The Urlacher blitz on Feeley

[yankeehillbilly]

i didn't realize the entire play occurred in slow motion! you're right, the play lasted about a minute and a half! i'm such an idiot for suggesting that a guy might have turned his head to look for a receiver. of course, a receiver running a crossing route a minute and a half into a play is just running to run.

you may be right about him seeing urlacher out of the corner of his eye, but let's not distort space and time to make a point. that isn't supposed to cut it as an argument, though we see it frequently.

The Lovie Smith thing was an exaggeration obviously, but the point is that in real time Feeley stared at Evans for a fairly long time. In fact it was right up until the instant his arm got hit by Brown. I think its very unlikely that he would start looking for another receiver when he feels a defender already on him. At least I hope he wasnt intending to throw a desperation pass when he had already felt someone behind him. There seemed to be enough time for Feeley to look off of Evans if he wanted to. But, who knows, maybe he was just waiting for Evans to get a little more distance on Briggs.

 

[inFINSible]

The Lovie Smith thing was an exaggeration obviously, but the point is that in real time Feeley stared at Evans for a fairly long time. In fact it was right up until the instant his arm got hit by Brown. I think its very unlikely that he would start looking for another receiver when he feels a defender already on him. At least I hope he wasnt intending to throw a desperation pass when he had already felt someone behind him. There seemed to be enough time for Feeley to look off of Evans if he wanted to. But, who knows, maybe he was just waiting for Evans to get a little more distance on Briggs.

watch the video again....it starts right when the play starts....Feeley is on the ground before the timer hits three seconds....So, that means he had to make a 5 step drop, avoid one defender, step up and look off his prmary receiver find another receiver and throw the ball in the space of 2.5 seconds...I'd like to see ANY QB do that....ANY one....

 

[DPlus47]

watch the video again....it starts right when the play starts....Feeley is on the ground before the timer hits three seconds....So, that means he had to make a 5 step drop, avoid one defender, step up and look off his prmary receiver find another receiver and throw the ball in the space of 2.5 seconds...I'd like to see ANY QB do that....ANY one....

that was really why i responded in this thread at all. take out the name "feeley" and put in anybody else. i don't think the quarterback had time to do anything on that play, and i was grateful there wasn't a fumble or an ill-advised throw.

 

[FIN-IN-RI]

I need to get the video.

 

[DPlus47]

I need to get the video.

there are a couple of links in this thread, if you have the connection for it and/or permission, etc.

 

[FIN-IN-RI]

Anyone have a good clip of this play? Not a clip that chops up 3 seconds into it. Myabe its just my computer but I'd like to try it again. The one that BH has is all weirded out.

 

[inFINSible]

suuuure it is.......works fine for me.....

 

[jlfin]

Yeah. He is supposed to look right....and left and down the middle and not immediately lock on one side and stay there. That is what Feeley does. He doesn't survey the field. He surveys 1/3 of it. THAT is why he throw so many pick 6s.

Perhaps that was his primary receiver and he was about to make a break and get open. You don't know and obviously you don't care.
Regardless, it was a well executed play by the Bears defense beginning with Brown beating Carey on the play. There is no way Feeley could have avoided that sack, and to suggest otherwise constitutes a bias against Feely. In fact, he would have wasted more time if he surveyed the field. In the face of immediate pressure AND a blitz situation, QB's aren't afforded the luxury of looking for their secondary and tertiary receivers.
As one poster stated earlier, pick your arguments against Feeley. That play shouldn't be one of them.

 

[prolific]

First of all, I don't hate Feeley. I just think Gus is better and I feel Gus will start. Secondly, I'm not at home to look at it at the moment. But I wathced it enough to KNOW that Feeley looked right immediately and didn't look back left until Urlacher was coming. He probably looked back left because he saw Urlacher out of the corner of his eye.
This thread has gotten so far out of hand. Go look at the very first post and you will see what this was all about. It was to poke a little fun. Then people began adding their observations and asked me MINE. I answered. You see it differently than I see it. Oh well. We're not changing eachother's minds. I guess this argument about Feeley/ Gus will be decided when the season opens. Saban will make the decision based on what he sees. Not us. So it really doesn't matter what we think or how we see it.

