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Amig Robertson brings speed, and he brings grits, but he needs protection against size.
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I am your host, your guy on the ground, David Harrison, and on today's episode, Amig Robertson's
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Size Limitations for Soft Coverage, conceding easy catches on downs while he remains an
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aggressive run supporter who plays big, fights blocks, and forces, turnovers, and overall,
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he's a smart versus a defender who handles complex rotations and stops yak as a gritty
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high IQ corner who fits multiple fronts but lacks size.
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That is our main takeaway for Amig Robertson following my film review.
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This is my film notebook where I share with you the observations that I took away from
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Of course, all access Everydayer Club members.
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You received a film study using actual film here on this program because we don't have
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We cannot reproduce rebroadcast NFL game footage.
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Therefore, this is a notebook, just like a practice notebook, can't show you what happened
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at practice, but I can tell you what happened at practice.
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This is the same thing.
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I can't show you the film, but I can't tell you what we saw in the film and what we saw
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was that Amig Robertson brings processing speed, man coverage skills, and perimeter violence
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that this Dorontay Jones disguise heavy scheme that we anticipate is going to need.
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As long as the scheme protects him from getting bullied by big extra receivers in critical
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So the overall analysis of Amig Robertson is that he is a gritty high IQ boundary defender,
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tailored for multiple front disguised heavy schemes, and he pairs elite processing speed
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with covers, zero isolation skills that you need to be able to survive on an island from
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time to time, allows the front seven to hunt while he brings violent perimeter toughness
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His undersized frame is a distinct structural liability against true extra receivers, but
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he is a highly capable asset when navigating traffic, but requires active schematic protection
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to prevent getting bullied vertically or yielding massive cushions on high leverage downs.
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And if that sounds like I'm reading it out of my notebooks, I am reading it out of my
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notebooks, a little bit of what we wrote down here for Amig Robertson.
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I'm going to do that, but we're also going to break down kind of everything that we looked
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at with Amig starting off with man coverage and his ability to operate without help, whether
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it be in cover zero with no safeties above him or whether that be in other schematic elements
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with say single high safeties and their top coverage and all that stuff.
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And just specifically talking about his man coverage ability is ability to operate on an
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I noticed as, of course, he is an undersized corner that's not going to be news to him
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or to anybody else who has looked into him at all, but he does consistently survive with
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He allows a front seven to pin their ears back, focus on pressure while operating on an
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island. He is patients.
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He's strong in his mirror match technique out of press alignment against guys.
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He feels like he can do or use press alignment against rarely lunges for contact off the
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line of scrimmage uses the boundary exceptionally well as an extra as an extra defender.
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He's highly capable of staying in a receiver's hip pocket through a vertical stem and knows
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how to be physical at the break point without drawing penalties.
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Notably, he was only flagged three times.
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All season long in 2025, despite mismatches against receivers like Devonte Smith and George
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Pickens, Robertson routinely plasters his man contribute to coverage sacks and contest
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throwing windows is aggressive at the catchpoint mentality, just directly disrupts timing and
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generates takeaways such as a tip drill interception on the boundary against the Dallas Cowboys.
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The three games we watched in this Amiga Robertson tape study where his 2025 games against
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the Philadelphia Eagles, the Dallas Cowboys in the New York Giants and you can presume
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why although the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles offensive schemes are going
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to change in 2026, so it's not going to mean apples to apples, but again, we're more
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so looking at the skills that Amiga Robertson brings and how it might translate to what
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we think Dorontate Jones is going to do for his defensive scheme.
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And they think the first thing that stands out from a coverage standpoint is his ability
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to operate on an island and not have to have safety help every single time he's out there.
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Of course, you don't want to leave any corner back out there just out there by himself
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with no help all the time and certainly key situations and certain contextual matters
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will inspire Dorontate Jones to drop some safety helps, some too high shells and some things
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But it's comforting.
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I think as a defense coordinator to know that when you have Amiga Robertson out there
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by himself, he has the ability to hold his own and more importantly, he's not going
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to panic watching him go up against some of the best in the NFL, AJ Brown, Devonte Smith,
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George Pickens, like we already mentioned here in this in this conversation, constantly
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He goes back to the question, I asked him about Justin Jefferson and kind of the praise
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that he gave Amiga following one of their games in recent seasons and Amiga kind of tell
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like he was being nice about it, but he answered the question, but you kind of tell
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he was like, dude, like of course, Justin Jefferson is going to praise me.
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You know what I mean?
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It's not like he's not a, he's not sitting there going, oh, wow, Justin Jefferson praised
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me and how cool is that, although that's not really what I was trying to get out of him
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is more like combative respect that I was trying to get at, but that's okay.
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It just shows that this is a man who plays with confidence.
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I'm just talking, he plays with it as well.
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His mirror match technique is some of the best that I've seen on tape and to be completely
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fair, I don't scout like every single player, don't watch every single player's tape, right?
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But it's really, really impressed me.
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He comes, he comes at it from press alignment, however, he doesn't really get physical
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at the line of scrimmage, he uses that mirror ability, that footwork and all that kind
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of stuff to stay in phase.
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And then at the break point is when he usually gets his most physical, very good use of
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the sideline as an extra fender understands how to use that boundary to his advantage when
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Very physical at the break point, like I said, at the catch point, but doesn't draw a
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lot of penalties, only three flags in 2025, two of them accepted, accepted one of them
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declined, which probably means, you know, they had a better play than they would have
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with the penalty, very aggressive mentality, timing, he sees it, timing disruptor, generates
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Again, like I said, the tip drill pass against the Dallas Cowboys comes to mind on that.
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In fact, there's multiple clips here, the Eagles tape, there was two times in the Eagles
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game that we watched where he was going against the Montaix Smith.
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One time the safety loses coverage, but Robertson is able to stay in phase and actually adjust
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to make sure that he has over the top coverage where the safety was supposed to be, but
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ends up coming up shorts.
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The Giants tape, there were a couple of clips, there was a fourth and five sack, the deep
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boundary, our Robertson's responsibility was the deep boundary, and he completely locks
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down his assignment, off the line of scrimmage in cover zero and buys the extra half second
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and timing that A and Hutchinson needs to get the sack.
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And then finally in the Cowboys tape, there was a clip by the George Pickens interception,
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we talked about again, Robertson plays through Pickens hands, breaks up the past, tips
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it, ends up in a tip drill interception, so he doesn't get the interception, because
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of his aggression at the catch point, ends up deflecting the ball for one of his teammates
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Now looking at his processing and his scheme flexibility, so again, we're looking at
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a multiple scheme here with Dorontate Jones coming from the school of obviously Brian
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Flores, but also Luana Rumo, Mike Zimmer, there's me a lot of disguise, we anticipate, there's
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me a lot of movement, there's going to be a lot of aggression from the front.
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So how did he look from a processing and scheme flexibility standpoint?
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Here is what I wrote down in my notebook post-nap rotation and passing off routes are non-negotiable
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And Robertson operates with a high football IQ required to execute them.
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He effortlessly identifies route concepts from both boundary and slot assignments, opposing
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offenses, actively attempt to force him in a horizontal conflicts by deploying heavy manbeaters,
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mesh concepts and bigger bodies into the zone.
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In response, Robertson demonstrates excellent discipline in disguise fits.
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He's a strong communicator successfully passing off deep responsibilities like an AJ
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Brown dig, for example, to trigger downhill with speed on short underneath crossers or backfield
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He effectively navigates traffic to limit yards after the catch, seamlessly transitions
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transitioning assignments post snap to track receiver motion and take running backs out of
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So bottom line operates with a high IQ you can see it on the tape, very necessary to be
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very intelligent scheme like this for post snap rotations and route handoffs.
