Week:8 Tactics

       This time, I will intoduce a part of tactics in American football. Mainly, I show you run play tactics because my position is running back!

●Dive
  This is a inside play that running back(mainly fullback) who received the ball from quarterback dive in  a straight line. This play is chosen when you want to gain short distance with certainty. If offensive side gain 3 or more yards at a time, this side is diminated.

●Off-tackle
  This play is that tailback run to hole that offensive tackle and tight end makes. This time, the fullback is lead blocker and the tailback follows it.

●Power off-tackle
  This play is almost the same as the off-tackle, but in this play, the offensive guard of opposite side run to play side for lead blocker. It is a power play to create a numerical advantage to one side.

●Sweep
  This is a open play that a tailback who has received the ball runs laterally and  runs on runways fullback or offensive guard makes.

●Counter
  This tactics is a play that handoff to a player who run in the opposite direction to the other player. It is effective when defensive side's reaction to run play is early. In general, in many cases a tailback runs in the opposite direction, a quarterback also runs with handoff-fake, for example, "quarterback counter".

●Draw
  This play is that the quarterback stand back and pretend to throw, and handoff  to the runningback. After that, runningback rush to the middle. The purpose of this play is that runningback and pass-rush player pass each other. It was named from that runningback runs straight like "draw a line"


●Reverse
 This play is run play that wide receiver carries the ball. A wide receiver was set near the side line and runs toward to opposite side after snap, and receive handoff from quarterback in the process. Playing speed is slower, but it is trick play to outsmart the defensive player. There also is trick play called "double reverse".
 
●Option
  This play is open play that determine the key player of defence, by the movement of this player, quarterback select to run quarterback with the ball(keep), pass to runningback(pitch). There are many candidates for key players, for example, defensive end, linebacker, safety and cornerback. There are options which incorporates dive-fake to delay the decision of defensive player.(This option is called "fleeze option" because the movement of defensive players stops to see the ball carrier. )

●(quarterback)sneak
   This play is that the quarterback who received the snap runs to foword with the ball. The carrier gains very short distance (about 1 yard), but advance the ball safety.

●blast
 This play is that the quarterback hands off the tailback and the tailback follow the fullback as a lead blocker.

●End around
  This play is open play that the tailback runs through the outside of the tight end. The tailback must be speedy base runner because he must big runaround.