Locked On Patriots - Daily Podcast On The New England Patriots - Patriots A to Z Part 8 - Locked On Patriots July 3, 2019

Episode Date: July 3, 2019

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Hey there everybody and welcome on into part 8 of Patriots A to Z here at Locked On Patriots. Mark Schofield in the big chair for today, Wednesday, not January 3rd, July 3rd. It's been a day. Why? Well, the U.S. Women's Cup soccer team with an impressive nail bite, whatever you want to call it, but a victory, a hard-fought, hard-earned victory over England in the Women's World Cup semifinals, 2-1 victory.

That's your final score. Christine Press getting the start over Megan Rapinoe. She gets a goal early. English tie it. And Alex Morgan on her birthday, she puts them ahead 2-1. Then some controversy. You get a goal disallowed thanks to VAR. A little review.

Instead of a tie, it's still 2-1. But then you get another review. England awarded a penalty, but United States and goalie Alyssa Nahar with the save of the tournament stops the penalty kick. It was the first time on a non-shootout situation that in the Women's World Cup a United States goalie had made a save. Stones the penalty kick taker, dive into a right, helps solidify the win. So now the United States moves on to the final.

So going to be looking forward to that. But we've also got some football to talk about. Today's show brought to you by the letters O and P. We're going to talk some of the people, the plays, and the moments that have made this franchise. But before we do, your usual reminders. Please follow along the Twitter machine at Mark Schofield. Check out the work at

places inside the pylon.com pro football weekly where i will be part of the bears preview magazine you can look for that soon piece on mitchell trubisky matt waldemans rookie scouting portfolio and yes your cavalcade of sp nation websites, Bleeding Green Nation, and of course, Pat's Pulpit. Now, let's talk people. And at the outset, I missed Sterling Moore yesterday.

This was pointed out by John Lemaracus, Lockdown Patriots Slack channel. Sterling Moore, defensive back for the Patriots, who made one of the biggest plays in Patriots history. During his time with the New the Patriots, who made one of the biggest plays in Patriots history. During his time with the New England Patriots, he was bouncing around from the practice squad to the active

roster, just spent two seasons with the Patriots. On January 1st, 2020, in week 17 of that season, he had two interceptions against the Buffalo Bills, returned one for a touchdown. In the AFC Championship game that year against the Baltimore Ravens, he hit Lee Evans' arm, preventing a touchdown. Had Moore not made that play, Evans probably would have caught the ball and sent the Ravens

to the Super Bowl. After that incompletion, Billy Cundiff missed a game tie in field goal. The Patriots went on to win 23-20. Now, unfortunately, we know how that season ended in the Super Bowl, but still and more part of Patriots lore. Now let's get to some of the players here with letters O and P. We've got Ryan O'Callaghan, offensive lineman for the New England Patriots

for a couple of seasons. O'Callaghan, he was drafted out of the University of California in the fifth round, 136 overall. The 2006 draft spent two seasons with the Patriots and two more with the Chiefs. Appeared in 51 games, started 12 games for the Chiefs in 2009. Most interestingly about O'Callaghan, might be sort of an off-the-field situation. He, after his playing days were over, announced to the world that he was gay. And so we obviously

think very highly of him. You know, we just got out of Pride Month. So Ryan O'Callaghan. Ross O'Hanley, another member of Patriots lore, defensive back for the Boston Patriots from 1960 to 1965, spent six seasons with the Patriots, had 15 interceptions during his time with the Boston Patriots from 1960 to 1965. Spent six seasons with the Patriots.

Had 15 interceptions during his time with the Boston Patriots. Dan Oakes, excuse me, Don Oakes, offensive tackle out of Virginia Tech. Also with the Boston Patriots during the 60s. Spent six seasons with the Boston Patriots. He was with the Philadelphia Eagles prior to that. Offensive tackle for the Patriots, the Boston Patriots during the 60s. Rich Ohrenberger Offensive tackle for the Patriots. The Boston Patriots during the 60s. Rich Ohenberger spent some time with the Patriots.

A couple of seasons. Offensive guard out of Penn State. Also bouncing around the league a little bit. Arizona and San Diego. Some stops for him. We've got Tom Owen. Quarterback. You know I'm going to mention a QB.

