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<blockquote data-quote="ilovetheoption" data-source="post: 829921" data-attributes="member: 1414"><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">The downside to this? You're asking your running back to block, an edge rusher, and that's not always the most fantabulous matchup ever invented, you know? Sometimes RB's don’t like getting kerploomied, and get their QB's kerploomied instead, which gets your offense kerploomied, and eventually, your coaching career kerploomied.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>3. Half-Slide</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Because of this, "Half-slide" (or "Combo") protection was invented. This attempts to take the best of both worlds. 1/2 of the line will slide protect, and the other side and the RB will BOB protect. This gets you the simplicity and stunt pickups of slide protection, while not asking your back to block DL, an instead putting them on a LB (a much more winnable matchup).</span></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">In general, the zone-side (including the center) will go to the strongside of the defense, and the BOB side (including the back) will go to the weak side of the defense. The Back is assigned to Mike, which means that the Center has to know to ID Mike as a backer on the weak side of the formation, so the back goes the right way.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">In the end, it ends up looking like this: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">[ATTACH=full]11351[/ATTACH]</span></p><p>How can you tell quickly whether it's BOB or halfslide? Look where the back goes. In BOB, the Center has Mike, so the back generally ends up blocking an outside guy. In Half-slide, the Center is involved in a zone block, so the back generally ends up blocking an inside guy. This is especially true, because in Half-Slide, the back is told "if two guys come, you get the inside guy, the QB can either climb up into the pocket, or he's on the hook to find the hot route". The back always protects inside-out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ilovetheoption, post: 829921, member: 1414"] [FONT=Calibri]The downside to this? You're asking your running back to block, an edge rusher, and that's not always the most fantabulous matchup ever invented, you know? Sometimes RB's don’t like getting kerploomied, and get their QB's kerploomied instead, which gets your offense kerploomied, and eventually, your coaching career kerploomied.[/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][B]3. Half-Slide[/B] Because of this, "Half-slide" (or "Combo") protection was invented. This attempts to take the best of both worlds. 1/2 of the line will slide protect, and the other side and the RB will BOB protect. This gets you the simplicity and stunt pickups of slide protection, while not asking your back to block DL, an instead putting them on a LB (a much more winnable matchup).[/FONT] [FONT=Calibri]In general, the zone-side (including the center) will go to the strongside of the defense, and the BOB side (including the back) will go to the weak side of the defense. The Back is assigned to Mike, which means that the Center has to know to ID Mike as a backer on the weak side of the formation, so the back goes the right way. In the end, it ends up looking like this: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1633464312734.png"]11351[/ATTACH][/FONT] How can you tell quickly whether it's BOB or halfslide? Look where the back goes. In BOB, the Center has Mike, so the back generally ends up blocking an outside guy. In Half-slide, the Center is involved in a zone block, so the back generally ends up blocking an inside guy. This is especially true, because in Half-Slide, the back is told "if two guys come, you get the inside guy, the QB can either climb up into the pocket, or he's on the hook to find the hot route". The back always protects inside-out. [/QUOTE]
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