"pretty!"

"Running back Brandon Jacobs once again showed his excellent capture of defensive gaps, completing the first exciting ground push in the game, bringing nine yards to the New York Giants offensive team."

"The missed tackle of Green Bay Packers' outside linebacker Brady Poppinga was very fatal. Fortunately, the timely repair of cornerback Charles Woodson and inside linebacker Nick Barnett prevented Jacobs from making further breakthroughs."

The divisional competition has begun.

Judging from the three-level offensive and defensive confrontations at the opening stage, the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers both showed ambitions to win. Both teams were a little overexcited, and their full-out state caused the performance on both ends to be completely in line with the rhythm, but the confrontation was sparked.

However, the Green Bay Packers made two yellow flag fouls, giving their opponent a chance to breathe, which also allowed the New York Giants' offense to be fully advanced - the Yellow flag was twice just the beginning. This performance was indeed too impatient and the excitement would not be able to control it for a while.

Then, New York Giants running back Jacobs keenly captured the opportunity.

Brandon Jacobs is a standard blue-collar player who was selected by the New York Giants in the fourth round of 2005 with a 110 pick in the league, with a 6.33-foot (193 cm) and 264 pounds (119 kg) figure, making him very suitable for the role of a tank, but the interesting part is here:

Jacobs did not serve as a full guard, but served as a half guard.

To be simple and rough, the whole guard focuses more on powerful impacts, while the half guard is good at flexibly breaking through. Jacobs is tall and heavy, but his steps are very light, and he is very good at finding gaps in dense defensive areas.

Agile footsteps and keen observation allow Jacobs to always find gaps, while his strong body allows Jacobs to always get rid of the grapple and continue to advance in the collision of strength. All of this makes Jacobs a special running back.

However, Jacobs' shortcomings are also very obvious-

First, his vision of running the ball is limited. In a head-on position battle, he is often prone to "running in a silence" and has a high chance of hitting the wall.

Second, he lacks battery life, and even if he finds loopholes through his own steps, his ability to follow-up advancement is still weak.

Of course, these are relative; but the final result is that in the close-killing positional warfare, his propulsion efficiency is very low, and more guerrilla warfare is needed to show his ability. However, when entering guerrilla warfare, the lack of subsequent propulsion capabilities limits his "upper limit" and lacks the amazing performance of long-distance raids.

This is not a common situation for running backs, because strengths and weaknesses are in a delicate position. It is hard to say that strengths are strong enough, and weaknesses do not need to worry about them. Despite this, Jacobs is still the starting running back of the New York Giants. His running yards have also successfully exceeded 1,000 yards this season, setting a career high.

It can be said that Jacobs is a special player between half and all-guards. It is precisely because of this that he has never been selected for the Pro Bowl - he is definitely not the kind of running back people expect, like, and admire.

Just now, Jacobs did it again.

In the dense defense area, I found a flaw, then rushed forward, and made full use of my body shape to force the Splash Piano to miss the grapple. The original three-yard push turned into nine-yard push.

So, two levels and one code.

As a fan and as a coach, the perspectives are completely different when looking at Jacobs.

For fans, they always feel that Jacobs is not powerful enough, and they still hope to kill all the powerful running backs who are domineering. But for coaches, how to use Jacobs' "balance" is very particular. The first, second and third gears are used in a subtle way, let alone the difference between inside and outside the red zone.

Tom Cofflin is well aware of this, so even if Jacobs has obvious shortcomings, he can still steadily occupy the main position and complete the 1,000-yard season for the second consecutive year.

So, now facing two-digit and one-digit, should we continue to use Jacobs to impact the ground?

Lu Yiqi doesn't think so.

"Delay up step! Delay up step!"

Lu Yiqi quickly conveyed instructions to the linebackers through gestures, and at the same time, Robert's defensive tactical arrangement was also conveyed through headphones. The tactical arrangements of the two of them did not conflict, but were more of a supplement - Robert laid the defensive tactical framework, while Lu Yiqi added the key on the spot.

At this time, Lu Yiqi's instructions made the linebacker, cornerback and even the safety guard brain sound the alarm:

Why do linebackers need to delay stepping? What did the coach see the key that they overlooked?

New York Giants' leading quarterback Eli Manning may be a fake run and a real pass!

"attack!"

Woodson's muscles remained tight and upward, but did not start immediately following the kick-off command, keeping the center of gravity stable and maneuverable. A quick sweep of sight brings the confrontation to the whole game:

quarterback, running back, tight end, wide receiver.

The movement trend of all players is in front of you. The quarterback is making handover moves towards the running back, but the running back does not take the ball with the flow. The tight end is adjusting its steps in the short pass area in small steps, while the wide receiver is rushing forward and continues to break through.

Fake run true transmission.

Fast pass.

Woodson immediately made an accurate judgment. So, should he defend the tight end or the wide receiver?

Because the choice of passing is in the hands of Little Manning, even Lu Yiqi cannot read it, and Woodson has no time to think carefully and hesitate. He can only make a choice based on the team's repeated tactical meetings before the game and the intuition on the game.

Push the ground!

Move horizontally!

Step up!

The pupils suddenly contracted, and Woodson immediately understood that his judgment was correct-

The Green Bay Packer used the four-man rushing tactic and successfully cut into the pocket from the outside, aiming at Little Manning and rushed over. Faced with such a chaotic situation, Little Manning had already been prepared. He walked back and stepped back continuously to widen the distance, and then threw a light throw. The football drew an arc and landed smoothly in the short pass area, which directly led to the failure of the Green Bay Packer's rushing pass tactic.

The tight end Kevin Boss, who was standing in the short pass area, and wide receiver Armani Toomer both ran back and responded.

Obviously, the New York Giants formulated a fake running and real-time tactic, and preset all running lines in advance, including the distribution of cover disassembly, and pinched the Green Bay Packers' defensive tactics at rhythm and speed. Such complex and dazzling tactics are often fixed templates, and before being widely used in the red zone, you can feel the changeable and cunning that Tom Coughlin showed in the opening stage.

When the football is flying in the air, it is still unknown whether the passing target is Boss or Tomore.

But Woodson no longer had time and space to hesitate. He adjusted his pace slightly and rushed towards tight end Boss with all his strength.
Chapter completed!