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Regular Season Week 8 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS WEEKLY ... - Nfl
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Yes, but there's so much more.<br />
"I've got bull rush, I've got spin move, I've got fake-bulls, I've got fake-bull-spin, I've got fake-spin,"<br />
Freeney said. "I've got chops, I've got chop-hoops."<br />
Chops?<br />
"Speed rush from the outside," he explained. "Trying to chop (the blocker's) hands down as you come<br />
around."<br />
Freeney's mind settled on one of his personal favorites, which naturally lacked some specifics. It also<br />
lacked the desired results.<br />
"One year versus Jacksonville it was second or third down," he said. "(Byron) Leftwich was quarterback.<br />
(Khalif) Barnes or (Ephraim) Salaam was the left tackle. I hit him with a real good bull rush. Next time I<br />
came, I faked the bull and went to the spin.<br />
"Basically he was lying on his face. Made him completely miss and (I) hit the quarterback. It wasn't a sack;<br />
the ball was gone. Usually my best moves are nonsacks, unfortunately."<br />
The key to Freeney maximizing his varied arsenal is making it difficult for an offensive tackle to know<br />
what's coming.<br />
"It's kind of like how Marvin Harrison used to run every route the same," he said. "You didn't know if he<br />
was breaking out, breaking in or going to run past you. It all looked the same.<br />
"I try to get it to where you don't know whether I'm going inside, you don't know if I'm going outside."<br />
Coach Jim Caldwell began working closely with quarterback Peyton Manning and former offensive<br />
coordinator Tom Moore in 2002. There is comfort in knowing the Colts' offensive plan hasn't had to<br />
incorporate ways to fend off Freeney and Robert Mathis, his bookend pass-rush threat.<br />
Freeney, Caldwell said, "because of the fact (he) blends power, speed, finesse and tenacity all in one<br />
package, he presents some interesting problems for you."<br />
Those problems are a fingertip away for Marvin Lewis. The Bengals coach has a video cut-up featuring<br />
Freeney and Mathis. It's alternately entertaining, instructional and distressing.<br />
"I have hundreds of those (highlights)," Lewis said, laughing. "So when I have nothing to do, I will sit and<br />
just go through their defense and cut clips of them rushing the passer and chasing the ball down the field to<br />
show our young ends.<br />
"I have Freeney-Mathis tapes everywhere. I have (John) Teerlinck (defensive line coach) tapes."<br />
But, oh, those spins<br />
Caldwell admittedly is biased. He's a Freeney guy.<br />
"He's an elite player -- plays very, very hard," Caldwell said. "People, I think, really don't give him enough<br />
credit in the running game, how he chases plays down from behind.<br />
"He's not that big, long 6-foot-5 guy, but Dwight Freeney has that explosiveness in his lower body and<br />
hips, and he just uses it and uses it well."