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2008 Season Retrospective: Craig Terrill

Using Craig Terrill right is like walking a tight rope. Used wrong and he looks a lot like Tony Taylor (above): desperately hanging on.

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Using Craig Terrill right is like walking a tight rope. Used wrong and he looks a lot like Tony Taylor (above): desperately hanging on.

Overview: Craig Terrill played in 16 games, starting one. He had 21 tackles, three tackles for a loss, two sacks and a blocked field goal.

What went right: Terrill had almost the exact same season he's had every season since becoming a regular in 2005.

What went wrong: Terrill is a role player in the extreme. He sees too many snaps and ends too many snaps blocked out and bullied.

Outlook: Terrill flies off the line and relentlessly attacks his gap. He can disrupt blocking schemes, change a rusher's route and collapse the pocket. He doesn't do any of the three consistently enough to warrant the 459 snaps he participated in 2008. When he doesn't get position, blockers easily engulf him. He's pushed around and knocked into his linebackers. His spin-move is more often than not aborted mid-turn, blocker locking him down, walking him like an inmate and gashing a hole in Seattle's interior defense.

John Marshall had the curious habit of putting Terrill at nose tackle on a three man line. Double teams overmatch Terrill. He's a single-gap tackle that must be assigned a single-gap or become a liability. But he's a good, cheap single-gap tackle that the Seahawks should be benefiting from. The first step, the spin -- Terrill is a boom or bust defensive tackle that mixes great plays with getting dominated. Picking when the gamble is worth it what a good defensive mind does.

Cory Redding might displace Terrill as Seattle's primary pass rush specialist at defensive tackle.

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If I'm not mistaken,

isn’t Terrill’s roster spot in jeopardy?

"Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do."

by Fearless Frog on Jul 16, 2009 2:02 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

He needs a counter to his spin move...

It seemed like he was successful when he first got playing time, because he had a great spin move and people hadn’t seen him…

Now that the scouting report is out on him, it seems like he desperately needs to build some kind of counter move to help him out.

Last season, he got driven completely out of the play much too often. Strangely enough, he doesn’t seem to recognize screens, draws, reverses, or other plays where his lack of ability to pehetrate might actually have helped if he could have had a bit more awareness.

I like the guy, and hope he can either develop some more moves or be used more like John suggests.

by PerryCollective on Jul 16, 2009 2:10 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

He was also matched up with Green

Both were puzzlingly rotated in on Third and crucial “need-a-stop” downs, where you would expect at least one of the starting DT’s. I think it made for a bad rotation, not only in terms of results, but in maximizing Terrill’s potential disruptiveness and high-energy motor.

by Groundhog on Jul 16, 2009 2:18 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Photo choices

I swear, you putting a picture of a different player than the one you’re analyzing all the time is hilarious. I’m always catching myself thinking “I didn’t know he looked like that! Oh, never mind”.

by maimster on Jul 16, 2009 3:22 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

That had me perplexed as well...

But if the objective is getting me to read the captions, it’s working. :)

by PerryCollective on Jul 16, 2009 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Craig Terrill is our resident white-baller DT.

"Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do."

by Fearless Frog on Jul 16, 2009 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Good 4th or 5th DT.

Craig is a 4th or 5th option at DT. He has a nice pass rush and no real upside as far as stoping the run. He is also very good ST player.

I see him making it as the 5th DT this year (Mebane, Cole, Bryant and Redding all are ahead of him). I just don’t know after this year how many more times he will make the team.

by JustinWF on Jul 16, 2009 6:47 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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