Started his career with the San Francisco 49ers, but ended it with the New England Patriots. Four years in New England. Started just one game in 1981. During his time in New England, he threw three touchdown passes and nine interceptions. But Tom

Owen, a former quarterback for the New England Patriots. Dennis Owens, defensive tackle for the Patriots during the 80s, was part of the Super Bowl XX team. That season started 13 games. He had 11.5 sacks during his five-year career with the Patriots. Also have one current Patriot, Gunnar Olaswinski,

wide receiver out of Bemidji State. Yeah, I got nothing. Look, I've said it before. I got nothing. He's 6 feet, 170. That's what he's listed at. There you go. Of course, what this means is He's 6 feet, 170, that's what he's listed at. There you go. Of course, what this means is he's probably going to catch 6 catches for

96 yards and a touchdown in an AFC Divisional Playoff game. But we don't know much about him right now. Babe Pirelli, another quarterback out of Patriots lore. Pirelli was with the Boston Patriots. One of many stops he made in the NFL and AFL. Started

his career with the Packers, then Cleveland, back to the Packers, then Oakland in the AFL, then Boston for a number of seasons. That's where he spent the bulk of his time. Had a career year in 1964 with the Boston Patriots. 473 attempts, 228 completions, completion percentage of just 48.2. His career completion percentage, 46.6. Draft Twitter would have hated him. But that 1964 season led the league with 3,465 passing yards, 31 touchdowns, and 27 interceptions. Man, the takes.

If Twitter were around for this guy, also finished his season, his career, excuse me, with the New York Jets, Babe Pirelli. Patrick Pass, fullback, running back for the Patriots

out of Georgia for a number of seasons. David Patton, big player for the Patriots for a number of years, had a huge touchdown catch in Super Bowl 36. Also spent some time

with some Giants, the Browns, Washington, and the Saints. Cordero Patterson, Cordero Patterson. Cordero Patterson. One season, but a couple of big plays. Was a wide receiver, returner.

Was a running back at times. Had a huge return, which I just wrote about for Pat's pulpit against the Bears. Lonnie Paxton. Spent some time with the Patriots. Center and lawn snapper. Spent how many years? One, two, three, four, five two three four five six seven eight nine years with new england was a member of their super bowl 36 super bowl 38 and 39 teams as well as their

super bowl 42 team has finished his career with the denver broncos jim plunkett another quarterback quarterback heavy show today plunkett's an interesting story. Drafted first overall by the Patriots in the 1971 draft. Started his career with the Patriots five years, but obviously came to fame

with his time out west. Spent some time with the Niners, then the Raiders. Won a Super Bowl with the Raiders. But while he was with New England, he led the league in interceptions in 1974-22. And yardage lost on sacks in 1972-38. I mean, excuse me, 385. Some current Patriots. Mike Pennell, recent signee from the Jets. Damon Patterson, wide receiver.

David Perry, defensive tackle. So those are some current Patriots. Also here we got to mention Bill Parcells. We'll talk about him a little bit more later, but Parcells led the Patriots to a Super Bowl appearance. And when you think about Bill Parcells, he just had a 500 winning percentage during his time with the New England Patriots. Obviously most known for his time with the Giants. And of course he went to the Jets after that at the falling out after that Super Bowl appearance but Bill Parcells also a part. Wow my voice cracked there. I'm going through some changes kids but Bill Parcells part of Patriots history. Up next we're going to talk about some

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cheaper, faster choice and we thank them for sponsoring the podcast. Mark Schofield back here now on this part eight installment of Patriots A to Z here at Locked on Patriots. We've talked about some of the people, some of the coaches and players that have made this franchise what it is with the letters O and P. Some O's, some P's, so that's pretty cool. But we got a ton of plays to get to. And frankly, I don't know if we're going to get to them all because going through the Patriots playbook,

there are a ton of just single receiver routes, two-man routes, three-man combinations. I don't know if we're going to have time to cover them all, but let's try to get through them as best as we can. Again, I know a good chunk of you really like this part of the show, so we're going

to keep it in because I like to give the people what they want. We're going to start here with option. Shocker. Option is a big part of the Patriots playbook. So many of their route concepts at least have one option route in them. And the basic way this is designed from an inside receiver standpoint is stem to six yards at top of your stem, break in or out off of coverage technique. Sit down versus zone. So this is basically, as it's named, an option round. You have a choice. You have an option as the receiver. If they're playing you to the inside, break out.

If they're playing you to the outside, break in. If you've got zone coverage, just sit down and find space. Coaching points on this one, and they're important. Have patience on your release. Get no wider than inside edge of the numbers if you're breaking out versus rolled coverage. Why? You want to be wary of trap coverage. Trap coverage, if you can think about it, picture in your mind, you know, cover two, two deep safeties, cornerbacks sort of sit in the outside flat.

