In college, I played LB and something my DC always reminded us of that changed my perspective of understanding offenses is angles and leverage. It’s something that you kept hitting on throughout the video that is under appreciated. Sometimes it’s not about pancaking the guy in front of you, just creating enough space for a lane.
As a foreigner who has always loved watching CFB/NFL but only understanding the surface level, I've been loving these videos you've been putting out dude - keep them coming!
I’m a Kenyan who never played football I played rugby. Got into football naturally many years ago from here but the way you’ve broken down the game, makes me feel like I’ve actually not watched football properly, EVER. This is so dope! This is where football is actually determined, the trenches.
I _wish_ football had commentators that would explain these kinds of decisions and adjustments-on-adjustments to viewers. So much of the game happens before the ball is snapped and it's easy to overlook it. ❤
I played OT last year for my high school and fell in love with the pass game. This year I’m back at OG, and man, it’s made me realize how fun running the ball really is 😂
IMHO, the most complete and multi-faceted running game in history was implemented by Tom Osborne's Nebraska Cornhusker teams during the late '80's and '90's. His teams ran it all: option football (contrary to popular perception his teams only ran the option about 20% of the time), quick hitters to the FB, inside zone, outside zone, traps, pulling guards/tackles, Off-tackle power, reverses, draws, etc. Nebraska's running game and blocking schemes were so influential that in the NFL Joe Gibbs adopted some of Nebraska's offense (he confirmed that the iconic Redskins counter-trey play was copied from Nebraska). If you want a masterclass in the running game, watch the old Nebraska games.
As someone who never played football I found this channel recently and I’m loving it. Learning a lot more about the way offense and defense operates. Great work!
It's because passes have a much higher rate of ball control loss. Ints, QBs, wrs, te have a higher level of fumbles than rbs. People forget the turnover machine that Andrew luck was but he's the best example. Then throw in you need to go 10 yards in 3 tries go comp ratings is 66% and good ypa is 6.7. meaning on average in 3 downs a good passer will net 13.4 yards. A good runner is 4.7. on 3 it will be 13.1 but you complete every run and have a much lower chance of turning the ball over
Either your math or your acronyms are off: In three downs a passer who nets 13.4 yards has a YPC -- not a YPA -- of 6.7. That's definitely good for YPA, but it's a horrible YPC. The quarterback in your example would have a YPA of just under 4.5. That will get you benched. Sanity check: your "good passer", given 30 pass attempts in the game, will have less than 135 total yards. You don't run because it's better than passing: you run because in a base defense, if the linebackers guard the underneath routes you have a numbers advantage. So you force the defense to guard against the run, and now they can't adequately defend the pass. It's just complimentary football: you run to open up the pass, and you pass to open up the run. But I'm sure the video has more to say;
A qb with 6.7 yards per attempt with fumbles, sacks and ints throw in will average around 200 yards on 30 attempts . Absolutely. An attempt to me is when the qb attempts to throw the ball not just the throw. He might be attempting to throw the ball and get smacked or dimple or ints or have a penalty call. I don't use bs metrics or pf. All attempts at passes that failed more not just incompletions. A good qb all added up with need 40 attempts at throwing to general around 300 yards.
@@Aaron-hb4wu "in 3 tries go comp ratings is 66% and good ypa is 6.7. meaning on average in 3 downs a good passer will net 13.4 yards" That's still under 4.5. Three tries, a total of 13.4 yards. I'm not trying to bust you -- I was imagining you realizing your math wasn't pointing to the picture you wanted, missing the mistake, and just going on. Honestly, If a QB has a YPA of 6.7, the run game is probably already working, and the the OC is going to be told "just keep doing what you're doing". Did you catch 49ers-Jets? The 49ers just kept gashing the jets up the middle with their run game. So the Jets played with a heavy box, and San Francisco switched to the pass, and you had tight ends with no one within five yards of them, a safety on Brandon Aiyuk (who actually didn't do that badly, but he's a SAFETY), very few pressures on the QB because the Jets had to leave their heavy package in, etc. It was the most graphic illustration of why you run the ball I've ever seen. Jets weren't able to get a similar run game going, so San Francisco's defense was able to cover passing attempts that forced Rodgers to place the ball perfectly. Not even the most accurate quarterback can do that every throw, and in the third quarter Lenoire, who was covering Wilson, was able to reach across and deflect the pass into the arms of another defender.
