ivotuk":329hizsv said:
A lot of very true and good stuff
I used the 7 sacks as an example, but yeah, the line blew plays that did not result in sacks, but did result in hits. Russ ran read options he should not have and got hit for it too. The hardest hit he took was on the screen play with the ill advised fake, he got mooshed by 3 guys, that hit is on Russ.
It doesn't change the fact that 6 won't usually block 7, 5 won't block 6, 3 seconds to throw is a good amount, and hot routes run where the blitzes come from are a vital and time tested strategy that we under use.
So, here is every hit on Russ.
2nd and 9, 12:50 QTR1.
Cards show 7 man potential blitz. Send 5 from left side, Okung and Bailey block 2 of the 3 from their side. The safety blitzer hits Russ. but the pass to Moeaki gains 17. 2 can't block 3.
15:00 2nd QTR 1st and goal, 8. First sack. Good pocket on 4 man rush, call it a coverage sack, but it isn't until Russ ties to escape laterally that his lineman loses leverage.
13:31 2nd quarter 3rd and goal, 5. Seattle line up spread empty, 5 offensive linemen. Cards rush 6. Safety is unblocked. Russ tries to escape, gets sacked by Buchanon. No possible way to blame this hit on the line.
11:20, 2nd qtr, 1st and 10, AZ 29. Empty set, 3 WR go routes. 4 man rush, Sweezy doesn't hold his block long enough, Russ gets planted after throwing deep to Kearse.
11:13 2nd qtr 2nd and 10. another sack, good pocket, call it a coverage sack again.
8:06 2nd qtr, 2nd an 11, read option keeper, Russ pushed OB at 9. I guess that officially counts as a hit on a 40 yard run.
6:56 2nd qtr. 2nd and 12 Russ gets crushed on the ill fated screen with the play fake to the right. Maybe Bailey screwed up, but most likely this is just a terrible call. Staring to notice we only call screens behind on down and distance.
6:14 2nd qtr 3rd and 19. Another good pocket, Another play with 4 long routes, Lynch chips and is late releasing as a safety valve, Russ rabbits and gets smooshed. Coverage sack.
14:54 3rd qtr 1st and 10, read option keeper, Russ gains 4 but takes a pretty good shot from the 2nd tackler in.
13:33 3rd qtr 3rd and 4, AZ shows 6 man blitz sends 4, drops the two threatening to blitz safeties right into the path of both hot routes, russ takes off and gets sacked. Britt allows free release from OLB, but it looks to be by design to me, I could be wrong.
11:04 1st and 10 AZ 24. Offensive line looks confused by look from AZ, Britt and Sweezy both whiff, Russ escapes, gains 4, tackled from behind by a safety.
10:33 2nd and 6, Russ keeps a RO, loses 2 and gets hit by Mathieu.
9:15 3rd and 13. 4 man rush, the LDE runs an inside stunt after the DT crashes down on Okung. Bailey ends up blocking the DT into Okung while the LDE runs untouched at Russ, Russ gets rid of the ball for a gain of 5, but gets hit hard.
3:44 1st and 10, 48. Russ being Russ. AZ threatens to send 6, RDE drops into coverge and AZ blitzes 5 from the left, giving the 4 rushers on 3 blockers. On this play, Russ runs the play action, sees the free rusher, pirouettes out of trouble and gets the ball to Lynch. He gets touched, but not really hit.
3:14 1st and 10 AZ 33. Russ keeps RO, gets smashed, loss of 4. It's pretty clear by now that AZ is scraping players to cover Russ on read option.
1:56 3rd qtr, 3rd and 11, AZ34 . Russ scrambles for 15, it was a good pocket, but a stunt by AZ opened a huge lane Russ could not resist. He fakes a flip to the TE then takes off, gets tackled on the sideline after getting the first down.
12:29 4th qtr, 2nd and 5. Az is late getting D set up, russ sees it, audibles to a RO look in the pistol, takes off for an easy 8 yards. Counts as a tackle, but he slides and is never actually hit by Mathieu.
11:50 1st and 10 SEA 31. AZ blitzes 6 vs play action, Wilson escapes, has no one to throw to on the left side, and gets tackled for a loss of 1. Outside the pocket, he could have gotten rid of it, but was trying to make a play. Not a hit he had to take.
9:24 3rd and 9 Sea 45. The play after the flea flicker, AZ blitzes 8. They send the house. Russ rolls right, has no receiver, and even though outside the pocket doesn't get rid of it til the last second, takes a really big hit.
4:46, 1st and 10, Sea 46. Read option, Russ gives to Lynch, gets a bump from the safety assigned to him. Not a big hit at all, but it counts later when they tally the hits the QB takes.
4:05, 2nd and 6, 50. Empty set, a great pocket, Russ has 7 seconds before being touched, still no recievers are open, he takes off gains 10, slides and is touched down by a DB.
1:21 3rd and 5 AZ 10. Sea runs a naked boot, AZ blitzes the corner, Russ gets a little love tap from the DB.
The stat I heard was Russ took 23 hits, I could only find 21, and 3 of those are definitely on the line, 2 I can't tell exactly but it looks like the free release of the rusher is part of the play design or blitz adjustment, and the other 16 run the gamut of good blitz calls that had more rushers than blockers, coverage sacks where the pocket held up at lest 3 seconds, read option calls, scrambles down field that ended in hits, and non hits that are officially counted as hits.
I hope that was informative.