hawknation2014":k0ot6ewa said:
This is really more of a question for Aaron Rodgers. I have no idea if it was in the game plan, but Rodgers appeared to have told Sherman after the game "yup" in response to whether he was intentionally avoiding Sherman's side of the field. Honestly, I don't understand the controversy. Rodgers was smart to avoid Sherman and attack the other corners.
Wrong, IF you want to beat Seattle's Passing D , you can't be afraid of Sherman's side of the field. You also won't win playing conservative, you have to take shots down-field and either hope you get lucky and the WR makes an unbelievable play OR you get lucky and the Defense makes a mistake.
Its not smart what-so-ever allowing Sherman to take away 1/3rd of your field.
1. You're not going to beat Thomas over the top and you're allowing Thomas to shade to Maxwell's side more often than not.
2. You allow Kam to patrol the middle zone and he'll destroy everything in his path.
3. All our LBers have good range and excel in zone coverages
4. The RT becomes the blindside protector, a realization that many are putting out there now.
And thinking about it... I now understand the genius of Quinn's defense and why he essentially flipped the strongside and weakside personnel the way he did last year and why the Seahawks could let Clemons and Bryant walk. Because Sherman shuts down his 3rd of the field, nothing is getting past Thomas, you don't want to cross paths with Chancellor, Wagner could have the best range out of all LBs, it leaves the left side of the field where QBs have to throw across their bodies =,more mistakes and the dump-off where our OLBs are prepared to eat you up. But best of all it turns the right side of the O-Line into the blindside protection.
Teams spend tens of millions of dollars investing in top level LTs and LGs to protect the blindside, and here's Seattle, and you don't want to throw at Richard Sherman because he's the most dangerous CB in the NFL. Well, we are going to line up Avril on your RT, and Bennett on your RG.
You want to know why the Seahawks were so successful with just a 4 man rush, and why Avril and Bennett were so effective, its because the Seahawks have the best 2ndary in the NFL, it has a great LBer corps and a very active D-Line. But the Seahawks D dictates what the offense can do and if your a team who is going to try to dink and dunk, you're not going to beat the Seahawks.
Those offenses only end up tiring themselves out quickly where they are useless by the 4th QTR. Only end up burning a lot of clock, running a lot of plays, only to walk away with a Turnover in the RZ or just 3 points to show for it.