Daniel Sorensen Is A Liability

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by kccrow

I see what you're saying with the 2-deep robber because HB looks like he's playing the Hole. Maybe it just "seemed" like cover 3 to me because the corners are taking that awful deep and Sorensen should get help from Thornhill if that's a true robber. Maybe it's Thornhill that ****ed it all up?

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The problem with calling it a strict cover two, though, is the LCB - I think it's Fenton. Look at how he's playing that. Hell, he's almost playing it like a cover 4 in the way he's dropping straight back and almost abandoning the middle. If Thornhill is in a Cover 2, why would Fenton give the receiver the inside that easily?

But gun to my head, it's a cover 2 robber and I say that because of how Thornhill plays it. He's keeping inside then convinces himself that the far WR is on a go so he starts to kick it into gear just as the WR makes the in-cut, so he has to turn himself back around. I think that flustered him and as he re-located the WR and saw how open he was, he assumed the ball was going to be there and drove on it.

But before he drove on that in-cut, he was gearing up to take the WR downfield after the left side corner passed him off and hung to the flat. I think confusion between Fenton and Niemann led to an opening in the zone underneath and Thornhill tried to freelance and drive on that route, leaving Sorensen 1v1 with no help over the top.

Either Niemann was supposed to take that middle with Fenton getting the flat/curl zone or Niemann had it and Fenton was supposed to have more of a middle half than he was playing. Once that happened, Thornhill was kindof in no-mans land which was compounded by him getting himself turned around when he incorrectly diagnosed a go-route. Sorensen bit on the double move and frankly even if he didn't, it was all over but the tears at that point.

I think something happened on the left side of the defense that led to Thornhill getting dragged down and leaving Sorensen in a completely unwinnable situation.