Leveraging the football

jerzeycane

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Can't tell you how many times I've seen it today. Multiple guys on defense taking poor angles and allowing for yards after the catch when they should have a receiver corralled.

It's something that our defense is EXCELLENT at. Very rarely do guys escape multiple defenders and/or break a tackle and scoot for more. Our guys are very disciplined in their pursuit angles and that's obviously a sign of outstanding coaching from Paul Williams, Barrow, and D'Onofrio.
 
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Eric Ebron disagrees....but yeah

Two things:

1) Those were backup linebackers in on that play.

2) Tracy Howard just wiffed on the tackle and knocked Kirby off of what would have been a stop.

Don't think that was a result of a poor pursuit angle as much as it was dumb luck and a terrible effort from Tracy.
 
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