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One of the best things I like about him when you turn on the tape is his ability to communicate.
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And I mean, there are multiple reps where not only does it communicate pre snap, he's
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communicating during the play like you literally can watch him drop it off into coverage.
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And while he's dropping off into coverage, he's pointing over here and he's looking back
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and doing this and doing all this kind of stuff while maintaining his own responsibility,
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very smart football player understands what he sees understands how to anticipate what's
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coming based off of what he sees identifies route concepts, regularly, both from like
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I said, the boundary, both also from the slot really knows how to identify what's happening
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from the posing offense, very displaying its horizontal tactics like mesh concepts and
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Doesn't mean he's never going to get beat, right?
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Obviously, the offense is going to win, and certainly those manbeaters, those mesh routes
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where receivers are running horizontal line of scrimmage versus simply just vertical where
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they're trying to do things that get a guy in traffic, get him lost in traffic and get
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him, you know, pick plays and things like that that you see a lot of times will work from
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But he does a very good job of recovering does a very good job of trying to identify
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And again, strong communicator, it doesn't really leave anything to chance really does
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a good job of passing on information and then transitioning his assignment, post snap
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to track pre snap motion and running back some out of the backfield.
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Very, very, very, very significant had a clip from the Eagles game, I believe I shared
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with you all access every day or club members, where he diagnoses a screen pass and you
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can kind of see him click.
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He doesn't end up having to make the tackle because Alex ends alone, he also does a really
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good job of diagnosing it, clicking and closing, but you see the mentality, you see the identification,
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you see the shift in the adjustment, absolutely top notch play and should ends alone, not
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make the play or not make the tackle.
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Robertson is going to come screaming into the backfield to try to make a play there.
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That was the play against the Eagles I shared with you all access every day or members.
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There was another one from the Giants tape where he actually forces a one-deal Robinson
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fumble successfully passes off a vertical threat to crash down on a short inside route.
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He arrives with incredible force for a guy who is sub six foot tall and again, draws
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the ball loose and the trail lines end up creating a takeaway.
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That's the first two elements of the Scouting Report.
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The film review notebook, I should say, that we're going to talk about here.
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We have two more coming up, run support and perimeter toughness and of course we do have
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to talk about his vulnerabilities because nobody's perfect, including Amique Robertson
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through for yet another one today moving on with our Amique Robertson film notebook review
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here run support perimeter toughness and vulnerabilities are the next two topics that we're
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going to talk about here say three games cowboys, Eagles and giants from the Detroit lion
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schedule last year that Amique Robertson played in.
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And as far as run sport and perimeter toughness goes, this is where you would probably expect
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his size to kind of step in just a little bit when defensive front stunt and twist right
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move around, wrap around other guys and multiple front schemes runs and quick game screens
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routinely spill outside.
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This is where defensive backs have to get involved in Robertson is a violent and willing
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participant in run support who plays significantly bigger than his frame.
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He rapidly diagnosis, perimeter screens, quick outs and outside zone actions, he's actively
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fighting through blocks from offensive linemen tight ends and receivers to set a firm edge
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and get into the action, willing to sacrifice his bodies, his body against pulling rushers
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and heavy fronts to force plays back inside or to make solo stops in open space finishes
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plays with violence acts as a reliable game tackler who looks to punch the ball loose
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on contact to generate fumble some of the key observations from this part of his game
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violence, willing participant, this is out of dude who's going to shy away from contact.
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This is a dude who is absolutely going to get involved.
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There's a play in the in the clips that I shared with the all access everyday club members
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where he gets his lid knocked off literally gets his home and knocked off trying to make
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And he does he gets bold over you know what I mean, but he gets right back up and he gets
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right back in the action on the very next stop.
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This is not a dude who is afraid of his size.
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He's not afraid of what could happen.
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He's going to go out there.
