you had some way to handle the multiples that they give you. But, it's even on third down, their 4-1 dime, 3-2 dime, 4-2 nickel, 3-3 nickel, with not all of the same players always in the same spot. So, you just start doing the multiplication tables."
"You need to get a lot in. Five or six protections against multiple fronts, multiple personnel groups, multiple fronts, odd, even, overload, start walking safeties and linebackers up in the line of scrimmage, you're into some pretty high numbers in a hurry."
Sounds like the issue is obviously with blitz pickup, which the Chiefs were tough with and went after Josh Allen a lot last week against Buffalo. I wonder where Kevin Harris is with that, as he's another guy who they could use to take some of the load off of Zeke.
Last Thursday Night, not a single other running back had a carry. Zeke carried 22 times for 68yds, Zappe carried 3 times for 13. That obviously won't work this week.