With the Dolphins loading up the box with eight defenders, the play is meant to give Harry a full head of steam in a 3-on-3 situation outside the left hashmarks. The play is an RPO, as Newton fakes a handoff to Rex Burkhead initially, before pulling and hitting Harry, who is five yards behind the line of scrimmage when he catches the ball. The above play is a designed screen play for Harry, who runs an orbit motion to the left side of the formation.
Orbit MotionĪ variation of jet motion, where a player on one side of the formation runs to the other side, except here, he takes a wider path - one that places them behind the deepest player in the formation, usually the quarterback or running back. This takes his defender away from the flow of the play, and effectively serves as a pick on Edelman’s man, who is trying to cut through the traffic to stay with Edelman. N’Keal Harry, at the top of the picture, runs a dummy “slant” route. Because of Edelman’s pre-snap motion, he has a step on his defender who is running across the formation to try and stick with him in man coverage. Here, Julian Edelman takes the handoff on a jet sweep, and shows how effective this play design can be when properly blocked. Jet motion can also be more than just a distraction. That slight hesitation allows Isaiah Wynn to get to the second-level and open up a hole for Michel to get through, en route to a five-yard gain. At the snap, the Miami linebackers are moving laterally along the line of scrimmage, in case Harry gets the handoff instead of Sony Michel. New England used a steady dose of jet motion during Sunday’s game, like here with N’Keal Harry on a classic single back power run scheme that is a Patriots staple:īringing Harry across the formation tells the offense that the Dolphins are in man coverage, and also causes some pause for Miami’s second-level defenders. Jet motion is a form of pre-snap motion that is used to identify coverages and cause confusion for the defense by using misdirection to distract the eyes of the defenders. Here is a look at how the team used pre-snap motion in Week 1 against the Miami Dolphins to put Newton and his teammates in position to secure the win. With the New England offense taking on a new identity this year with Cam Newton as the starting quarterback, how the team uses pre-snap motion to create opportunities will be a fascinating chess match to watch unfold on a weekly basis between the Patriots and their opponents. The only team that used more motion than New England was the Los Angeles Rams, who employed it 34% of the time. With Cam Newton at quarterback now for New England, the team relied heavily on pre-snap motion once again, in helping identify coverages and get favorable matchups for the team’s skill players.Īccording to ESPN’s Seth Walder, the Patriots used the second-highest rate of motion at the snap in Week 1, using it on 27% of their offensive snaps. Pre-snap motion has been a staple of the New England offense for the majority of Tom Brady’s time with the Patriots, where the team would often motion running backs to the boundary to identify if the defense was in man or zone coverage. The San Francisco 49ers led the league with pre-snap motion on 66% of their passes, but the Patriots were right behind them, at 65%. Per Warren Sharp’s 2020 Football Review, NFL teams used pre-snap motion on 43% of all plays in the first three quarters of games in 2019. One trend that the New England Patriots were out ahead of most on is the use of pre-snap motion on offense.
As NFL schemes continue to evolve, there are emerging trends that are being increasingly adopted by more teams.
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