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Football Explained: Baiting The Fullback

I'm taking the weekend off as Sunday's my wife's birthday and Monday she leaves for California. Before I claw my eyes desperately fending accursed natural light, I want to share this very cool short video created by Scruffy Lefty. This is not a Seahawks specific play, but a generic weakside linebacker delay blitz. The defense sends the front four, but when the right defensive end successfully edge rushes the left offensive tackle, the weakside linebacker blitzes, baiting the fullback to step up and block. Unfortunately, the fullback is the quarterback's last line of defense, and with the strongside linebacker in a short zone underneath and the left defensive end controlling the right "C" gap, the quarterback is a sitting duck. There's a couple other cool little nuances thrown in there, too.

(via ScruffyLefty)

Hopefully, this is the start of regular feature. Once the season starts, it could demonstrate an opposing defensive coordinators marquee blitz or be used in The Tape series to animate an especially important play. Tell us what you think.

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If you could slow it down a bit

to make it easier to track what’s happening and watch the move and countermove unfold-maybe half-speed-I think it would serve the purpose better.

by The Ancient Mariner on Jun 20, 2008 1:04 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Ya

Originally I went for game speed and then realized it was way to fast. Also in the future we are going to try to pair audio with these to make it more timed released.

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Jun 20, 2008 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Agreed

I also had a harder time with the speed, but I really like it.

by cashless on Jun 20, 2008 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Nice

bust as said above, a bit too fast.

by BeltredNOT on Jun 21, 2008 12:35 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

This is pretty cool.

I don’t think it’s way too fast—just ride the pause button.

by redwolf75 on Jun 21, 2008 11:49 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

how about

showing the play at normal speed, then repeating it slower/in stages?

by Will Kier on Jun 21, 2008 2:05 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

off topic, but does this sound right?

Nate Burleson: starting WR/PR
Josh Wilson: nickelback/KR

by redwolf75 on Jun 22, 2008 8:00 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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