Just found this and have been a football fan all my life. I can't wait to watch all of your videos on football. Thank you for making them. Excellent subject matter.
This is a great breakdown. Truly one of the best football channels. I am not sure I can handle all the football meatheads with their disproven tough guy cliches in the comments. 20 years of these guys, who base their masculinity vicariously through their team's "tough" persona,, revealing their own insecurities, continually having their teams lose to all the data based passing teams with star QBs, isn't enough to break through the high school jock mentality. It is truly something to behold. Don't worry. Your team team throwing the ball and winning isn't gonna make your testicles shrivel up. I love running the ball too. It is the basis of football. It is also not the game anymore. It is a supplement to good teams, not the focus. Change with the sport, or keep losing. The NFL will never allow the old way. Lower ratings. The moment teams counter the smaller defense with running ghe ball, they will change the rules, just as they did with the hip drop tackle after offense went down.
3:45 been playing way too much cfb 25 cause I def recognized the play as soon as we saw the tackle was pulling “GT counter read option” or something of the sort on the game lmao
Cut blocks are legal in NFHS on the initial line charge by linemen against other linemen. In NCAA, low blocks are legal in the low blocking zone by anyone who was stationary in the low blocking zone until the ball leaves the zone.
Thank you so much for posting this. I absolutely love, love, love the run game and the run game are the main reasons why I starting watching football. I grew up idolizing Emmitt Smith, Darren Sproeles & the Auburn Tigers backfield of Ronnie Brown and Cadillac Williams. My Mt. "RUSH" More of Running Backs.
Great video! Very informative and covers a shit ton of run concepts. My only criticism is that you guys should have explained running gaps with an accompanying graphic and/or stills, towards the start of the video. Regardless, y'all doing the lord's work with such high-level content
When the examples switch direction (upfield/downfield) it sometimes takes me a moment to realize what I'm looking at, especially pre-snap. No idea what could be done to help, sorry. Love these videos. ❤
Running the football is HUGE! Problem is pay for RB is far lower than wide receiver. So, what I am saying is we’re noticing a shift from RB position to RB AND wide reviewer at 250-280 pounds with a 4.2 speed at dash 40-yd.
Stat sheets definitely dont tell the whole story. Look at what chase young did to the panthers. On the stat sheet he is a non factor but watch the game. Dude was everywhere wreaking havoc, shutting down running lanes, collapsing the pocket, forcing the QB to get the ball out faster than he wanted or try to run to the outside. Absolute menace.
Your video was great over all, but you left out 1 of the most powerful Blocks in all of Football! It is known as the Cross Block. It is also referred to as the X Block because of the movement which is being done by linemen. You mildly confused the X Block with the Trap Block in your video. A better way to think about it is an X Block involves 2 linemen standing next to each other. Tackle + Guard or Guard + Center. A good example was shown in your video at 11:19. No one is being trapped because the defender is never being left undefended and the defender can see who is coming at him. A Trap Block is when a defender thinks he has been left undefended because all the linemen in front or near his gap has left him unguarded. This is what make it become a Trap Block. Sometimes, X Blocks are used in conjunction with Cut Blocks which creates 1 of the most dangerous injury prone Blocks in Football. Most players who have ever been a Defense Linemen known about the X Cut Blocks because of the injuries they can cause. These sort of Blocks are often used due to a weaker player trying to compete with stronger player. A Strong Defender can over power a Weaker Offensive player. Their is very little for the Weaker Offensive player to do in order to prevent himself from getting beat. The only way for the weaker player to fight back is by using angles and/or going after the players legs. This is why X Blocks & Cut Blocks even exist to begin with. A Base Block has full power of defender vs. full power of offense player. The weaker player will always lose in that match up. X Block uses angles to attack player from the side so their full force isn’t being used and sometimes the momentum of the defender can be used against them in the angle attack.
this video coulda just said; because then all defense is prevent and thats unthinking football. meanwhile threatening with run makes defense honest. it elevates the gameplan from checkers to chess but yeah the deep crawl into it was appreciated anyway.
