1. I love watching Texas Tech's offense. While still staying true to the classic air raid principles, Kliff Kingsbury further emphasizes getting the ball into his playmaker's hands in advantageous situations. Whether it be a one on one in the open field, or getting a receiver behind the defense.
2. Mahomes has rare arm talent. He makes throws that few other QB's in this year's class can make
Historically, Tech QBs were knocked for lack of arm strength. Not the case for Mahomes. This is a WOW throw #airraidchat #airraid pic.twitter.com/vyYHAZAFDY— Bobby Peters (@b_peters12) January 19, 2017
Another great "bucket throw". This time vs a quarters look to the field. Better footwork than previous one pic.twitter.com/VmHHhQcbWh— Bobby Peters (@b_peters12) January 19, 2017
Texas Tech featured a few concepts that work in conjunction with each other. The next video shows one of their base plays out of the trips formation, the stick concept:
Tech calls this play a few times a game, and surely defenses practice it when preparing to play them. This next play is meant to take advantage of a defense keying in on the stick concept. Out of a trips formation, Tech calls the "Levels" concept. They adjust the #3 receiver to run a quick sluggo. The defender on the #3 receiver will trigger on any inside break, allowing the receiver to get outside leverage with the defender leaning forward.Mahomes has a quick release on quick game concepts. His accuracy is also important for YAC plays like this. pic.twitter.com/KZJ1KN9TJg— Bobby Peters (@b_peters12) January 20, 2017
This ends up being a great call against Baylor's Cover zero. The play is diagrammed below, preceding the video clip.
Bad footwork, but Mahomes drops an absolute dime. Good coverage recognition (wide and tight) pic.twitter.com/Wh4UTzK9vL— Bobby Peters (@b_peters12) January 19, 2017
Baylor came into the game with the intention of taking away the outside throws, especially to the boundary. This next video shows Baylor calling cover 2-trap into the boundary on a third and short, with great success.
Great coverage call from Baylor on third and short. Tech loves speed outs into the boundary, so run 2-trap to that side. pic.twitter.com/CmHLlcg1sy— Bobby Peters (@b_peters12) January 21, 2017
Texas Tech takes advantage of Baylor's game plan. Tech attacks the middle of the field, specifically taking advantage of the boundary safety's aggressiveness. The first example shows Tech running "smash split". The diagram shows the "split" route having an option. In this case, the route converts to a post route to split the safeties. The boundary safety is occupied with the smash concept, leaving a giant window for the split route (A detailed breakdown of how Tech teaches this play can be found if you click HERE).
The second example is a "sting" route from the boundary slot receiver. The safety takes the bait, and leaves the middle of the field wide open. The backside combination to the boundary occupies the other safety. With Baylor playing quarters coverage to the boundary, the safety drives on the dig route. This is a neat backside combination that flows nicely into the quarterback's vision if the sting route is taken away. (Kudos to the TV broadcast for the great view of these plays!)"Smash Split" another great call against split safety coverages pic.twitter.com/g3Bh01BwC0— Bobby Peters (@b_peters12) January 21, 2017
Great "sting" route from Texas Tech here. Great call against a split safety coverage pic.twitter.com/5oysKI6Xlg— Bobby Peters (@b_peters12) January 21, 2017
To put a bow on this game, Tech's offense had a good game plan and executed at a high level.
Mahomes will be an interesting project for whoever drafts him. They will need to take the good with the bad, and try and break some of his bad habits with his feet. He would be best served to sit a year or so to acclimate to the NFL.
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