Why Isn’t Every Pass Attempt Play-Action?
The Ringer NFL Show
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Shanahan's Play Action Merchant
Shanahan has been known as this play action merchant, but if you read the tea leaves, they're going away from that. And his solution was finding a running back who can create mismatches in the run game. The Dolphins tried to solve the problem by pulling offensive linemen a lot. It didn't work as well as they would have liked, but some of that's on the quality of their offensive line. This is kind of like a new frontier here for this offense and then the next team will be able to do it too.
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