The pendulum will eventually swing back to pounding the rock consistently, two tight ends, fullback, dominating time of possession.... Just the nature of things, have to overpower that extra db in all those nickel packages these days
I think the pendulum sorta swung back but not with the same setup as it was a decade or two ago. Workhorse backs are super rare now if you can get the absolute most out of day 2-3 RB picks. O-line talent in the run definitely matters especially with teams teams are looking to punish defenses on light boxes with bigger guys in the interior and looking to run gap/power. Also helps if the slot receiver doubles as another blocker. Also helps if the run scheme also gets to passing looks. QBs who can run or have some length are also options to finishing end zone drives.
@@t4d0Wyou mentioned one thing that was criminally understated in this video; blocks from wide receivers. You will have a hard time finding a run of 20+ yards that doesn’t have at least one good block by a wide receiver.
@@lukeb1663 Depends on scheme too. Not every team can get a Cooper Kupp receiver talent whose an asset in the run game as a blocker. Not every team will stick to base 11 to both run/pass from. That said you also have teams who run heavy 12-13 personnel have additional TEs who are like 230~240lb WRs who can run block. Many teams will utilize an 'official' fullback as that blocker/pseudo receiver. But in non-heavy formations the blocker has to be a capable WR.
I desperately want an nfl team to go all in on the run. I’m talking paying and playing 7 oline men nearly every snap. 2 TEs a running QB and a big time back. With the occasional burner WR to just threaten the deep part of the field
I really like this video and this series. Does Wham mean different things to different offenses? I thought it meant when a OL is freed to release to 2nd level by a replacing TE or Back taking on his DL responsibility. Often with motion etc to give the replacer momentum/angles, so it could be seen as a type of Trap. But less so about e.g. specifically working against the run or hitting the edge, and more so about replacing the OL for the release. Did i have that wrong?
Historically, teams ran too often/passed too infrequently. They also punt too often. In the past decade or so, teams have finally adapted to throwing more + punting less. Not all the way there, but getting there. However, there must come a point where teams are so thin against the run that it has higher expected value than passing. Teams should pass more than they run. However, football has "constraint" plays and running if nothing else MUST serve in this role, even as things like counter, end around, and draw are constraints within a constraint. It's also dangerous to use historical data for evaluating runs now. NFL before the RGIII era or so only rarely had the QB involved in the design run game (like with Vick some years etc), and that had less depth than we see now in terms of how the QB is used. Unless the OL is just overmatched, current run concepts + threat of pass make it significantly harder to just stop the run by loading the box, even against otherwise suboptimal passers. Team use this more and more, but I don't think usage has caught up to the potential value just yet. Especially because not trashing huge % of your cap space into one position is pretty valuable.
I think you're looking at it the wrong way when you say football needs the run (or need the pass for that matter). What offenses need are doubts and uncertainty in the minds of the defense. It just so happens that mixing runs and pass to various extent help with this. It's why there's motion, there's mis-direction, there's playaction, and so many other things that help contribute to this. And why even in your run game video there are so many variations of runs to keep the defense guessing and hopefully guess wrong. I feel more stuff from the perspective of the defense will help make viewers understand this. Since it would be easier to see what separates good play design from bad ones. After all, none of these concepts are top secret. But how they're used in the hands of different coaches are what make them useful or not.
Yeah I agree that its less about the necessity of the run (clearly every working offense in the NFL mixes it up). But the best and efficient offenses marry their run and pass looks where even the best defenses will be challenged on early downs. When those offenses are forced to late downs, they only need short yardage where even the run game is still a threat to help move the chains. Especially if the O-line is absolutely bullying the defense on that respective drive. In many cases it is a victory for the offense if they can get the opposing defense in a situation early game where they are absolutely selling out to stop the run game.
I know its maybe not topical, but when I got into the game Dick Lebeau's zone blitz system was always raved about (until it faced Tom Brady). Would you consider an old school throwback evaluating the system? Or maybe to make it relevant evolution of the zone blitz?
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Running and defending against the run are the foundation of football. Their fundamental value should not be underestimated.
I clicked this thinking " I already know all of this"
I in fact did not know all of this
literally same, base v down already got me lmao
So much of the nuance of zone blocking makes so much more sense to me after this
it was the crash concept that got me
I clicked thinking I didn’t know anything. I in fact didn’t know shit
In college, I played LB and something my DC always reminded us of that changed my perspective of understanding offenses is angles and leverage. It’s something that you kept hitting on throughout the video that is under appreciated. Sometimes it’s not about pancaking the guy in front of you, just creating enough space for a lane.
