Broncos at Seahawks: The Defining Drive 1: Houshmandzadeh Loses Bailey
by John Morgan on Aug 27, 2009 3:26 PM PDT
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One thing I am working towards in a better integration of graphics. I can write 2WR (left) WR...or I can show you. The key is getting a portfolio of common formations.
This was the defining drive of the Seattle Seahawks game against Denver. I will now break it down, play by play, in loving detail*.
2-10-SEA 20 (2:31) 8-M.Hasselbeck pass short right to 84-T.Houshmandzadeh to SEA 27 for 7 yards (24-C.Bailey).
Denver is pressuring the outside gaps. This is the first sign it might be blitzing. Champ Bailey walks up to press T.J. Houshmandzadeh. That's the second sign Denver might be blitzing.
Snap.
Denver Blitzes five. Sean Locklear stays inside and it's up to T.J. Duckett to block Elvis Dumervil rushing from the outside left. He does. Owen Schmitt, playing half back, releases into the left flat. John Carlson runs a quick in. Jordan Kent runs a post.
On the right, Houshmandzadeh is baiting and weaving to avoid the press and confuse Bailey. He does. Housh cuts into a shallow slant. Bailey bites deep and loses cover. Matt Hasselbeck lightnings one into Houshmandzadeh, Housh receives and Bailey breaks on him. Houshmandzadeh's angle and separation allow him to catch, cut up field and drag Bailey for an additional two. He falls forward for seven.
*I am working towards improving the spacing, but the above is not perfectly accurate.
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These are really cool.
What would make it really, really cool is to add the approx game time when said play starts. That way, I can review and learn to see what you saw and match the description w/ the film. (DVRs are cool and I just got one).
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Cool indeed!
Names of the formations and field position. I was gonna say adding some color but what for?
by Seahawka 12th on Aug 27, 2009 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Nice
Just try to avoid making it look like Tecmo Bowl?
by Seahawka 12th on Aug 27, 2009 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Feel free to criticize the graphics
I would like input. Smaller? Probably not larger. More information? God ugly? I will refine them.
Any thing you can think of.
I figured that as well, but...
There are some people that won’t be able to make that connection due to lack of knowledge. Just trying to help with clarity for anyone that visits, regardless of their football IQ.
Looks fine to me.
If you’d want to put emphasis on certain players, maybe put their numbers in the circle, or color the circle, and have a legend on the side signaling that the green circle is TJ Housh.
Also, where’s the 11th defensive player? Just a safety playing deep?
It's a safety playing deep.
Not worth stretching out the whole graphic for one player, but I might figure out a key.
Maybe
Maybe add a red square dot marked S for the deep safety.
I love this sort of thing, really helps to understand the dynamics of the play since watching on TV is like looking through a keyhole while someone is swinging the door back and forth.
Go 'Hawks.
I concur with add the numbers
While some positions are intuitive (QB, LT), others aren’t (WR, RB, etc).
The demise of the Broncos in '09 is our future. Pray hard.
That might help in particular with the ends of the line.
Can’t quite tell if 2 TEs left or 1TE 1WR, etc of from possible variables regarding all of the players aligned left of the LT from the graphic. Have to match the text to it in order to find out.
Early prospect watch: RB C.J. Spiller, QB Jevan Snead, OT Ciron Black, DT Gerald McCoy, S Eric Berry, DT Ndamukong Suh, CB Ras-I Dowling 6'2, 200, RB Jonathan Dwyer
Agreed.
In this case matching the text to the description just confused me more. It looked more like either 2 TEs or WR TE, and since it said 2WR (left) WR above I assumed the latter…but from the description it sounds like Duckett and Carlson on Lock’s left.
For us on defense
as this Bronco alignment shows, color coding of personnel might be nice. To see when a safety is in the box, to see when a LB is on the line.
Also showing some general lines of movement, at least key lines of movement for receivers, pass rushers, would be nice also.
Particularly visually, less is more. Color, time, grid-iron, first down markers, movement lines, on top of the 22 dots, could very well be overkill. I dunno what the most useful ones are, but I’ll trust your discretion if you elect not to undertake all of our suggestions.
by jacobstevens on Aug 27, 2009 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I like its simplicity
If you kept it that size you could add player names or something.
Glenn Beck likes argument, but has a deap-seated hatred for logic.
I'd go smaller, and with numbers for the players of importance if that's not a significant pain in the arse.
Also, some arrows would be swell in aiding the general understanding of the flow of the play post snap.
Look through some of the old FO stuff
They do terrific graphics, and they use different symbols for offense/defense, with the key players’ numbers listed. You might ask Doug Farrar how some of that stuff gets made.
I will take this all under consideration and work on it tonight
and finish this tomorrow morning. Also, tomorrow afternoon I will provide notes for the second half. It will be more about players than plays though.
I was thinking arrows (or whatever) indicating routes and/or blocks
You could also perhaps place a small number at the specific point of the route/block that the text is describing. This would give a clearer picture of what moment the text is referring too.
This could also be fashioned to provide a accurate playwide time progression.
I’ll try to illustrate an example (#s = moment):
3a ^
I
2a I <2b <
1a81 1b84
Burleson and Housh lined up on the left.
2a Burleson does a double move and goes long.
2b Housh breaks outside and Matt pump fakes to him drawing the safety in.
3a Hasselbeck bombs the ball deep to Burleson.
This is obviously a crude sketch but hopefully you get the idea. Just a thought.
Maybe a little smaller and a 5 or 10 yard marker from the line of scrimmage would be awesome
The picture definitely adds a lot.
A Graphics Tablet May Work
I have some experience with writing or graphics tablets because of work where I teach people chart patterns and price formations in the stock market. Much of the time stock chart formations are fluid, or variations on a theme, rather than perfect replicas of a “standard formation.” When I analyze current patterns that are slight variations of the basic pattern It’s much easier for me demonstrate and teach by hand drawing the charts and diagrams to go along with the “classic pattern” from a library of images. It would take me a long, long time to create images with a graphics program versus just drawing it out on a stylus that inputs the data right into the computer. You may already know all about these products and I’m sure there are computer graphics experts that can give you great input, but I thought I would offer the information if it’s helpful.
Here is a link to a drawing tablet that I have worked with and is easy to use and relatively inexpensive. I’m not recommending the product or the site, I’m just presenting the information. You can view other tablets on that site or do a search for graphics tablets if it looks like useful information.
by scratchandsniff on Aug 27, 2009 9:06 PM PDT reply actions
I was wondering which program(s) were being used.
I wondered if a flavor of Visio would work. Seems to me that photoshop wouldn’t be the right tool for the job, though it was my first thought.
Early prospect watch: RB C.J. Spiller, QB Jevan Snead, OT Ciron Black, DT Gerald McCoy, S Eric Berry, DT Ndamukong Suh, CB Ras-I Dowling 6'2, 200, RB Jonathan Dwyer
You could do all of this really easily in powerpoint/open office
Once you make the symbols, its just a matter of copying them and moving them around. It may be more challenging to export them to an image format, but then you could always just do a screen grab.
Brett Favre is the Kenny Powers of football.
Make each dot into a miniature of the player represented.
It would look particularly good if they had over-sized heads.
Probably goes without saying,
but keep a template of basic Offenses and Defenses so you don’t have to draw from scratch every time.
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