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Post by scoresomemore on Mar 19, 2007 22:00:39 GMT -6
i tried a search and didnt find anything that answered this question for me. this may sound confusing, caution (read slowly) haha.
if one player shifts, can another player move like a second or two after the first player began to shift without the first re-setting before the 2nd moves?
i know that sounds jacked, but its a legitimate question, i'm not savvy on all the shifting rules..... think nebraska movement patterns.......
thinking about trading a TE and then moving an off-set FB later.
-scores
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Post by briangilbert on Mar 20, 2007 0:01:51 GMT -6
What your talking about isn't shifting, it's just motioning. And you can motion as many players as you want as long as you don't motion them at the same time.
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Post by coachmoore42 on Mar 20, 2007 0:29:59 GMT -6
To keep a player in motion when the ball is snapped every player must be set and still for at least one second before that last player (the FB in this case) goes in motion. The TE would have to be set for at least on second before the FB moves. If that doesn't happen then the FB will have to move and get reset for one second before the ball is snapped. If that doesn't happen, then the offense should be flagged for an illegal shift.
This question should be in the rules section.
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Post by lochness on Mar 20, 2007 15:36:24 GMT -6
Coach,
Rutgers has made good use of thse kinds of shifts. I didn't see them do it as much this past year, but in 2005, they were very good at coordinating their shifting so that different players started and ended at different times. It IS actually shifting (not motion as someone else pointed out) because all players set before the snap. Motion has one player moving at the snap.
We had a very simple shifting system last season (which probably LOOKED very complicated)
TRADE- TE would trade from one side to the other
SLIDE- SE starts tight, TE starts split. They then go to their normal arrangement
ZIG-TB and Wing (Z) swap. Z goes from rt wing to TB, TB goes to opposite (left in this case) wing.
We told the FB and TB that on any shift, they aligned in any backfield set in our playbook other than the called set. So, if we called "I", they'd start out in "Splitbacks" and shift into the "I." They'd do this immediately. The other guys in the shift (any of the shifts mentioned above) would wait a patient 002 count before beginning their shift. So, it looked sequenced like everyone was starting and stopping at the same time, but it really wasn't complicated at all.
The backfield shift drew attention to itself, and would take a little bit of the focus off of the part of the shift that really mattered.
It's all fun.
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