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Ram1380
From those stills, it looks apparent to me unless he/they were transported into an old "asteroids video game"...the safety was already on and "cheating" to Watkins side of the field, he COULDN'T have gone over to "help/double" on Kupp even had he wanted to...

the CB would drop Watkins and take Kupp and safety would be on Watkins, and that is what happened here anyway, the CB reads the throw and peals back on Kupp. That didn't happen because Watkins drew the double team which is what Benoit said was NOT happening and that "Kupp was drawing the extra attention" and the extra attention in this case would never be the S but the Cov-3 corner. So it was never a question of if the safety would take either Kupp or Watkins it was whether if Watkins or Kupp would get the "extra attention" and contrary to Benoit, Kupp didn't draw the extra attention because they were more concerned with Watkins.

Here is what it might look like had they had the corner give extra attention to Kupp...leaving Watkins 1-on-1 on Watkins


The point was Benoit isn't correct in his narrative. And no one, not me anyway, ever suggested that Cooks wouldn't draw doubles, I think Cooks is a fine player. My objection is that Watkins is somehow inferior to Cooks. It's a wash.

In terms of slants all I can say is watch Watkins and how he uses his muscle and body to shield the defender. His bigger body makes him adept at doing it, Cooks he's not built for that



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/10/2018 04:31PM by Blue and Gold.