Sentences with word «ballcarrier»
Even as ballcarriers get bigger, more athletic and more elusive, the list of rules to protect them grows longer.
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Senior Gerald Riggs Jr. will be the Volunteers» primary ballcarrier following a breakthrough season in which he rushed for 1,107 yards, including 182 on only 11 carries against Auburn in the SEC title game.
If wide splits were not just the norm, but required by rule and enforced, would that theoretically give ballcarriers coming out of the backfield more of a chance of escape, and thus shave off a substantial margin of bone - rattling hits?
He's a strong drive blocker, which is as essential to the well - being of a good ballcarrier as a deodorant endorsement.
J. D. Smith and Don Lisbon wereinjured, and by the end of the season the top ballcarrier on the club was arookie free agent named Dave Kopay.
«I've been dealing with being overlooked my whole life,» he says, noting that he played fullback until his senior year at Waco University High, then finally got his shot as the featured ballcarrier and excelled.
Once accustomed to crushing ballcarriers, Terry Hoage now crushes grapes for his much - sought - after vintages
Eleven men running at full speed down field at 10 men running directly toward them, with the sole intention of colliding in order to create space for a single ballcarrier.
During preseason drills, he was so itchy to start thinning the herd of enemy ballcarriers, he got into the unorthodox habit of ripping the helmets off his own teammates, then hurling them to the ground.
He covers receivers and chases down ballcarriers all over the field, but if he starts wearing down and the line doesn't keep blockers off him, then you get what happened in the playoff blowout against Jacksonville last year.»
Driven by big ambition and a big man, he does the heavy lifting that has made him a more powerful ballcarrier
In the 4 - 3 in recent years Siragusa and Adams teamed with ends Burnett and Michael McCrary to funnel ballcarriers toward Lewis.
From out of the mob of rookies who could make the club, a sleeper ballcarrier emerged, 230 - pound Elton Veals, an 11th - rounder.
Vidal: 7 Was a constant nuisance to Viola ballcarriers, chasing after anyone who dared bring the ball across midfield.
Texas's reigning Class 5A Division II champ, Cedar Hill (3 — 0), one of seven schools in its eight - team district using the spread, runs 70 % of the time and uses senior quarterback James Hamilton as its primary ballcarrier (532 rushing yards).
Anyway, here's a little gallery of football precocity — nine ballcarriers coming off fabulous freshman years.
Similarly, in his exploration of the changes in the technique of tackling (page 56) senior writer Tim Layden peels back the layers to reveal how tackling has become one of the most uncertain elements in the modern NFL, altered not only by evolutions in strategy that stress creating turnovers — making stripping the ball almost as important as bringing down the ballcarrier — but also by rules changes designed to protect ballcarriers from injuries.
Once, during a football game between the Ventura County (Calif.) Cardinals and the Burbank Bandits, Bob Blechen was pursuing a ballcarrier when he was laid out by a vicious hit.
Receiver Andre Caldwell runs a short curl route and provides downfield blocking for the ballcarrier.
«We yelled at him the first few weeks he practiced with us because he would not let a ballcarrier go by him, even when we were walking through plays with no pads.»
A player can tackle a ballcarrier by bringing them to the ground shoulder - first.
Tackling is formalized in rugby; the process, by rule, involves bringing the ballcarrier to ground.
There is the possibility the ballcarrier makes the tackler miss.
Spacing out offensive players created a greater chance for a ballcarrier to find open grass.
«But with the I, you've got 11 guys chasing one ballcarrier.»
Crow, who has beenone of the best running backs in the league for seven years, helps the 49ersnot only as a ballcarrier but as a stabilizing influence on the rest of the SanFrancisco backfield, which is composed of rookies and second - year men.
He had to learn that he couldn't play defense [simply] by reading the eyes of the quarterback or the ballcarrier.»
In the Colorado game, the guard in front of him pulled, and Emtman was instantly on top of the ballcarrier — and missed the tackle.
For Linebacker Dick Butkus of Illinois, the good life consists mainly of picking apart a few blockers and mashing the ballcarrier, a habit that makes the Illini tough to beat
But Burr - Kirven accelerates through the runner, transferring the force of a ballcarrier's forward motion into something much stronger ««the force of will.
A ballcarrier may be in full stride, exploding into the hole until his momentum is halted and thrown backward by the Sacred Heart Prep senior inside linebacker.
They wrap up ballcarriers and hold their heads high in textbook fashion while making hits.
Tyler and Tuttle chased a ballcarrier downfield, with Tuttle making a tackle at the goal - line.
But he alsonever stopped chasing the ballcarrier, never stopped running.
Either Neymar or Messi would terrorize a defensive line with the ball at his feet while Suárez and the winger without the ball made runs to slice apart the defense in front of the ballcarrier.
But this isn't always coordinated well enough; they're sometimes too slow to react, or they miscommunicate the responsibility of closing down the ballcarrier.
Also players now have the option of not using the turbo feature, meaning the game itself will decide when it is best for the ballcarrier to use turbo / sprint.