Harold Landry’s 5 best plays from Tennessee Titans vs Green Bay Packers
By Will Lomas
A look at the splashy plays that Harold Landry made in his debut for the Tennessee Titans.
20 plays, that is all it took for Tennessee Titans 2nd round pick Harold Landry to put together a mini highlight reel.
Despite having to defend the run on some of those plays (which he did well enough) where he really shined was when he got to rush the passer.
As a pass rusher he did great winning with speed, using his hands, bending, and finishing. Here are the top 5 plays from his game against the Packers.
5.
Landry lines up at the top of the screen here. It may not look like much, but watch how he quickly gets behind the offensive tackle and forces him to loose balance and screw up his footwork.
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The problem with this play is that instead of bending around the edge and using a rip move, he tries to come back and go inside.
There could be a lot of reasons for this, but I think he saw all that space and thought that he needed to cut off a possible rush lane for the QB. With the LB on a delayed blitz, Landry has to be thinking that he needs to prevent the QB from gashing the defense on the ground.
Another reason may be that it is just a rookie mistake. He may have thought he had more room to work with inside and that he had the LT on his heels already, so if he cut back inside he could have a direct path to the QB. Not a bad idea, but given how much we will see him beat these OTs with straight speed and bend later, it isn’t the easiest way he could have won that battle.
Still a great job.
4.
This one is a little bit harder to see at full speed so I slowed it down. Watch how quickly he makes contact with the RT. If you look closely you can see the RT trying to make sure that the linebacker isn’t going to blitz in the B gap. That gave Landry time to get into the RT and push him back into the QB’s lap.
If you look, notice how the QB gets uncomfortable and his footwork turns into garbage here. Throws off one foot, off balance and out of sync with the rest of his body. It forces an incompletion.
3.
Watch Landry at the top here. This may be a refined version of what he was trying to do on play #5. He instantly beats the the LT with speed here and converts that speed to power putting the LT in the spin cycle and opening a clear path to the QB.
If the QB’s first read wasn’t open then this would have been another sack.
2.
The RT barely touches Landry here and if it wasn’t for that push with the finger tips Harold Landry would have bent all the way around the tackle and gone straight for another strip sack.
Everything about that is so great, the get off, how quickly he eats up space, the bend, and even how close he was to coming back after been run past the QB. In any other game it might have been the most impressive play a rookie EDGE had, but not for Landry.
1.
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Gaze on it and weep. This is the play that guys like Von Miller have made millions off of, the pure speed and flexibility to make a play off of that is rare even among the top end athletes in the NFL.
Not only does he bend and rip past the blocker, but he doesn’t settle for the sack he knows all it takes is one extra step and and a well placed swipe and he has the ability to make a game changing play.
This is the guy we all thought was going to go in the first round in April and if this is the guy we get then he is worth all of that and more.