Patrick Mahomes Film Study with Ed Reed | Blueprint, Ep. 2

Pro Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed shows off his elite ball knowledge while studying 3x Super Bowl champion Patrick Mahomes. Using @Microsoft.Copilot technology, the 8x All-Pro safety breaks down Mahomes’ pre-snap reads, defensive mistakes, and the schemes he’d use to slow down the Kansas City Chiefs’ offense.

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Patrick Mahomes is a special quarterback and if you’re not on the same page on defense, Pat Mahomes definitely going to expose you. This is the blueprint presented by Microsoft Co-Pilot, an official AI sponsor of the NFL. I’m going to break down what makes stars like Patrick Mahomes special and some of the things I think can possibly stop it. We’re going to go to my co-pilot here on the surface. I’m going to be using co-pilot power technology like the pros use every week. Let me show you how we get in there. It’s easy. It’s just like situational football. It’s already open for me here. And we got touchdowns, scoring type, and we hit the quarter. We want to go into the fourth quarter. I love this breakdown. It simplifies it for me. So, right now, you have a two shell. A two shell is two safeties back here right now. Right. If I was a safety, I would want these two guys to actually be on the same level. But since they’re not the preach that reef for Pat Mahomes is he is lower than that guy. So the possibility is what him dropping down him going deep as you see in the next image here. Now you see the middle read safety back here. So he already knows what he he got the flat open you know he got a hole here. Pat has many options. I know he knew that this safety was dropping down. Like I saw it preaching that read and I know if I saw it, Pat saw it. You can’t let a quarterback like Pat Mahomes know that. I wouldn’t want him to read. I would want him to read me on the run. I would want to drop down on a snap of the ball. All right. Now, let’s take a look into the mind of film. Get off the images. And now press play. You see his eyes are looking here. Everybody’s playing off of the quarterback right now. Pat Mahomes is looking here for a reason and he throws the ball here. The look off got your linebackers to move. That’s crazy. I would not rush this straight like they rushing it straight. If I’m going to look like pressure and not apply pressure, I would want somebody to be crossing running some type of game. Him mug up then drop out. Press this guy. Get your hands on him to slow him down. Slow him down at the press. throw off the timing, allow the rush to get there, and that’ll that’ll help you out. You know, force Pat to get off his mark, to get out of the pocket as he goes, but you don’t force him to do nothing. So, that’ll be applying pressure some type of way and throwing that timing off with your DBs by putting your hands on those receivers. So, let’s take a look at this next video clip here. You see some stuff on defense that I’m going to talk about allude to guys slipping and falling and then you see a shuffle pass. The shuffle pass is like a delicacy play. You don’t see it a whole lot. Pat special like he’s that type of quarterback you’ll do these things with. I also think that this was a scheme play because it’s a delicacy. Like I said, not everybody runs it. They took advantage of something they saw I believe a week or so before. Let’s just talk motion. Motion is put in to distract you. Motion is put in to throw you off, make you think. But from an offensive side, motion is put in so we can see if you’re in zone or man. They motion and they see that they’re in man. As you see on this back side of this clip, that’s communication problems. They can’t get lined up. And also, we’re going to do a lot of misdirection. He’s going to roll to the right. The running back is going to go into the flats. The guy who came in motion is going to go the opposite way but counter back. You got to watch all this. These guys, his his head is over here. Look at his eyes. He’s talking to this guy. He’s saying he got that guy. Nobody is saying they got this guy. He’s looking like he got him. And what makes pass special? Like who’s throwing an underhanded pass? What quarterback is doing this stuff? I know you’re saying it’s just a little pass, but the timing, his patience, I mean, he has to be patient enough to hold this ball because the guy actually wasn’t there. You could see the slight delay in Pat. If I was defending against this, all you could do is tell your guys to be patient. Do your job. Keep your eyes on your man. So, let’s go to another clip of Pat. But now, let’s see what the safeties are doing. Preach snap read for him. You got your motion from KC as they like to do. You see the safeties communicating. They’re on the same level as we talked about and they motion again because you’re only going to run so many coverages. They only in cover two or four with two safeties deep or you disguise it and you run you a cover one because they motion across the 2 by two. They change the coverage. The safety definitely makes a check. We call this a dual call. So when he first motion across, you’re going to see this safety make a check. But when he goes back, they going back to the original call. See, he makes the the other safety makes the the check now. So, they went back to three, which is a pre-nap read again. They already read this. They already know that they about to go to cover three. This is a set play. This guy’s going to run a a hitch and go. This is alert. He don’t even really want this. This is just an alert. If this play is here, he’s going to throw it. If not, he’s working this side. in the crosser. Pat know he got what he’s want. And you can see already he’s already ready to throw it. Man, I’m about to show y’all something that’s so bad. His responsibility is deep third. Deeper than the deepest. He should get enough depth running. He’s not even moving. Get enough depth to be right where the line is at the whole time just about. Now Pat would have to look down to this guy or this guy. This guy’s off too. He needs to be here. shoving because it’s cover three. That would allow him to go that way. But with them not communicating well, not playing this right, these guys scheming this. Oh, it’s like h terrible. These guys have to be on the same page. My preparation would be getting my teammates ready, being in their rush lanes, get an interception, pressing the pocket, keeping him in the pocket, not letting him run. cuz once he get outside the pocket and run, you’re not sure if he crossed the line of scrimmages and stuff like that. I played against guys like Michael Vic. I’m not about to sit up here and tell you it wouldn’t be tough for myself and my team to prepare for a guy like Pat Mahomes because it was tough preparing for a guy like Michael Vic. Pat is a special guy, you know, and good luck stopping him, but you have to communicate. You got to be on the same page playing against a guy like Pat with that. That’s my blueprint on stopping Pat Mahomes. [Music]