This isn't touch football. It doesn't matter how fast Hill shoots the gap because he will never beat the RB to the handoff, period. I don't care how many tips of his fingers he gets on the QB. It doesn't matter. By that point, he's trapped because he didn't play his assignment. Doing the wrong thing at 100 MPH is still the wrong thing.
This is what actually happened: Hill did not read the play and got put on the ground by the TE assigned to block him, and if Thompson doesn't beat his block, it's a touchdown.
In this case, Hill should have recognized the play and stayed on his feet to beat the block from the TE and make the play.
Yeah me too, on a double team...knocked back about 5 yards in a hurry too.Exactly, I saw him get completely blown back off the line on one play.
so we got average play out of a late 2nd round pick rookie in his debut? I'd say that's pretty much par for the course
He should be cut, he didn't show all decade ability after his first snap.
1. it was a bang-bang play. the slow-mo shows he got to the qb at 100mph before the rb. it was the te's block that stopped him from blowing up the play.
2. there was no way he could have seen the tight end coming from the side. and what if it was a mistake in the blocking scheme and there was no tight end coming. or what if the tight end could not make the wamp in time? would you then be killing him for not charging towards the qb?
3. the safe play was to wait, but that can be easily taught if you REALLY do not want him to charge towards the qb when he was within ~5 feet.
You can't coach his quickness and hustle. Clearly he needs to work on technique and pad level and needs an offseason in the weight room but his upside is tremendous. Very few college defensive lineman have NFL ready strength Joe Jackson was one of them that they said did but I didn't see it mentioned very often in the draft profiles.
how dare you present stuff like that!
hill should have known that he could not get there in time and NOT attack and NOT penetrate.
he should have waited at the LOS to maintain gap discipline because he should have known the TE is going to wamp him and there was no way he could have gotten to the qb in time!!!
Dude. You're making yourself look like a clown right now.
I'm on your side on this one Snoop D-O-double-Gizzle.fact: you dont want hill to attack the qb even though he is 5 feet away because he is supposed to play it conservatively
fact: you rather go for the safe play instead of the aggressive play because you know hill cannot get to the qb in time
I'm on your side on this one Snoop D-O-double-Gizzle.
I'd jump in and out of under tackle scheme. Based on down and distance. Move 3tech straight up over guard...keeps that o.line off lb, clogs trapper, especially if can push , hold. Traps work on players that are left to penetrate or are great off the ball (d.irving). Gotta keep offense guessing , can't let them scheme a predictable technique. Will they jump to pass play, likely, that's the game within the game being playedSo how do you fix it? What is your scheme to fix it?
Let Jerry and Marinelli break the 3 year rule again with Hill so he can join Charlton in Miami.
fact: you dont want hill to attack the qb even though he is 5 feet away because he is supposed to play it conservatively
fact: you rather go for the safe play instead of the aggressive play because you know hill cannot get to the qb in time