The game is won in the trenches
something that CU is łearning
But people don't realize that.
All day!!
You HAVE to run the ball. Just ask Todd Bowles. We (The Buccaneers) ran the ball every series last year and it NEVER worked, but we still did it.
As a foreigner who has always loved watching CFB/NFL but only understanding the surface level, I've been loving these videos you've been putting out dude - keep them coming!
I’m a Kenyan who never played football I played rugby. Got into football naturally many years ago from here but the way you’ve broken down the game, makes me feel like I’ve actually not watched football properly, EVER.
This is so dope! This is where football is actually determined, the trenches.
I _wish_ football had commentators that would explain these kinds of decisions and adjustments-on-adjustments to viewers. So much of the game happens before the ball is snapped and it's easy to overlook it. ❤
Videos like this being available to anyone is crazy. It'll change football in the future
This is the best channel on UA-cam if you are interested in going below the surface level of football strategy. Well done as usual!
I played OT last year for my high school and fell in love with the pass game. This year I’m back at OG, and man, it’s made me realize how fun running the ball really is 😂
IMHO, the most complete and multi-faceted running game in history was implemented by Tom Osborne's Nebraska Cornhusker teams during the late '80's and '90's. His teams ran it all: option football (contrary to popular perception his teams only ran the option about 20% of the time), quick hitters to the FB, inside zone, outside zone, traps, pulling guards/tackles, Off-tackle power, reverses, draws, etc. Nebraska's running game and blocking schemes were so influential that in the NFL Joe Gibbs adopted some of Nebraska's offense (he confirmed that the iconic Redskins counter-trey play was copied from Nebraska). If you want a masterclass in the running game, watch the old Nebraska games.
I see that alliteration in the intro. Nicely done
As someone who never played football I found this channel recently and I’m loving it. Learning a lot more about the way offense and defense operates. Great work!
John madden football 2002 used to teach the run game succinctly.
It's because passes have a much higher rate of ball control loss. Ints, QBs, wrs, te have a higher level of fumbles than rbs. People forget the turnover machine that Andrew luck was but he's the best example.
Then throw in you need to go 10 yards in 3 tries go comp ratings is 66% and good ypa is 6.7. meaning on average in 3 downs a good passer will net 13.4 yards. A good runner is 4.7. on 3 it will be 13.1 but you complete every run and have a much lower chance of turning the ball over
Either your math or your acronyms are off: In three downs a passer who nets 13.4 yards has a YPC -- not a YPA -- of 6.7. That's definitely good for YPA, but it's a horrible YPC. The quarterback in your example would have a YPA of just under 4.5. That will get you benched. Sanity check: your "good passer", given 30 pass attempts in the game, will have less than 135 total yards.
You don't run because it's better than passing: you run because in a base defense, if the linebackers guard the underneath routes you have a numbers advantage. So you force the defense to guard against the run, and now they can't adequately defend the pass. It's just complimentary football: you run to open up the pass, and you pass to open up the run. But I'm sure the video has more to say;
A qb with 6.7 yards per attempt with fumbles, sacks and ints throw in will average around 200 yards on 30 attempts .
Absolutely. An attempt to me is when the qb attempts to throw the ball not just the throw. He might be attempting to throw the ball and get smacked or dimple or ints or have a penalty call.
I don't use bs metrics or pf. All attempts at passes that failed more not just incompletions.
A good qb all added up with need 40 attempts at throwing to general around 300 yards.
@@Aaron-hb4wu "in 3 tries go comp ratings is 66% and good ypa is 6.7. meaning on average in 3 downs a good passer will net 13.4 yards"
That's still under 4.5. Three tries, a total of 13.4 yards.
I'm not trying to bust you -- I was imagining you realizing your math wasn't pointing to the picture you wanted, missing the mistake, and just going on.
Honestly, If a QB has a YPA of 6.7, the run game is probably already working, and the the OC is going to be told "just keep doing what you're doing".
