StorminNorman
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(American) Football is, in my opinion, the greatest sport in the world. It's the ultimate team game, with victory dependent on competency from every aspect of your team. It's a game that requires tremendous discipline, practice and passion.
Many play the game on the little league-high school level, and Madden allows a whole nation of non-athletes pretend to be Chris Johnson. Even more watch ESPN daily because of their love of the game.
Sadly Madden and ESPN fails to do a real good job of teaching you to finer points of the game, aspects that simply aren't important on lower levels of football.
This thread is for Football Education. Have a question about the game? Ask.
I will cover topics like:
Defensive Line "techniques".
Difference between Right and Left tackle.
Differences between 3-4 and 4-3.
"Mike Backer" calls.
Blocking responsibilities.
I'll start with Defensive Line techniques since I think it is Draft relative.
One of the reasons I consider Suh a significantly more attractive prospect than Gerald McCoy this draft is his versatility in playing various roles on a defensive line.
In most 4-3 defenses, Suh can play LE (LE is typically the run oriented defensive end, with the pass rusher on the Right Side - QB's left and typically blind side), one technique (Nosetackle - NT) or three technique (Undertackle - UT). If he develops pass rush ability at the next level, he may even have the speed, reaction time and first step to play RE.
To show what I mean by technique, lets assume this is your offensive line (with the defense below, not above them in our diagram - so the E is to the right of the QB) :
E T G C G T
Anyone that has played or coached little league football is familiar with "holes" - typically they would look like this.
8 E 6 T 4 G 2 C 1 G 3 T 5 E 7
It's the same concept for defense, except that the holes are "techniques". The number starts with the center (A player that plays straight across from the Center plays the Zero Technique - a typical 3-4 nose). Every gap is an odd number, playing straight across from a player is an even number. Unlike the offensive "holes", each side of the line has their own techniques.
So for a defense it looks like this:
_E_T_G_C_G_T_E
765432101234567
Your basic 4-3 has the defense lined up like this:
_E_T_G_C_G_T
7___3___1___5
Your 3-4 typically looks like this:
_E_T_G_C_G_T_
__5____0___3__
Hope that explains the "Techniques" a bit better if anyone didn't understand previously.
Many play the game on the little league-high school level, and Madden allows a whole nation of non-athletes pretend to be Chris Johnson. Even more watch ESPN daily because of their love of the game.
Sadly Madden and ESPN fails to do a real good job of teaching you to finer points of the game, aspects that simply aren't important on lower levels of football.
This thread is for Football Education. Have a question about the game? Ask.
I will cover topics like:
Defensive Line "techniques".
Difference between Right and Left tackle.
Differences between 3-4 and 4-3.
"Mike Backer" calls.
Blocking responsibilities.
I'll start with Defensive Line techniques since I think it is Draft relative.
One of the reasons I consider Suh a significantly more attractive prospect than Gerald McCoy this draft is his versatility in playing various roles on a defensive line.
In most 4-3 defenses, Suh can play LE (LE is typically the run oriented defensive end, with the pass rusher on the Right Side - QB's left and typically blind side), one technique (Nosetackle - NT) or three technique (Undertackle - UT). If he develops pass rush ability at the next level, he may even have the speed, reaction time and first step to play RE.
To show what I mean by technique, lets assume this is your offensive line (with the defense below, not above them in our diagram - so the E is to the right of the QB) :
E T G C G T
Anyone that has played or coached little league football is familiar with "holes" - typically they would look like this.
8 E 6 T 4 G 2 C 1 G 3 T 5 E 7
It's the same concept for defense, except that the holes are "techniques". The number starts with the center (A player that plays straight across from the Center plays the Zero Technique - a typical 3-4 nose). Every gap is an odd number, playing straight across from a player is an even number. Unlike the offensive "holes", each side of the line has their own techniques.
So for a defense it looks like this:
_E_T_G_C_G_T_E
765432101234567
Your basic 4-3 has the defense lined up like this:
_E_T_G_C_G_T
7___3___1___5
Your 3-4 typically looks like this:
_E_T_G_C_G_T_
__5____0___3__
Hope that explains the "Techniques" a bit better if anyone didn't understand previously.
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