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