| 30 May 2009
Then I watched the FB tape. He may be even better on offense. But we don't use the fullback on offense.Nobody uses the fullback as a runner anymore. I am left to wonder if that might be changing. There is more evidence. Look at Adam Homan. In high school everyone thought linebacker. I did not think he was a linebacker at the Big Four level. Until the offer was extended it never occurred to me that he would be offered as a fullback. He was not Big Four caliber as a linebacker but he was a linebacker at the MAC level at least. You just don't think about any kind athletic enough and quick enough to be a linebacker playing fullback the way the position is used nowadays. I speculated that Boren would have a better shot at FB here because he would be better at running into things at a high rate of speed. I offered that if we were going to use the fullback as a runner again that Homan would be a better choice. Zwinak as a fullback right on the heels of an offer to another fullback who is a threat with the ball in his hands really makes me wonder if we are going to see the fullback as a skill player again. I will never understand why football coaches have voluntarily traded a skill player for another linemen. Obviously the fullback is not going to carry the ball enough to warrant conceding too much as a blocker but you can get an effective blocker without giving up on skills completely.
If this is what they are doing it is such a great idea.Think about the option in the offense again. I mean the option coming back seriously and with a great runner like Pryor at QB. We are not really running a true option. It looks like the option but more often than not I think the decision was made in the huddle who would be getting the ball. Think about how much more potent that option would be with a fullback who can gut a defense with the belly play. Having a fullback who can make the defense play him makes the option that much more effective. Less people on the move chasing the option if the fullback is a threat. Everybody a half-step behind because they have to see if Pryor might stick it in his belly as he goes by. Run that sprint out pass to the fullback. That is a natural off the option look. I remember when Jim Colletto was here how effective we were with that play. The fullback looks like a lead blocker. The quarterback just dumps him the ball. Maybe it is an option. Quarterback sprints out and makes a read on the fly. If the defense comes up to play him he can dump it. If the FB gets out on the linebacker, he keeps it.
I am going to have to work hard to not get worked up about this player, and even harder to keep from getting excited about the possible change in the offense.
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