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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 538425">There's the rub.  The game isn't played that way.  Everybody has options depending on what the offense shows at the LOS, what the opponent in front of him is expected to do, what the opponent then does at the snap, and how the play evolves.  What the guys to the left and right of you are capable of doing and what you expect them to do on that particular play as it evolves come into play.  And that all takes place in a matter of a few seconds and has to be distilled down to "instincts"...it's a reaction thing not a thinking thing.The design of the defense, the defensive calls on a particular play, the personnel package on the field, a player's physical talents, his instincts and what the guys around him and the opponent  are doing all come into play.It should also be noted this defense was at it's best when Woodson was freelancing as a hybrid LB...playing "outside the box" inside the box, as it were.  Not everybody is given that broad latitude...the rank-and-file need to back and fill around the playmakers to some degree.  In the final analysis, though, going outside the box and making plays while keeping instances of getting fooled and burned to a minimum is job of every football player to greater or lesser degrees.Whether it's football or otherwise, "I did my job" is never the answer.</blockquote>

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