NFL game queries

Good to have you with us.

 

Nabo, I know you don't like me as you've evidenced on numerous occasions, and I know we rarely ever see eye to eye on subjects, but your signature makes me respect you a hell of a lot more than most around here. As a person who has worked closely with animal rescue agencies in my area and has a cousin and sister-in-law who both run pet rescue/adoption facilities I can sincerely appreciate the work done by organizations like the one in your sig. I'm the proud papa of 5 rescue cats and I love them all to death.

 

To answer your question about defensive backs, a lot has to do with whether or not the defense is playing in man or zone. In man the corner will usually stick with the guy he's lined up across from whereas in zone the corner has a particular area of the field he's responsible for. Often a DB will let a receiver run past him knowing that a deep safety has the zone covered behind him, and wont vacate his zone until after he realizes the play isn't coming to him. DBs oftentimes play underneath coverage with safety help over the top meaning that the CB will allow the receiver to run past him to cut off the underneath routes while a safety rotates over to cover the receiver.

As for offensive line play vs defensive line play...well...defensive players get payed too

 

Cheers Mate and welcome to ThePhins.

I know American football can seem a bit confusing. Sometimes I think in the quest of the game to be innovative, coaches sometimes design schemes that confuse the players themselves.

As to the defender question, you can't always play man on man coverage. Some receivers are just too tall, too strong or too fast for a defender to keep up with him, so you have different types of "coverages" in which a defender just off the line of scrimmage may only cover the receiver for a portion of the route, but releases him to be defended by another defender behind him and that first defender defends a zone in case a runnng back gets a pass out of the backfield or what have you. A little difficult to explain typin it, but there are different types of defenses for pasing plays.

The question about defenders being in front of the receiver and the receiver still catching the ball? Well that's why receivers are receivers, and defenders are defenders. Truthfully, cornerbacks (the defenders) are usually player who started off playing receiver, so they have the ability to catch the ball, but they usually weren't tall enough or strong enough to play receiver at the NFL level, so they play cornerback and defend against receivers.

And the 5 hulking bodies you refer to...(I have to admit, I like that description ), gotta remember that that if you have 5 hulks facing off against another 5 hulks, the hulks you want to win the blocking battle aren't always going to.

I'm just glad to see a bloke from England interested in and likes American football. I met an Englishman a month or so ago in Dubai who said he loved American football....just didn't understand the game.

Maybe our football will surpass your football

 

Just saw this.

Bro, I don't dislike you. We've disagreed enough, to be sure, but we're fans of this team and we both bleed the colors.

Can't hate that.

Purrfect Pals is an organization which saves about 2000 lives a year; on their compound they even have permanent quarantine sections where kitties with FHIV and Feline Leukemia can live out their lives until it's their time. They provide low-cost spay-and-neuter, and work with feral colonies to give them better lives and keep them from breeding.

Of all the animal rescue groups, it is one that definitely works. This is Earl Grey, he's from PP: