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Originally Posted by carcosa
Some of those moves are ****ing NASTY
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I'll see if I can find the seam route he ran that's probably my favorite one. Not a thing he did was something you'd notice if you weren't looking at him and it ALL mattered.
EDIT: Okay, here are a couple of them
This one's neat as hell because it's him using his speed to buy space before he actually uses his speed. He slows down his route into that soft spot in the middle, the safety sees it and then he hits the afterburners once the safety sinks a little and just blows past him. And the ball tracking is just {chef's kiss}. I'm sure a lot of y'all played receiver as a kid. I was actually pretty damn good at catching the ball over my shoulder - I could do some of that stuff. And that's why I know it's really damn hard because that requires some insane body control to pull off. If you can't do it, you don't realize how much goes into making it actually work. I cannot say enough about how hard it is picking up a ball directly over your head like that and adjusting to it while it's in the air without tripping over your own damn feet. It's just awesome stuff there.
And here's the other route I was thinking of; not actually a seam - deep out.
Very very subtle footwork to prevent him from losing speed but also every one of those moves is getting a reaction from the DB. He has the kid in a blender without it being terribly obvious. Then he plants that foot and cuts as soon as he sees the DB open his hips just the smallest amount when he reacted one step of hard acceleration off a bit of a hesitation move.
That's the 'Receiver shit' i talked about Hill having when we 'converted' him to a receiver from a RB. Nah - we didn't. He was a receiver already. Guys that do that stuff are receivers even when they aren't. Because it's innate. It's WAY too fast and way too subtle to think your way through it. And there are too many variables to plan it in advance. Your body is just doing it.
Moore is the perfect example of a guy who has NONE of that ability. He'll have some pre-route plan and if that doesn't work for him, he's done. He has no feel for running the route. He can't adapt, he can't improvise. He's gonna try the same foot fire and exaggerated (read: Slow) nonsense that pro level defenders don't bite on and when that doesn't work he's just out of sequence with the patterns and out of the play altogether.
Worthy does receiver shit. He has a really nice feel for the position.