The announcers proclaimed this as a broken play and refused to comment further, probably because it's confusing. I agree that it's a broken play, but I don't understand where it broke, besides Brady's 6th sense (see below).
Formation. Double TE set with Kyle Brady (L) and Stephen Spach (R).
Here you can see the blitzing DB who was going to cover Welker. Welker realizes this too late and misses the block he had to make instead of running his route.
You can also see the free OL running looking for someone to block. He is far too slow to pick up the blitzer. If everyone had shifted over a man and he had picked up someone in front of him, the TE could've picked up the blitzer.
Somehow Brady senses that Maroney was going to get dropped for a loss by the blitzer. I highly doubt Maroney said "hold it!" or something, so I am very confused here. Brady clearly looks to Maroney, pulls it back in, and runs for it, without ever seeing the blitzer directly behind him. Two things of note here:
1) Stephen Spach is literally a nobody, so there's no way this play was designed to have Brady roll out for a scramble with Spach protecting him. (In addition, the free OL would've stayed instead of running left).
2) Maroney possibly doesn't even see the blitzer, as he misses him completely (see two frames down)
Maroney would've been dropped for a loss.
Maroney runs straight ahead, not picking up the blitz?? In addition, Spach gets beaten to the outside. It's possible he didn't even know Brady was running behind him, so...whatever.
These two factors combined limit Brady to about a yard. Luckily, Welker converts on 3rd and 4.
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