The noisy cheers and shouts swarmed from all directions, and the surging air waves were so turbulent that the skin could feel the hot oppression, the blood gradually began to boil, the adrenaline suddenly exploded, and the fingertips that were slightly oozing sweat seemed to be tightening.

In the second game, Lu Ke really felt the power of the home stadium of the Candlestick Stadium, thousands of spotlights and magnesium lights flocked to it, and every move on the stage was under the watchful eye, as if standing on the top of the world! Lu Ke could clearly feel that every cell in his body was roaring, eager for a game, eager for a duel, and eager for a challenge!

He loves moments like this.

The more excited, the calmer; The more excited, the calmer; You can even catch the trail of the breeze passing through the meadow, and everything becomes crystal clear in view.

Although this is only the second game of his career, Lu Ke is like an old and spicy hunter, meticulously observing the defense, making judgments calmly, recalling Jim Hubble's tactical arrangement, and then, simply launching an attack.

The Dallas Cowboys opted for a decent, traditional defensive formation; And Lu Ke chose a pistol formation that could be played freely. After kick-off, observing, and observing, Lu Ke did not find any gaps in passing, and could only hand over the rugby to Marcus Lynch.

Following a stellar performance in the opening game, Jim Hubble decided that Marcus Lynch and Anthony Dixon would take turns on the court and be tied as the starting four running backs, with playing time based on performance.

Holding the football, Marcus began to rush the ball strongly, but the Dallas Cowboys' defensive front line did not leave much gap, and the tight running defense only released three yards, and then stopped Marcus forcefully to stop the offensive advance.

Second gear offense, seven yards.

Lu Ke continued the pistol formation, and after stepping back, he began to look for a receiver, but found that all the cowboys players in his field of vision were white and navy blue, and he couldn't find a passing space at all. Among them, Logan is not only caught in a one-on-one close defense, but also has two players not far away to assist in the defense.

In desperation, Lu Ke could only hand over the rugby to Marcus again and continue to rely on running the ball to advance. Unfortunately, Marcus only advanced two yards and was intercepted by two players again and dropped straight to the ground.

Three-gear offense, five yards.

Lu Ke put on a shotgun formation, not only sending three wide receivers and a close forward, but even Marcus ran out as a receiver, putting on a posture of full firepower.

After kick-off, the world of Cowboys players is still in sight, dense, and there is even an illusion of covering the whole court. Between the lights and fires, Lu Ke chose the passing object - Logan Newman.

With the two players defending together, Logan didn't have many chances. Even as Logan tried his best to catch the ball, the Cowboys' security guard Abram-Elam put up a flawless defense, making a last-minute rush to shoot off the football and make an incomplete pass.

Strikeout!

The first wave of the San Francisco 49ers' offense, which consumed 96 seconds, and finally, the strikeout was out. After only five yards of advancement, he had no choice but to give up. Such a performance is really surprising.

It's not that strikeouts are terrible, in the whole game, even if the top four elite quarterbacks are like the four elites, strikeouts are inevitable, every offense is a game between the offensive group and the defensive group, and it is impossible for every offense to be smooth and unblocked.

The main reason for the disappointment is that Lu Ke's performance in the last week's game was too amazing. In the face of Romo's excellent performance, everyone is expecting Lu Ke to respond forcefully and really make the game exciting; However, the result was a strikeout, which was really incomprehensible.

However, it was only the first attack of the game. Everyone had the patience to wait and see, and even Charles Davis wasn't going to make a fuss about a single strikeout. Today's game is still unpredictable.

However, for Lu Ke, for the quarterback, more important than the strikeout, why? What went wrong? In the midst of this wave of attacks just now, Lu Ke smelled the smell of danger!

In football, the offensive team consists of three parts: an offensive front line of five players, an offensive weapon consisting of four receivers and a running back, and a quarterback.

On the other hand, the defensive group consists of two parts: the first line defense and the second line defense.

The so-called first line and second line are relative to the position of the attacking group players, and the first line of defense is close to the offensive line, that is, the first half; The second-line defense is close to the end zone, which is the second half.

The second line of defense is relatively simple, with a total of four players, two security guards and two corner backs, who are responsible for defending the pass and covering the midfield and backfield. They all defend against the same target: wide receivers and close forwards.

The position of the cornerback is relatively close to the offensive line, and the body of the receiver is attached to the body of the player at close range; The safety guards are positioned relatively deep, and if the corner-back misses, or if the receiver makes a breakthrough, they will make up for it in time to disrupt the attack.

