Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen is sustaining among the best offenses within the NFL working with non-household names like operating again Rachaad White and Bucky Irving and tight finish Cade Otton. Regardless of being with out star extensive receivers Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, Coen’s makeshift offense has nonetheless put up 24 factors per recreation in every of the final two weeks towards Atlanta and Kansas Metropolis.
Now, having lined this staff for a number of years, I’m acutely conscious that every one three of these gamers – White, Irving and Otton – are good weapons as part of an arsenal that might characteristic some larger weapons. However no coordinator in his proper thoughts would need these three gamers to be the headliners of the offense.
Bucs OC Liam Coen Creating Alternatives For Shot Performs
Bucs OC Liam Coen and QB Baker Mayfield – Picture by: Cliff Welch/PR
Final week in a BUCS ALL-22 BREAKDOWN, I detailed how offensive coordinator Liam Coen turned tight finish Cade Otton right into a poor man’s model of Chris Godwin on third-and-medium. In doing so he was capable of get the Bucs a chance for a giant explosive shot down the sphere that nearly turned Tampa Bay’s fortunes round towards Atlanta in Week 8.
Now that the league had an prolonged take a look at how Coen was creating alternatives for Otton it could be vital for the younger play-caller to discover a new method to create alternatives for his beginning tight finish to thrive.
Coen went again into the lab final week and located a method to as soon as once more create yards, and finally a big-time landing. In one other BUCS ALL-22 BREAKDOWN on the PewterReportTV YouTube channel I dive into how Coen makes use of a easy movement flat route idea to get Otton alternatives to get the ball shortly with room to attempt to create yards after the catch.
4 of Otton’s first 5 targets got here on this movement flat idea. They yielded beneficial properties of 9, 11, two, and 4 yards for a mean of 6.0 yards per goal. However most significantly it created an inclination.
A bent Kansas Metropolis would attempt to soar afterward within the recreation.
And that’s when Coen, Otton and the Bucs offense had been able to pounce.
A Cade Otton Landing And A 4-Level Lead
Bucs TE Cade Otton Picture by: USA At present
With 11:40 left within the third quarter, the Bucs had been threatening with a first-and-10 on the Kansas Metropolis 11-yard line. From the shotgun, quarterback Baker Mayfield motioned tight finish Cade Otton throughout the formation proper to left to create a 3×1 formation to the left. With the movement, Kansas Metropolis shifted its protection a two-high shell to single excessive with each safeties transferring in the identical path as Otton with the field-side security dropping to the road of scrimmage.
Security Justin Reid tried to shortly drive down on what he thought was the movement flat that Otton was operating. However two points arose that put Reid in an unattainable scenario. First it was the late movement that brought on him to be late to line. Then it was Bucs extensive receiver Ryan Miller successfully choosing Reid along with his route, giving Otton a free launch into his route.
On high of that, Otton didn’t run the identical movement flat route that the Bucs had spammed within the first half. After getting away from Reid on account of Miller’s decide, Otton turned upfield into clear area vacated by the sphere nook sticking on Miller’s in-breaking vertical route. Mayfield then lofted an attractive ball into Otton’s awaiting fingers to provide the Bucs a lead.
Good idea by Coen, motioning Otten right into a wheel route.
Good job by Ryan Miller pacing his path to create a rub legally pic.twitter.com/9StjcKswJz
— Ted Nguyen (@FB_FilmAnalysis) November 6, 2024
What Coen was doing early within the season was spectacular. He had Tampa Bay as among the best passing offenses within the league. Over the previous month, Coen has discovered the Bucs run recreation, remodeling it right into a High 10 unit.
Now, two video games into lacking Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, he nonetheless has the Bucs averaging 24 factors per recreation with a rag-tag group of receivers and Otton main the best way. Otton would end the sport with a team-high eight catches for 77 yards and a landing and pushed his receiving whole over the past three games to 25 catches for 258 yards and three touchdowns.
It has really been spectacular to look at.
You’ll be able to try the video of the BUCS ALL-22 BREAKDOWN beneath or by following this link to the PewterReportTV YouTube channel.
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