No, but seriously. What the hell, Kyle? What the hell?
Kyle Phillips is a 6’4″ 277-pound defensive lineman. La’Mical Perine is 5’11” 216-pound running back. Yet, when Perine took off down the sideline on a wheel route, with Phillips tasked with covering the running back, somehow Phillips was able to stick with Perine step for step. Phillips not only stuck with Perine the entire way downfield, but he properly walled him off so the back had no chance to make a play on the ball.
It looked crazy. It didn’t even make sense. You rarely see cornerbacks and safeties execute defending a wheel route so perfectly, but here was a big ol’ defensive lineman providing textbook coverage. It starts to make a bit more sense when you remember Phillips ran 4.68 40-yard-dash at the combine, Perine 4.62, but all that did was impress me all over again.
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Kyle Phillips is a 6’4″ 277-pound defensive lineman. La’Mical Perine is 5’11” 216-pound running back. Yet, when Perine took off down the sideline on a wheel route, with Phillips tasked with covering the running back, somehow Phillips was able to stick with Perine step for step. Phillips not only stuck with Perine the entire way downfield, but he properly walled him off so the back had no chance to make a play on the ball.
It looked crazy. It didn’t even make sense. You rarely see cornerbacks and safeties execute defending a wheel route so perfectly, but here was a big ol’ defensive lineman providing textbook coverage. It starts to make a bit more sense when you remember Phillips ran 4.68 40-yard-dash at the combine, Perine 4.62, but all that did was impress me all over again.
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