According to the content of duties, security guards can also be subdivided into game guards and strong guards.

As the name suggests, the patrol covers a relatively large area, cruising in the backfield at any time to carry out auxiliary defense; The strong defenders mainly defend the near end - the strong side of the side where the near end is located, and it is more of a one-on-one defense, and it is their task to target the near end.

Abram Allan is a strong defender.

Overall, second-line defense is about covering the backcourt and defending passes.

The first-line defence is more complex, with a complex and varied tactical set-up, with a total of seven players who can be divided into two parts, the defensive forward and the lineback. The defensive front line is closer to the offensive front line, standing almost face to face; The linebacks are behind the defensive line, about one or two steps behind.

There are two main defensive lineups in the league, the "4-3 formation", with four defensive forwards and three linebacks; "3-4 formation", three defensive forwards, four linebacks. Of course, these are just two basic formations, and on top of that, the defensive tactics are ever-changing and dizzying.

The defensive front, which corresponds to the offensive front, with a player in the middle being the pinnacle, and defensive tackles and defensive ends on the left and right. Their mission is to raid, tear through the offensive front, attack the quarterback, grapple, ram, and grab the quarterback, and stifle the offense in the first place.

Linebackers are divided into midlinebacks and outside linebackers based on their standing position. This is the most important position in the entire defensive group, corresponding to the quarterback, as the person who gives orders in the defensive group, generally speaking, the captain of the defensive group is the lineback.

The task of the linebacks is to intercept and assault, firstly, they must defend the running back, intercept the rushing ball of the running back; Secondly, they must defend short passes, in the passing attack, cover the defense of short passes; Again, they had to make a surprise attack, and when they found an opportunity, bypassed the offensive front line and tried to tackle the quarterback.

As a result, the "4-3 formation", which is a defensive formation that increases the intensity of the raid, invests a lot of troops to capture the quarterback; The "3-4 formation" is a defensive formation that focuses on passing defense, covering short, medium and long balls across the board.

Overall, the first-line defense is an offensive defense, completing the short pass defense, completing the running ball defense, and completing the quarterback raid.

For today's game, the Dallas Cowboys put on a special defensive formation, "3-4-2-2", with three defensive forwards, four linebacks, two cornerbacks, and two safety guards.

The defensive formation itself is very ordinary, and more than half of the teams in the league use it. However, the Dallas Cow carefully figured out his own defensive tactics -

Three defensive forwards are responsible for blocking running backs, four linebacks are responsible for covering short passes, two cornerbacks are responsible for middle passes, and two safety guards are responsible for long passes.

In other words, the Cowboys gave up on the raid and didn't even make the move to try; Correspondingly, the Cowboys put in a full eight players to defend the pass! Complete coverage of the defense, the entire second half of the defense is leakless!

The San Francisco 49ers only have four receivers, and even with the running backs, that's just five. Eight against five, the Cowboys' defense completely had the upper hand; Even if it's man-to-man defense, five-on-five, the Cowboys have three players who can cover the area and roam around, waiting for an opportunity to help defend.

Obviously, the Dallas Cowboys carefully and repeatedly analyzed the video of the first week of the San Francisco 49ers' game, and made defensive arrangements for Lu Ke's strengths and weaknesses:

Abandon individual raids and focus on passing defense.

Lu Ke is a quarterback with mediocre physical talent, but his passing accuracy is extremely good, and it is even enough to determine the outcome of the game.

The cowboys can choose to raid, hit head-on, and fight strongly, destroying Lu Ke's passing rhythm and passing confidence; However, they need to break through the San Francisco 49ers' offensive line, which was above par in the opening game.

The Cowboys can also choose to pass the ball to defend and completely strangle Lu Ke's lethal weapon; Even if the pass is successful, the yardage released will not be too deadly, which is like a snake hitting seven inches and pinching Lu Ke's lifeline.

In the first wave of attacks, Lu Ke's passing target was completely choked, and Marcus's running ball failed to open the situation. Thereupon...... Strikeouts out.

In modern rugby, it's the age of passing, but pass-and-run balance is still a tactic that every team reemphasises. Here's why: when one tactic is strangled to death, another must open up the situation and help each other. However, if the running ball is curbed and forced to pass the ball continuously, the end can only be - a fiasco.

Of course, this is a problem that every quarterback is bound to face; It's also a problem that every quarterback has to solve. A strikeout should never evolve into a consecutive.

In Lu Ke's short professional game, he encountered a challenge problem in the real sense for the first time!