A defensive strategy catch 22

[cpayne5]

If you play sound defense for a few seconds every play, you should have no problem being able to prevent these trick plays AND swarming to the ball. An offense really has just a few seconds to execute a trick play. These plays are devised in such a way to occur quickly. So, a defense get through those first couple of seconds successfully, they can attack the ball without risk of giving up the Terry Glenn flea flicker.

I guess what I'm trying to say here is that an offense has a very small, finite amount of time to execute a trick play to perfection before the D breaks up the play to the point where everyone on the field knows that the O can do nothing but the obvious (run for their life), and at that point the D can start to commit safeties, CBs, and LBs to the ball carrier.