OT: Zone Read Explained By NU RB
December 5th, 2013 at 4:08 PM ^
Thank you for posting this. Always interesting to hear it straight from the athletes themselves.
December 5th, 2013 at 4:17 PM ^
i have to say that your avatar thing made me laugh out load. i think that is how RR always felt on the inside. me too.
December 5th, 2013 at 4:35 PM ^
but not with the RB's perspective and what do they do if they get the ball. Really good read. I wish more former athletes can write articles like this with their own respective positions, explaining their jobs and why they chose what they choose. More people would read it IMO instead of the stupid fluff piece that we see every day (ESPN is the biggest offender and they think that we're 10 yr old viewers who don't know shit about football).
December 5th, 2013 at 4:51 PM ^
December 5th, 2013 at 4:45 PM ^
Very interesting read, and yeah, I think we sometimes overlook the RB's perspective when we talk about these plays sometimes, so it was also refreshing in that sense.
I liked the first question in the comments on this blog because it is the question I had - as a smaller back, which version of the play would Sutton prefer? Which would Hyde - a bigger guy - prefer? I would be very interested in the answer.
December 6th, 2013 at 12:45 PM ^
"I prefer the read where I do not get hit like Vincent Smith in the Outback Bowl by Clowney! ..."
December 5th, 2013 at 5:36 PM ^
http://www.huddlepass.com/feature/110647
What I like about reading huddlepass is that many of the guys are pretty sound writers. There used to be an example of a T. Pryor essay on this board that looked like a young child wrote it. Sometimes I think people expect that all of the talented skill players didn't come to play school. I used to see arguments about Notre Dame not being able to recruit good athletes due to academic standards. While some athletes really can't succeed in the classroom, clearly T. Sutton is an educated and articulate guy. I'm sure Michigan is similar to NU and most other D1 schools in that they have a few on the team who are really in over their head academically but many more who really have what it takes scholastically albeit being stretched very thin due to their athletic commitment.
/steps off soap box
/probably didn't tell you anything you don't alread know
December 5th, 2013 at 8:00 PM ^
to sound or be read like they're an intelligent people. After all, they graduated from Northwestern which has the highest academic standards in the B1G conference. Ditto with Stanford, Ivy League schools, etc.
December 5th, 2013 at 10:25 PM ^
December 5th, 2013 at 7:16 PM ^
Center snaps ball to Devin Devin places ball in Fitz stomach & then releases Fitz is tackled by multiple DLs & LBs
I AM optimistic about next year. Not so much about the 2013 season.
December 6th, 2013 at 9:49 AM ^
or Bolivia...