Did you catch 49ers-Jets? The 49ers just kept gashing the jets up the middle with their run game. So the Jets played with a heavy box, and San Francisco switched to the pass, and you had tight ends with no one within five yards of them, a safety on Brandon Aiyuk (who actually didn't do that badly, but he's a SAFETY), very few pressures on the QB because the Jets had to leave their heavy package in, etc.
It was the most graphic illustration of why you run the ball I've ever seen. Jets weren't able to get a similar run game going, so San Francisco's defense was able to cover passing attempts that forced Rodgers to place the ball perfectly. Not even the most accurate quarterback can do that every throw, and in the third quarter Lenoire, who was covering Wilson, was able to reach across and deflect the pass into the arms of another defender.
Just found this and have been a football fan all my life. I can't wait to watch all of your videos on football. Thank you for making them. Excellent subject matter.
This is a great breakdown. Truly one of the best football channels.
I am not sure I can handle all the football meatheads with their disproven tough guy cliches in the comments.
20 years of these guys, who base their masculinity vicariously through their team's "tough" persona,, revealing their own insecurities, continually having their teams lose to all the data based passing teams with star QBs, isn't enough to break through the high school jock mentality. It is truly something to behold.
Don't worry. Your team team throwing the ball and winning isn't gonna make your testicles shrivel up.
I love running the ball too. It is the basis of football. It is also not the game anymore. It is a supplement to good teams, not the focus. Change with the sport, or keep losing. The NFL will never allow the old way. Lower ratings. The moment teams counter the smaller defense with running ghe ball, they will change the rules, just as they did with the hip drop tackle after offense went down.
Nice timing with the Colorado Nebraska game showing what to do and not to do when running the ball. 😅
Thanks so much for these. Learning and applying in little New Zealand.
I like when you slow it down helps a lot bc I don't know shit about football only starting to learn
3:45 been playing way too much cfb 25 cause I def recognized the play as soon as we saw the tackle was pulling
“GT counter read option” or something of the sort on the game lmao
Fantastic. Just a thorough, concise, easy to digest, OUTSTANDING breakdown!
Cut blocks are legal in NFHS on the initial line charge by linemen against other linemen. In NCAA, low blocks are legal in the low blocking zone by anyone who was stationary in the low blocking zone until the ball leaves the zone.
…as long as you don’t have someone else hitting them high. This penalty gets called a lot when on OL executes the cut while a neighbor goes combo.
@@ikepigott that falls under the chop block rule. Low low and high high combo blocks are allowed.
I’ve been waiting for something like this to be made. Thanks for making it so concise.
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Thank you so much for posting this. I absolutely love, love, love the run game and the run game are the main reasons why I starting watching football. I grew up idolizing Emmitt Smith, Darren Sproeles & the Auburn Tigers backfield of Ronnie Brown and Cadillac Williams. My Mt. "RUSH" More of Running Backs.
Thank you for posting this video.
Bro, just found your channel today. I got some binge watching to do. Good stuff.
Go Cowboys
Thank you so much, for non American with only flag football background, this video give a lot of context to other scheme or film study out there.
This is OUTSTANDING content!
I thought I knew football. This man is brilliant.
Great video! Very informative and covers a shit ton of run concepts. My only criticism is that you guys should have explained running gaps with an accompanying graphic and/or stills, towards the start of the video. Regardless, y'all doing the lord's work with such high-level content
May have been skipped because it was covered in the pass protection video? But yeah, may have benefited from a quick graphic. ❤
I'd describe what you call a wham block a split flow, as a wham is usually done on IDL versus backside edge, but semantics! Good video!
Some of these RB cuts are RIDICULOUS
Best football youtube channel, by a mile. Excellent episode, much appreciated.
This is a very helpful video, especially for fans overseas who don't get to play the game growing up.
When the examples switch direction (upfield/downfield) it sometimes takes me a moment to realize what I'm looking at, especially pre-snap. No idea what could be done to help, sorry. Love these videos. ❤
Great video covering many very nuanced things briefly. Wonderful to teach people who like football to LOVE football like us sickos
Football is in large part a wonderful chess game. Too but we only see 10% of it on tv.
The alliteration at the start was CRAZY!!
Great video!!!!
1. Be the Lions.
2. Get into overtime.
3. **** you we're going up the middle
Aaaaaaww yeeeeah. Education 🎉. Thanks for your work.
