All these years we saw offensive linemen and tight ends make downfield blocks? That’s not what we saw. Nope. Mike Mayock, Thursday during Seahawks-Cardinals, revealed those are “second-level blocks.”
But for those of us involuntarily enrolled in the NBC/NFLN Mayockian Academy of Advanced Football Terms, it’s time to matriculate.
The basics — “put the ball on the ground” (fumble), “leverage the linebackers” (get open), “going vertical” and “high-pointing the football” (jumping), “running downhill” (running forward) and “throwing vertically” (throwing downfield, not straight up) — have been taught.
Apparently, though, there is no one at NBC or NFL Network inclined to instruct Mayock to cool it, cease giving lectures after every play, and to speak less while speaking more plain football English.