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Message: [QUOTE="Fjoinkay, post: 1118281, member: 604"] is like being in an open field and trying to capture a free range chicken. Chickens are quick and can turn on a dime. If you are alone in the field and run directly at the chicken full speed all the way and the chicken sees you in time, you will likely whiff. If alone and the chicken sees you early it might be best to force the chicken to move in the direction you want it to move to try to corner it or trick it to run into the pen. If you have a buddy or two helping out it becomes easier to for the chicken to go in the direction you want, but you and your buddies have to work together. You have to communicate or have the same plan in mind. In football mobile QBs have some similarities to chickens. Defensive players work very hard to have the opportunity to capture the QB, and when they finally find themselves in a position to make a play every split second counts. Many defenders when they end up with the mobile QB in their sights they become very excited. It's as if they are very, very hungry and they see a chicken, and they would really love to just rip the chicken's head off and eat the chicken for lunch. The reality is no one is going to eat chicken during a game, and so the approach needs to be much more mindful. The objective in football is to make the chicken run backwards and to prevent the chicken from running upfield gaining yards. If you make the chicken run backwards good things usually happen. If you are alone your buddies have time to join you. And in that case if you work together, have a good plan of attack, and execute the chicken will either keep running backwards, try to run around you, or just lie down. If the chicken tries to run around you to the outside or around you and your buddies you have to force this quick chicken to run laterally for as long as possible. It's all about having a clear objective and taking the best angles and trusting your buddies to see what you are doing an to assist you by having the same objective and taking the best angle to prevent the chicken from running upfield for as long as possible. You all need to work together perhaps taking slightly different angles without running along the same angle at full speed the entire way. If you force the chicken to run laterally long enough he runs into the sideline and he feels cornered. You want to force the mobile QB to run out of bounds- into the pen- or backwards, but you must prevent the mobile QB from being able to stop on a dime to allow you and your buddies to run past him so that he can then run upfield or make some other kind of play. You and your buddies need to see what is happening and adjust with the same objective in mind and work together by taking slightly different approaches to force the mobile QB to go where you want him to go and to prevent him from running upfield. Sometimes the mobile QB will beat you anyway and make a great play perhaps throwing a pass on the run to a receiver downfield. And sometimes the mobile QB will outrun you and turn upfield before he reaches the sideline, but the longer you force him to run laterally or perhaps even backwards and then laterally, the more time you give your buddies to help the pursuit. The point is in many situations if the approach is open and adaptive the chicken will be forced to give up. If guys on any team whether on the farm or on the gridiron can work on those skills good things can happen, and then after work the BBQ tastes much better! [/QUOTE]

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