When Peter Piper pronounces a pack of proliferated plays like EPA, pundents ponder perpetually pounding the pig skin professionally
Loving the alliteration in the introduction
Damn, what did Richard and Alex do 😂
hahaha we're big fans of the show and love everything Alex, Richard, and Godfrey do!
loving these
So glad to see this. Been waiting…
Running the football is HUGE! Problem is pay for RB is far lower than wide receiver. So, what I am saying is we’re noticing a shift from RB position to RB AND wide reviewer at 250-280 pounds with a 4.2 speed at dash 40-yd.
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Stat sheets definitely dont tell the whole story. Look at what chase young did to the panthers. On the stat sheet he is a non factor but watch the game. Dude was everywhere wreaking havoc, shutting down running lanes, collapsing the pocket, forcing the QB to get the ball out faster than he wanted or try to run to the outside. Absolute menace.
Your video was great over all, but you left out 1 of the most powerful Blocks in all of Football!
It is known as the Cross Block.
It is also referred to as the X Block because of the movement which is being done by linemen.
You mildly confused the X Block with the Trap Block in your video.
A better way to think about it is an X Block involves 2 linemen standing next to each other.
Tackle + Guard or Guard + Center.
A good example was shown in your video at 11:19.
No one is being trapped because the defender is never being left undefended and the defender can see who is coming at him.
A Trap Block is when a defender thinks he has been left undefended because all the linemen in front or near his gap has left him unguarded. This is what make it become a Trap Block.
Sometimes, X Blocks are used in conjunction with Cut Blocks which creates 1 of the most dangerous injury prone Blocks in Football.
Most players who have ever been a Defense Linemen known about the X Cut Blocks because of the injuries they can cause.
These sort of Blocks are often used due to a weaker player trying to compete with stronger player.
A Strong Defender can over power a Weaker Offensive player.
Their is very little for the Weaker Offensive player to do in order to prevent himself from getting beat.
The only way for the weaker player to fight back is by using angles and/or going after the players legs.
This is why X Blocks & Cut Blocks even exist to begin with.
A Base Block has full power of defender vs. full power of offense player.
The weaker player will always lose in that match up.
X Block uses angles to attack player from the side so their full force isn’t being used and sometimes the momentum of the defender can be used against them in the angle attack.
this video coulda just said; because then all defense is prevent and thats unthinking football. meanwhile threatening with run makes defense honest. it elevates the gameplan from checkers to chess but yeah the deep crawl into it was appreciated anyway.
Masterclass. Thanks!
Great explanation of the game, thank you!
Dude. This video is incredible!
Having the ability to run the football is the difference between games I swear
Short version, "Stop trying to win the game in one play."
Masterpiece.
Due to its quick hitting nature its designed for short yardage/goal line situations, #28 goes all the way in
I didn’t know the run was so complicated
What a beautiful game.
Wish pete carroll watched this before SB49
Need a whole 6 hour long football for dummies vid for the panthers organization 😂
Should be so many more than 142k too
Pushin P's in that intro
Oh yeah that alliteration to kick us off.
The pendulum will eventually swing back to pounding the rock consistently, two tight ends, fullback, dominating time of possession.... Just the nature of things, have to overpower that extra db in all those nickel packages these days
I think the pendulum sorta swung back but not with the same setup as it was a decade or two ago. Workhorse backs are super rare now if you can get the absolute most out of day 2-3 RB picks. O-line talent in the run definitely matters especially with teams teams are looking to punish defenses on light boxes with bigger guys in the interior and looking to run gap/power. Also helps if the slot receiver doubles as another blocker. Also helps if the run scheme also gets to passing looks. QBs who can run or have some length are also options to finishing end zone drives.
@@t4d0Wyou mentioned one thing that was criminally understated in this video; blocks from wide receivers. You will have a hard time finding a run of 20+ yards that doesn’t have at least one good block by a wide receiver.
@@lukeb1663 Depends on scheme too. Not every team can get a Cooper Kupp receiver talent whose an asset in the run game as a blocker. Not every team will stick to base 11 to both run/pass from. That said you also have teams who run heavy 12-13 personnel have additional TEs who are like 230~240lb WRs who can run block. Many teams will utilize an 'official' fullback as that blocker/pseudo receiver. But in non-heavy formations the blocker has to be a capable WR.
