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Week 2: Washington Football Team (1-0) @ Arizona Cardinals (1-0) 4 PM on FOX

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On 9/22/2020 at 11:14 AM, Thaiphoon said:
On 9/22/2020 at 12:38 AM, Woz said:

There's been growth? Unless he means of the cancerous kind, where?

Ouch! Did you mean to say this?

In all honesty, my original version was going to be "There's been growth? Where?" My subconscious/tongue-in-cheek side added in the cancerous part, totally forgetting the whole Trent debacle. Looking back at it, it's even more true.

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On 9/23/2020 at 7:02 PM, 4209 said:

 Scherff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For all the people who say "Hawkins doesn't have any field sense, he should just step up or move around in the pocket," I want to point them to this play and ask them "where should he have gone?"

 

From left to right

Marcus Baugh is on the edge, but a step behind the line, after having gone in motion and then come back to the left side. He's lined up against Haason Riddick, who engages him at first and then drops off into shallow coverage. Let's stop for a moment and pause on the fact that a second year UDFA is blocking Riddick. Anyway ...

I don't think Baugh noticed but Byron Murphy Jr. was following Baugh in man coverage when he went in motion. When Baugh stays into block and Haason drops back, Baugh turns inside to help with Zach Allen (more on that in a bit) and Murphy sprints up field. If not for an inadvertent block by Martin (more on that in a bit as well), Murphy would have catapulted in Haskins' back.

 

Jeremy Sprinkle is lined up tight on the left side acting like he is going to stay into block, but instead squirts out to run a TE drag route. Ostensibly a safety valve route, it's mostly covered De'Vondre Campbell who stayed in his assignment on the left side of the shallow coverage area. There's little to no chance, even if Haskins wasn't getting mauled, that he could have gotten that safely to Sprinkle.

 

Next up is Geron Christian. This is almost comical. Christian gets his hands on ... Jeremy Sprinkle's back and is caught up in the wash. It isn't until Zach Allen is three yards downfield already (and engaged with Baugh) that Christian actually gets his hands on a Cardinals player. This is why Murphy has a free run into Haskins until ...

 

Wes Martin? What the hell is this? Inside of a second and a half, he gets bullrushed back six yards by Rashard Lawrence (I think). In the space of time from the snap, I'm able to say "one one thousand two" before he's almost on top of Haskins. Haskins does a seven yard drop, planting his feet for the first time at the 22. At the same time, Martin and Lawrence are at the 20. Antonio Gibson might have had a chance to help out, but he has to pick up Jordan Hicks on a delayed blitz, which gets to Haskins with little trouble since Scherff has "not-blocked" the right side (more on that in a moment). Oh, remember Byron Murphy? The only reason he doesn't get to Haskins is because Lawrence rag dolls Martin into Murphy. Yes, the Cardinals defender did more to prevent the killing blow to Haskins' back than any of Washington's blockers did.

 

Chase Roullier ... stands in the middle of the field. Literally, after the ball is snapped, he doesn't touch an Arizona Cardinal player until the play is over. Misses the delayed blitz by Hicks, missed the ball is out, misses even getting a hand on Chandler Jones before he is down. All of us had as much impact on that play as Roullier did.

 

Scherff (as @4209 vents about) gets beat almost from the jump by Jordan Phillips. Whereas Martin gets beat with pure strength, all it takes is one single swim move by Phillips to get past Scherff. Honestly, I'm not sure Scherff gets his left arm on Phillips until he's already past him. Anyways, within a second, Phillips is on the 15 yard line and racing to Haskins with Scherff stumbling after him. A second later, Phillips gets his meaty paw on the ball.

 

Moses lines up against Chandler Jones. He does alright for two seconds, walking Jones back but then Jones rips inside because Moses is off balance. While he doesn't get the sack, he is in perfect position to grab the ball out of the air because of the inside move (and Scherff flailling after Phillips). Roullier watches the whole thing unfold more or less stock still.

 

Literally, there is less than a second from the snap to the fake hand off to Haskins planting his feet for the first time. Both receivers have barely run five yards up field. At the same time, the offensive line has been forced back four of the seven yards in Haskins' drop. Murphy and Hicks have just crossed the line of scrimmage. Even so, three Cardinals (Lawrence, Phillips, and Jones) are four yards behind the line of scrimmage. Yes, Moses is probably doing the correct thing and walking Jones around behind the pocket, but there is no pocket since the two interior rushers are just as far as up field as Jones is on the edge. A second later, six separate Cardinals players are within two yards of Haskins and the ball has been knocked out.

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It’s going to come down to cost with Scherff IMO. As always, he doesn’t deserve to be paid the largest contract for a guard in NFL history. Not only his play not always been elite - especially in pas pro - but he just hasn’t been able to stay healthy the last 3 years. You can’t pay a guard $15 plus million a year who can’t stay healthy.

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