(10-18-2013 04:54 AM)eagleskins Wrote: (10-17-2013 11:39 AM)The4thOption Wrote: (10-17-2013 06:30 AM)eagleskins Wrote: You cannot run the power out of the gun with the effectiveness as under center. It is not even a dive at the point, really.
What is your definition of running "power"?
On another note:
Going to go ahead and agree that I don't call the FB up the middle a real "Dive" from the pistol or shotgun.
Power is the fullback with a head of steam hitting the line almost instantaneously. Oline does not fire off the ball with anywhere near the ferocity out of the gun. The dive is the biggest weapon by far in the flexbone.
Uh, if it's a run play then yes they do. If you're zone blocking either way, it doesn't matter. We honestly need to start getting rid of the large amount of cut blocks we use. The rules are starting to work against us with blocking below the waist. The time to adjust to that is now before we're up the creek without a paddle using an illegal blocking scheme. We've already been called on illegal blocks below the waist several times this year.
The biggest weapon in our offense is spreading the field. We've been spoiled by Adrian Peterson and Jermaine Austin. We should be relying on the dive to get 4-5 yards whenever we need it and that's it. The B-Back shouldn't be the feature of our offense. Our weapons should be on the outside, making the defense respect all areas of the field. It's obvious that we are going to hit that B-Back Dive button all game so teams just bottle us up inside on defense. We've been running into 9 man fronts for the majority of the year.
2011 was a great year for our offense because we KNEW the QB wasn't a runner, so if the dive wasn't there we made sure to get the ball outside quick. 3 All-American OL helped in that regard, as our interior blocking hasn't been that good and our perimeter blocking has started getting weaker after losing some of the feature A-Backs we had back then. Defenses respected what we did on the edge that year and you saw how much they were worried about it when NDSU tipped the entire defense to the pre-snap flow and put multiple defenders in the option lanes. For some reason though we refused to counter out of it or throw into the areas of the field vacated by the defense.
These are the areas we need to get smarter. We start setting the defense up, then we'll have them where we want them to be and they won't know what's coming. I haven't seen us do anything like that since the Sewak days. That's always been one of the most dangerous things about us, we would be doing what looked like the same thing over and over but the next thing you knew, the ball was downfield (and most likely in the endzone) because we lulled you to sleep doing the "same thing" over and over. We also need to start using the defense's aggressiveness against them. The only time I've seen that so far is when we played UTC and let them run themselves to one side of the field and ran counters/reverses to bounce the ball to the other side of the field for big gain.
But right now, we mainly need to get healthy and more experience at all the positions on our team. We're playing injured and youth right now. I'm hoping next year brings us a better string of luck because the injury bug right now is pretty damn bad.