View topic - After Holmes incompletetion change coaching fundementals.

[LambertoCincoOcho Profile]

I would teach the receivers to cradle the ball with two hands to secure the catch while going down or in traffic. In fact you see Hines do this a lot. Backs are taught the same technique. Two arms around the ball until you break into open field. Although most pros don't follow this as most don't carry the ball in the outside arm away from pursuit. But after this ruling I would be hard pressed not to change the fundementals of securing a reception. If they wont change the rule then change the way you coach your receivers.

[StillMill Profile]

I would teach the receivers to cradle the ball with two hands to secure the catch while going down or in traffic. In fact you see Hines do this a lot. Backs are taught the same technique. Two arms around the ball until you break into open field. Although most pros don't follow this as most don't carry the ball in the outside arm away from pursuit. But after this ruling I would be hard pressed not to change the fundementals of securing a reception. If they wont change the rule then change the way you coach your receivers.

Correct. You'll note my view on this very topic in the post-game report --

That said, I’ve grown sick of these clown football players doing their fuking BALL-LUNGES to the goal line, sticking the ball out, exposing the ball to the opposition, and to the ground, to nothing but bad things. Catch the fuking ball, then worry about extraneous things and smartly extend it only when prudent to do so. Tonio, on a related rant, needlessly vaulted for the GL on his TD instead of simply continuing his RUNNING for the end zone. The fastest way from point A to Point B is with your FEET. If it weren't, Olympic sprinters would be diving and vaulting themselves at the finish tape. There is a time and place for a vault or a leap, but there’s too much of this silly-assed nonsense going on all over the NFL and NCAA.

[NOVAStiller Profile]

Holmes is especially notorious for this... don't forget about the game at Balmore where he was stripped after a quick screen on our own 10 yd line. The coaches need to give him shit!