There’s been a lot of comment around here about too many fullbacks/tight end/h backs and how sending them in motion only attracts additional defenders and that nobody uses fullbacks like Harbaugh does (that part is true enough) and that the should be running the same offense the other kids have.
Go to 8:37 and freeze frame Kahlid Hill’s touchdown. For starters you have Wheatley as your inline tight end, Asiasi as your H back/slot guy and Hill at fullback. I’d call that jumbo and then some. The play starts out with Asiasi going in motion left, away from the H back position at the top of the screen and into a two point stance pretty much directly behind the left guard. When he goes into motion, he takes a box safety/maybe outside linebacker with him. When that guy vacates his position on the field, we achieve beau coup leverage on the defensive end by formation. He’s at least a half a body inside our Wheatley and better yet in a 3 on two situation between our right guard, tackle and tight end and his defensive tackle partner.
Better still, watch the top two linebacker’s head turn and follow the motion, especially Mike who’s getting ready for a fight to his right. The outside linebacker steps out some and back some thinking he’s got coverage or Wheatley is his key (not so sure there, it could just have been “Get me out of here!”
The ball gets snapped, all kinds of defenders attack the gaps on the right side of the play and in doing so, take themselves right out of the play.
We could have run this play two ways, Hill could have been a lead blocker and the ball could have gone to the tailback in a traditional I formation “power” by the terminology I played with, or slip the ball to Hill for the quick hitter.
We don’t even get really good blocks out of Wheatly and whoever lined up with him, at least they weren’t dominating blocks, but the defensive end was on his heels some when 260 lbs of Hill blew past with the ball and really only got a nice feel for the fabric of our beautiful new uniforms. The linebacker was just plain toast.
That play was just a thing of beauty to my way of thinking.
There’s been a lot of comment around here about too many fullbacks/tight end/h backs and how sending them in motion only attracts additional defenders and that nobody uses fullbacks like Harbaugh does (that part is true enough) and that the should be running the same offense the other kids have.
Go to 8:37 and freeze frame Kahlid Hill’s touchdown. For starters you have Wheatley as your inline tight end, Asiasi as your H back/slot guy and Hill at fullback. I’d call that jumbo and then some. The play starts out with Asiasi going in motion left, away from the H back position at the top of the screen and into a two point stance pretty much directly behind the left guard. When he goes into motion, he takes a box safety/maybe outside linebacker with him. When that guy vacates his position on the field, we achieve beau coup leverage on the defensive end by formation. He’s at least a half a body inside our Wheatley and better yet in a 3 on two situation between our right guard, tackle and tight end and his defensive tackle partner.
Better still, watch the top two linebacker’s head turn and follow the motion, especially Mike who’s getting ready for a fight to his right. The outside linebacker steps out some and back some thinking he’s got coverage or Wheatley is his key (not so sure there, it could just have been “Get me out of here!”
The ball gets snapped, all kinds of defenders attack the gaps on the right side of the play and in doing so, take themselves right out of the play.
We could have run this play two ways, Hill could have been a lead blocker and the ball could have gone to the tailback in a traditional I formation “power” by the terminology I played with, or slip the ball to Hill for the quick hitter.
We don’t even get really good blocks out of Wheatly and whoever lined up with him, at least they weren’t dominating blocks, but the defensive end was on his heels some when 260 lbs of Hill blew past with the ball and really only got a nice feel for the fabric of our beautiful new uniforms. The linebacker was just plain toast.
That play was just a thing of beauty to my way of thinking.
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Their right side of the play, our left.
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