Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 869 Double Team
Focused, calm and committed.

"Donald VS Levi", the leaders of the league's defense and offense in the past two seasons finally shined in the 53rd Super Bowl.

It wasn't just the two players. The commentators, the audience, and the fans who were still watching the Super Bowl at this moment all held their breath.

First down and ten yards, the Kansas City Chiefs are on the thirty-five yard line.

then.

"attack."

Mahomes announced the kickoff again, without hesitation and decisively, turning around and handing the football to Levi for the second time in a row, executing the tactics very resolutely.

Once again, it was Levi again, with his second consecutive ground attack.

Unexpected? Not unexpected?

No matter what, Donald started immediately, like a tiger descending from the mountain, releasing his full speed and strength.

Note that the Los Angeles Rams use a "3-4" defensive formation, with three defensive fronts and four linebackers. This is a formation that focuses on pass defense. The Los Angeles Rams' pass defense is indeed better than their ground defense, but at the same time, their pass rush pressure and ground defense should not be underestimated:
Because they have Aaron Donald.

Such as in front of me.

There were two offensive linemen right in front of Donald, but he and his teammate, forward Ndamukong-Suh, completed a cooperation, with Ndamukong taking a step sideways towards Donald's position, intercepting an offensive guard and winning space for Donald.

Donald faced the defensive tackle in a one-on-one duel. He pressed forward with his entire body, using his body size to suppress the opponent. At the same time, he grabbed the opponent's arms with both hands and pushed them to the side, destroying his opponent with ease. He used the force to propel his body and rushed directly to the empty space on the left.

Flowing clouds and flowing water, all in one go.

Footsteps, hands, body, speed, all factors collided perfectly together. Donald broke through the blockade of the offensive line effortlessly. He seemed extremely excited and excited. His strength advantage was fully demonstrated. He deservedly deserved the league's best defensive player of the year.

Without delay, Donald was face to face with Levi.

Everything happened in a flash of lightning.

However, Levi did not panic.

Levi's eyes were fixed on Donald's movements. He was not surprised at all that Donald could complete the breakthrough so smoothly. At the same time, his feet continued to move sideways to his right side. After leaving the pocket, he did not stop and ran towards the sideline at a high speed.

Donald: ?

Donald didn't understand Levi's actions, because the running back's breakthrough is often within the slot. Once he breaks out of the slot space laterally, the running back will enter the cornerback's defensive range. If he keeps moving laterally, there will be no vertical advancement, and the safety will also step forward as soon as possible. This kind of procrastination will only continue to compress the running back's own breakthrough space.

In other words, unless absolutely necessary, the running back should move vertically as quickly as possible instead of moving horizontally foolishly, which seems to be running for a long time, but the actual effective advancement distance is zero, and may even lose yards.

Generally speaking, when a running back moves laterally, the defense often chooses to raid, with the defensive line and linebackers forming an interception near the slot, forcing the running back to find a breakthrough from a lateral position.

But in this offense and defense, the Los Angeles Rams did not choose to raid, but set up a comprehensive net in the short pass area to guard against Mahomes' pass.

In other words, now it is just a situation where Donald and Levi are facing each other alone, so why did Levi move sideways?
Run away?
impossible.

Donald couldn't figure out Levi's tactical intentions. If it was any other running back, he would just run at full speed regardless of the consequences and forcefully suppress the opponent. But facing Levi, his recklessness and recklessness could become a gap for Levi to break through. He had to guard against Levi's sudden turn and stop.

Donald's nerves remained on alert.

It was this little bit of "tenseness and vigilance" that prevented Donald from stepping forward with all his strength, and he didn't even notice that he had left the comfort zone of the defensive line, and got out of the entanglement of the front line and entered an open and flat area, which is the territory of cornerbacks and safeties.

Then, another old acquaintance showed up, Marcus Peters.

The Kansas City Chiefs' top cornerback last season had a hot temper and clashed with referees several times because he was dissatisfied with yellow flag calls, including his own yellow flags and those of his teammates. Although he was protecting the interests of the team, he repeatedly offended the referees, resulting in two personal fouls, leading to him being ejected from the game and being fined by the league.

During the offseason, Peters had a fierce conflict with the coaching staff. It was rumored that Peterson even took action and destroyed the defensive second-line coaching staff office.

Eventually, Peters, whose rookie contract was exactly four years old, was traded to the Los Angeles Rams.

In a twist of fate, no one expected that Peters and the Kansas City Chiefs would stand on opposite sides of the Super Bowl final stage.

Precisely because of this, Peters is full of fighting spirit and has performed very, very well so far. Facing Mahomes' quick short passes, he is always able to accurately predict. Peters, who grew up under Reid, demonstrated his perfect sense of his mentor's tactical system and gave 200% of his fighting power.

At this time, Peters saw Levi moving sideways into the cornerback area, and a grim smile appeared at the corner of his mouth:
Look, isn't this the prince of the Kansas City Chiefs? He has been a perfect heartthrob since he entered the league, and has become the next king of Kansas City. Why not let this exiled sinner let the young prince experience the cruelty of reality?
At the first moment, Peters got rid of Watkins, who was on his opponent, and quickly retreated, returning to the line of scrimmage at full speed, forming a two-person encirclement with Donald.

However, Levi still had no intention of moving vertically, and continued to move horizontally -

Even if you are an edge walker, you can't go out of bounds, right?

Whether it was Donald or Peters, they were both confused, but they became tense because of Levi's full-speed approach to the sideline. Like the calm before the storm, both of them sped up, trying to close the encirclement and preemptively eliminate Levi's strategy.

However, the moment Donald accelerated, Levi's pupils caught it.

Sudden stop, sudden turn.

Pulling sideways, releasing speed, switching from moving sideways to moving sideways to moving sideways to the right, without reservation or hesitation, in just two or three steps he rushed out like an arrow.

Donald: Not good.

Just now, Donald left his comfort zone and had to stand up straight, raise his center of gravity and release his speed in order to create pressure. However, he lost his balance in Levi's rapid change of direction, his feet slipped and his steps staggered, and the whole rhythm was disrupted by Levi.

It turned out that everything was a trap, and Levi was just waiting, waiting for the moment when Donald and Peters lost their patience.

What if they don't, and they continue to move the encirclement horizontally but refuse to move forward, what should Levi do?
Unfortunately, they had no way of knowing.

Donald's feet slipped, and then he realized that he had blocked Peters' return route. Levi killed two birds with one stone by getting rid of the double defense and regained the space for advancement.

Damn!

Donald refused to compromise or surrender, and rushed towards Levi without hesitation.

Regardless of anything, he took off into the air.

(End of this chapter)