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I mean Allen cut Alford off. Everything else was the angle. Have you ever played football and tried to catch a guy running full speed from one side of the field to the other side of the field? Hard to do.

Again, irrelevant to the point I was making. Which was about Moore.

And yes I have. It is difficult, but that's a play Allen and any other safety in the league has to make.

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Totally off topic but your post reminded me, I'm guessing you listened to K Lamar's record this year...I swear I must've played that nearly a hundred times already, so good all the way through.

You know I really preferred good kid maad city.

I really wanted to love the new album. But something is missing for me. Can't put my finger on it.

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Again, irrelevant to the point I was making. Which was about Moore.

And yes I have. It is difficult, but that's a play Allen and any other safety in the league has to make.

And that as my point. You said Alford was watching. I said Allen cut his angle off to the tackle so he wasn't watching. He was cut off from making the tackle by a teammate. After that the chase began. What am I missing? I swore I responded to you saying Alford was doing too much watching and I gave you the reason he seemed to be watching. First I told you it wasn't his coverage assignment. You came back with he was doing to much watching. I told you Allen cut his path to OBJ off and I'm still missing your point? I'm sorry. What was your point?
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And that as my point. You said Alford was watching. I said Allen cut his angle off to the tackle so he wasn't watching. He was cut off from making the tackle by a teammate. After that the chase began. What am I missing? I swore I responded to you saying Alford was doing too much watching and I gave you the reason he seemed to be watching. First I told you it wasn't his coverage assignment. You came back with he was doing to much watching. I told you Allen cut his path to OBJ off and I'm still missing your point? I'm sorry. What was your point?

My point is I was never making a point about Alford or Allen. I was making a point about Moore. And how people are too critical of him and that ODB's TD was absolutely not Moore's fault.

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On the Moore tackle it looked to me like he was looking to lower the boom but then decided he needed to break down and wrap up but between not being able to open up wide and Shane spinning away, Moore was out levereged. I think if he committed to one or the other it would have been fine but the split indecision allowed that 3rd down completion. Situational awareness should have told him to wrap up especially since it was 3rd down. 1st or 2nd down...lay the wood. 3rd down? Get off the field.

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Moore wasn't exactly blame-free. The 67-yarder to OBJ wasn't his fault, but he missed at least two tackles on Vereen that led to first downs. That being said, whatever he said in the second half seemed to work.

Moore's leadership is a welcome sight for a secondary that has some talent, but is pretty green. I agree with north falcon's earlier post. Moore could be one of the franchise's all-time greats when all is said and done.

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Moore wasn't exactly blame-free. The 67-yarder to OBJ wasn't his fault, but he missed at least two tackles on Vereen that led to first downs. That being said, whatever he said in the second half seemed to work.

Moore's leadership is a welcome sight for a secondary that has some talent, but is pretty green. I agree with north falcon's earlier post. Moore could be one of the franchise's all-time greats when all is said and done.

He missed one tackle, Worrilow missed a couple as well against Vereen. He was very slippery on Sunday.

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I hate to tell you all but Moore wasn't going for a big hit when he missed that tackle. He was attempting to wrap up but he went high instead of low and Vareen was able to shake loose.

Thats exactly what I saw. Moore wasnt trying to go for a big hit at all. If anything he was a bit too high on the attempt and Vereen was able to spin out. To me that was a good play by Vereen, who by the way is no slouch.
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On the Moore tackle it looked to me like he was looking to lower the boom but then decided he needed to break down and wrap up but between not being able to open up wide and Shane spinning away, Moore was out levereged. I think if he committed to one or the other it would have been fine but the split indecision allowed that 3rd down completion. Situational awareness should have told him to wrap up especially since it was 3rd down. 1st or 2nd down...lay the wood. 3rd down? Get off the field.

Wouldn't have mattered. It's hard to wrap a guy that spins. I used to do it all the time. The ONLY way to tackle a spinner is to crash into him BEFORE he makes the spin or wrap him before he spins. Other than that you have to completely take his legs. It's an art to spinning. You have to spin at the right moment and it won't matter who the tackler is or what form, how low, how high he's going. Vereen timed his spin at the right moment. Good play by him. And this is not an excuse for Moore. It's more of a compliment to vereen because I did this exact same thing to many guys when I played. Barry Sanders was the master of the spin. How many guys did HE make miss?? HOF'ers included??
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look like he dipped his head right before contact to me. But he still didn't break down though. You would have to run sprints for that at my school

I've rewatched it multiple times. Never saw a head dip. Just saw Vereen time the spin perfectly. He was literally looking at vereen while he was trying to make the tackle. If it were Jennings or Williams it's a tackle. It's no different than how Sproles makes ppl miss.

Ask me?? I was a smaller back. Sometimes the break down is exactly why I shook guys. The best tacklers on me were guys that crashed into me before I could make a move. Us smaller backs are actually LOOKING for you to break down.

Even when it comes to breaking down you have to know when and how to break down. There's always a counter for whatever a defensive player does on the field. I've bounced off guys that wouldn't wrap, I've spun away from guys that tried to form tackle me, I've juked a guys that try to form tackle me, and I've been blown up by guys that didn't break down on me so I could time his move.

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look like he dipped his head right before contact to me. But he still didn't break down though. You would have to run sprints for that at my school

And I understand about sprints. I've made plenty of guys have to run sprints but it wasn't their fault. If Moore or anybody else wants to know how to tackle shifty guys they should watch film on Ray Lewis. On a play like that Ray would not have broken down. He would've crashed the runner without giving him a chance to spin. If you watch highlights of Ray he rarely broke down when guys tried to put a move on him and he even talks sh*t about after the plays when he's miked up. Has he been shaken?? Yes, of course. They all have. But he was a guy that was less shaken and knew how to deal with shifty guys. It's just hard to make open field tackles on shifty guys. Ask guys that have tried to blast Devin Hester.
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