Post by bobgoodman on Aug 31, 2009 14:05:13 GMT -6
Aug 30, 2009 20:33:54 GMT -6 @coachkell said:
The handoff, from the FB to the BB, lets say were in the right formation (the one above), on the snap the BB will turn counter clock wise, toward the short side. He will have his right arm down, his left arm up across his chest...the opposite of how he should take a handoff (IE opening always to the ball). The ball will be placed into his stomach on top of his hand. He will cradle the ball with his right hand, eyes on the TB, the whole time, placement is the respnsibility of the FB.When you say the BB's right arm is down, you don't mean at his side, do you? I'm taking it you mean across his body, but under (in the sense of lower than) his left forearm instead of above it, and then instead of the hander-off shoving the ball upward from under the left elbow to be met by the right hand as a "lid", he's placing it directly between the forearms with the recipient's right hand as a floor. And his left elbow flat against his chest instead of raised. Did I get that right? I'd been considering exactly such an upside-down handoff technique as one possibility for this, and would be gratified to learn my intuition had been borne out by someone else's practice. The only thing is, the hander-off would need deliberate handwork and couldn't just "rub elbows" with the recipient to do this, which I'd been thinking of as another possibility to hide the handoff or lack thereof.
Also check your league rules, about handing off to linemen, we had to change the play, around alot (probably why it failed)
Considering it would be legal under both Fed & NCAA rules, I doubt any youth circuit would make the handoff illegal, but it would be embarrassing to practice it for weeks only to get it whistled dead at that point because of an over-weight player's getting the ball in a league that has that kind of rule! Are there any leagues that anybody here knows of that ignoring (or in addition to) the weight of the players, just make it illegal for a player in a line position to run the ball? Or to advance it by any means?