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Let's talk about a few things before we get into the questions from the people, Al, nickel pressure.

That's something that they're going to see.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that he's not ready by the end of this week of practice, he's not comfortable

turning protections. What's a way that they can deal with nickel pressure? Well, there's a

combination of things you can do. You can max the protection up, which again, it's good,

great equipment for your offense is because it's been used effectively.

But like I've told you before, it's a world that you don't want to live in because you don't want to be sending two and three guys out and having seven guys cover them.

That will catch up with you.

But that is a good answer.

RPO's the ability to throw off the pressure, okay, to throw off the pressure.

Hot routes, which again, I like hot routes if they're not overused. All this is have to be used

in moderation, okay, being able to throw to the vacated area. Okay, again, if you're not going to

be able to plug the blitz, you've got to have an answer to a free, a free rusher, okay?

Sprint passes.

Sprint passes.

And even though the pressure is coming from the outside, you can put a tight end of somebody on the ball that can gauge him right out of the ball and give the quarterback a chance to get a look.

There's a lot of, and running the football enough to where you're exploiting their willingness to bring

that nickel and take him out of certain runs. Okay. So there's, there's a lot of answers to it

that go beyond just turning the protection. But if you're into a dropback phase of your offense,

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