Breaking Down How Minnesota Vikings Can Limit New York Giants Offense in Week 16 | Film Room

Welcome back to another edition of Vikings Film Room brought to you by the Vikings Entertainment Network right here in beautiful TCO Studios. Now, the Minnesota Vikings look to make it three in a row. But to do so, they’re going to have to take on the New York Giants and a couple of pretty good rookies. Why don’t we dig into the film and take a progress report on Jackson Dart and Abdul Carter because they’re pretty good football players. All right, the first young giant we’re going to talk about is Abdul Carter. First round draft pick out of Penn State. We know he’s a great football player. Two and a half sacks this season, but two in the last two games. This is one of them right here. And you’re going to see him just with the speed on the edge. We knew he was all about speed right there. He comes in with the chop, misses on the chop, but rips, and then watch him get around that corner, gets the football out. That’s the awareness that this kid has. Blitzing off the edge. Now, when you have an athlete like Abdul Carter, what you’re going to want to do is get creative with him. And you see the Giants have started to move him around, put him in different spots because of this athleticism. Now, just as this ball’s being snapped, you’re getting a basic fiveman front. This really isn’t reinventing the wheel here. You have outside defensive end, three technique here. This guy will be a three technique here. All they’re doing is taking their athlete and putting him at the nose tackle position. Why? Because he’s this good. It’s a change up. Watch when this ball is snapped in this matchup on the center. Whoop! little okeyoke gets in the back field. He’s so good they can really put him anywhere. It’s not just speed off the edge or him moving in at nose tackle. He can also play the outside linebacker position very well. And right here we’re going to show a great pass rush stunt. This we’ve seen this many times here on film room. It’s just the T& stunt. The t [music] this interior tackle is going to be up the field and then Carter is just going to loop underneath. They want to put pressure on this guy right here, the offensive guard. Make him have to block two people. He comes up underneath. He’s free. Gets to the football to cause the fumble. This is a huge play for the New York Giant defense. And it’s all because of the young Abdul Carter and his ability to run defensive line stunts as well. The next key rookie for these New York Giants is Jackson Dart. And with any young quarterback, you got to kind of spoon feed them. You give them concepts. So, what concepts does Jackson Dart do well? Well, let’s take a look. First of all, it’s the RPO. All right, RPO is the run pass option. What exactly does that mean? Well, we’ll show you right here. And he’s doing it with Juan Delale Robinson at the mesh point. He’s just staring at that underneath linebacker. If that linebacker goes underneath to defend the run, he’s going to throw it. If the linebacker buzzes to the flat on the receiver, then he hands it off. It’s a very simple concept, and he executes it very well. This time the linebacker decides to go underneath, pulls that thing out. Great blocking on the outside. Easy 15, 16 yd play for the young QB. Another route that Dart can throw real well is is a simple slant, right? But there’s a lot that needs to be set up and there is some reading to do. Now watch Theo Johnson before this ball is snapped. They’re going to put him in motion and as he does, you’ll see it looked like a two high kind of a look. maybe cover two, maybe quarters, but that safety starts to insert himself into the box. Jackson Dart can see this. So, he knows what he’s going to get as the running back works his way to the outside. That’s going to pull the underneath coverage out. And what does that open up? Well, it opens up that route right there. And especially with this linebacker who’s completely on the wrong side of the field, there is a throwing lane. Dart’s already getting rid of the football. He has the arm strength and accuracy to hit Sllayton in stride and get those essential yards after catch. So, the kid is starting to learn coverages as well. Another thing I’ve noticed with Dart, he has some great accuracy and touch on the deep ball. Watch this play right here. Notice his tight end up in the slot. As he gets to the top of his drop, you’re getting the dig and then the go route. But watch this football delivered perfectly right where the tight end can catch it over the head of the nickel defender. He’s got some touch on that deep ball. Another concept I know Brian Flores and defense is getting ready for is what we called back in the day kind of the drive and the dig. What exactly is that? Well, you’ll see slot receivers on the bottom. You have a tight end, a wide receiver for some extra protection because this is a longer deeper throw. But the route, that’s what tells you what’s going on. the slot receiver is going to run a go right up the middle of the field to try to pull out that middle safety to open up a dig by the outside receiver. So, as that clearing route gets to the middle of the field, it starts to eat up this free safety here. You can see he has his shoulders turned, but look at this area right here that’s opening up. That’s the window that Dart is looking for. Very simple read. All he has to do is read that nickel defender. Look at this throw. Boom. right on time. Sllayton had maybe stopped for it a little bit, but that drive and dig concept is something that Dart executes very well. With young quarterbacks, it’s the inconsistency that’ll get you. What do I mean? This is the exact same kind of concept. That’s what coaches want to do. They want to keep the reads as similar as they can for the quarterback. So, the receivers on the bottom are stacked, but it’s going to be the same idea. You’ve got a clearing route down the middle of the field with a dig coming in right behind it. They’re doing it from a different formation. And you can see it setting up right here. Again, what do we see? This is that part of the field that they want to get open. But the corner here is doing a great job. He understands. He sees that drive in the middle of the field. So, he knows what’s coming. He knows the dig is coming right behind it. Notice how he’s his hips are already turned and he’s getting ready to meet this football at the point. Watch this. Steps up. Boom. Interception. That’s the challenge you have with young quarterbacks is they can do something do a play so well and then little ways down the road that ball’s getting picked off. Another example of dart making things happen. This play is awesome because it’s the exact same play our young quarterback JJ McCarthy ran against the Chicago Bears. Remember that Aaron Jones touchdown in the fourth quarter? Well, here we go. This is the exact same play. What’s going on? Well, you have two receivers on the outside and all they’re doing is they’re pulling all these DB traffic out of and into the middle of the field. Meanwhile, the running back is saying, “Yeah, I’m going to run a flat route, trying to get the linebacker to jump it, but what happens?” Boom. He plants that foot now. You can see it. This is the open part of the field that they want to attack. They got man-to-man running back versus linebacker, a matchup that they should win. But look at Dart. He’s at the 30 yd line. This is a 35 yd throw that he puts up in the air. Look at that touch over the back shoulder of the linebacker. A beautiful example of execution by the young quarterback. You can also see how the Giants are trusting Jackson Dart to read some things, read coverages, know where to go with the football. Let me show you a great example. They’re going to put the tight end in motion. You’ll see the DB go across with him. He knows he has man-to-man. And that’s important because of what progresses right here after the snap. When you have manto man, you’ve got this DB rolled up. Okay, he’s taking the guy on the line of scrimmage. And then there’s this second DB over the top. Both of these two guys need to stay outside of the receivers. Why? Because they have help from a free safety in the middle of the field. But watch how this ends up happening. You get the top receiver going underneath. Why? He’s trying to bait in this corner right here [music] is in trouble. Right. You have two defenders inside of the receiver. What does that do? That opens up a whole big area back here in the corner. Jackson Dart at the top of his drop. He sees that corner is in trouble off the back foot. Just throws a nice fade to the corner of the end zone. Beautiful throw and catch. So, the Giants, they’re having a rough year, but they’re depending on their rookies who are developing. Abdul Carter, you got to know where he is at all times. And then Jackson Dart is starting to learn some of these NFL concepts. He’s getting better every week.

Former Minnesota Vikings player and coach Pete Bercich breaks down film ahead of the Week 16 matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants.

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