Craig Terrill Lifts Darryl Tapp's Quarterback Sack

by John Morgan on Sep 22, 2009 6:44 PM PDT Comment 26 comments

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Darryl Tapp does something cool ten times a game. In his coaches eyes, that can't overcome the two inches God didn't give him.

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The first quarter ended quietly. Craig Terrill sacked Shaun Hill and forced San Francisco to start the second quarter punting. The Seahawks looked to be in it, and maybe if things had broken differently they would have been. But things didn't. Things broke in Matt Hasselbeck's body instead.

Jimmy Raye dialed up a play-action pass to fullback Moran Norris. Deon Grant descended on it and tackled Norris in the flat for no gain. It was a fruitless ending to a futile play call.
Raye then attacked Seattle's center, but this time Seattle stopped him. Red Bryant gave David Baas a hard push off the snap and Baas recoiled clear into Norris. Frank Gore adjusted, but the disruption made the route too long to the hole and unblocked Cory Redding closed from the left and tackled Gore after a gain of one.
Then came Guitar Hero's sack. He didn't do poorly, per se, but he wasn't the star despite recording the stat. Terrill was over center and he battled a double team to a draw. He kept Chilo Rachal and Eric Heitmann out of his body and that allowed him to disengage and wrap Hill when he scrambled.
The star was, is, Darryl Tapp. Tapp was playing right end in Seattle's pass rush line. Beside him was Redding. Redding got a great jump off the snap and that allowed Tapp to move forward and then laterally, stunting towards a sagging pocket. Baas dropped his double team of Redding and engaged Tapp. Or tried to. Tapp met Baas with a swim-spin-swim and ran past him and towards Hill. That flushed Hill out of the pocket and into Terrill's arms. My words don't do the move justice. It was cool.

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I'm ready for Tapp to start getting some of the glory

by Nate Dogg on Sep 22, 2009 7:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Not that I want it to happen...

…but less sacks for Tapp could possibly = less $$$s to re-sign him. Start contract talks now.

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 Sep 22, 2009 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

If we lose Redding and cut Kerney

Are we going to have the tiniest pass-rushing DEs in the league in Tapp and Reed?

Mike Wahle(OG), Walter Jones(LT), Chris Spencer(C), Marcus Trufant(CB), Deion Branch(WR), Sean Locklear(OT), Brandon Mebane(DT), Leroy Hill(LB), Lofa Tatupu(LB), Josh Wilson(CB), Justin Griffith(FB), Matt Hasselbeck (QB)

by ninjasocks on Sep 22, 2009 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tapp is 270.

by John Morgan on Sep 22, 2009 9:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And 6'2" (and so is Nick Reed)

For some reason I was thinking they were both like 5’11".

by ninjasocks on Sep 22, 2009 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

PFR disagrees with both of you

Tapp. PFR also has LoJack as 265 instead of the 270 the Hawks site has him. Have they put on weight or is the team adding some phantom pounds?

by Nate Dogg on Sep 22, 2009 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Height and weight are never accurate

Players get heights get exaggerated and weights change over the course of a season.

by ninjasocks on Sep 22, 2009 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Who knows how often the info on that site is updated

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by Wayward Llama on Sep 23, 2009 4:28 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Weight is just a number...

and the weights listed on the web are not even accurate. Tapp is a premium pass-rusher, but not great at holding steady against the run. This is a well worn characterization and Tapp is not likely to change. We have got a lot of quality snaps out of Tapp. Do you remember:

The pick-six at mile high on Jay Cutler’s first ever start.
Forcing a fumble with the big wrap around his hand.

The guy has done a ton in his time here and you have to be happy with what we got for the 63rd pick in the draft. He is going to get paid A LOT this offseason. At the end of the year he will likely have played in 64 out of 64 possible games. He already has 15.5 Sacks, 11 PD’s, 8 FF’s, 2 INT’s and 143 tackles and will be 25 years old. You can definitely make a case for keeping a guy like Tapp on the squad, but you can make a case against it too. His numbers reflect the fact that he is an extremely quick and disruptive end… but the bottom line is that teams can run at him too effectively. While he is undoubtedly better than Nick Reed.. Nick Reed will cost us pennies going forward and I am thinking Tapp is gonna fetch something like $40MM/5y. You have to really ask whether Tapp is the free agent you want more than anyone else at any position because that is basically what it’d cost.

