VolsDeep
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ohhh, assuming we always run to the strong side? which hopefully it won't be that obvious haha.. but alright, i get the point now... so it is "strong" b/c of the lineman that are there, not b/c it has more blockers..
You can put two TE's out there.
You can get a rough idea by counting heads.
You have 5 OL's and a QB in the middle. That leaves 5 other guys. Generally speaking, the strong side is the side where the most of those guys line up.
I think maybe they don't count the backs in some systems. .
An unbalanced line is almost always called strong to the side of the covered end.
The difference is pretty simple. The o-linemen won't set up according to left and right. They will set up according to which side of the formation is the strong side and which side is the weak side. So the play is always blocked the same by the same people regardless of which side it happens to go to.
Maybe I don't understand it that well...but it seems like this approach would at least hint at whats coming if not flat out give it away...
I know a team doesn't always run a play to the strong side...but at the least you are saying "this is our strong side"...
It seems to me that any decent coach who can analyze game film of us would be able to pick out tendencies alot easier that way...If you stay with right and left then an opposing coaching staff couldn't say "Alright...R. Foster is on this side so that means...." because he would always be on that side...
But if you go with strong and weak designations where lineman switch sides accordingly then I would just about guarantee that no matter how hard we tried we would inevitably have tendencies towards certain plays based off of that strong and weak designation...
It seems more complicated and much more telling of what we're trying to do that way...but I guess this is one more thing that i will just trust the experts on
