hawknation2015":of5j35r5 said:
Tical21":of5j35r5 said:
So playing 8 men in the box and blitzing a safety now mean the same thing?
Fact is, this result is on Russell. He needs to anticipate the safety coming down and get out of the play. We've got 6 to block 7.
We have six blockers in there with Willson, and we only attempted blocks on five players . . . with Sweezy left to block air after he chips on defenders to his left and right.
Where do you see eight men in the box? LOL.
Tical21":of5j35r5 said:
You have zero idea what you're talking about in regards to "awareness to seeing your teammate getting beat" or whatever you said. If Nowak doesn't get off that block when he is supposed to, he gets a negative grade on the play. Period. End of story. If he stays and helps Sweezy there, he gets his arse chewed out in the film room.
You have zero idea what you're talking about in regards to the block on Matthews. No matter how many times you try, you can't block a guy to the right when the running back is going that same direction. It will never work. There is zero that he could have done on that play.
I love the enthusiasm and effort. But if you're going to try to break this stuff down, and call people out, you have to know what you're talking about, otherwise other readers trying to learn this stuff become misinformed as well, then we're walking about with more Seahawks fans that think they understand football but have no idea what they're talking about. If you've been to your local water cooler, you know we've got way too many of those already. I would advise making your breakdowns in the form of a question for a while. e.g. "Did Britt miss his block here?" Rather than incorrectly stating he missed an assignment. It only makes things worse.
I played offensive line and was taught never to leave a combo block until the defender is moved across the face of the post. Sweezy's mistake here was not keeping his inside hip next to Nowak, the post blocker. There should never be a gap between the C and G on a combo block. If Nowak had better awareness of this, he would have remained engaged with the DT and the combo would have converted to a solid double block. Leaving the combo in that situation was a bad move because of this lack of awareness.
I'm not sure why you don't know this, but I am left to assume there is some subtlety between the kind of football you played and the kind of football that is played at the NFL level.
I have noticed a major blindspot in your own analysis of the offensive line: that is whenever the back cuts back, you assume EVERYTHING that happens after that point is the fault of the back and not the poor blocking after that point. So, on the one hand, you criticize Britt for the way he attacked the DE but not for the "pat-a-cake" he played with Matthews. Where is your criticism of Britt's pathetic drive blocking on Matthews? That is totally deficient logic that simply boggles the mind.
What level you play at?
I'm not totally sure a search through your browsing history wouldn't reveal this article...
http://www.shakinthesouthland.com/2012/ ... e-blocking which bares striking resemblance to some of what you're saying.
The fact that I know you edited your post a while after ending on 'Where do you see 8 men in the box LOL' could also suggest you went away to read up on combo blocking so you could avenge yourself upon Tical. What more, that article is the top google search result for 'combo blocking'.
Furthermore, your quote 'never leave a combo block until the defender is moved across the face of the post' sounds plenty like...
The seal blocker should remain engaged with the DL until one of two things happen: (1) the defender is moved off the ball or (2) the defender has worked himself across the face of the post.
Now when I google your quote, perhaps unsurprisingly, that article springs to the top of the results again. What's more interesting is that the rest of the results are unsatisfactory with none paraphrasing 'moving a defender past the face of the post' or bearing much relevance at all to football, let alone blocking.
In fact, that seems to be the authors unique way of describing a combo block, leading me to believe that you, sir, are a hack.