BC is well schooled in our counter play. They're probably told not to step in the direction of the initial motion til the motion back passes the qb or something similar. They're also fast enough not to need a head start on the play even if it's not a counter. Either way, a well schooled fast defense is not going to fall for counter motion, especially if we haven't burned them to the edge previously. Counters work best when a defense feels it needs to 'cheat' on plays. BC obviously didn't.
Yeah I came in to make a similar comment. Watching in slow motion, you see they don't start moving until a few beats after the snap, since our countermotion changes so quickly after the snap, they've done the math to determine it's better to wait and see then to move at the snap and then find themselves two or three steps in the wrong direction. Still, good blocking would overcome that.
They seemed to get outside pretty quick, and also they shed WR blocks well in some of the footage.
From the 3 pictures you posted he his following the pulling guard. Never played ILB but I'm pretty sure it's a pretty standard key.
Yes, he ends up going exactly where the pulling OL goes, but I think Faulkner's point is that the direction his head is pointed indicates that he's not actually looking at the OL as his read key. So, either he has superior peripheral vision or it's a coincidence of some sort, and Faulkner is hypothesizing why. The coincidence could be as Faulkner said, we pulled toward the field each time and the stacked backer scraped to the field each time.
It's probably that they're just coached to see the OG as their primary read key, so they aren't even looking at the motion first. They're just following the pulling OG to the play.
