What was the size of the Seahawks during the 12th week of adjustment of the game against Carolina?

On Tuesday, I took a look at what the Carolina Panthers were doing on defense to slow down the Seattle Seahawks' running game early in the 12th, and this short article clearly shows how much the Repairing the Seattle offense was simple. .

Very quickly, however, this piece can also illustrate the value of the script in the first part of the game. Specifically, in the first possession, the Seahawks made three shots on goal, but these three offensive games are all from different formations. .

Then, during their second offensive possession, Seattle managed a first run before being forced to crash from the bottom of its own territory. In the second possession, Seattle played four offensive games, from three separate lines of staff. Of these three separate staff alignments, one was unique on the first two assets, while the other two were rehearsals of alignments that the offense had used during his first possession.

Thus, by the time the Seahawks' offensive was played in total seven plays, patterns began to emerge in what the Panthers were doing defensively. Here is a chart that presents some basic data of the Seattle offense from the first four assets of the game, in which the offense scored three points.

For ease of understanding, in the Offensive Training column, the letter in parentheses after the TE indicates whether the tight end aligns with the ground (I) or stand at two points, as follows: a wide receiver ( O).

The Defensive Men column in the box shows two data. The first is the number of men that the defense initially indicated in the box, and then in parentheses is the number of men in the box at the time of shooting. If the letters "ns" are noted in parentheses, it means that the defense has not moved before the break.

Thus, at the end of the second possession, and certainly when the offensive ran its first ten games, it would have been clear to the Hawks coaching staff that when they lined up with 11 staff members (1 running back, 1 and 3 wide receivers) with the tight end in the line as blocker, Caroline sneak a man into the box just before the slam. So what did the Hawks do from there?

In the rest of the table, it is obvious that the Hawks have quickly moved away from this alignment. After using three wide receivers and a tight end at the end of the line of scrimmage six times in the first ten games, the offense showed that the line-up was still only twice in the next eleven games, and one of these games was the 2nd and 18th of their match. own three-yard line, which means that it's likely that everyone on the planet was waiting for a run.

And after this fourth possession of the match, which ended in a three-goal start and a punt from their own goal zone, the Hawks largely moved away from the specific 11-member lineup staff on which the Panthers used the pre-snap gearshift. Here's a sneak peek at the following 14-piece roster and staff, of which only two came from the training for which Carolina's defense had used a late quarter (and the Panthers' game plan seems to have called for a quarterback). team to stop using the shift in the red zone, where one of these two pieces in question has occurred).

And that's it – by changing the formations they used, the Seahawks facilitated pre-reading, which is so critical to their attack on Russell Wilson and the rest of the offensive.

The cat and mouse between Seattle offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and Carolina defensive coordinator Eric Washington continued for the remainder of the second half, after the Hawks seemed to have figured out how to prevent the Panthers from using a change of late shift, they exchanged what they seized. sure. Thus, Schotty chose and probed Carolina's reaction, and seems to have discovered that the defense had treated a tight end of game in a two-point position differently from a tight end-of-three-point position. Thus, the Seahawks began to show a lot of 11 personnel with the close end on the line of scrimmage, but in a two-point position. The Panthers seem to have treated these formations as two completely different formations and initially the defense reacted differently.

In short, the Carolina defense has examined this

as a unique and different formation of this one:

The Seahawks have therefore changed course, using them mainly in two-point positions rather than in a three-point position. Carolina 's defense then seems to be adapted to base the defense on where the tighter end aligns with the terrain rather than on the location and position. used.

And so, the game of cat and mouse continued until the end of the match, until Graham Gano misses his shot on goal and Sebastian Janikowski scores his own. Period, the end. Game over. Seahawks Victory.