A-Back vs B-Back

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I have no problem there, I get plenty of practice during the day and night.

Father Time
 
ahsoisee said:
Personally, I probably would have played Dwyer at A Back instead of B Back.

Father Time
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WHAT?! The only plays we have where the A-back is guaranteed of getting the ball is on the toss sweep and the counter play which we ran occassionally.

Our offense has more plays designed to go to the B-back and QB, and most option plays will end up with one of these two with the ball. Moving JD to A-back would have only guaranteed fewer carries for him, and more downfield blocking.
 
If Dwyer were at A-Back, he'd only get around 5-10 carries per game.

Dwyer - 235 carries
Allen (led A-Backs) - 64 carries


No thank you.
 
GTROY said:
Yep. It's called the B-back Load Option.
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WRONG! ;)

The play is called, speed option, or b-back speed option, or in PJ's playbook, 16-17 twirl, :)

you sir, play too much NCAA :laugher:

BTW, i would have made the same mistake too had I not read some things.

In fact, there is no "load" aspect to this play whatsoever, usually.
 
TechFan4Life said:
Thats what I thought originally - damn wikipedia...
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but you were right about the play calling. Dwyer was on a LOT of pitch runs in 2008, but not so much in 09. His 2008 season was still the "i know more than you" phase where teams hadn't committed to stopping the dive yet, so he broke through a lot. Once teams started establishing step 1 of defending the TO (stop the dive), he got less yardage.
 
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