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76Texan · 03-06-2012

The next play occured about 12 sec before the half:

(3rd and 10) Washington, T. pass incomplete to Hill, S.

QB missed the wide open receiver badly to the inside.

Either NC St. were in inverted cover 2 (CBs pkayed deep, safeties played underneath) or both safeties bought the play fake big time.

Hill ran a great post route.

Just remember all the 2-man route I had talked about last year or the Galloway 63-yd catch.

Hill split wide (outside the numbers); CB played 8 yds off.
He stemmed outside (faking a go route) to open up the CB to gain seperation as he (Hill) turned back to the inside.

The CB had depth (invert cover 2 and playing off the LOS) but he couldn't manage the width. Hill was a good 2-3 yards away from the CB.

- Announcer "How can you not have some one back (there) helping on the inside. There's no way the coaching staff drew a defensive coverage up like that. You can't get any more open than that on a post route. You've got to have a safety in the middle of the field and they have nobody."

...
With a speedy guy like Hill, the safety ought to have good speed and anticipation as when to drop back; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to help in invert-cover 2.

Through 5 games, I noticed only one drop.
We also can see that Hill can run quite a few different routes and he did well running most of those routes.
They weren't simply routes where he blindly run upfield.
The early progonsis after these 5 games are good, to me at least.

03-06-2012	#143
76Texan Hall of Fame Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 11,707 Rep Power: 28459	Re: Stephen Hill The next play occured about 12 sec before the half: (3rd and 10) Washington, T. pass incomplete to Hill, S. QB missed the wide open receiver badly to the inside. Either NC St. were in inverted cover 2 (CBs pkayed deep, safeties played underneath) or both safeties bought the play fake big time. Hill ran a great post route. Just remember all the 2-man route I had talked about last year or the Galloway 63-yd catch. Hill split wide (outside the numbers); CB played 8 yds off. He stemmed outside (faking a go route) to open up the CB to gain seperation as he (Hill) turned back to the inside. The CB had depth (invert cover 2 and playing off the LOS) but he couldn't manage the width. Hill was a good 2-3 yards away from the CB. - Announcer "How can you not have some one back (there) helping on the inside. There's no way the coaching staff drew a defensive coverage up like that. You can't get any more open than that on a post route. You've got to have a safety in the middle of the field and they have nobody." ... With a speedy guy like Hill, the safety ought to have good speed and anticipation as when to drop back; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to help in invert-cover 2. Through 5 games, I noticed only one drop. We also can see that Hill can run quite a few different routes and he did well running most of those routes. They weren't simply routes where he blindly run upfield. The early progonsis after these 5 games are good, to me at least.