Mick063
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...better than anyone else.
MacDonald routinely presents an "Overload" defensive front. Overload: That would be three defensive linemen on one side of the center and middle linebacker Earnest Jones lined up on the other side of or directly over the center, often presenting himself as a stand up 3 technique. Combine those four players with the two edge rushers and you get a five-man front. Additionally, line up Emanworri tight to the line of scrimmage from his slot position and you present a six-man front. When these fronts are presented for a predictable passing down, then you are in effect, dictating the protection scheme.
The opponent has to account for every potential pass rusher along the line of scrimmage, so a predictable protection scheme must be called as a pre snap blocking adjustment. In other words, and this is very important, Macdonald knows what the opponent's protection scheme is going to be ahead of time. With this knowledge, Macdonald then uses Witherspoon to attack the known vulnerabilities of the correctly predicted protection scheme. This is why Macdonald can send Witherspoon on only 6 out of 53 total offensive drop back passes and hit home with a game wrecking play on just about every one of them.
Indeed, Seattle only sent more than 4 pass rushers on 8 of 53 passing plays and Witherspoon was involved with 6 of them. This is how Seattle can be one of the league leaders in fewest blitz attempts on average yet still deliver staggering results when they do blitz. There is something to be said for Witherspoon as well. His aggressive mentality, physical twitch, and inherent real time feel will yield results that would be difficult for other teams to replicate. He just lands the haymakers better than anyone else can.
It is all broken down starting at time 02:27.
MacDonald routinely presents an "Overload" defensive front. Overload: That would be three defensive linemen on one side of the center and middle linebacker Earnest Jones lined up on the other side of or directly over the center, often presenting himself as a stand up 3 technique. Combine those four players with the two edge rushers and you get a five-man front. Additionally, line up Emanworri tight to the line of scrimmage from his slot position and you present a six-man front. When these fronts are presented for a predictable passing down, then you are in effect, dictating the protection scheme.
The opponent has to account for every potential pass rusher along the line of scrimmage, so a predictable protection scheme must be called as a pre snap blocking adjustment. In other words, and this is very important, Macdonald knows what the opponent's protection scheme is going to be ahead of time. With this knowledge, Macdonald then uses Witherspoon to attack the known vulnerabilities of the correctly predicted protection scheme. This is why Macdonald can send Witherspoon on only 6 out of 53 total offensive drop back passes and hit home with a game wrecking play on just about every one of them.
Indeed, Seattle only sent more than 4 pass rushers on 8 of 53 passing plays and Witherspoon was involved with 6 of them. This is how Seattle can be one of the league leaders in fewest blitz attempts on average yet still deliver staggering results when they do blitz. There is something to be said for Witherspoon as well. His aggressive mentality, physical twitch, and inherent real time feel will yield results that would be difficult for other teams to replicate. He just lands the haymakers better than anyone else can.
It is all broken down starting at time 02:27.
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