X's and O's (Football 101)

[Forza Azzurri]

I'm a very visual person.

You and Coach Lasso.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

Oofa

You Italian?

 

[kcsu]

In a real life example, I think Notre Dame ran this play against us a lot last season. We kept having our alley defender attack the QB, who then kept throwing the bubble to the backside slot receiver. Their backside WR did a great job blocking our corner (he was always way bigger and stronger) and they got solid yardage every time they ran this.

Except a couple times they unwisely tried to run it at Reddish, who was excellent getting off the block and blew up a couple passes for no gain.

You need 2 Reddish type CBs to effectively defend this play against a good offense. Last year we had one. This year, it is too early to say but I am worried we might have none.

They did and what we should have done is moved our rover to cover the slot and forced the zone run as our LB's were much stronger than our CB's so making a choice of two negatives i would have played more man to man with our Lb's and taken away the pass with our rover

 

[LSUBahrain]

Here's a nice tutorial from an avid Oregon fan...chatted quite a bit with him before the LSU-Oregon game to open the season in 2011. Gives a nice breakdown of the Oregon inside zone read.

Edit: the guy doing the presentation is totally geeked out - cut straight to the 3 minute mark for the football talk, unless you want to see his preamble.

 

[Finwad32]

You Italian?

Lol, no, but my lovely bride's family was straight off the boat. I've picked up a couple phrases.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

Lol, no, but my lovely bride's family was straight off the boat. I've picked up a couple phrases.

Oofa is quintessential Italian and not something I hear American-Italians say.

Not 100% sure about this but I also think it is northern and not southern.

Where in Italy are they from?

 

[Chip]

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Only 2 people can defend these plays. Bruce Smith and Lawrence Taylor.

 

[CuseLegacy]

Lol, no, but my lovely bride's family was straight off the boat. I've picked up a couple phrases.

No wonder you are one of my favorites. My Mom was straight from the old country...last northern city in Italy.

 

[CuseLegacy]

Oofa is quintessential Italian and not something I hear American-Italians say.

Not 100% sure about this but I also think it is northern and not southern.

Where in Italy are they from?

Finwad32 is a little busy this morning. We might not hear from him today. Go Morrisville State.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

No wonder you are one of my favorites. My Mom was straight from the old country...last northern city in Italy.

Brennero

 

[CuseLegacy]

Brennero

Trieste

 

[Forza Azzurri]

Trieste

Eastern-most.

Lo parli?

 

[CuseLegacy]

Eastern-most.

Lo parli?

Un po' poco.

My mother was more concerned with learning English than teaching us Italian.

 

[TexanMark]

Ok...I'm not an X and O guy...I found this "Manuel" lol online

It looks pretty basic...any thoughts?

Looks like a good primer for the basic defensive alignments.

http://studentaccess.emporia.edu/~bmeany/Project8/Index.html

 

[Orangepace]

Only 2 people can defend these plays. Bruce Smith and Lawrence Taylor.

That's why I took LT 1st overall in the Tecmo draft we held 3 years back. That was damn fun!

 

[Pyle]

Derp

 

[rocklloyd]

Oofa is quintessential Italian and not something I hear American-Italians say.

Not 100% sure about this but I also think it is northern and not southern.

Where in Italy are they from?

Oofa is part of my regular vocabulary, but I'm a Utica-Italian

 

[blizz]

A little old and maybe an also-ran read for some of you but I found this to be very well written and laid out. Particularly interesting considering some of the recent personnel changes in the WR group. Let's get this thread rolling again!

Baylor’s Vertical Passing Game