Cleveland Browns: Week 3 Film Room session
If you haven’t heard of Briean Boddy-Calhoun before Sunday, you sure have now following his momentum-swinging pick-six in the second quarter. On the play, the Browns defense does a good job of disguising their coverage and confusing Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill.
The defense has no down lineman on the play and makes the Dolphins offense guess who is rushing and who is dropping into coverage. Another thing it does is it doesn’t allow Tannehill to change the pass protection for his offensive line. With his defensive look, the Dolphins linemen are just taking a guess on who is blitzing and dropping in coverage. This allows for the Browns to generate a rush from the edge.
Briean Boddy-Calhoun's pick six CLE D does good job confusing Tannehill, no down lineman defenders, solid rush forces bad throw, tipped pass pic.twitter.com/zDmANY0NV0
— Eric Szczepinski (@eszczepinski2) September 27, 2016
On the snap, the defense gets a good rush from the left end spot in rookie Tyrone Holmes. Holmes is an undrafted player the Browns added via waivers prior to Week 1. Holmes hits Tannehill as he throws, forcing the ball to sputter out of his hand. Boddy-Calhoun is in perfect position to catch the tipped pass and shows off his athletic ability by returning it for a touchdown.