Two Short Films about Max Unger, Pull Blocker

I’m sure he got lit up in films for that. In both cases he should be just driving and clearing the lane. Cut blocking is only effective at the point of attack. The defender must be committed to a directions of motion. In the open field when you aren’t sure which part of the zone the runner is going, the pull blocker needs to drive not cut. Especially against DBs who are much more likely to be able to go over and/or around you because they are already breaking down for the open field tackle. I hope Gibbs the great fixes him cause he appears to have a fundamental missunderstanding of how to pull block/when to cut.

It is hard to tell, but it seems to me like the guy Lock cut-blocked, LDE #79, might have hit Unger’s legs.

I would have shit my pants. That would be scary ass all hell.

I keep telling myself he was tripped. Yeah, that’s it.

Equal parts hustle, grit and suck?

If he had blocked that Mike in that could’ve been a huge gain.

The play stood out to me like nothing else.

http://www.fieldgulls.com/2010/8/23/1638130/from-first-on-the-seahawks-15-to#45032247

Would have easily cut right and avoided the guy Housh is blocking and the unblocked defender to Housh’s left would have been blocked or at least delayed by having to go around Housh’s block. Washington had a lot of field on the right side to run through, and that would be the third level between him and the end zone.