Slide Protection: Can you trust it?

[TajDeni]

on passing plays ive always hit down on the slider protection, to reinforce the pocket, cept for designed rollouts (ie. boots) then i would slide the protection that way.

personally i would never slide the OL to a given side on passing plays, outside of a designed rollout, so i guess my answer would have to be no i would not trust it.

what i would trust is to hit down on the pass protection to get the OL to pinch, then id use 1 of 2 options...

1. set my HB/TE (maybe both) to block to the side i thought the pressure was coming from

2. or try to better identify where the pressure was coming from pre-snap reads and work on developing a hot route to replace the spot the pressure just came from.

both of these option i would trust before i slide my OL to a given side to help pick up pressure.

[shaunlmason]

Quote: Originally Posted by LBzrule

This statement shows misunderstanding of what the article says. It does not say slide protection itself is new. It says four-man slide with back side tackle in big on big is new. Why can't people understand this?

You should edit how you worded that.=)

[at23steelers]

Quote: Originally Posted by Shaun Mason

You should edit how you worded that.=)

Agreed, I have found out even in a few page threads, some people just write a response based on the title and don't even read the thread. If you edit it, maybe there will be less of those type of responses. Keep up the good work!!

[Smoke6]

Quote: Originally Posted by THE YAMA

The slide protection for me is a 50/50. Half the time it works, half the time it doesn't.

Wish it worked on run plays, I got zoo sick of people running thru the LOS with a clear lane at any given time on run plays. And before people yell, counter it with tosses, I hate being restricted to a small amount of plays due to jerks who can't stop plays conventionally.

But it needs to work on both runs and pass plays equally and even moreso when the defense is not properly equipped or chooses wrong play wise.

[wat3]

Welp, after watching the video it looked right to me. Everyone was sliding as usual.

[killer miller31]

Yeah the title indicates you are talking about slide protection as a whole.my bad

[baller7345]

Quote: Originally Posted by Smoke6

Wish it worked on run plays, I got zoo sick of people running thru the LOS with a clear lane at any given time on run plays. And before people yell, counter it with tosses, I hate being restricted to a small amount of plays due to jerks who can't stop plays conventionally. But it needs to work on both runs and pass plays equally and even moreso when the defense is not properly equipped or chooses wrong play wise.

No, I do not want slide protection to affect the running game. Slide protection is a pass protection blocking scheme and should stay that way. They should work on improving their run blocking schemes but don't put a pass protection option into the running game.

[cbenti60]

One thing to think about: Could there be a problem with the "awareness" stat?

I know the video looks bad, but could it be explained because the Center is "dumb" according to the game? I feel multiple tests could be done on this.