welcome to the RSP NFL lens I'm Matt Waldman with the rookie scouting portfolio we're going to take a look at Jacksonville Running Back second year Pro tank bsby out of Auburn last year as you know tank bsby was a hot name got a lot of buzz in training camp got some buzz in the preseason and then was a dud in the regular season now to be fair rookie running backs often times need a year to adjust why is that the case we see a lot of good examples of rookies well because processing speed is important to running backs the closer you are to Center the more you have to process well here he is the closer are to the middle of the field not to the center but to the middle of the field and he's directly behind the center and the quarterback there's a lot of processing going on with running backs and when you have to think about things like trickier more athletic Defenders different types of run scheme Concepts your game can slow down because you're thinking rather than reacting at the speed of instinct which is what you have to develop and he made a lot of mistakes last year so let's see whether tank bsby has improved his game and I would say right off the bat what you're looking at here is a tank Bigsby that we would have seen last year in the good way here's penetration by number 15 working inside the the right part of you know slanting inside the it looks like the the tight end right there and he does a very good job of being able to work inside that tight end he reads it and you can see him taking the plant step opening the hips with the point of the toe to the boundary and he makes this nice cut back and he can outrun the defensive back in the flat assign to take him and then threaten the uh third level of the defense here this safety working across and at least get enough yards to force the safety to make kind of a diving attempt to hit so what I like about this play more than anything is that he's comfortable doing what we saw at College the college level which is identifying cutback opportunities identifying penetration having the quick feet and the mobile hips to be able to take advantage of it and enough burst to be able to earn yardage bigs B has also always been a good Gap Runner you're going to see this here you're going to have a pulling lineman from working from the right side to the left and Bixby does a good job of staying downhill and kind of working a little bit to that inside shoulder before he makes that cut outside could he press a little bit deeper possibly but you can see that there's Pursuit coming down the line here so he doesn't want to take too much time or take too much much space working towards that Defender so that he can at least get through the line so he presses enough gets through easily finishes drops the pads covers up the ball takes the hit to the ball he had fumbles last year not an issue on this particular play and it's a play that he would have otherwise been vulnerable covers it up well finishes strong like I said bigsby's often been good at the cutback he's also been good on Perimeter plays he saw a lot of perimeter plays at Auburn here he has two pullers working towards the left side very patient with the setup here presses that crease until the defender thinks he might be able to just reach out and grab him and he does a good job of transitioning down he'll see how he gets the hips downhill it only takes him two steps to be able to make that trans transition downhill let's take a look at it from this angle here one two and it's barely even two steps it looks like it it's just yep it's just two steps to really work down here it's almost like a jump stop into two steps gets the hips turns that gets him downhill fast and allows him to use his pads to his Advantage so the transition is nice the patience to press deep into that lead block within basically the reach of the pursuing Defender and then make that transition get the hips down hill and finish strong again taking a hit to the ball and maintains possession good job with the ball security keeping it high and tight if it wasn't tight the ball probably squs out the back of his elbow on a hit like that well done now this is a key play here this is a one-yard loss by bsby and you're going to see that there's two poers working towards the left and he decides to cut back and he cuts back into trouble this this was a consistent problem for him at Auburn is that he would look for cutbacks rather than follow the design of the play and take what's in front of him this is a second and two now you're Midfield so you can afford to take some chances at Midfield as a game manager but on second and two you probably don't want to take those chances because you don't want to lose yardage you want to keep a third and two at minimum now he loses a yard it's only third and three so it's not awful but philosophically or in theory of management here what you'd want to see him do is to stick to the play design especially with the way that this is set up I know the bulk of the defense is aligned to the left of center but you're bringing two more blockers here and if you stay downhill right here if you look at the leverage everyone's on the left side is moving towards the towards his right right side and if he continued through here you can see that there's a puller heading for a crease to hit number 20 at worst it's a no gain play but most likely he's going to get a one-on-one with number 21 and when you have a number when you have a one-on-one with a safety or a cornerback that's a good thing CU you can see if you ignore what happens on this side of the field and see how it developed here The Leverage is all contained in side here and then you have 20 getting blocked down pretty well this is a crease that bsby could have hit and possibly 21 gets hit on the crack here and moved inside and bsby has a nice crease with a one-on-one on the defensive back you can see his hand here and then the Deep safety so at least even if you get tackled at the line of scrimmage better than losing a yard where it's basically a three on three scenario I and really this man isn't even blocking right here he's missing that opportunity to block so it's really and the blocks missed here so it's really a three-on-one and he's toast it's better to stick with the play design on Gap plays most of the time and he ignores that and misses the opportunity for this slower developing blocking to stay in tight traffic where the the blocks are good and make the most of this so that said what I'm seeing of tank bsby thus far is that he's a better version of what he was at Auburn meaning that he's um he's playing his style of football he still has some of the same weaknesses he had at Auburn but he's not making mistakes that he didn't make at Auburn because he's still acclimating to the game in Jacksonville that's what happens in the NFL sometimes is when you're acclimating some of the things that you thought you had down as strengths of your game begin to fall apart when you're overthinking but he's got good footwork you can see opens the hips avoids number 20 here and gets a two-yard gain after getting met in the hole by that by number 20 he can avoid him spins off a couple of um points of contact bounces off a hit you know he's a rugged runner in many respects I wouldn't call him unbelievably powerful or um amazingly persistent through contact but he consistently bounces off you know glancing shots he runs hard he can find cutbacks he's Nifty those are things he showed at Auburn they're showing up now in Jacksonville with fewer mistakes again another play that shows you who he is you get you know looks like a 13 Personnel set and he gets through the line and gets run down by a cornerback doesn't have blinding speed but again he has enough burst that he can get downhill and he can make the cut read The Leverage see 20 shooting the Gap bounce outside through the clean hole it's going to pull through lower leg tackle attempts good job getting the heel back towards his butt to avoid that that wrap up right here kicking the leg up a little bit staying downhill again holding on to the ball well and bigsby's a finisher look at the pads between the tackles here he makes that nice little one cut finds the the crease to the right see the pads go down as he feels contact stays low right here through the collision with the second level Defender and that gets him another three four yards after the contact again we're not talking about Earl Campbell here but he is a good downhill Thumper pulls through little reaches and and glancing shots and can push you know you know he can push a guy like number 11 backwards for about four yards moving forward what would we' like to see tanks bsby tank bsby get better at I think being more more decisive between the tackles where when you make a cut commit to it set first and 10 inside the 25 really here on this play he decides to bounce his play outside and he reads 20 you know maybe working towards the outside and decides he's going to try and cut it back in because he sees 20 start to stumble and then he gets wrapped up by the lineman just take that first cut and commit to it drop the pads and run hard this was a little too much dancing on this particular play we'll see it right over here he just hesitates enough anticipating number 11 coming off that block take on number 11 get the pads the hips downhill this is a good example of of doing it right you're going to see him here make the the alteration of stride to set up the blocks and read the The Leverage of Defenders on blockers and he's going to make that one cut right here work across the back of his nearest blocker so he's pressing it well and gets downhill pulls through a reach and then drops his pads and splits two Defenders to get another yard or two just run tough be a tank you know you may not be a huge tank but you're good enough to qualify for that name when you get those hips 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