The Seahawks, 49ers & the Pistol formation
With the Seahawks matching up this week with Colin Kaepernick's San Francisco 49er offense, I thought it was important to talk a little bit about the Pistol formation.
With the Seahawks matching up this week with Colin Kaepernick's San Francisco 49er offense, I thought it was important to talk a little bit about the Pistol formation.
On Sunday night, there were two teams that ran fake punts in their respective games: The 49ers playing on the road against the Patriots, and the Seahawks playing in Canada against the Bills.
I have commented in recent articles that Seattle's drop-off in run defense this season has had mostly to do with blown assignments, specifically when linebackers have not maintained good gap...
Though Wilson's pocket play was fairly ugly at the beginning of the season, at this point in the year, Wilson's movement ability is actually one of his biggest weapons.
While I actually thought the run defense looked a little bit better against Chicago than it had in the previous couple of weeks, the question still remains: What has been going on with this?
A breakdown of the final couple of plays from the Seahawks' OT win in Chicago.
The read-option is a play that we've broken down here a few times and it's something that the Seahawks are using situationally to exploit over-aggressive defenses or just to simply provide a different look to teams.
A breakdown of what, to me, may have been the most crucial play of the game.
There's been a lot of concern expressed about this Seattle defense in recent weeks, and for good reason.
Okay, back to football... Let's start with Russell Wilson.