Show Notes
AJ McCarron
Turnovers
Fumbles
Handoff to Durant
3, 6, or 8 point play
Strip sack
3rd and 13
Throttled his arm to the deep guy
Took too long to get to his check-down
Low %
J-S got beat outside
Interceptions
Tight End fell
6 point play
Moonball
Understandable to want to throw that ball
4th and 6
Impatient
Had Proehl open in the middle
Maybe an overthrow
Would’ve been a one-hander
Great play by the DB
26/42, 262 yards, 4 TD, 2 Int, 4 sacks for 23 yards
4th Quarter
Today: 7/15, 41 yards, 1 TD, 1 Int
Season: 26/41, 297 yards, 2 TD, 1 Int
Rest of game
Today: 19/27, 221 yards
Season: 40/63, 329 yards
47% of passing yards and 40% of his completions in the 4th Q.
Roughly
Rushing 2/6
Issues
Not seeing the field
Hand off when a screen was there
Only one time that I noticed
Missing routes
1st INT play, 3 guys on the other side of the field
Hit Hill for 22 yards, Proehl had 30 yards wide open
Understandable
4Q Throw to S. Mitchell when Proehl and TE were open
4Q sack, Butler was open
Lots of pressure
Took to long to make decisions
Strip Sack play
2-point to conversion after the H. Butler drive
Double pumped with TE open
OUT ROUTES
Trouble in flats
Recurring issue
Overthrew D. Shepherd on O.R. in flat
4Q underthrew Proehl near sideline
Deep Shots
Missed BUtler on deep shot on 4th and 2
Good Stuff
Staying alive
First 2pt Conv.
Made a DT look like a total idiot
Wide open Shepherd
Sensing Pressure
For the most part
Got the ball out quick
Trust tree is building
Bulter
Shepherd
Hill
Proehl?
Receivers
HAKEEM BUTLER
Apologize
9 rec, 105 yards, 1 TD (13 targets)
Butler Drive
9, 20 (funny), 6, 21, 2 yard TD (also funny).
He knows who he is
Darius Shepherd
5 rec, 51 yards
Ran great routes
20 yards on a 3rd and 2
Read coverage very well
190(!) Kick Return yards
59 yards is the second closest
His second long return was 58 yards
Special Teams might be sneaky good
He had a hammy in the second half
Steven Mitchell
3 rec, 17 Yards, 1 TD
Good 1-for-1 replacement for Shepherd
Jake Sutherland
1 rec, 23 yards, 1 TD
USE THIS GUY MORE
IN LITERALLY THIS EXACT SITUATION
Jovani Haskins
You fell, you big dummy
Austin Proehl
2 rec, 12 yards
Runningbacks
Brian Hill
Hey, he’s good.
Rushing 11/32
Receiving 4/49, 1 TD
Great hard runs
3 or 4 yards after contact
Great hands
Good pass protection
A few good chips
Mateo Durant
Rushing 4/18
Solid runs
Getting yardage after contact
First down by twisting body
Receiving 1/-2
At least they’re trying
One very lazy route on 3rd and 3
Tried to make a back-shoulder catch
Lost speed
Would’ve been 10 to 15 yards
Good pass protection
Kareem Walker
Who?
Offensive Line
Well. They were mostly terrible again.
They allowed 12 sacks
Most in XFL
Strip sack was mostly J-S’s fault
4th and 15 Concersion sack was their fault
They only rushed 4
They are changing things up
Dallas Warmack has been going in for both Guards
And he’s been Successful
Theory: The offensive line is the reason for the trash play calling on the first drive
Hot mic caught a coach (Becht?) saying “Set the tone” directly to the lineman
Three plays were:
1st down 2 yard run
2nd down -3 yard run
3rd down 5 yard screen
2nd down
DC brought 6 guys
Left to right:
Tackle block
Guard Missed block (he got the TFL)
Center Block
Guard Pulled
Tackle Block
TE Pulled
The pressures came and there was no communication between the guys on the line
This did set the tone.
Pressures were going to work a whole lot
Offense as a whole
The offensive scored 28 points this game.
There have been 9 non-BattleHawks XFL games played this season
If you scored 28 points, you’d be 6-3
It wasn’t a bad offensive performance
The Turnovers absolutely killed them
9 to 14 points were lost on offensive drives
Could’ve been game where the score was flipped 34-28 BattleHawks.
Play calling was not the best at times.
1st drive
Specifically the last drive
Everything was inside
Did a good job breaking down Dr. Heat’s weak spots in coverage.
Blocking is going to be bad for much more time than it’s going to be good.
At least they’re trying to change personnel
Defensive Line
Probably the best position group on this team
I was very worried about how they were going to play D’Eriq King
Great job getting in the backfield
When they made him read while he was standing still, it was a good stop
#95 Elorm Lumor was a monster when it came to getting pressure.
Almost got the safety on King’s first drive
Handled Ta’amu’s legs
Spotted the option from the other side of the field
Pressured him and kept him in the backfield
Linebackers
Needed to tackle better in key situations
Ta’amu’s legs in 2nd half
Easy TD on a weakside run
4th down conversion
A. Smith cut in front of all of them on a 4th and 2 for 7 or 8 yards
Kept tackling backward
Coverage in red zone specifically
First TD
Looked like triple coverage
Meadors (26), Cooper (39), and Harvey (51)
Meadors showed up late, covering an out route
Cooper went to cover a corner route
Harvey trying to communicate before the snap, read the QBs eyes, TE got to open spot while Harvey was reading
TBF it was a good route.
51 was playing well except for that.
He got the strip
Hunted for the ball
Defensive Backs
Coverage was the reason the game fell apart
Brandon Sebastion got cooked on DC 1st TD drive for 58 yards
No help from Chris Cooper up top
Mike Hampton had no answers for Lucky Jackson (4 for 89)
Beaten by double moves and an OPI?
Weren’t good at tackling in the second half
Ben DeLuca had a great game
5 tackles
2 FR
Defense as a whole
They did okay in the first half. They got the DC off the field quickly (one big scoring drive)
Second half, they kept getting beat on runs
DC adjusted and used their read on the defensive ends to isolate runs to the Corners.
Corners weren’t able to make tackles on big runningbacks
Forced Ta’amu to throw
11/20, 196 yards
Allowed 136 rushing yards on 39 carries
Smith 54 yards
Armstead 51 yards
Ta’amu 22 yards
King 9 yards
Clearly focused on stopping the run this game
Coaching and Refs
Becht did a good job using that Challenge
Shouldn’t have needed to
No way to know the game was going to get as bad as it did with refs
At least 10 bad calls
Holds (both sides)
Helmet to Helmet
Intentional Grounding
Lucky Jackson OPI
Goalline Fumble Recovery
Block in the back
Late Hits
Nothing to stop chipiness
Tory Woodbury was trying to fight another coach?
Becht was pissed
Gradkowski did not call a good game
Last drive with nothing near the sidelines to stop the clock
Ka KAW of the Week:
Daniel Whelan, DC Punter 4 punts for 219 yards, a couple 6 yarders, one almost to 1.
Going to be in the NFL
H.M.
Butler
DeLuca
Lumor
Rod Taylor #73 on DC
Uh UH of the Week:
The Cornerbacks (Hampton and Meadors)
Got beat on passing plays to allow easy completions
Bad tackling
H.M.
King
J. Haskins