Originally posted by bhall43 The addition of 5-2 depth chart is really going to up the amount of hurries/sacks people are able to acquire especially on 3rd down too.
It was slotted to be a tackle for loss. Not sure why you are mad at the play. And it took almost no-time for him to react. No defender makes a decision to switch into pursuit mode until the brall is transferred to a ball carrier.
I know it could have went way better for the defense if LDE or DT broke the play early or if the FS didn't got his tackle broke but if the CB was in man coverage the defense would have done better, well 95% of the time atleast.
About the reaction time, after watching it again it's not really slow indeed, but he needs to go from backpedaling to "normal" running and it made me think that, once again if he was in man coverage this play wouldn't have been the same, he would have started closer to LOS and he wouldn't be backpedalling that much resulting in him reaching the HB 2 second sooner and slowing him down before he reach first down line.
Originally posted by Lokiness I know it could have went way better for the defense if LDE or DT broke the play early or if the FS didn't got his tackle broke but if the CB was in man coverage the defense would have done better, well 95% of the time atleast.
About the reaction time, after wathcing it again it's not really slow indeed, but he needs to go frop backpedaling to "normal" running and it made me think that, once again if he was in man coverage this play wouldn't have been the same, he would have started closer to LOS and he wouldn't be backpedalling that much resulting in him reaching the HB 2 second sooner and slowing him down before he reach first down line. which CB are you even talking about? The blitzer on the strong side, or the zone CB on the weak side? If you're talking about the zone CB, he helped save that play. If he was in man coverage, he would've gotten caught up in traffic, slowed down to a crawl, and never even been in the play to slow the RB down.
Originally posted by bhall43 The addition of 5-2 depth chart is really going to up the amount of hurries/sacks people are able to acquire especially on 3rd down too.