"When the timing is perfect, and [the tackle] shoots his hand, and you dip right underneath it, you're clean," Miller said. "And the hardest part really is just staying up. Because you got to imagine I'm running full speed. And I just dip, and I don't have anything to lean against. The hardest part of that move is really just standing up and keeping your balance all the way to the quarterback."
It's a move that will hurt the pride of an offensive lineman.
"If you do it right, I think you can really make the offensive tackle look silly, because if you do it right, do it effectively, he gets his hands on nothing," said
NFL sacks leader
Alex Highsmith. The
Steelers' defensive end learned the ghost move from watching Miller.
But the degree of difficulty makes the move extremely risky. You see it time and time again with even the best pass-rushers in the NFL: They simply fall over when they try to pull off the ghost move. They flop to the ground at the feet of the tackle or, worse, get tossed into the turf to eat a mouthful of rubber pellets. The edge rusher also sometimes collapses before he can make it to the quarterback.