John Carlson Carves a Zone and Makes Diving Catch to Keep Seahawks Driving
by John Morgan on Aug 29, 2009 2:25 PM PDT
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Seattle, in a show of boldness unfamiliar to Seahawks fan, converted the fourth and pressed on towards the end zone. It sprinted to the line and set four wide, shotgun with Justin Forsett at Matt Hasselbeck's left hip. Seattle calls a screen. Rob Sims and Max Unger pull to the outside left. Headpin Steve Vallos is stuck behind the line struggling to free himself from nose tackle Kenny Peterson. Hasselbeck can't wait. He finds Forsett in the flat, but the Broncos have numbers. Unger can't keep off safety Renaldo Hill and Hill tackles Forsett after a gain of four. Vallos shows up a second too late and BRussell bumps Wesley Woodyard. Yeah, punk, and you thought the play was over.
Time out.
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Hasselbeck overthrows a well-covered Deion Branch on a skinny post through the center of the end zone. Then this.
3-6-DEN 23 (:40) (Shotgun) 8-M.Hasselbeck pass short middle to 89-J.Carlson to DEN 13 for 10 yards (55-D.Williams).
Broncos rush three and drop eight into a cover three zone. Hasselbeck takes a five step drop. The Seahawks offensive line has little trouble controlling Denver's four rushers, holding the middle and sealing the edge. Hasselbeck reads right, looks left, steps into the pocket and guns it John Carlson. Carlson falls to his right and receives for ten and the first down.
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It's my first time working with it
So it should improve, but the basic artwork provided by Alain is awesome.
My only suggestion is the black text on red is a little hard to see.
But I love the progression of these graphics.
NEEDS MORE FREEDOM!
Bad A$$
Great work on the graphics Alain.
Great outcome John.
Holy Mothereffer!
Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about! Sweet graphic.
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
Don't remember the play
And I dunno what the right LB ended up doing, but this diagram makes Mike Nolan look pretty reckless.
John, I'm confused about part of it.
There are 12 defenders. My guess is that the CB on the left is shown with two different zones, but with the numbers so small I can’t tell.
The only real issue I have is that whatever defender you have twice busts the original zone he was given. When you show a pre-snap position and a zone, that player then goes somewhere into that zone, doesn’t he?
Or are you showing that with deep responsibility his zone was pushed deeper as Carlson stretched it, and he picked up a new one?
The mistake is the right corner
I am looking at my original notes. I think he dropped into a cover three and the left corner protected the right flat. I’ll have to go back and watch.
by John Morgan on Aug 30, 2009 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes, and thank you.
I wanted to be sure you were saying that and not the graphic’s RCB.
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