Put Them in Motion

EQualizer Principle #2:

2. Men in Motion: Men in motion change responsibilities for defenders. It changes assignments. Motion changes the strength of the formation and the defense must adjust or they can be out flanked. We have seen as many a 7 defenders change their defensive position (and therefore assigned responsibilities) when we put someone in motion: “How does that motion affect my pass responsibility? My run support responsibility? My option responsibility? Etc. These questions have to be answered by a 16 year old kid, on the fly in few split seconds.

A couple things we found out early with the use of motion: 1. Motion eliminates press coverage and produces a ‘soft’ corner. Take a WR and motion him across the formation, especially to the wide side of the field, the defender responsible for him will cushion wider and deep in order to ‘not get beat deep.’ 1a. This also would mean that you have a softer corner to run sweep toward as well. Running sweep behind wide motion gains yards. 2. Playing you best receiver at WR means you can put him in motion and that means he can shake coverage and get open much easier than having him start from a ‘set’ position.

We put all eligible receriers in motion http://goo.gl/mHIb9. Once we even put the QB in motion which was flagged by stripes. I said "WHAT?" He said he had never seen it before but . . . . striples strike again.