Busted Coverage but by Whom?
by John Morgan on Aug 24, 2010 2:57 PM PDT
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1-10-SEA 27 (3:55) 25-R.Grant left end to SEA 19 for 8 yards (57-D.Hawthorne).
Aaron Curry and Red Bryant are stood up and contained and Grant has a soft corner to round and sprint towards the second level. David Hawthorne worsens the damage by running into the pile and briefly getting tied up with Bryan Bulaga (substituting at guard). He recovers to tackle Grant after eight.
2-2-SEA 19 (3:11) 12-A.Rodgers pass short right to 89-J.Jones to SEA 16 for 3 yards (36-L.Milloy).
Aaron Rodgers exploits soft coverage on second and two. I hate bend but don't break defenses. He hits James Jones running a slant and Seattle surrounds Jones - Nick Reed behind and the to left, Marcus Trufant and Roy Lewis from in front - before Lawyer Milloy reminds everyone that a tackle is the customary way to end a play and lunges and wraps Jones. A generous spot awards Green Bay the first.
1-10-SEA 16 (2:30) 25-R.Grant right tackle to SEA 12 for 4 yards (57-D.Hawthorne, 36-L.Milloy).
Seattle's defense is forced off the line and Grant picks up field looking for just the right hole. He finds it, he thinks, but Hawthorne arrives and fills and caps the damage. This was a four yard run that started like a 16 yard run.
2-6-SEA 12 (1:46) (Shotgun) 12-A.Rodgers pass incomplete short left to 85-G.Jennings [59-A.Curry].
Seattle sets in a 5-1. Curry and Chris Clemons are the right and left end, respectively. Seattle blitzes six. Clemons sends Chad Clifton reeling but never gets around or through the tackle to create real pressure. Curry rounds the edge and hits Rodgers after he throws.
Roy Lewis starts forward, moves hard left and blankets Jennings running into the end zone. Good coverage.
3-6-SEA 12 (1:40) (Shotgun) 12-A.Rodgers pass short middle to 88-J.Finley for 12 yards, TOUCHDOWN. WATCH HIGHLIGHT
Green Bay motions into an empty backfield. Seattle rushes three. The former creates confusion. The latter creates modest but irrelevant pass rush. One of Hawthorne and Milloy blow their assignment.
Milloy is playing over Greg Jennings and when Lewis moves into an underneath zone towards the left flat, Milloy assumes man coverage on Jennings. This is where things begin to break down.
Hawthorne is playing a middle zone. He starts by covering Finley but follows Jennings as Jennings runs a dig route towards the middle of the field.
Both Hawthorne and Milloy cover Jennings allowing Finley to streak free on a post pattern. Either Hawthorne was supposed to stick with Finley or Milloy was supposed to cover the deep middle. Given the coverage by Wilson and Lewis, I think this one is on Milloy. Milloy needs to be deeper than the deepest receiver.
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Learning opportunity
for the defense. We’ll be seeing some 5-wide formations, albeit not too many. Looked like man-coverage, which is cool and all, but they gotta figure out that communication. The TE shouldn’t be wide open in the middle of the end zone. It’s not even like GB used some form of stunt with their routes, it was pretty straight forward.
by ErictheHawksFan on Aug 24, 2010 3:11 PM PDT reply actions
Will this defense be clever enough to confuse inexperienced QBs?
Throw in a bit of confusion and some of these hits (in this case, by Curry) could become sacks.
But it didn’t seem to flummox Rodgers one bit. I swear I saw him yawn at some point.
The defense just didn’t seem very impressive by any stretch. There were a few plays made (e.g. Thomas’ leaping near-pick, Trufant’s pass defensed), but for the most part pretty bland-looking and ineffective.
God I hope they can continue to tighten up this defense so it’s semi-effective come the regular season.
For once, I’m glad there’s four full weeks of pre-season. If any team needs it, it’s the Seahawks.
"Pass rushers enter the world of Okung but never leave." - JM
I think we've been keeping things rather vanilla up to this point
There’s bound to be some more stunts and zone blitzing schemes that they haven’t shown in a game thus far. Although I will say the inability to create any kind of pressure with 4-down lineman is disheartening. Even the most blitz happy teams in the league rush 4 people only on the majority of their plays. We’ve gotta do better in that aspect. I’m with you 100% on needing all 4 preseason games.
by ErictheHawksFan on Aug 24, 2010 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Are we sure it's busted coverage and not a poorly designed zone?
Rodgers doesn’t pump fake or look at the receiver that Milloy takes and Wilson is looking at Finley the whole way but looks like he’s also responsible for the wide receiver going into the corner of the end zone. It’s just a really weird play to me. Everyone acts decisively except Wilson, who if he isn’t responsible for that part of the field he’s psychic, who was damned if he did, damned if he didn’t.
he's not psychic
He just see’s that no one’s in the cover 2 middle right zone. Milloy runs up in coverage and ends up double teaming Jennings. Wilson knows they’re screwed and watches it in car wreck slow motion. He’s covering his man but center field is a train wreck. Touchdown Packers
yea dude
The worst part of this TD?
Carroll called T/O right before this play. What a joke.
Milloy
IMO from his field position Milloy bit underneath and totally forgot about his zone. I don’t think it was Hawthorns job to run man deep. Milloy came up and the pass was thrown to the zone he just came out of.
yea dude
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