Cooper Kupp has a route running secret.
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Cooper Kupp has a secret, and even if the NFL knows it, they can’t, and won’t stop it. Kupp uses “The Rule of 3s” in his route running to torch defenders, and it’s one of the reasons why he’s one of the best wide receivers in the game. He has made route running into a science, and the NFL simply can’t stop him. How does he do it? This week’s episode uses the all-22 coaches film to analyze Los Angeles Rams Wide Receiver Cooper Kupp and how he uses the rule of 3s.
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I’ve seen people talk about Jerry Jeudy not being a #1 Receiver and not a great separator like he’s believed to be. Can you do an episode on him and his possible new fit in the Sean Payton era
That's why I didn't want to see him in New England if Belichick had gotten his hands on him they would be a SB CONTENDER right now.If Kupp had not gotten injured the year the Rams met The Patriots in the Super Bowl the Rams would have been NFL CHAMPS because I didn't think Belichick had a response to deal with him.
_Does anyone just get the feeling that Cooper Kupp will make a good coach one day?_
Absolutely! His work ethic and intelligence is very valuable and it’s no question why he dominates in the league!
Most likely
Is that because he's white
I was gonna say…
I mean former players who relied more on mastering their craft than physical gifts do tend to make the better coaches for obvious reasons. However… Kupp does have great physical gifts, just not tremendous straight away speed. But yeah that’s why so many mediocre/career backup nfl players turn out to be good coaches. A lot of those guys where dudes who squeezed every since last drop out of their physical abilities to land spots on a 53 man roster, and the work ethic and knowledge of how one improves and learns over time are incredibly valuable assets in a coach.
His route-running is obviously incredible, but his short-area quickness is also amazing to watch. The speed at which he gets from one move to another is physical talent as well as great technique.
This is why I’m hopefully JSN can turn into a diet Kupp as a Seahawks fan, his short area quickness and change of direction is amazing
Also his body control. He sells fakes so well because his body does everything it's supposed to and still ducks out.
It amazes me how quick and eager the whole nfl was to write off Kupp as a one season wonder, revenge szn coming soon
Pairing him with a dart thrower like Stafford was always going to lead to HUGE plays. Quality always beat quantity.
He ain't nvr put up back to back 1000 yard campaigns that's the only reason why I don't put him the top 5 conversations
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@@gabeartis8208 he was hurt last year, but on track to lead the NFL again. In 2021 his great year. 2020 he was 30 yards short of 1 k and missed a game. 2019 over 1 k. And 2018 he missed half the season, but could absolutely have gone for 1 k. 2017 was his Rookie Season. In my mind there is no legit argument to drop him out of the Top 5
@zulu4057 oh well injuries are a part of the game it's not nobody else's fault this is his second season ending injury he had one good year that's it shouldn't be listed as a top 5 receiver and your not 1000 yards year in year out
He dominates with his can-do attitude and unparalleled time spent watching film and hitting the weight room.
His heart and grit are his greatest attributes .
I would let him date my daughter
@@theunovanative7640I’d let him mount my girlfriend. Sadly he would decline being the man of integrity and class he is.
Real gym rat, sneaky good athlete, first man in last man type of mentality, just an all round classy guy
Well said. However, the least talented players also do all of that. It's his insane football IQ to the point where he's an innovator that sets him apart.
@@chicagodude8888The cuckoldry is intense
Another thing with Kupp is that his conditioning looks top tier. So even as he became a better runner, he's not running out of gas the entire game. So he maintains his top speed in all 4 quarters while setting you up with his ability to run options on his routes.
It gets really nasty when he actually breaks on the second move and the db is waiting on a third lol.
Kupp Woods and Gurley represent McVay's era the most to me.
But that isn't what Kupp became though where he would get more deep shots thanks to Stafford's arm. There is a distinct difference in how Kupp was utilized during that Gurley/Woods/Goff era where it was more play action than what McVay changed up in recent years en route to a SB ring.
Cooper Kupp is one of my favorite players to watch. How the Rams use him and his skill sets it makes watching and rewatching Rams games so interesting to me. I enjoy seeing where Kupp lines up every snap.
"The rule of 3s" is a great term for something I learned a long time ago on how the greatest coaches use to exploit offenses/defenses.
Example. Theres was one play where I seen a LB lined up a center in a two point stance (standing up) showing that hes probably blitzing.
As soon as the ball is snapped... The LB bails backwards into coverage and the center ignores him thinking it was a bluffed blitz
However... It wasn't. The LB seeing the centers head turn immediately goes back into his first assignment of a blitz and gets a free sack with no one blocking him.
So the LB essentially countered the center's counter with another counter. Rule of 3s
Spot on. Exactly. This can be done on both sides of the ball. This is how players and coaches play chess while making others believe they are still playing checkers.
This sounds like you are describing the fire zone blitz the giants ran against the patriots in the superbowl where the mike faked like he was dropping and blitz Brady for a sack.
@@Hasan16922s that specifically a fire zone Blitz? I thought fire zone was just rushing 5 defenders and a lineman drops into coverage.
Aw man. As a Rams fan, this video brought happy tears to my eyes. Kupp might be my favorite Ram of all time, and that's saying something...
What about Donald, not saying you’re wrong but just curious
@@demaurimitchell3167 it's tough. Donald of course is right there next to Kupp for me. I'll probably continue to change my mind in the future 😂 I think they are both generational talents though.
Do you think they bounce back? Need better protection to start, right?
@@Fencellisk I have faith. I've seen some absolutely terrible football from this team over the years, I don't think we'll ever be that bad again under McVay. I like how we drafted this year, got some young talent for the trenches to protect Stafford. I also think our depth will show this year. Skowronek, Atwell, and Jefferson should be getting more targets. Even that kid Puka Nacua has been impressing people in training camp. Our coaches are competent, so as long as that continues to be the case, I'll remain optimistic.
@shpingshpong Brett Kollman has an awesome video where he talks about how Ben Skowronek is used as a full back. Something to check out, if you haven't.
He’s easily a top 5 receiver if he could consistently stay on the field. Dude’s averaging 80 receiving yards per game for his career and 110 ypg with an upgrade at QB in Stafford as opposed to Goff.
Extrapolated through a 17 game season that’s 1360 yards, including his rookie season where he predictably had his least efficient numbers.
Remarkable spotlight. It never ceases to amaze me the seemingly infinite intricacies that go into being an NFL receiver. And that's even before the ball is snapped, and talent comes into the equation. I know he only one mega season in his career, but I'd probably still put him on the Rams Mount Rushmore of franchise receivers along with Holt, Bruce, and Ellard. Nutty how he lasted until round 3 in the draft.
The ending always gives me chills bro I love that outro especially how the music fade in😂
Thank you!
as a college receiver myself. Kupp has helped me polish my game and using the rule of 3s and adding extra jab steps to the top of my route has helped me gained so much separation and i’m a shorter receiver so mixed in with my burst out it’s helped me
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Dude has a killer name.
Quarterback is also placing ball in right spot, even he has to figure out where kupp is gonna end up.
Great video.
Dang I thought you were going to do a desmond ridder video this week
Naw.. I'm worried as hell about him though. He's gonna hold back that LEGIT set of weapons
Crazy! I knew he was a master route runner, but regular tv analysis never properly illustrated just how great he is, much less how he does it or how unique he is.
Great video, this is exactly the kind of technique/chalk talk type analysis that the TV broadcasts just aren’t giving us during the games anymore. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! I agree
Cooper Kupp’s ankle watching this 🦴☠️☠️☠️
The man with the best intro on TH-cam another great video 🗣️🔥.
Thank you brother!
Hard work pays off! Love watching him play! Thanks Alex!
Thanks Moises! Always appreciate you
It’s crazy how people right this man off just cuz he was injured. I think he will bounce back
This is amazing. Subscribed! Road to 100k 🔥
Thanks brother! I'm almost there!
I love watching him and Adams play, they are outstanding.
Somebody has new editing! Love the graphics
Thank you brother! Gotta keep the people on their toes
Another banger video! I used to run my posts and post corners with 3 moves every time.
Thanks brother! Hell yeah!
@@AlexRollinsNFL bro I need something on Daniel Jones bad! He’s polarizing in our fanbase. Some love his play, some hate it. I’m somewhere between but I need some Alex Rollins proof! 😂 keep at it man. These videos are priceless. I’ve been telling everyone I know about your work.
Interesting! Wow! I remember that I think around this time last year, that I had asked for a Cooper Kupp breakdown!
I always make sure to write down y'alls ideas, thanks for suggesting this one!
Cooper reminds me of Jerry Rice where he never looks like he is running super fast but always wide open. Great video
I've always thought of WRs the same way as RBs, replaceable. But this video made me see the value of a really good WR.
Thanks Brent!
He is definitely one of the technically soundest receivers I have ever watched. And I have been watching football for three decades.
Can you do a video on the Saints defensive scheme and how they’ve played defense from 2017-2022
Route running spectacular
He's unbelievable Ed!
