In the first quarter of Sunday's NFC Championship, two plays show exactly what Kam Chancellor does for the Seattle Seahawks defense. The principle actors in both plays are the same: Chancellor and Green Bay tight end Richard Rodgers. In the first, Rodgers gets the best of the situation on a nice gain down the seam:
Kam Chancellor’s impact on the Seattle defense in 2 GIFs
“It’s gonna be a nasty scene.”
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It’s a nice gain, ending with a pretty good hit and some jawing back and forth between the two.
This is the next play. Chancellor starts about six yards off the line of scrimmage, recognizes where the hole is and ...
That’s Rodgers stepping into the hole as a lead blocker trying to clear Chancellor out. If Chancellor doesn’t fill the hole, Lacy has one man to beat and he’s gone.
Instead, Rodgers gets blasted back in a textbook example of how to take on a lead blocker. He isn’t a small man either, standing at 6’5 and weighing about 260. Chancellor shucks him aside like a toddler.
This is what Chancellor does. Besides being fundamentally sound, he brings an intimidation factor while closing up the intermediate middle of the field, leaving Earl Thomas to take away the deep middle. And in his words, "When you're running at me and I'm running at you? It's gonna be a nasty scene. Nasty scene."
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