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Neutralizing A Dangerous 1-Tech Using 10 Personnel
The preseason pick for Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year is Nebraska NT Ndamukong Suh. Suh is a 1-tech, a nose tackle who occupies the gap between the center and guard, usually on the strongside. A dominant 1-tech can change a game, because if he has the ability to fight off the double-team from...
Adding A "Pistol" Series To The Offense Could Have Some Advantages
In looking at ways that the Mike Sherman can adopt the offense to utilize the talent we have while still keeping some of the concepts he wants to eventually incorporate into his preferred scheme (the West Coast Offense), I began thinking about the "Pistol offense" Chris Ault runs at Nevada. The...
ESPN Has Apparently Declared This "Spread Week"
ESPN.com is dedicating this week to exploring football's spread offense, what it is, how it started, how to stop it, etc. Jeff Miller starts out with tracing the spread offense to Depression-era Texas. He references Fort Worth's Masonic Home, while I believe TCU's Dutch Meyer was more instrumental...
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