The Seattle Seahawks’s "Seahawks Mic’d Up"

video series has provided excellent insight into the methods Tyler Lockett Color Rush Jersey , techniques and scheme of various Seattle coaches. In Brian Schottenheimer’s Training Camp..." VideosXs & Os BreakdownsThe OffseasonSeahawks on tape: Brian Schottenheimer’s Play-Action SlideNew,4commentsPDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:Seahawks on tape: Brian Schottenheimer’s Play-Action SlideTwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailPhoto by Joe Robbins/Getty ImagesThe Seattle Seahawks’s “Seahawks Mic’d Up” video series has provided excellent insight into the methods, techniques and scheme of various Seattle coaches. In Brian Schottenheimer’s Training Camp edition, taken from day 2 of practice, the offensive coordinator was recorded whooping Frank Clark Color Rush Jersey , hollering and running around. It’s that movement that was most intriguing.Schottenheimer was seen sprinting in front of a quarterback like a lunatic. Some detective work and some reference to Xs and Os reveals Schotty to still be sane. The drill is a good one. In the clip, you can hear Schotty explaining the drill to his quarterbacks. “So beat me with speed, throwing the slide. If I make you pull up, throw that [points left].” Combined with the video provided of the quarterbacks executing the drill, we can figure out what’s going on here.Seattle is drilling their play-action slide concept. It’s a bootleg play-fake Dion Jordan Color Rush Jersey , with an outside zone run faked one way and the quarterback then rolling out to the opposite side. The pass protection is “naked”, meaning that the quarterback is left alone in space after faking the hand-off. Essentially, the fake of the run is the quarterback’s pass protection. The defense must believe the run action they see—so the tailback has to do some crafty acting and the offensive line often run blocks for three steps. The “slide” element to the play comes from a receiver lined up to the run-direction side. After the snap, the receiver “slides” underneath the offensive line. He is the primary option for the quarterback in the flats. Schottenheimer was playing the role of the contain defender, the conflicted man the quarterback must beat outside. Here you can see Schotty acting as the contain defender attacking the quarterback—the most frequent result as an unblocked Tedric Thompson Color Rush Jersey , overeager defensive end gets excited at hunting a passer. If the quarterback gets the contain player in their face, they must try beat him outside—”beat me with speed” as Schotty described—and pop it over his head to the “slide” route.The passer reads low-to-high, the next progression being an over route. (When Schotty pointed left, talking about if he pulled up, this was presumably the coaching point.) Deep coverage on this side of the field is run off by an alert route. Here’s Seattle running it against the Oakland Raiders from shotgun. The conflict the play-fake puts in each defender is also illustrated below.Russell Wilson was faced with a contain defender running after him so he popped it over him to Doug Baldwin’s slide route. This is simple Ethan Pocic Color Rush Jersey , easy yards for Seattle’s offense and a staple concept to their play-action game. It’s good to see Schottenheimer getting involved in such an effective drill. After making his intentions known last month, President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum calling upon the Pentagon to create a policy that would allow athletes from service academies to play professional sports immediately upon graduation.According to the , the memo gives the defense secretary 120 days to craft the policy with the intention of allowing athletes the chance to “take advantage of their athletic talents during which playing professional sports is realistically possible.” It would defer their mandatory military service until after their athletic pursuits have come to an end.A policy allowing athletes to do just that had already existed until it was ended by the Department of Defense in May 2017. Then Secretary of Defense James Mattis signed an order to end the program which allowed players to seek status in the reserves so they could play professionally.Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Keenan Reynolds took advantage of that allowance when he entered the NFL Draft in 2016. Former Air Force wide receiver Jalen Robinette is trying to restart his football career after serving two years of active duty service. The Minnesota Vikings drafted Air Force long snapper Austin Cutting in the seventh round of this year’s draft in the hopes he would eventually be able to play for them as well.