Brock Huard's Chalk Talk: missed RZ opportunity vs Panthers

Brock Huard's Chalk Talk: Russell Wilson, Seahawks miss red-zone scoring opportunity vs. Carolina
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Awesome and topical vis a vis Bevell

that last sentence Brock said............*barfs*

The most fascinating aspect of this breakdown is that finally someone has explained how this is supposed to work against the coverage and the only real way to get it to work according to Brock is RW growing as a QB and making the right pre snap reads on coverage and knowing where the zones will flow to and throwing to Kearse.

Appreciate the post!

So basically, this was a play where having Unger making a veteran line call could have made the difference.

Kearly...exactly why JeanPierre & Lewis were brought back in, to help take away the protection calls from RW or to simplify things for him to do.

The thing I don't get about this, is that teams have been blitzing corners and safeties more often. Russ should have this burned into his brain by now.

And perhaps, as much as we all like him, could it be even with all his film study, Russ just is not good at pre snap reads?

seedhawk":1dgv4n8t said:

And perhaps, as much as we all like him, could it be even with all his film study, Russ just is not good at pre snap reads?

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Anything is possible but a play here and a play there doesn't excuse the horrible beats you see 1:1 or even 2:1 (as Brock described) where our guys can't keep a defender in front of them for even two seconds.

mrt144":3lhkcjfv said:

Awesome and topical vis a vis Bevell

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Bevell wasn't even mentioned in there.

seedhawk":1ifpz6kg said:

And perhaps, as much as we all like him, could it be even with all his film study, Russ just is not good at pre snap reads?

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Absolutely which really drives the question of "what can be done to compensate for that now and can it be developed over time?".

Also, I think he showed his ability to at least react to defense shown - the call from the NFCCG hitting Kearse on the cover 0 shown by the Packers as an example. It might be a matter of degrees here - what pre snap reads is he missing and which ones is he making?

This would all be a lot easier if there was a semblance of decent line play to isolate out how much of this is on Wilson.

MontanaHawk05":2g2hig8y said:

mrt144":2g2hig8y said:

Awesome and topical vis a vis Bevell

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Bevell wasn't even mentioned in there.

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Was hoping another poster would make it over to this thread to discuss. Internal monologue got external.

Russ may be the best qb in the game today when a play break downs. But I'm not sure there's many worse at pre snap reads and quick throws. Love what he does well. Hoping he'll get better at what he doesn't.

The only QBs I'd rate as being very good at presnap reads have been in the league for 8-10 years. This is one of those skills that depends on experience more than most others. I do think it would benefit Russell if he didn't also have to call the line assignments.

He has plenty on his plate, adjusting to Jimmy's new role, the general inexperience up front, another year of Defenseive scheming. It's not that the OL fails all the time and he's forced to bail. It's that it happens enough, that it's adding an extra step in his decision tree and one that has to be done in under 2.5 secs.

Rewatched the play several times and if Britt stays in his spot, the blitz gets stopped/slowed. He shifts to the right off his spot following the DL moving to the Center, who has no one in front of him. This leaves a huge gap that the stunting blitzers run through. Jackson gets stuck btwn them and you can see Britt reach back with his arm. He stays there and that hole is gone and Jackson only has to block one. Don't understand why he couldn't handoff the DL.

Meanwhile Baldwin(?) runs free behind the zone in the endzone on the right. TD.

Clip at the bottom of the page:
http://mynorthwest.com/292/2830776/...-miss-redzone-scoring-opportunity-vs-Carolina