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Faizon Brandon said Kennesaw State frequently dropped eight defenders, so Tennessee looked for openings across the middle before working down to checkdowns; he thought he could improve at that. He described leaving the pocket as a feel decision after his reads and checkdowns were unavailable, not a fixed internal time limit or a first-read scramble instruction.

Brandon said the deep attempt to Mike Matthews opened when the safety moved toward the over route, leaving the post over his head. On Tennessee's separate opening-play plan, Kennesaw State took away the post, so Brandon progressed to Braylon Staley on the over. He framed the distribution as reading the coverage, not forcing targets to either receiver.

Brandon said Tennessee's in-helmet green-dot communication mainly delivers the play call, with coaches saying relatively little beyond that. He finds it useful if he misses a sideline signal. His account describes a communication aid, not coaches supplying every coverage read or replacing his progression decisions.