"Hey Sailfish fans, welcome back to Franky Fish's Film Room, the weekly Youtube show from the Sarasota Sailfish where we break down some game tape with one of our favorite Sailfish players! And this week we've got veteran free safety Spike Daniels with us to go over his great game in Week 1 against the defending champion Yellowknife Wraiths! Thanks for joining us Spike!"
"Thanks Franky, nice to be back on the show."
"Well the final result against the Wraiths sure wasn't what we were all hoping for in Week 1, but you did get the game off to a great start with this 20-yard interception return for Sarasota's first touchdown of Season 40! Talk us through how this play developed."
"So this was one of the plays where everything just goes right. We were trying to bait the quarterback into making a mistake and it worked out absolutely perfectly. Unit is pretty inexperienced, so right off we were trying to confuse him with some pretty odd looks. You can see in the play we set up like we're in Zone coverage, but when the ball is snapped we kind of collapse in and we're actually playing Man. So right away no one on defense is quite where he's expecting us to be, and you can see how it makes him sort of hesitate. Yellowknife actually has a pretty solid play design here, they run these shallow crossers but the whole thing is actually designed to get Brot open in space for probably a big gain. And their line got great protection too, we just managed to get him thinking that split second too long to where he thinks he has to force the play. Like I said, we played Man coverage, but we gave a Zone look, so even though technically it's Man, I'm not actually matched up on anyone. My job is just to figure out where the ball is going, and make a play on it if I can. So when the play didn't develop the way he expected based on the pre-snap, we got him to hesitate just that split second, long enough for me to figure out where he wants to go with the ball and just jump the route. And since the play was going right and I was going left, I ended up with nobody between me and the endzone. 6 points! I love it when I can make a play but it took great execution from the whole team to make that come together. Those hybrid coverages are tricky, if even one person makes a mistake you're going to give up a big play. And this time we did it perfectly."
"Thanks so much for those insights, Spike! For more content like this, make sure you're subscribed to the official YouTube channel of the Sarasota Sailfish! Until next time, just keep swimming!"
"Thanks Franky, nice to be back on the show."
"Well the final result against the Wraiths sure wasn't what we were all hoping for in Week 1, but you did get the game off to a great start with this 20-yard interception return for Sarasota's first touchdown of Season 40! Talk us through how this play developed."
"So this was one of the plays where everything just goes right. We were trying to bait the quarterback into making a mistake and it worked out absolutely perfectly. Unit is pretty inexperienced, so right off we were trying to confuse him with some pretty odd looks. You can see in the play we set up like we're in Zone coverage, but when the ball is snapped we kind of collapse in and we're actually playing Man. So right away no one on defense is quite where he's expecting us to be, and you can see how it makes him sort of hesitate. Yellowknife actually has a pretty solid play design here, they run these shallow crossers but the whole thing is actually designed to get Brot open in space for probably a big gain. And their line got great protection too, we just managed to get him thinking that split second too long to where he thinks he has to force the play. Like I said, we played Man coverage, but we gave a Zone look, so even though technically it's Man, I'm not actually matched up on anyone. My job is just to figure out where the ball is going, and make a play on it if I can. So when the play didn't develop the way he expected based on the pre-snap, we got him to hesitate just that split second, long enough for me to figure out where he wants to go with the ball and just jump the route. And since the play was going right and I was going left, I ended up with nobody between me and the endzone. 6 points! I love it when I can make a play but it took great execution from the whole team to make that come together. Those hybrid coverages are tricky, if even one person makes a mistake you're going to give up a big play. And this time we did it perfectly."
"Thanks so much for those insights, Spike! For more content like this, make sure you're subscribed to the official YouTube channel of the Sarasota Sailfish! Until next time, just keep swimming!"
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