vin.couve12
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Yeah...it's ben baldwin
Even at the root of the article he's already drawing very over simplistic conclusions. Play action is a 3rd layer.
Runnig the football affects defenders reads. In run defense, you're stacking and shedding in a 2 gap or you are locating and trying to stay in your gap. This effects DL and LBs overall, but can also affect safeties if there is bleeding.
In pass defense your DL have a singular target that doesn't really move unless forced to.
This is where "pinning your ears back" comes into play.
So when you're scouting defenders in the front seven you see things like "slow to read" or quick or whichever. Bites on play action is another. Play action is a 3rd layer that plays on those reads, but it is not the reason why teams run the ball.
To me, this is basic internet parroting. Since 2000, some continue to say this is a passing league despite the fact that teams that run the ball well get into and go deep into the playoffs. It's just a fan preference thing. You can come up with data to fit a narrative and you can easily come to the wrong conclusion when missing a variable or two or more.
A common response to the question of why teams run so frequently is that teams need to run the ball in order to maintain the effectiveness of play-action passing.
Even at the root of the article he's already drawing very over simplistic conclusions. Play action is a 3rd layer.
Runnig the football affects defenders reads. In run defense, you're stacking and shedding in a 2 gap or you are locating and trying to stay in your gap. This effects DL and LBs overall, but can also affect safeties if there is bleeding.
In pass defense your DL have a singular target that doesn't really move unless forced to.
This is where "pinning your ears back" comes into play.
So when you're scouting defenders in the front seven you see things like "slow to read" or quick or whichever. Bites on play action is another. Play action is a 3rd layer that plays on those reads, but it is not the reason why teams run the ball.
To me, this is basic internet parroting. Since 2000, some continue to say this is a passing league despite the fact that teams that run the ball well get into and go deep into the playoffs. It's just a fan preference thing. You can come up with data to fit a narrative and you can easily come to the wrong conclusion when missing a variable or two or more.