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Decoding Langsdorf: Nebraska’s Love Of The Sail Concept

Nebraska can run this concept with any QB/WR look, and you can expect it vs. Oregon as well.

Midway through the first quarter on Saturday, Tanner Lee lunged back as if to hand-off to tailback Tre Bryant on a routine Inside Zone Weak play, before reversing out, setting up, and unfurling an aerial shot that must’ve been tracked through the air by 90,000 eyes with the same awe and admiration that Francis Scott Key regarded the rocket’s red glare.

By the time the aerial had completed its trajectory, it fell perfectly into the hands of Stanley Morgan Jr. This opening salvo of the Tanner Lee experience was a thing of beauty, a pass that if we’re being honest, eludes the memory of having been completed on Tom Osborne field by the team we’re all partial to.

This play is one of Nebraska’s favorite play-action passes, an Inside Zone play fake, paired with Nebraska’s favorite route concept, the Sail concept; a One Back Spread and Air Raid staple that confounds defenses and is apt to change on the fly as defenses try to adjust within the aerial chess match of the passing game.

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