There's also two trap, palms it's sometimes called, where that cornerback traps or breaks on the inside receiver route. Why? Well, one of the main sort of route concepts that's designed to beat cover two is go flat, which is called a number of different things. And there's a name for it that the Patriots call it, and it escapes me right now. But you have the outside receiver running a go, inside receiver, slot receiver running a flat. Why? Typically in cover two, that corner will stay with the vertical route because one of the weak spots in cover two is behind the corner to the outside of the safety a go route is going to attack that so you teach the corners to sync with that vertical that opens up the flat for that slot receiver's flat route and so if you

throw that a bunch of times you're beating the defense defensive coordinator is going to call to trap or palm or whatever they call it in their playbook, where that corner starts to get vertical with that vertical release, but then traps or comes off of it to jump the out route from the slot receiver. It's an easy way to throw a pick six if you're not paying attention as a quarterback. And so the Patriots teach this option route receiver. Don't get that wide because you're going to worry about that trap. So that is option part of the Patriots playbook. There is also going through the playbook here, punk, which is a locked juke route. We talked about juke, right? Break to the inside and then you either stay across, sit down, break back to the outside. Hoss wide juke. We mentioned it a ton. This is a locked juke route, which means you start inside to four yards,

you stop, make it look like you're going to break to the outside, and then continue across the formation. Coaching point on this, show your eyes to the quarterback and then continue across the field. Versus Tampa coverage, you're going to sit down. Tampa coverage is a cover two look where that linebacker will drop to help the safeties between the safeties in the middle of the field. You want to sit down in that spot that that linebacker vacates. So that is punk, a locked juke route in the Patriots playbook. There is ping, which is a middle of field or middle of field open or middle field closed adjustment. It's a post route if the middle of the field is open. It's a inside stain route if it is closed. What is an inside stain route?

Oh, in case you didn't hear it the last time we talked about this, get vertically, then break like you're running the slant, then vertical again, break like you're running the deep post, but then you sit down in the middle of the field. This is a middle of the field closed read. What are you trying to do? You're attacking that safety and pulling up in front of him. You want to attack that post middle of the field safety. Why? Well, you're going to occupy him and you're going to get in front of him. So it might be an easy completion as you work back towards the football if there's nobody in the throwing lane and you're in front of that deep safety.

But you pair this with a route that's going to go over that safety's head and you're high low in that safety. So it's a nice way to sort of get that safety stuck in the you know in a no man's land situation where you high low him give him something in front of him and then of course something over the top and so that's another great route in the Patriots playbook. The Patriots have a bunch of out route concepts as you might expect there's you know ole out which is where you push upfield to six yards, roll off your inside foot and speed cut towards the sideline. You're getting from about six to eight yards. There's also out, which is an out route nine to 12, but you can convert this versus press coverage or roll

coverage. You're going to convert that to a fade. So that's O-layout, which is the speed one, shorter distance, and then out itself, which is a 9 to 12 yard out route, both part of the Patriots playbook. Pivot. Pivot is an outside receiver route where you're going to get your pre-snap read and run the route based on what you see. Versus off coverage, you are going to run a 14 yard curl turn to the inside. Versus a rolled coverage, you're going to run a stem bow route. In case you've forgotten what the bow route is, you get vertical, then you sort of arc your turn to the outside on an out route,

which you get to 14, and then you're going to get to about 16. Now, if you get press coverage, you're running a wiggle, which is inside release, vertical, couple steps to the inside after 14 yards and then break on a corner route so that's pivot a lot of options there on that route in the Patriots playbook then there's a route that people call me sometimes the prick route just kidding this is another sort of convertible route run off of the stock route which is a route we'll get to vertically break to the outside like you run in

a corner at 16, then a couple of steps inside like it's a corner post, and then you stem back down, sell the post, pull up on a curl, a deep curl at about 16. Now, you can convert this to an out route. If you get covered versus a cover five press, you're going to run what they call this sort of deep return where you start to come back towards the line of scrimmage and then break to the out. Coaching point.

Defensive back must believe you are running the stock until 16 yards. So again, you've got to really sell him on this. As you might expect, we're talking O&P. There's post, which is a 12-yard vertical stem. Plant off your outside foot. Stick and cross the defender's face. Aim in for the near upright.

There's also post corner. Vertical stem to 12. Plant off the outside foot. Get to the near hash mark. I'll show you coming inside. Then plant off your inside foot. Aim for the back pylon. Be prepared, coaching point on this one, for the QB to flatten you out,

meaning he's not going to lead you for the back pylon. He's going to lead you now, say, to the front pylon, giving you a landmark. He's going to sort of throw it short to get you to break off of that and flatten the route a bit. That's dependent on leverage, and that's a quarterback read that you're going to have to adjust to post-throw, but that is post-corner.