As a coach and a former WR
I SWARE BY THE RUN!!!
Good thing you aren't an english teacher
Running is obviously the foundation. If the defense cant even stop the run, then you never risk interceptions and win easily.
Great video!!
I desperately want an nfl team to go all in on the run. I’m talking paying and playing 7 oline men nearly every snap. 2 TEs a running QB and a big time back. With the occasional burner WR to just threaten the deep part of the field
Great video man!
Love your stuff.
I really like this video and this series.
Does Wham mean different things to different offenses?
I thought it meant when a OL is freed to release to 2nd level by a replacing TE or Back taking on his DL responsibility.
Often with motion etc to give the replacer momentum/angles, so it could be seen as a type of Trap.
But less so about e.g. specifically working against the run or hitting the edge, and more so about replacing the OL for the release.
Did i have that wrong?
Historically, teams ran too often/passed too infrequently. They also punt too often. In the past decade or so, teams have finally adapted to throwing more + punting less. Not all the way there, but getting there.
However, there must come a point where teams are so thin against the run that it has higher expected value than passing. Teams should pass more than they run. However, football has "constraint" plays and running if nothing else MUST serve in this role, even as things like counter, end around, and draw are constraints within a constraint.
It's also dangerous to use historical data for evaluating runs now. NFL before the RGIII era or so only rarely had the QB involved in the design run game (like with Vick some years etc), and that had less depth than we see now in terms of how the QB is used. Unless the OL is just overmatched, current run concepts + threat of pass make it significantly harder to just stop the run by loading the box, even against otherwise suboptimal passers. Team use this more and more, but I don't think usage has caught up to the potential value just yet. Especially because not trashing huge % of your cap space into one position is pretty valuable.
Great video, needs time stamps though
this is the video man
I think you're looking at it the wrong way when you say football needs the run (or need the pass for that matter). What offenses need are doubts and uncertainty in the minds of the defense. It just so happens that mixing runs and pass to various extent help with this. It's why there's motion, there's mis-direction, there's playaction, and so many other things that help contribute to this. And why even in your run game video there are so many variations of runs to keep the defense guessing and hopefully guess wrong.
I feel more stuff from the perspective of the defense will help make viewers understand this. Since it would be easier to see what separates good play design from bad ones. After all, none of these concepts are top secret. But how they're used in the hands of different coaches are what make them useful or not.
We have a video on trick plays and deception coming this week
Yeah I agree that its less about the necessity of the run (clearly every working offense in the NFL mixes it up). But the best and efficient offenses marry their run and pass looks where even the best defenses will be challenged on early downs. When those offenses are forced to late downs, they only need short yardage where even the run game is still a threat to help move the chains. Especially if the O-line is absolutely bullying the defense on that respective drive. In many cases it is a victory for the offense if they can get the opposing defense in a situation early game where they are absolutely selling out to stop the run game.
Here's hoping the Ravens coaching staff watches this video.
As a Giants fan, please make a passing vid so we can share it.
Alliteration Football. We back.
@thinkingfootball I know I’m a dummy but why do you have to rub it in
One thing my coach taught me that got me a lot of TFL SACKS and opportunities was "Follow the guard if he pulls" thanks coach Watson r.i.p.
Trenches.
Maybe show this to the falcons please?
Lieu pronounced loo not lee uh. Love the video and the channel tho!
I know its maybe not topical, but when I got into the game Dick Lebeau's zone blitz system was always raved about (until it faced Tom Brady). Would you consider an old school throwback evaluating the system? Or maybe to make it relevant evolution of the zone blitz?
Definitely will cover this at some point, just need the film
Pittsburgh never had good corners
Will be sending this video to Pete Carroll
Someone share this video with Colorados coaches
Somebody show this to Colorado😂😂😂
A for alliteration
anyone here after the lions just ran the ball every play in overtime against the rams.
All these old raider clips with Jacobs and Carr got me sick 😓
have y'all seen belichick & gruden are both on UA-cam now???????!!!!!!!! y'all welcome lol
Pounding the rock? More like putting on my socks. amirite fella's?
that intro was sexy
I counted 10 "P"s in the first 20 seconds, if you were going for a specific number. 😁😁