mthoopsfan said:
All of our secondary players are good, but they are not perfect. Ford is a terrific player, but he inexplicably blew that one. In the prior game, someone did the same thing on the duck to the end zone for a TD. On the early long run, a lb goofed up and left a gap wide open. With the gap left open, it appeared to throw Hauck and he overran the play. On the 23 yard on 3d and 13, there was a goof up, I believe. The D played pretty well, though.
Your analysis of the long TD run at the end of the first quarter is not accurate. No LB "goofed up". It's 3rd and 5, we are in a 4-2-5 presnap. We have three guys with "hands in the dirt" looks like 2 in a 2-3 tech and one in a 7. The other front I think is 44 and he's standing up in a 6-9 tech. Our two LB's are sitting pretty standard Will and Mike and the DB's look like we are going to drop Cover 2.
Weber is in 11 personnel. With a WR and a slot to the Play side and single wing to the boundary, pistol formation.
Pre snap we walk 17 up into a deep Sam position and roll our nickle into a straight FS alignment.
We do one of our D's favourite games which is blitz two backers through one hole, the Mike loops the Will but their tackle picks the first backer and the second gets caught in the wash. The other LB read run and reacted but is wiped out by the down blocking combo of C-G-T and TE. Both 17 and 4 read run right away but if you watch you will see that 17 assumes it's going left and his first three steps are all left and parallel to the line. This leaves him set up to the cut back and it's good night nurse.