Matchup: Alabama DT vs. Georgia Center
27 September 2008If you want to see a human wrecking ball in action, watch Alabama’s defensive tackle Terrance Cody against Georgia today.
Cody is 6-5, 365 lbs, but that’s only the half of it. He is a terrific technician, with a feel for angles and leverage and pad level.
His specialty is driving the center back into the quarterback’s face or the running back’s cutback lane. He doesn’t make a lot of tackles or sacks, but he breaks down the blocking schemes and allows others a free run to the ball.
Against Arkansas last week, Cody manhandled the Razorbacks’ All America center Jonathan Luigs. Against Georgia today, he faces freshman Ben Jones, who is like a Vienna sausage on Cody’s breakfast buffet.
Unless Jones sprouts a cape and an “S” on his chest, Cody might be the disrupting force that allows Alabama to pull off the upset.
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