00:00Mark, I remember way back at the beginning of the season
00:02when we first started doing these segments
00:04that you told everybody who didn't think that Will Campbell
00:08would hold up as a left tackle to kick rocks and pound sand.
00:12Now that we have a whole season's worth of work
00:15and a Super Bowl where, unfortunately,
00:18he gave up the most pressures any left tackle's ever given up
00:20in a Super Bowl, is your belief that he's still
00:23an NFL left tackle reaffirmed?
00:26Oh, there's no question.
00:28I think he's a really good player.
00:30I think he's got a lot of things to work on.
00:34But do I think that that guy can be a really good left tackle
00:39in this league?
00:39Absolutely.
00:40I don't think there's any question.
00:42You know, now technically, like I said,
00:44he's got to progress with how you go about changing your sets,
00:51how you go about attacking an offensive or defensive line,
00:55how you take the passive out of pass protection.
00:57And I've said this for weeks now, just kind of studying Will Campbell.
01:01I think he sets too deep.
01:03And I think he almost always turns perpendicular to line of scrimmage.
01:08And that's, you know, that's his biggest issue,
01:11is he creates soft edges.
01:14And that has never been corrected.
01:16And, you know, I will tell you guys this.
01:18I live in Denver.
01:19And through the first three or four years of Garrett Bull's career,
01:23like, I want him fired.
01:25Like, he can't play.
01:27And he had the same issues with the turning of the shoulders
01:30and getting perpendicular to line of scrimmage
01:32and always setting the same spots.
01:34And he has become an all-pro left tackle.
01:37It took him a while from a technical standpoint to be good.
01:41It took him a while to learn how to play the game.
01:45But, you know, I think that's part of what goes on.
01:49And I thought the other thing that Seattle did an exceptional job of,
01:52most of those blitzes came over the right side.
01:55So what they did, in effect, is they said, one,
01:57hey, we're not afraid of your wide receivers.
02:00We'll lock those guys up one-on-one.
02:02We're not afraid of your tight ends.
02:03We can do that as well.
02:04And ultimately, we're going to bring blitz pressure
02:07from the right side of the line of scrimmage
02:09and leave that left side in one-on-one situations.
02:12And so, you know, anytime you're bringing pressure on that side,
02:15you're turning protection that way.
02:17You're bringing it back over that way.
02:19You're lining up a tight end over that way.
02:21They did a really good job from a game-planning standpoint
02:24of attacking that Patriots offense
02:27and ultimately dominated the football game because of it.
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