Loud cheers and shouts swarmed in from all directions. The turbulent air waves were so turbulent that you could feel the hot pressure on your skin. The blood gradually began to boil. Adrenaline suddenly exploded and leaked slightly. The sweaty fingertips seemed to be tightening.
In the second game, Lu Ke truly felt the power of the home court at Candlestick Stadium. Thousands of spotlights and spotlights swarmed in. Every move on the stage was under the spotlight, as if he was standing on top of the world! Lu Ke could clearly feel that every cell in his body was roaring, eager for competition, eager for duel, eager for challenge!
He loved moments like this.
The more excited you are, the calmer you are; the more excited you are, the calmer you are; you can even catch the traces of the breeze passing through the grass, and everything becomes extremely clear in your sight.
Although this was only the second game of his career, Lu Ke was like a seasoned hunter, meticulously observing the defense, making judgments calmly, recalling Jim Harbaugh's tactical arrangements, and then simply launched attack.
The Dallas Cowboys chose a traditional defensive formation that was quite satisfactory; while Lu Ke chose a pistol formation that allowed him to play freely. After the kickoff, he observed and observed again. Lu Ke did not find any openings for passing the ball and could only hand the football to Marcus Lynch.
Following their excellent performance in the first game, Jim Harbaugh decided that Marcus Lynch and Anthony Dixon would take turns to play and be listed as the starting four running backs, with playing time determined based on performance.
Holding the football in his arms, Marcus began to rush the ball, but the Dallas Cowboys' defensive front did not leave many gaps. They strictly defended the ball and only allowed three yards. Then they intercepted Marcus forcefully and terminated the game. The advancement of this offense.
Second play, seven yards.
Lu Ke continued the pistol formation, and after taking a step back, he began to look for a target to receive the ball. However, he found that all the Cowboys players in his field of vision were white and navy blue, and there was no passing gap at all. Among them, Logan not only fell into one-on-one personal defense, but there were also two players not far away to help defend.
In desperation, Lu Ke could only hand the football to Marcus again and continue to rely on running the ball to advance. Unfortunately, Marcus only advanced two yards and was intercepted by two players again and fell to the ground directly.
Third down, five yards.
Lu Ke set up a shotgun formation. Not only did he send out three wide receivers and a tight end, but Marcus also ran out as a receiving target, showing a full-fire posture.
After the kickoff, the field of vision was still dominated by Cowboys players, so densely packed that it even gave the illusion of covering the entire field. In a flash of lightning, Lu Ke chose the target of the pass-Logan Newman.
Under the joint defense of the two players, Logan had few chances. Even though Logan tried his best to catch the ball, Cowboys safety Abram-Elam played a flawless defense. At the last moment, he swooped out first, swatted away the football, and created the game. Pass incomplete.
strike out!
The San Francisco 49ers' first wave of offense took ninety-six seconds, and in the end, they struck out. After only advancing five yards, he had no choice but to punt. Such a performance is really shocking.
It’s not that strikeouts are terrible. In the whole game, even top quarterbacks such as the four elites, strikeouts are unavoidable. Every offense is a game between the offensive team and the defensive team. It is impossible for every offense to be successful. Everything goes smoothly, without any obstacles.
The reason for this disappointment is mainly because Lu Ke's performance in the last week's game was so amazing. Faced with Romo's outstanding performance, everyone was expecting Lu Ke to respond strongly and really make the game exciting; however, the result was a strikeout, which really made it impossible to cheer up.
However, this was only the first offense of the game. Everyone is patient and waits to see what happens. Even Charles Davis will not make a fuss just because he strikes out once. Today’s game is still unpredictable.
However, for Lu Ke and the quarterback, what is more important than striking out is, why? What went wrong? In this wave of attacks just now, Lu Ke smelled danger!
In football, the offense consists of three parts: the offensive line consisting of five players, the offensive weapon consisting of four receivers and a running back, and a quarterback.
Correspondingly, the defensive team consists of two parts: first-line defense and second-line defense.
The so-called first line and second line are relative to the position of the offensive team players. The first line defense is close to the offensive line, which is the first half; the second line defense is close to the end zone, which is the second half.
The secondary defense is relatively simple, with a total of four players, two safeties, and two cornerbacks. They are responsible for defending the pass and covering the midfield and backfield. They all defend the same targets: wide receivers and tight ends.
The cornerback is positioned relatively close to the offensive line, tracking closely, and immediately attaching himself to the receiving player's body; the safety guard is positioned relatively back, if the cornerback misses someone, or the receiving player forms a breakthrough , they made up for the defense in time and destroyed the offense.
According to the content of their responsibilities, safeties can also be subdivided into free defenders and strong defenders.
As the name suggests, the free defender covers a relatively large area and can roam in the backcourt at any time to help defend; the strong guard mainly defends the tight end - corresponding to the strong side of the tight end, and is more of a one-on-one defense, aiming at the near end. End forward is their job.
Abram Allan is a strong guard.
Overall, the secondary defense is about covering the backfield and defending the pass.
The first-line defense is relatively complex, with complex and diverse tactical combinations. There are seven players in total, and they can be divided into two parts, defensive front and linebackers. The defensive line is closer to the offensive line, almost facing each other; the linebackers are separated behind the defensive line, about one or two steps behind.
There are two mainstream defensive lineups in the league, the "4-3 formation", with four defensive forwards and three linebackers; and the "3-4 formation", with three defensive forwards and four linebackers. Of course, these are just two basic formations. On top of them, the defensive tactics are ever-changing and dazzling.
The defensive line, corresponding to the offensive line, has one player in the middle as the spike, and the left and right sides are defensive tackles and defensive ends. Their mission is to raid, tear apart the offensive line, attack the quarterback, tackle, impact, and sack the quarterback to stifle the offense at the first opportunity.
Linebackers are divided into middle linebackers and outside linebackers according to their standing position. This is the most important position in the entire defensive team, corresponding to the quarterback. As the person who issues orders in the defensive team, generally speaking, the captain of the defensive team is a linebacker.
The task of the linebackers is to intercept and attack. First, they must defend the running back and intercept the running back's rush; secondly, they must defend short passes. In the passing attack, they must cover the defense of short passes; thirdly, they must Raid, when looking for an opportunity, bypass the offensive line and try to sack the quarterback.
Therefore, the "4-3 formation" is a defensive formation that increases the intensity of raids and invests a large number of troops to sack the quarterback; the "3-4 formation" is a defensive formation that focuses on pass defense, covering short-term defense across the board. Pass, medium pass and long pass.
Overall, the first-line defense is an aggressive defense, completing short pass defense, running ball defense, and quarterback raids.
In today's game, the Dallas Cowboys set up a special defensive formation, "3-4-2-2", with three defensive frontmen, four linebackers, two cornerbacks, and two safeties.
The defensive formation itself is very ordinary, and more than half of the teams in the league use this formation. However, the Dallas Cowboys carefully developed their own defensive tactics——
Three defensive linemen are responsible for blocking running backs, four linebackers are responsible for covering short passes, two cornerbacks are responsible for covering intermediate passes, and two safeties are responsible for covering long passes.
In other words, the Cowboys gave up the raid and didn't even try. Correspondingly, the Cowboys invested eight players in passing defense! Completely covering the defense, defending the entire second half watertight!
The San Francisco 49ers only have four receivers, and even if you include running backs, it's only five. Eight against five, the Cowboys' defense has the upper hand; even in man-to-man defense, five against five, in addition to this, the Cowboys still have three players who can cover the zone defense, roam around, wait for opportunities, and assist. defense.
Obviously, the Dallas Cowboys carefully and repeatedly analyzed the tape of the San Francisco 49ers' first week game and made defensive arrangements based on Lu Ke's strengths and weaknesses:
Give up individual raids and focus on pass defense.
Lu Ke is a quarterback with mediocre physical talent, but his passing accuracy is extremely good, which can even determine the outcome of the game.
The Cowboys can choose to raid, attack head-on, and force confrontation to destroy Lu Ke's passing rhythm and confidence; however, they need to break through the San Francisco 49ers' offensive line - this offensive line's performance in the first game is still at a standard Above.
The Cowboys can also choose to pass the ball to defend and completely strangle Lu Ke's deadly weapon; even if the pass is successful, the number of yards released will not be too fatal. This is like a snake hitting seven inches and pinching Lu Ke's lifeline.
In the first wave of offense, Lu Ke's passing target was completely strangled, while Marcus' running ball failed to open up the situation. So...strikeout.
In modern football games, it is now the passing era, but the balance of passing and running is still a tactic that every team emphasizes repeatedly. The reason is this: after one tactic is strangled, another tactic must open up the situation and help each other. However, if the running ball is contained and forced to pass the ball continuously, the outcome can only be a disastrous defeat.
Of course, this is a problem that every quarterback must face; it is also a problem that every quarterback must solve. A strikeout should never turn into a series of strikeouts.
In Lu Ke's short professional career, he encountered a real challenge for the first time!
