The sacks - a little help please!.

[motife]

to summarize, after reviewing on TiVo, there were 3 sacks for a loss of 22 yards.

sack#1 :

1stQ, 3:21, 3rd and 3 at the GB 44.

Threatened blitz by Urlacher and both safeties who were stunting right at the line. When the ball was snapped, only Urlacher and one of the safeties blitzed. Favre fell down on his back while backpedaling. Must have just got spooked. Lost 5 yards.

sack#2 :

2ndQ, 3:51, 1st and 10 at GB 39.

Jason Spitz was speed/bull rushed by his man, driven back about 10 yards on the play almost immediately after the snap. Favre was setting up in a very tight pocket and tripped on Spitz's foot, who was directly behind Favre at the time, and fell down for a 7 yard loss.

sack#3 :

The 3rd sack was after the successful fake punt pass by Ryan to Herron.

1st and 10 at the Chicago 39. 1:57 in the 2nd quarter.

This was just a missed blocking assignment. No one lined up on a DE who was spread wide outside of the man Chad Clifton had. Chad Clifton blocked his man, but no one was lined up on #95. Greg Jennings was the only one close to the guy, but Jennings just took off downfield and 95 came in untouched on Favre. Lost 11 yards.

Clifton tried to get him after he saw the blown assignment.

Not sure who's fault it was no one picked him up. Clifton should be held responsible although he couldn't block 2 men at once.

[BobDobbs]

On the First fall down sack. Urlacher approached the line showing blitz. The center got spooked IMO, then dropped his right leg back much farther than he would have to get a better angle on the block. Favre went down to the ground but the play was still live, which is why he pump faked. Then when touched by a Bear player he was ruled down by contact hence the sack.
As far as the sack on the outside. Clifton and Lee were talking to each other after the sack, so maybe it wasn't Clifton's fault. But, what pass blocking scheme calls for the Tackle to block down to his inside shoulder and then a backfield player to come all the way over to block the outside rusher? I think that was probably a mental error on Clifton's fault.
There were numerous other breakdowns in pass pro that didn't result in sacks. We have a long way to go.

[mraynrand]

I thought it was Martin who was suposed to block that one - he was lined up in the backfield asa RB. I think they were trying to cover for Henderson - that's where the miscommunication occurred probably.

[red]

I thought it was Martin who was suposed to block that one - he was lined up in the backfield asa RB. I think they were trying to cover for Henderson - that's where the miscommunication occurred probably.

yeah, i thought it was martin too. cause i was screaming at the tv, WHY THE F^%K IS HE STILL HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[motife]

On the First fall down sack. Urlacher approached the line showing blitz. The center got spooked IMO, then dropped his right leg back much farther than he would have to get a better angle on the block. .

You could be right. There was a huge panic before the ball was even snapped for sure. The offense looked very unsettled at the snap.

[Patler]

On the First fall down sack. Urlacher approached the line showing blitz. The center got spooked IMO, then dropped his right leg back much farther than he would have to get a better angle on the block. Favre went down to the ground but the play was still live, which is why he pump faked. Then when touched by a Bear player he was ruled down by contact hence the sack.

You are absolutely right. The pump fake made it a passing play, hence a sack when he was touched without an intervening running play action (like a handoff). I wonder how it would have been ruled if he just sat there and was touched, without the pump fake? My suspicion is it would have been ruled as a running play.