Same same but different with the triple threat position in basketball (which I still don't think the average NBA player utilizes quite enough (they all want the flashy handles)). You see KD utilize the triple thread position the most by far out of all elite NBA scorers and when you break down KD's film in the triple threat position, you realize how got damn hard it is to defend it and hence the name "triple threat".
The NBA uses quick decisions to move offenses. It's to counter all of the switching. Also, it's too easy to force KD into bad shots now. His bad shots against the Nuggets led to too many fast break opportunities, where he was often off balance and late to get back on defense.
When he had a healthy top 15 QB and a healthy O line he was top 1. Look at any of the other top 5 receivers, Hill, Adams, Diggs, Jefferson... they have the same thing.
kupp is always open because hes so freakin smart
It’s always so funny to me seeing better athletes not being able to guard Kupp. Never knew about this technique but with the amount of separation he creates it works!!
Rollins you did not just put the Killua electric effect on Kupp... super Saiyan engaged.
Yes, yes I did
@@AlexRollinsNFL so when are you and Corridor Crew going to team up and build a football anime?
Like Kuroko no Basket but football edition? You would definitely be needed for the classic anime exposition scene where they tell why what the character does is so badass.
Half joking but kinda really want that show now...
Followed him since his days a Eastern Washington. Great player and route runner
He was good before Stafford, but that connection with Stafford gave him the production to be recognized finally.
He actually doesn't always sell the second fake very well either. He only taps is foot in the directing he's NOT going, but the rest of his body is tipping where he's really going. He's just so quick in small areas that it still works
Could you make a video on the approach the Ravens defense used in 2022 against Joe Burrow?
I also approve of this. Actually just make video on both the Bengals and the Ravens defense in general.
Justin Jefferson also uses the "rule of 3". I think Kupp mixes it up better because if you over use it (i think JJ does) the better corners will use it against you. Obviously it's working for Kupp and JJ
Look at that laser glow effect 😂
Bro I can't stop using it 😂
Football is my happy place
Sounds really simple, actually. As the great Johan Cruyff once said about soccer: ""Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is."
Jerry Rice was "slow" and everyone knew the ball was going his way and he was still wide open a lot of the time. He was building a catalog of moves and counter moves from the first snap to the last and he was in such incredible condition he never slowed down as the game and season went along. If you look at his numbers in games where his team was still throwing the ball he would do more in the 2nd half than the 1st when his fitness and his one on one scheming on DBs let him take more advantage.
But then Rice was an alien.
Jerry Rice wasn't slow. Lol! Him and Larry Fitzgerald just weren't good at running the 40. Lol! His technique did outshine his speed, though.
@@Fencellisk okay. By NFL standards he was slow. But he has incredible body control and he WAS quick.
Jerry Rice had amazing stamina and endurance. His work ethic was amazing, he had that football speed.
He’s got a lot of grit.. first one in last one out typa guy 😭
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Some of these are just double moves. You are counting that extra step which determines the way he is breaking but that isn't part of the move, in those cases like 5:15 and the rep afterward where he runs the out route vs. the Bills those are double moves. The cadence 1-2 -COMMIT to a side(right or left) you can't do any move everytime whether it is single, double, or triple the whole point is to mix it up to keep a defender on his toes with these changes throughout the flow of the game.
From Shane Gillis, “That was a smart run. Tough run. That was a heads-up run right there.”
6:30 did that look like a basketball move to anybody else?
@AlexRollinsNFL My comp for how Kupp has operated these last 3 years is a "Run Blocking Chad Ochocinco"...would you say that's pretty accurate?
I love it! Ocho was different
I don’t think the injury will matter he tore his ACL in 2018 and came back even better. It’s more on the Oline to not be the worst in the league again lol.
I know Cupp has got to have a nasty crossover
Maybe he’s a hobby photographer
Hunter Renfrow does this
He might have had a terrible 40 time, but that is really immaterial to his routes. What was his 10 yard split or three cone drill times?
He got snubbed for MVP in 2021
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So essentially the DB should match him with a fake shift move on the second jump only to follow on the third. Either that or just follow the way he goes with his initial jump. The first and second is always a fake and the first is always the correct way
Your non Qb videos are outstanding by and large.
Thanks Anthony!