Pistol. A play-action route run only off max protection or a flea flicker. Inside release with finesse. This is not just a full speed sprint off the line of scrimmage. You're going to slow play it, make it look like it's a run. Versus rolled coverage, you're going to attack the leverage and run a stalk or a flag to the outside. Versus cover four, so quarters coverage.

You're going to attack the safety and break off his leverage or split the corner in the safety and go. Versus a post safety, so middle of the field closed attack the post safety to the hash and run the v meaning if he stays inside or across his face and go to the back pylon across the field if he jumps outside so if the safety sort of overplays it then you're going to say across the formation so that is excuse me pistol a number of other routes here that we could get to off the o and p here in the patriots playbook let's talk now about some of the two receiver concepts first one we're going to talk about is poker this is part of their sort of under or cross series. You have the inside receivers running the cross route or the under route from the inside

outside post route. So it's a post cross that is poker. Next one we're going to talk about here, Aussie. This is part of their option route series. Inside receiver runs an option at 10 yards. Outside receiver runs what they call retrace. So you get to 16 and you either work straight back down or on a comeback. So it's either straight back down your path or comeback route where you're bending it diagonally as you work back towards, say, a depth of 12 yards. Roll to press coverage, you're going to run that fade route, which we see so often in the Patriots playbook. They have you convert that if you're going to run that fade route which we see so often the Patriots playbook they have you convert that if you're a receiver so that play that concept that is Aussie in the Patriots playbook we also have in the Patriots playbook ole as you might expect it as the ole out on the outside which we just talked about and a flag route or a corner route on the inside that's ole

and the Patriots playbook patriots also have a another part of their post series which is par seven step post on the outside inside runs a read route which we'll talk about a little bit later but it's a get to six off a slow release break to the outside or sit down dependent on coverage then there's also punt which is a post on the outside and a shallow under on the inside those are two plays in the Patriots two-man concept part of their playbook similarly they have a prick series we just talked about prick there's pair which is that prick route on the outside and a read route on the inside but in this route combination pair you have to break outside no matter what it's a

locked read for the receiver on the inside there's's prune, which has that prick route on the outside, and then an under, where you go two to three diagonally up a couple steps, and then five down the line of scrimmage. There's also pearl. Again, prick on the outside, and then you have a convertible post on the inside where you either stay vertical, or if you have middle of the field open, you're going to cross that opposite safety's face, or you can even run an in-cut. If there's if you have middle of the field open, you're going to cross that opposite safety's face, or you can even run an in-cut. If there's a post-safety middle of the field closed, you are running that in-cut. So that route concept is Pearl in the Patriots playbook. There are a couple more that I want to get to, and since we're running long on time here, let's get to the three-man

concepts. A couple of those to get through through first one we're going to start with is something called the punk as part of the patriots playbook and this is a three receiver concept where outside receiver runs that punk route which we just broke down which is a locked juke you show the juke but then stay across middle receiver runs the viper either a post or a flag route depending on where the safety is and then the outside the inside receiver runs that diagonal a three yard flat route right to the flat there's also putt prick route on the outside and then sort of a levels concept where the inside trips receiver runs a three yard in with a staggered release and the that's the middle receiver and the inside receiver runs a 12 yard in that is putt in the patriots playbook they also have a couple of the special plays that

we've been talking about those three level reads that are named after basketball teams or cities there's pacer which has an indigo between the z and the x with an under by y remember indigo outside receiver runs a dig inside receiver runs that middle seam where it's either you stay vertical if the middle of the field is closed or if the middle field is open to run a post. So you're going to get that from X and Z and then Y is going to run that under two to three yards on a slant, up a step or two, then five yards across the formation. And so you might have G spread right, 66 F bow pacer sink. What does that mean? You're going to have X and Z on a slot to the left.

G spread quarterback is in the gun. That's G spread right, meaning you're going to have tight end and the F receiver on the right, X outside, Z receiver in the slot on the left. X and Z, they run the indigo with X on the dig, Z the inside receiver on that inside seam. Why the tight end? From his win alignment on the right, runs the under route. So that gives you the three level stretch to this play. Z on that vertical stretch, the inside seam, that's the deep route. Intermediate route is that dig and then under from Y, the tight end, that's your high, middle, and shallow route concept. F bow, that tells the F receiver you're running that bow route, which is either that deep sort of circular out or a comeback if against press coverage.

