Cy the Cyclone said:
Watch the actual game film and not just the angles and coverage you get from the ESPN highlites. Then, you might notice not only West leaving his man for O'Hanlon to cover but also the CB getting beat on the other side on a nice post route while the weak side safety backpedals to...somewhere totally out of the play. So...which of the two guys does O'Hanlon cover? Leaving a guy naked out there and then riding him for a blown coverage is real bad form. Want to ride somebody? Start with the CB's. From what I can see, neither one provided consistent lock-down defense on the VT receivers.
I've not bothered to read the entire 3 pages, but I noticed this post and wondered. Are you talking about the TD or the long pass to set up the TD?
Gotta be the long pass. Amukamara was on the WR who caught the TD, and it was decent coverage, too. Just a good play by the QB and WR. :hmmph
I haven't seen aerial shots of the TD, but if he is talking about the long pass, then he is wrong, really wrong in fact.
West did release the WR to O'Hanlon, that much is right. But that's about it.
Amukamara, who was the opposite side CB never got beat. Even Sanders said as much the next day. The WR that Prince was covering looked like he was running a skinny post, but gave up on the route rather quickly. The inside WR that was on Prince's side was covered by Hagg. That WR had Hagg beat and was running a simple 10 yard out. The skinny post that Prince's WR ran got broken off in almost the same spot. Prince was actually looking into the backfield and saw Tyrod loading to throw. Prince was already breaking on the ball to get an easy pick 6 if Tyrod throws it. Unfortunately for us, Tyrod pulled it back in.
After this, Prince picked up the RB that snuck out of the backfield to his side. Hagg stayed on his man and the LB (Compton?) picked up the WR who had broken off his route. Asante hardly even moves the entire time letting this all occur in front of him but not allowing anyone to get behind him. All the while he kept his body square and never bit on anything.
On the opposite side, West let the outside WR go past. The inside WR (Greg Boone?) ran an in which would have been a 10 yard gain had Thorell not had him blanketed.
This is where O'Hanlon messes up .. badly. On the pump fake, where Prince breaks hard on the ball that Tyrod nearly threw, O'Hanlon also bit and turned to run towards the play, putting his back to the WR that West had released. That is his 1st mistake.
His next mistake is that after Tyrod reset and looked back to his side of the field, O'Hanlon stays flat footed the entire time.
And his last mistake is that the WR who caught the long pass was not even behind him when Tyrod begins to throw the pass. That WR should have actually been in his sight pattern as he was actually a couple yards in front of O'Hanlon, although he was on the sideline. Even when the ball was released and Tyrod took the hit, he had not gotten past O'Hanlon. But due to O'Hanlon being caught flat footed, he could not turn, break and run as quickly as he should have been.
Marvin Sanders was pretty much completely right. If Prince doesn't essentially cover two men on the same play so well, we don't know about any of this. Simple 5-10 yard gain and we moved onto the next play.
Got to give Tyrod his credit for pulling that one back in and not just throwing it away as I would guess alot of QB's would have in this situation.
