Game: Raiders at Chargers Play: Super Cooper to the rescue What makes this the BTS Play of the Week? For the lack of plays that seemed to dazzle me in Week 6 from a movement standpoint, the NFL got back to its normal ways and didn’t let me down in Week 7. First, Jarvis Landry…
Game: Redskins at Jets Play: Sitting atop the Ivory tower of RBs What makes this the BTS Play of the Week? For as many plays as we were able to highlight last week, it seems as though we were left with a bit of a shortage of spectacular wow-type plays here in Week 6 of…
Game: 3 noteworthy games (but 5 plays!) Play: So much good can come on a Sunday (or Monday) What makes this the BTS Play of the Week? It seems that every year there comes an NFL Sunday (or Monday especially when Le’Veon Bell & Antonio Brown happening to be playing) when the list of choices…
Game: Falcons at Cowboys Play: Randle showing off the nifty footwork & body control What makes this the BTS Play of the Week? If you watched NFL football yesterday you were probably just waiting to see yet another proficient spin move thinking that would immediately push that given play onto the list of this week’s…
Game: Buckeyes at Hokies Play: Braxton hits ‘em with the B-Button Spin Move What makes this the BTS Play of the Week? Like players going to Training Camp at the end of each summer to freshen up their already acquired skills and help prime them for the season ahead, a Movement Specialist can always use…
Introduction A number of weeks ago, the buzz was so overwhelming about an aspiring NFL player in training camp (who just happened to be a former Australian rugby league star) that I elected to whip together a short movement breakdown on a relatively unknown player who at one point had very little shot of truly…
Introduction Like during most NFL games, I usually receive a fair amount of tweets from people asking me what I thought about a certain play, a given player’s movement mechanics, and the like. However, Saturday night was a bit different. Not only was it a Preseason game night (where many fans have many better things…
As we prepare for the Super Bowl, many people prepare for not only watching the biggest football game of the year but also the parties, the abundance of food, and of course, the seemingly-endless expensive commercials that occur during the game. I am preparing as well…for an onslaught of a different sort: to read the…
Today, my plan is to expand some of the thoughts I shared in my last blog and discuss the different cutting actions that I commonly see being executed by the game’s best backs while highlighting some of the advantages and disadvantages of each. Cutting Variation #1 – The Crossover Description: Because of the speed of…
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