And then sink, that tells the running back H here you're running that sink route. Check protection, inside release, break to the right. So that's pacer. There's also pit, which is also sort of a city route with sort of a stretch, three-level stretch. And on pacer, what you're going to get is the tight end is going to run a 12-yard in-cut from the right in this example. And F, slot receiver to the left, is going to run that under route. So that's a two-level stretch between those receivers. And then outside, you're going to run convertible comeback routes so that's pit and then finally ohio is a quick game concept

which is basically it's got a hoss wide juke element to it right you're in dual it's two by two two receivers to each side outside receiver to the left runs a six-yard hitch, but he can go versus press a rolled coverage. Inside receiver to the left runs this option route. Inside receiver to the right, option route. Outside receiver to the right runs that six-yard hitch, and then he can go or fade convert that versus press a rolled coverage. Running back flares to the left.

So it's a mirrored route concept, just like Haas wide juke, where you have the hitch and the seam to both sides of the formation. Here, it's a hitch on the outside and an option on the inside to both sides. Those outside receivers on those hitches can convert those based on coverage.

So that's Ohio. Again, I'm throwing a lot of super nerdy stuff at you, but I love this stuff. It's fun to talk about. And these are all things that, yes, the playbook I'm working from, it's like almost a decade old, but they're still part of New England playbook. So these are things you're going to see on Sundays this fall. Up next, some of the moments, some of the memories from the Patriots history as we conclude

part eight of Patriots A to Z here at Locked On Patriots. Mark Schofield back with you. Now I'm going to close out this, what's been a long episode of Locked On Patriots here, part eight of Patriots A to Z with some of the moments. And let's talk about Phoenix, right? The city of Phoenix has been somewhat kind to the patriots for example you have super bowl 49 patriots 28 seahawks 24 that's obviously the malcolm butler game unfortunately we also have super bowl 42 also played at university of phoenix stadiumants 17, Patriots 14.

That ended the 19-0 dream. But, you know, they won a Super Bowl at University of Phoenix Stadium in rather dramatic fashion. So we had to mention that here at the outset. There's also, when you think of the letter P in the Patriots, Peyton Manning and some huge rivalries. I know we mentioned Manning earlier when we talked about the Indianapolis Colts, but Brady, Peyton, they've had a long history between the two.

And I'm sure you saw recently the picture of Brady and Manning together when he talked about they've been friends the entire time. So, look, there's obviously always going to be a connection between those two. In my dream, I know it will never happen, but when Manning goes into the Hall of Fame, I want Brady to introduce him, and when Brady goes in, I want Peyton to introduce him. Maybe it won't happen, but I would love to see something like that.

There's also, look, Bill Parcells. Obviously, Parcells has been a big part of this Patriots franchise. He guided them to his Super Bowl appearance. But at the same time, he also left in somewhat difficult fashion. But he was a coach of this team for 64 games, won 32, lost 32. But he did guide them to his Super Bowl. So Bill Parcells, although he left on somewhat difficult terms, still a part of this franchise in history. There is also what they call the punch. And some of you younger Patriots fans might not remember this moment, but this was during their run to Super Bowl XX when

they won three games on the road. And this was their divisional game at the Raiders. They were the Los Angeles Raiders. And the Patriots won this game, even though Marcus Allen kind of ran wild in this game. But at the same time, they had a fumble recovery in the end zone that sealed the win. And during the postgame handshake, Patriots GM Pat Sullivan got involved with a bit of an incident with Raiders linebacker Matt Millen, who, like, decked him.

Just punched him in the face in a moment sort of known now as the punch. Now, we also have the letter O, and we've been talking about cities, but we're going to save the Raiders for tomorrow when we do R, because look, they've been in Los Angeles, they've been in Oakland, so I didn't want to get into that too much. But we're going to talk about the Raiders because there's obviously a lot of history between those teams.

So those are some of the moments with the letters O and P to break down. I might have missed something. Maybe, okay, let's do one more. And maybe this is a little bit out of order. But Otis Smith, scoop and score in the AFC Championship game against Jacksonville in 1997. That enabled them to get to the Super Bowl against the Packers. The Patriots won 20-6. Otis Smith with a little scoop and score.

There's one more moment for you. But that will do it for today. I will be back tomorrow. On tomorrow's show, we've got letters Q and R on deck. Not a lot of Qs. Matter of fact, zero Qs. But we've also got a lot of Rs to talk about. We've got some coaches to talk about.

An absolute plethora. There's a P word for a lot of R's to talk about. We've got some coaches to talk about. An absolute plethora there's a P word for you of route concepts to talk about. Again, not sure we're going to get to all of them. We didn't get to all of the ones we had on deck for O and P today but we're doing our best and we're going to spend a lot of time on the Raiders tomorrow. That's next time on Patriots A to Z

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