Agreed!!!!

 

[DolphinsRkool99]

I was like :eek: :eek:

 

[JG718]

OK, so I was just watching the game again. (Still am) I just wanted to point out that on the play where Urlacher blitzed and hurt Feeley's butt and took his shoe off, the RBs on that play both went left and Feeley faked to the RIGHT. Now maybe -just maybe- if Feeley would have actually faked the correct direction, it would have slowed the blitz down a little. Now, some will say maybe the back went the wrong way. Possibly...but BOTH backs?
I am only saying this to poke fun a little. I KNOW IT WAS A PRESEASON ERROR. All you Pro-Feeley guys, don't take this too seriously!

I did notice that too, and I have to agree with you. That mistake gave the fake no credability

 

[Dbergan]

Going back to the original point of this thread.....that looked like a Dan Marino play fake!

Man, if that had been Marino....can you imagine the public azz chewing that he would have given the whole OL and the backs for their poor blocking?

 

[TeeMoney]

After watching the video and reading through a few of the less rabid posts in this thread, I have come to this wonderful conclusion: It is Urlacher's fault Feeley got sacked. It's not Carey's fault (his DL responsibility was nearly 5 yards off his shoulder!!). The fullback could possibly have given Urlacher a better hit to sell the run, however the busted fake negated any of that. Feeley did his 7 step drop and hopped forward (which is designed to get deep, and shift his momentum forward for a deep pass). I don't believe the DE getting near Feeley had any effect at all on the play, his shifting momentum would take him out of reach of either rushing ends regardless of the OT's blocking them. The only glaring mistake (other than the fubar fake handoff) is Rex Hadnot pivoting in his zone without blocking anyone. Possibly he could've taken on Urlacher but he was looking towards his right, and I think he expected a stunt of some sort by the way the pile of defenders ended up behind Feeley. I don't think Hadnot expected a delayed blitz by Urlacher, but I also do not think that Urlacher planned on blitzing until the botched fake gave the play away.... From Urlacher's perspective Feeley was in the middle of a 7 step drop (a sure sign of a deep pass), he didn't get a whiff of a block from the fullback, the guard was taken by his DT and the center was moving and looking away from any chance to stop Urlacher. At the end of Feeley's drop Urlacher was unblocked and full bore. Feeley shifted his momentum forward in preperation to pass and sensed/saw Urlacher's inescapable presence- and promptly tucked his head between his legs to kiss his a** goodbye (this is good to remember in case you are involved in an airplane crash). If anything can be blamed, or pointed to as the cause of the sack it would have to be the fugged fake handoff, which tipped off Urlacher and set his wheels in motion.

 

[TeeMoney]

...the whole OL and the backs for their poor blocking?

The only one not blocking was Hadnot, and he must have expected a stunt from the right side as the man over him was being handled by the LGuard. The fullback could have sold the run better by actually running into Urlacher, but he didn't- and the bugger'd fake was an invitation for the LB with enough sense to put 2 and 2 together. Unless the fullback was responsible for blocking Urlacher, and not running a pattern, then this specific play, with this specific fake hand-off and 7 step drop will NEVER fool a MLB with any football sense at all. He will crash the party every time.

 

[Dphins4me]

I know it wasn't AJs fault he got sacked. I said in an earlier post that Evans should have/could have slowed Urlacher down. The reason I started this thread was because I thought it was funny that AJ play faked the wrong way.

I've looked at the play time & time again & I still do not think AJ made a mistake on the fake. It was not meant to be a play-action fake. I think it is just a motion to make the backers stop for just a sec to lose sight of the ball.