Dabo Swinney on Syracuse's offense

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00:00 He takes off.

00:01 Well, the two big plays in the Purdue game, he just takes off.

00:05 You know, he just gets back, they're in man coverage and you know,

00:09 they got him, one time they actually have him.

00:11 But, I mean, we got plenty of tape where we had him too, and we don't have him.

00:15 He's a big, strong kid.

00:18 And he's just got a great feel.

00:22 You know, he's fast.

00:26 He's faster than he is quick, but yet he's very elusive.

00:29 He's just kind of slippery in the pocket,

00:31 even though he's not a quick twitch guy.

00:33 But you let him get outside, he's gone.

00:35 I mean, he can really, really run.

00:36 But he's just got a good feel for stepping up, pushing out one way or another.

00:43 But you look at those two big plays in the Purdue game

00:47 that led to the two touchdowns, I mean, he just scrambled around.

00:51 The next thing you know he's outside and there he goes.

00:55 So, and one went for a first down and then a score,

00:58 the other one was a 35-yard touchdown.

01:00 But they do a lot of design runs too.

01:02 I mean, he is – they're leading rusher.

01:05 So they're going to run a lot of speed option with him.

01:09 They certainly run some zone read stuff, but they run a lot of midline

01:13 where they actually, you know, they're reading a de-tackle.

01:17 And they do it different ways.

01:19 You know, they'll read the de-tackle, you know, the true power read

01:25 where they'll read the de-tackle.

01:27 If the de-tackle is chasing, you know, he'll pull it.

01:31 And they also run what we call the reverse power read, if you will,

01:35 where the back's coming, everybody's blocking that way

01:39 and he'll read the de-tackle.

01:41 And if the de-tackle kind of goes to the back,

01:44 then he's running out the backside, he's basically the running back.

01:46 So, they do a lot of different things that challenge you.