Fascinating comments this week
Q: On the third down play when the Colts blitzed on the final drive, why didn’t the defenders press the receivers?
A: That’s a good question and something I haven’t gotten the answer to yet. But it’s certainly a good question, and I’m going to ask it myself. We were off seven yards and if you’re blitzing in that situation, the ball’s coming out early. Now, you can align seven yards off. That’s fine to disguise it, but you better attack the route immediately, because you know the ball’s coming out. One of (former Colts Head Coach) Tony Dungy’s favorite phrases was, ‘You need to know when the blitz is called that the ball is coming out.’ That’s what I mean by lack of cohesion. We weren’t as cohesive as we should have been. You need to be on top of that situation. That’s why we took the timeout, to make the ball come out early, go up there and make the tackle and knock it out and get the ball back.
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