19 January 2014
Quote of the Day: SB Nation
From 2014 NFC Championship: The best laid plans: Coaches want football to be like chess. The NFC Championship hid half the pieces and flipped the board over:
"Hours are spent in the week before a football game analyzing tape, working against the scout team, searching for any advantage that can be exploited. It is work devoted to Plan A, and Plan A is where your superior knowledge and preparation are supposed to light the way to a win.
Plan A was meaningless on offense in the first half on Sunday. The Seattle and San Francisco defenses were not just ready for Plan A, they were eager for it. Plan A never worked to the offense's advantage; the defense had position, or numbers, or mismatches in its favor. Plan A only yielded failure -- sputtering, retreating, painful-looking failure.
Plan B? Plan B has something going for it: it's not Plan A, and destroying Plan A is all the 49er and Seahawk defenses think about. Where one half of Plan A led to no meaningful running game from Marshawn Lynch and Frank Gore and one combined catch between team-leading receivers Anquan Boldin and Golden Tate, Plan B was full of improvised chaotic possibility. That was where Colin Kaepernick dropped back in the pocket, saw no open pass and then took off running, weaving through Seattle defenders like traffic cones. Plan B was also where Russell Wilson waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and only well after any route could possibly have met its designed end threw a deep ball to Doug Baldwin, setting up the only Seahawk points of the half."
[I could keep going, so I recommend reading the whole thing over at SB Nation. :) ]
"Hours are spent in the week before a football game analyzing tape, working against the scout team, searching for any advantage that can be exploited. It is work devoted to Plan A, and Plan A is where your superior knowledge and preparation are supposed to light the way to a win.
Plan A was meaningless on offense in the first half on Sunday. The Seattle and San Francisco defenses were not just ready for Plan A, they were eager for it. Plan A never worked to the offense's advantage; the defense had position, or numbers, or mismatches in its favor. Plan A only yielded failure -- sputtering, retreating, painful-looking failure.
Plan B? Plan B has something going for it: it's not Plan A, and destroying Plan A is all the 49er and Seahawk defenses think about. Where one half of Plan A led to no meaningful running game from Marshawn Lynch and Frank Gore and one combined catch between team-leading receivers Anquan Boldin and Golden Tate, Plan B was full of improvised chaotic possibility. That was where Colin Kaepernick dropped back in the pocket, saw no open pass and then took off running, weaving through Seattle defenders like traffic cones. Plan B was also where Russell Wilson waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and only well after any route could possibly have met its designed end threw a deep ball to Doug Baldwin, setting up the only Seahawk points of the half."
[I could keep going, so I recommend reading the whole thing over at SB Nation. :) ]
Labels: Seattle Seahawks
# posted by mamurd @ 9:06 PM 