I think the lesson of Tapp is that the one-dimensional pass-rusher isn’t the hardest thing to find. I think Reed will put up big numbers too, lets not forget that a very disproportionate number of defensive stats happen in the third downs when he will be on the field (and Tapp was). Jackson is starting to come around and his deal was only like $12MM/5 so he is on contract for 3 seasons after this and possibly restricted after that. I love Tapp but I would rather spend the dough on a blue chip FA at a position we are thinner at and find another DE in round 2 of the draft to bring through the pipeline.

by michaelfox99 on Sep 23, 2009 6:01 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

If we lose Redding?

First, I would expect we would try to keep Redding since he plays hard and loves it here. (and he’s healthy!) But when he goes, I think Lawrence Jackson is the man who will likely replace him.

Both Tapp and Reed are better as 3rd-down pass rush type guys. Jackson can be that every down LDE. But I’d still iike Redding to stay and finish his career here. He’s the kind of player we need to keep.

"Football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental." - Doug Plank

by Stevo's on Sep 23, 2009 8:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He's on a one year contract

If he plays pretty well, we might not be able to afford him. If he plays like crap, we might not want him. He’s a DE/DT in the mold of LJ and Bennett, who are both cheaper and younger than him.

I like Redding, but I don’t expect him to be here for very long.

by ninjasocks on Sep 23, 2009 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

So the headline and the caption are supposed to contain sexual innuendo right?

by LantermanC on Sep 22, 2009 7:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

No.

Didn’t think about that until just now. “Lift” is music journalist slang for plagiarizing riffs or beats or style. It fit because Terrill plays guitar.

Now I want to change the headline.

by John Morgan on Sep 22, 2009 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Then there's the "2 inches God didn't give him"

This post is full of double entendres.

by ninjasocks on Sep 22, 2009 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not changing that...

titter away.

Titter! I say. TITTER!

by John Morgan on Sep 22, 2009 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Teee heee

by ninjasocks on Sep 22, 2009 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well it's not exactly plagiarizing.

When I was taking music theory I had to lift lines from jazz recordings as part of assigned projects. It’s a common practice to help musicians make a connection between how music sounds and how it looks on paper.

Well, I suppose technically it’s plagiarizing but the connotation is a bit too harsh. Copying seems like a better fit.

And there’s my geek allotment for the rest of the month.

by BrianL on Sep 22, 2009 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I like it. I like to be corrected.

by John Morgan on Sep 22, 2009 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

In a nonmusical sense

it’s a shortening of “shoplift”.

by bewrong on Sep 23, 2009 5:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Didn't notice it until

LantermanC pointed it out. Now it makes me think of the Chappelle stand-up; “spread your cheeks and lift your sack”!!!!

by Hawkmain on Sep 23, 2009 12:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I love puns.

"I wish the Seahawks were back in the AFCW so we didn’t have to face Willis and Gore twice a year."

by Fearless Frog on Sep 22, 2009 8:39 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

They're sooooo much pun.

by Tyler Cox on Sep 22, 2009 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tapp is so underrated

Ganbate! (good luck, work hard, (JP))

by paul2 on Sep 22, 2009 9:17 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

underrated maybe, but I think he's just developing and emerging as expected

Its funny how many players drafted high get called a “bust” in their first season or second season, then when they become competent pros in their second or third season, people want to say they were “underrated”.

Tapp was drafted in the second round. Teams draft a guy there because when they look like they can become quality starters, but they are not among the few first round talents that every team has targeted. It looks like Tapp is developing into the player Ruskell’s scouts thought he would become.

And another great thing about Tapp is watching him on the sidelines, in camp, talking to guys, harassing the rookies. He is always laughing, smiling, getting in someone’s face, and giving them s#!t. He has a lot of fun playing this game.

"Football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental." - Doug Plank

by Stevo's on Sep 23, 2009 8:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

next up, let's hope LoJack develops as quickly by his 3rd or 4th year

and hopefully, we’ll start saying “boy that Lawrence Jackson was really underrated!” too.

"Football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental." - Doug Plank

by Stevo's on Sep 23, 2009 8:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Jimmy Raye dialed up a play-action pass to fullback Moran Norris. Deon Grant descended on it and tackled Norris in the flat for no gain. It was a fruitless ending to a futile play call.

I don’t remember the play, but I would bet that the play was not intended to go to Norris. It was probably just one of Hill’s patented checkdowns.

by Brendan Scolari on Sep 23, 2009 12:24 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs