BruisedOrange
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Two importants benefits from CoL that I haven't seen mentioned:
1) Performance under pressure.
It's impossible to duplicate in practice playing before 100,000+ fans on national TV. But in the CoL you have everyone whose opinion matters focused on you. There's no place to hide. It's a chance to experience that kind of nervousness, pressure, and desire--and channel it effectively. Individual players also learn what attitude at-snap works best. For some guys it's to slow things down, to see it as a chess match. Others may find they perform best in a gladiator frame of mind.
2) Technique.
You don't utilize all the techniques you might use in a scrimmage play, but establishing (or breaking) directional control, leverage, leg drive, and shedding the block are all preeminantly featured. So much of interior line work is "feeling" the shift of an opponent's weight, angle, and how one move sets up another move. Working without the distraction of other bodies falling, rolling, sliding under your feet allows you to focus entirely on your points of contact with your opponent.
I'd also bet these matchups are filmed with more than one camera, so with line of sight unblocked by other linemen, both players can review exactly when and why they lost their battle.
[plus all the other reasons mentioned]
1) Performance under pressure.
It's impossible to duplicate in practice playing before 100,000+ fans on national TV. But in the CoL you have everyone whose opinion matters focused on you. There's no place to hide. It's a chance to experience that kind of nervousness, pressure, and desire--and channel it effectively. Individual players also learn what attitude at-snap works best. For some guys it's to slow things down, to see it as a chess match. Others may find they perform best in a gladiator frame of mind.
2) Technique.
You don't utilize all the techniques you might use in a scrimmage play, but establishing (or breaking) directional control, leverage, leg drive, and shedding the block are all preeminantly featured. So much of interior line work is "feeling" the shift of an opponent's weight, angle, and how one move sets up another move. Working without the distraction of other bodies falling, rolling, sliding under your feet allows you to focus entirely on your points of contact with your opponent.
I'd also bet these matchups are filmed with more than one camera, so with line of sight unblocked by other linemen, both players can review exactly when and why they lost their battle.
[plus all the other reasons mentioned]
