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After watching this thing for god knows how long, I've got it figured out, and it took rewinding the DVR to truly get a grasp on it.
Dee Ford, for whatever reason, doesn't know Gore has the ball, looks back at Kaep on his rollout after the handoff, locks on to him flips around and then shortly realizes that he's ball-less, and flips back around.
Watch it more and more, and you'll see exactly what I mean.
However, what scares me ever so slightly is the fact that his entire team is heading the same direction, with the offensive line moving UP THE FIELD, and he flips around. Granted, that shit happens in the blink of an eye, but you're not going to have a PAP where the linemen are 3-4 yards up the field blocking people.
This goes as a mark against either his Awareness as a whole, or his utter lack of run game skill. I'm hoping we can chalk this down to his issues with the run game, though he hasn't done all that bad the last few games, but awareness, to me, is the scariest concern, if there is one.
However, I have a slight suspicion that on that particular play, and designed for this specific game, that almost every play Ford saw today, he was in charge of spying on the QB for containment. I'll rewatch the game this week to confirm/deny it, but I'm willing to bet quite a bit on Ford's snaps beeing pass rush/spy only in this game, which explains why he didn't play the run fully and allowed Gore 4-6 extra yards.
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