saying if he would have called a drop back it wouldn’t have happened the way it did is ridiculous.
Not at all. How many strip sacks did he (the DE) get on dropbacks?
It's a difference in footwork, that can (vs can't) handle a DE charging hard upfield. Really that simple.
Show me where Callahan agrees with you.
He would. Good enough for me.
Not like anything you say is close to changing my mind, nor anything I say changing yours. So we're just going around in circles.
This is the biggest part of your problem, that you can't get past.
You're acting like I'm saying Sanford F'ed up by making that call, when that's true at all. As I've said multiple times: I love play action, and I hope we call it a bunch.
Merely pointing out the objectively correct fact that, that call,
since it was made, put Schlueter at a huge disadvantage to handle that hard upfield rush.
If you can't comprehend this, then there's just nothing more to talk about.
You really think a player is given free reign to do what he wants on a given play.
Players are given options all the time.
Easily could have been something like the coach telling him "hey if you see them giving a run look in 11 personnel, but you think it's play action on a 2nd or 3rd and long, feel free to rush up field and don't play the run".