The Jackal wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:50 am
This is just one play from last year, but it would suggest the formation.
DE (Okonya), Spur, and MLB lined up to the strong side. DT (Tibbs), Bandit (Washington), and WLB lined up to the weak side.
Upon further examination, this is Mercer's overload formation, with three OL to the right side. Washington jams the TE, knocks the RB backwards, and hauls a big QB to the ground.
Whale of a play by Tibbs, though. Mercer puts two men on him, he still pushes the pile back into Riley's face, who tries to escape but runs right into Washington. Furman rushes 4 and Mercer has 7 to block - still gives up a sack.
Yep..got it & NG is shading, or, in this case, ‘picking’ strong. Makes sense.
Horrible blocking effort by Mercer’s H-Back/TE & the RB. O-Line is sliding right, as designed, & LT (Marchman) doesn’t have responsibilty for Tibbs, once Tibbs chooses an outside rush, BUT since Marchman sees/feels that the H-Back/TE just isn’t there, he tries to give Tibbs a little ‘chip’ to help before he turns back to doing what his job is supposed to be, ensuring no rush thru B-Gap. So, another sack that will be attributed by fans to the OL doing a bad job...when it was the ‘Skill Kids’ who failed to execute their blocking assignments.
Coach Lamb & Coach Barfield need to pull out some old FU film from 1980-1983 and show Tee Mitchell how Stanford Jennings used to execute his PassPro blocking assignments. He absolutely DESTROYED people...but, y’know...he was only the leading rusher, number 2 or 3 receiver, and 3 time SoCon POY...so, no reason he should be expected to get his hands dirty blocking...except he WANTED to...with extreme passion. Love to see more (any?) of that from RB’s these days. That same kind of lack of blocking effort by a RB cost the Falcons a Super Bowl. Arrrgggh, it makes me mad!!! Dang you, Jackal...you knew that & posted this just to torque me off, didn’t you?
BTW - #98 was very fortunate not to get ejected for the old ‘helmet-to-helmet’ at the end of that play, or, at a minimum, draw an unnecessary roughness flag. Heck, in the NFL these days, he might have been suspended for the rest of the season!