“But…but… he only does good cause he plays slot and is only thrown to tho”
Is it just me, or is anyone watching the video & saying to yourself “Cupp is closing the space to the defender & using a rocker step to attack yhe leverage to get open”
this was a great video, and Kupp is (obviously) a great player.... BUT there were two very important words that were never mentioned here: HUNTER RENFROW
You even mentioned how this aspect of Kupp's route running wasn't really a huge part of his game around 2019. He really just started to explore it in 2020 season, then in the 2021 preseason, there was a scrimmage&game between the Rams and Gruden's Raiders after which there were tons of stories and headlines about "Renfrow burns Jalen Ramsey with unique routes" and similar. There are also articles about actual quotes from Mcvay/Kupp about how Kupp literally came up to Mcvay and brought up the idea of implementing those multi-layered routes (specifically the China/Out routes playing off each other in redzone) into his game more that season.
In fact, that same play that you used to demonstrate what he calls an "OCHO" is just a slight tweak on what Gruden and Renfrow called the "Flat/China" and Renfrow would even add more onto it. There was a play that same season Renfrow had in like Week 3 or 4 againt Xavien Howard in the redzone, where he ran essentially the same thing as Kupp's OCHO, except instead of ending with that re-break to the sideline with the out route, Renfrow managed to turn that out-break upfield afterwards into a sort of wheel route off of it, and left Howard spinning.
In no way am I trying to say Kupp doesn't deserve all the credit in the world for how he has developed his game and for what it is today, just that this evolution between the two of them, off of one another, is an important piece of the story. Not to mention its just a very interesting look at how the very best of the best at their crafts in the world will always still be looking (and finding) new things to learn and make their own, from their peers who are also among the best.
Shame how Renfrow was relegated in the depth chart after McDaniels took over as HC. He showed so much promise as a WR1 after the Ruggs ordeal.
@@jeldibye Even if he would never be a true WR1, X-style guy in the NFL, theres absolutely no reason to believe he wouldnt be currently making his case as every bit the player as guys like Welker, Edelman, etc.
Tbh, I'm STILL not convinced even at this point that McDaniels hasn't been tryin to actively sabotage the Raiders lol. When you do things like that--refusing to utilize Renfrow after a season he just proved to be able to make the rest of the league fear him--and making your Top 5 NFL TE demand to leave the team just bc youre being childish about not getting invited to his wedding, its hard for me not to think you're playin for the other side
Do any receivers just run the first route, no fakes? Or no double moves? If ever corner is playing for the double moves, would the just original route work?😂
Me and my brother are having an argument. How much of a factor does Kupp being a slot receiver take up when it comes to his overall success? I think it takes alot. He disagrees.
Define "success".
@@EidenhoekTriple Crown
Thing is Kupp at least after the Goff era was playing in slot, semi inline or even outside. In part why he sees time in slot is for the run game since he's such a great run blocker. And McVay plays 11 personnel and doesn't want to play a FB. So instead he uses his receivers training as blockers to maintain his scheme.
@@morganyu812 Then look at the values of other slot receivers on their teams. If they get a lot more touchdowns than the X receiver, for example, then we'd expect some of Kupp's touchdowns to be due to something similar.
@@t4d0W McVay does use fullbacks
It's like he's doing a euro step
When you live clean and for the LORD, putting in hard work to get better..be the best YOU that YOU can be, you take pleasure in suffering because you KNOW what the result will be.
When you get in the NFL and then get to work surrounding your name with controversy, pouting, bling, 'that bag', whores, immorality, complaining, excuses, slandering, drug use, obnoxious selfish off the field issues...don't be shocked when your 'career' falls off a cliff and no one really cares about your 'beast mode' physical skills. Liabilities can only be hedged so far. Kupp will be a HOF'er because he puts in the WORK!!
Not right now babe. New Alex Rollins just dropped.
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Not video related but God eli apple God cooked so bad in the sb
So, Im just gonna sum this up....DUH.. I thought you were going to share something super secret...
Bro it ain’t that deep 😂 it’s called a rocker step
Sometimes it's just about who you'd let date your daughter and who's a hard worker and who's gritty and not hitting the Griddy
Didn't really understand much in this one.
Actually first
Kupps wife is a smoke show 😂
It's too bad his prime years will be wasted due to Ram's decision to go all in. No doubt he is happy to have his ring, but their decision robbed the fans of watching a great player reach his full potential.
Watching this makes me sad to see Davonte's talent being wasted with the raiders
Bro not the surveys ad read. By all means get your bag but please no one be stupid enough to actually waste your time on them.
Kupp will still not get the credit he deserves
Kupp is overrated. Alex is the real star.
😂😂 Idk about that..
He overrated he aint put up back to back 1000 yard seasons ever
Has your favorite receiver won OPOY? SB MVP? Triple crown? All three? Unless he's Jerry Rice, he hasn't.