The offensive look: The Chargers start in a 3×1 formation to the wide side of the field and motion Travis Benjamin (#12) across the formation to identify man vs. zone coverage. He identifies man, since the DB on Benjamin follows him across the formation. Philip Rivers knows he’s rolling right, and throwing to one of the receivers running the pick route combo (let’s call it a “rub” route since we’re talking offense here).
The Defensive Look: The Chiefs actually have a pretty god look pre-snap in our opinion. They have 5 men on the line of scrimmage (DT, 2 Des and 2 LBs) with 6 in coverage. They opt to play straight man coverage, but choose to bracket (double cover) antonio gates (#85). When Travis Benjamin motions across the formation, the DB covering him runs across the formation with him.
Where the KC Chiefs screwed up: The Chargers’ pick route concept is one of the most common goal line pass concepts in football – from youth football all the way to the NFL. Typically, when receivers are either in a bunch, or lined up close to eachother, the defense will make a “banjo” call in order to counter pick plays. Banjo is a call which tells 2 defensive backs to essentially play a man/zone combo coverage. The DB lined up inside (#23, Kendall Fuller) should cover the receiver who runs an inside route while the DB lined up outside (#22, Orlando Scandrick) should cover the receiver who runs an outside route. The banjo call clearly doesn’t get communicated very well, because Fuller played banjo (by covering the inside breaking route of #16, Tyrell Williams) while Scandrick played a true man coverage (by covering the man he was originally lined up across from, #16 Tyrell Williams).
You know how I know a lot of people in this thread are full of shit?
I searched for "banjo". Not one post related to banjo coverage in the last 4+ years on here, but people sitting at home realized it was banjo coverage.
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
It's also possible that there never was a banjo call and it was Fuller that ****ed up.
Maybe but Fuller turning to Scandrick before the snap and communicating to him it seemed everything was clear. You are talking 2 vets here and why I am very skeptical about Scandrick because of MW toasting him all night. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chiefshrink:
Maybe but Fuller turning to Scandrick before the snap and communicating to him it seemed everything was clear. You are talking 2 vets here and why I am very skeptical about Scandrick because of MW toasting him all night.
I think that's highly likely that was the coverage scheme. I also can't know that because no one has said what the Chiefs' coverage is. Too many people talking out of their ass. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Fuller wouldn't have peeled off when Scandrick crossed him unless he was expecting a banjo.
If Fuller '****ed up' by thinking he signalled banjo but failing to properly signal banjo, that's still a coordinator prep failure.
Precisely and we'll never know if OS went rogue or truly misunderstood. But Fuller's intelligence and play are far more trustworthy than OS and why I think OS went rogue. [Reply]
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
I think that's highly likely that was the coverage scheme. I also can't know that because no one has said what the Chiefs' coverage is. Too many people talking out of their ass.
Did you see Fuller’s reaction? He knew before the ball was thrown that Scandrick pooped all over the bed. [Reply]
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
I think that's highly likely that was the coverage scheme. I also can't know that because no one has said what the Chiefs' coverage is. Too many people talking out of their ass.
You've never heard of banjo??
How about dulcimer and flat top?
French horn is some wicked ass coverage, just google it.
Everybody on here knows ALL over those coverages,,, jeez. [Reply]
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
You know how I know a lot of people in this thread are full of shit?
I searched for "banjo". Not one post related to banjo coverage in the last 4+ years on here, but people sitting at home realized it was banjo coverage.
Ok.
Don't be that turd.
People know that NFL caliber defenses have a squad shorthand for defensive adjustments. And they know that one of those shorthand adjustments is to pass off inside/outside man coverage when the offense scheme looks to try to cross the defenders up by design.
Maybe they didn't call it banjo, but they knew there was a concept and a terminology to communicate it.
But the past couple days, all the talking heads called it banjo, so they went along so everyone was talking about the same thing. [Reply]
Go to 3 minutes in, listen to Bart Scott break it down. Every former NFL player/analyst I've seen has said it looked like/should have been banjo in that scenario. [Reply]
