John Carlson Carves a Zone and Makes Diving Catch to Keep Seahawks Driving

by John Morgan on Aug 29, 2009 2:25 PM PDT Comment 18 comments

Fail publicly and someone might just lend a hand. Alain Limia, my gratitude and the gratitude of Field Gulls' thousands of readers. Each spared my lame illustrations.

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.

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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That graphic is all kinds of awesome.

by torx on Aug 29, 2009 2:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yes,

now that is a graphic.

I'm gonna go calm submissive on your ass.

by Dukeshire on Aug 29, 2009 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's my first time working with it

So it should improve, but the basic artwork provided by Alain is awesome.

by John Morgan on Aug 29, 2009 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Full of awesome

Nice work with that.

Brett Favre is the Kenny Powers of football.

by ninjasocks on Aug 29, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Very nice.

It's Great to be a Florida Gator!

by Wayward Llama on Aug 29, 2009 3:13 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Wow, that's amazing

Thanks for all the hard work, JM.

by aerozeppelin on Aug 29, 2009 3:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

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!

by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 29, 2009 3:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

incredible graphic

by Hancock.Brett on Aug 29, 2009 4:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Bad A$$

Great work on the graphics Alain.

Great outcome John.

by Fudwamper on Aug 29, 2009 5:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

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

by Misfit74 on Aug 29, 2009 6:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Don't remember the play

And I dunno what the right LB ended up doing, but this diagram makes Mike Nolan look pretty reckless.

by jacobstevens on Aug 29, 2009 10:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Reckless?

It looks cautious dropping 8 into coverage. I’m missing a part of your thought process.

by cashless on Aug 30, 2009 1:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The offensive left

As Carlson & branch cross each other and Forsett moves into the flat, how are all three of those guys covered?

The CB stays over Forsett in the flat, then, right, and the safety knows he’s got Carlson once he sees Forsett swinging out, but that sure seems to leave quite a seam between that safety and the flat and curl zone, with Branch dragging across. Just seems like there’s more space to work with over there for us, the strong side of the offense with three eligible. Just going by the diagram, of course. I still have the game recorded but haven’t gone back to look.

by jacobstevens on Aug 31, 2009 9:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

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?

by cashless on Aug 30, 2009 1:23 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs