"Crabtree vs. Scandrick."
Scandrick's concentration is highly concentrated. Today, he is in good condition. The only interception in the game is completed by him. At the same time, this is also the most important reason why the Dallas Cowboys still maintain the lead. Therefore, his concentration is completely He didn't lose focus, always aimed at Crabtree, and defended closely.
But Scandrick had to glance at the quarterback's movements out of the corner of his eye, observing the curves and angles of the football.
In just less than a millisecond of reaction time, Crabtree slightly opened the gap between the two by half an arm's length; at the same time, Scandrick caught the passing trajectory, which was a bullet. The pass was passed and spun towards Crabtree's right shoulder at high speed.
Scandrick made his judgment at the first moment, and then swooped out to try to destroy the pass. Immediately, he discovered that such a distance was too far for him. His fingertips could not touch it at all. Even if he threw his entire body, he could not destroy the pass. But the problem was, it seemed, Crabtree was also unable to catch passes.
The pass was placed too high, slightly above the chest, and above the right shoulder. In such an awkward position, there was no way for the wide receiver to catch the ball!
Then, Scandrick saw Crabtree raise his hands, close to his shoulders, turn around clockwise, as if catching traces of the wind, grasp and retract his hands, and steadily focus on the football. Then, following the momentum of his turn, he ran directly out of the boundary!
"Ah! Ahhh!" Chris Wilson suddenly exploded, like a spring that was compressed to the extreme and then suddenly released. He jumped high and pointed in the direction of the court with his right hand, but he also I didn’t know who I was referring to, but I just screamed, with my eyes wide open, and screamed, “Ahhhh!”
But behind the scream, Chris was roaring: Successful catch! Successful catch! Damn it, that's a catch! And he even managed to get out of bounds! This pass is so awesome! Come on, get on, keep moving forward! 49ers, come on!
All the words could not be said, they just turned into roars, "Ahhhh!"
"Kick off, step back, pass the ball!" Troy's whole body was like a fully drawn bow, tense to the extreme, twisting into a weird posture, and shouted loudly into the microphone, "Pass the ball, four points from the 49ers." Wei Lu Ke passed the ball directly without any hesitation or pause. The Cowboys' defensive front had no time to react, and the football was already passed!"
"On the left, this is actually a pass from the left! Lu Ke chose a one-on-one on the left, Crabtree versus Scandrick. Close defense, no foul, no mismatch, the football flew over! Oh, God, this is a back-shoulder shadow pass! Back-shoulder shadow pass! Lu Ke completed the pass and Crabtree completed the catch!"
Troy could no longer control himself, and his voice became shrill and harsh, but the words continued without any pause.
"Both feet, Crabtree's feet completed the control, both feet were in bounds, no suspense, no doubt! It was a legal catch! The catch was successful! In a one-on-one situation, Crabtree Terry had almost no space to receive the ball. With just a little bit of space, Scandrick was waiting to destroy the pass and even complete the interception. However, Lu Ke chose a back-shoulder shadow pass and ignored Scandrick. Derek, connected with Crabtree, incredible, God, incredible!”
The so-called back-shoulder shadow pass sounds mysterious, but it's actually not that complicated.
When the wide receiver is facing the quarterback, the right side is the sideline. Therefore, the quarterback chooses to pass the football to the right shoulder of the wide receiver. The wide receiver uses the inertia of turning to complete the ball when the football falls. . It got its name because the ball is caught in the shadow behind the right shoulder.
Such a pass passes over the defensive player on the left side of the outside receiver; at the same time, after the outside receiver turns around and turns his back to the defensive player, he can further resist the opponent and complete the ball; more importantly, the outside receiver can use inertia to catch the ball. Straight out of bounds.
With such a technique, the requirements for the quarterback's passing accuracy are very strict. If it is higher, it will fly directly out of the boundary; if it is lower, it will directly hit the right shoulder of the outside receiver. At the same time, the requirements for the tacit understanding between the quarterback and the receiver are also extremely strict. If there is a deviation in any link such as timing, strength, and angle, the result may be that the pass is not completed.
"Incredible! Lu Ke completed a very difficult pass, leading the 49ers to move forward under almost impossible circumstances! Twelve yards, a full twelve yards, easily completed the first Attack, create out-of-bounds at the same time, complete the stoppage! Can we ask for more?"
Troy summed it up simply, and then exclaimed repeatedly, "The entire offense is so fast, it's almost not enough time to blink. Let's take a look at Lu Ke's shot time, 1.93 seconds, God, Cowboys The team’s defensive players didn’t even have time to react, and the quarterback had already completed the pass.”
"This offense is really exciting! Scandrick defended beautifully, Crabtree caught the ball beautifully, and Lu Ke passed the ball even better!" Troy was stunned, trying to find the right adjective in his mind. But the one that blurted out in the end was the simplest and most effective one, "Wonderful! It's so wonderful! God, I can't breathe!"
"Quick, quick!" Lu Ke kept waving his hands, like a seal saying hello, beckoning his teammates to come forward quickly. Then everyone came to their own 42-yard line and quickly completed the formation. All the tactics in his brain were running quickly. It looks like a high-speed maglev train.
The Dallas Cowboys once again changed their defensive formation to one-on-one man-to-man defense, with four players corresponding to four receiving players. No matter how Lu Ke arranged the positions of the players, their targets did not slack off or become distracted, and completed personal marking. .
The question is, how do they allocate one-on-one defenders? Two cornerbacks and two linebackers.
what does that mean? This means that in the first-line defensive area, there are only three defensive forwards and two linebackers, with five players conducting raids and defending the ball; in the second-line defensive area, there are still two safety guards, waiting for opportunities to move and defend. Potential long pass danger.
This is one of the important changes in the first and second half: Lu Ke's ability to hit the ball with long passes allowed the Cowboys to throw a bad shot. Their defensive focus must be different.
Lu Ke's eyes fell on DeMarcus Ware and Sean Lee. These two players are the key souls of the Cowboys' defensive team. Now, both of them are highly concentrated, with sharp eyes, and are completely focused. Staring at Lu Ke, he assumed the posture of a powerful attack.
But is it really a powerful raid?
With a seventy-five-point prediction ability, Lu Ke vaguely smelled an abnormality, but was unable to make a more accurate judgment. Therefore, Lu Ke chose to trust his intuition and said, "Kick off!"
The offensive line, the defensive line, the receiving players, and the marking players all started to activate, like a goddess scattering flowers, and the sound of bang bang bang was endless.
Weir and Li's attention was not distracted at all, and they stared at Lu Ke intently. At the first moment of activation, both of them began to retreat. This is not a tactic of raiding the quarterback, but a tactic of full coverage of short and intermediate passes. Coupled with one-on-one man-to-man defense, the Cowboys covered the entire passing area tightly and airtight. It’s time for the winning mode in the first half.
The body was still retreating, and Weir's pupils suddenly shrank: Lu Ke was retreating, still retreating, and then turned around to fake a handover.
But why pretend to hand it over at this time? Everyone knows that Lu Ke faked a run and passed the ball, but he still had to pass the ball! When there were only about 60 seconds left in the game, too much time was consumed by running the ball. The offensive team had no capital to waste, so passing the ball was the reliable choice. Therefore, there is no need to fake the real transfer.
Wait, this is not a fake run!
This is a pistol formation, not a shotgun formation. Marcus stood side by side on Lu Ke's right side. This is a real handover, Lu Ke handed the football to Marcus Lynch!
"Grass! Grass!" Will cursed fiercely, gritting his teeth.
Who could have imagined that with 62 seconds left in the game, the first offensive possession only took four seconds, and the San Francisco 49ers' rookie quarterback actually chose to run the ball? Is this too bold or too conservative?
No matter which way it was, Ware and Lee made a mistake in judgment. The two of them retreated to defend the pass. This also meant that the running ball defense was relaxed, and the entire defensive front was simply getting everything it asked for.
"Oops!" Weir only had time to hear Li yelling angrily, and both of them ran wildly in the direction of Marcus. But, it's too late.
Marcus hugged the football tightly, glanced out of the corner of his eye, and then saw a huge hole on the right side. The Cowboys' defensive front did not launch a surprise attack at all, but also distanced itself. The gap was as big as a canyon. For Marcus, this is totally the Sunshine Boulevard.
Like a bull, Marcus ran a diagonal line toward the right front with great vigor.
A cornerback rushed over, and Ted Ginn helped defend in time to block the opponent; a linebacker rushed over, Marcus accelerated, and accelerated again, and the linebacker only had time to pat Marcus on the shoulder. There was no time to complete the tackle, and then he fell down; a safety guard also rushed over. Marcus did not waver at all, running towards the diagonal line on the right front, bending down, squatting, and using his shoulders He bumped into the opponent hard, took advantage of his strength, and continued to advance to the right.
Behind him, Marcus could see a string of players following him, like flying kites, but the Cowboys' defense was half a beat too slow, so everything was half a beat too slow.
Marcus didn't have any greed and ran directly out of the boundary, actively stopped running the ball, paused time, and also completed the ten-yard advance. It was just ten yards past the red sign on the sidelines indicating the completion line of the first attack, and then it went out of bounds steadily.
First attack, achieved; out of bounds, completed; time-consuming, six seconds.