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He's going to give it his all again, the diagnosis, the football IQ rapidly reacts to screens,
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quick routes, all kinds of things rapidly gets involved and into the play actively fights
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through blockers, but he's also very smart to get around blockers, you know what I mean,
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he's willing to fight the fight, but he also understands if he can just get around the
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big dude trying to keep him from the ball, he can get to the ball much better and willingly
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sacrifices what he needs to to get there and then the gangtackler.
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If you hold up a guy, he is going to come in there.
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If he has the opportunity and not only going to help you bring him down, he's going to
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try to get after the ball, some clips here, the Eagles tape, like I said, we talked about
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some of those things.
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There was a tunnel screen to AJ Brown where you see Amy Robertson react to it very,
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very quickly, wrap around the guy, the offensive lineman that was supposed to be blocking
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him and not only get by unblocked, but able to bring AJ Brown down by himself in the
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backfield, very impressive athletic play, not even a toughness play, just an athletic
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play from Amy Robertson and then the Cowboys tape, there are actually two clips that showed
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really good quick diagnosis, firm, really good solo open field tackle on George Pickens
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to limit again, it was still a game, but it was a limited game and then one where he just
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came down violently downhill on Jake Ferguson, the tight end, you know, an undersized corner
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coming, coming down hard on the tight end, set up a fumble, recovered by Jack Campbell.
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So again, if you can't get the turnover, take away himself, he's going to facilitate
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other people doing so, of course, there are some vulnerabilities and some liabilities
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breaking news, surprise, surprise, he is small and his size does present a clear physical
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limitation, especially against true X receivers like AJ Brown, things like that, he's going
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to who don't necessarily have the pure vertical speed, I mean, some of them do have pure vertical
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speed, but they had that size because he recognizes his own physical limitations in those
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matchups, he is kind of out of his comfort zone, comfort zone a little bit, plays a little
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bit off coverage in those situations in order to try to make up for that, you know, deficiency,
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and I think what he's trying to do probably a lot of times is have room to kind of break
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on a ball, right? When you're smaller, you want to get better angles, right? If you're
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going to try to step in front of a pass, it's going to be hard for you to kind of fight
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through a guy, so you want him to have to be able to come in and cut him off, do things
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like that. That's just what I see. I haven't talked to him about it, but that's just kind
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of what I see on the tape. He'll also play off against guys like Camonte-Turban, you
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know what I mean? Look, he's out wheels, but Camonte-Turban has got wheels that other people
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don't necessarily have. So he'll do those types of things too. If he recognizes a physical
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mismatch in some way, shape or form, he will play off in order to try to protect himself
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from that, which I think is a smart thing, especially when you're being left one-on-one
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as much as he was in the Detroit defense, but there are certain times where we did see the
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off-and-sake advantage of that. They would try to find a way to get AJ Brown on him because
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they know that he's going to play off. It's starting for, and then you run a route to the
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sticks and AJ Brown is able to use that size and then give it out quick enough before he can
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respond and break on it, then they can take advantage of those types of things. So obviously,
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there's some mismatches there. Every single time he tries to go make a tackle, you know,
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look, you see some incredible feats, some successful attempts, right? But he is a smaller dude,
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so he's still going to, if he's consistently one-on-one with a bigger back or a receiver or a tied-in,
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like he's going to lose some of those battles, which is part of being undersized, right? So he's
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got those physical limitations against pure extra-ceivers and guys like that, but again, you know
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he's in a fight through it as well, and he's going to do it with intelligence. There were several
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parts of the tape, you know, I don't have to go below by below on that, but that is Amig Robertson
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in a nutshell, like I said. He's got speed or processing speed. He's at wheels, but he's also
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got processing speed. That football IQ, man-covered skills, very violent player. He's definitely going
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to fit in a disguise heavy type of defense that Doronte Jones is expected to bring. He's just
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going to be on Jones to anticipate as much as he can and prevent Amig Robertson from being left
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in unfavorable, unsavory, mismatch situations that don't favor his skillset. So that's going to do
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