The End is Near 3rd July 2014

Session 11

 

Now it takes more than a great QB to have a champion team as shown in the video above the QB was left unprotected and had to pay the price of having an unguarded blindside. On the field at any time the offensive team has 11 players and the QB has 6 players whose role is to protect him. They are the tackle, guard, centre and tight end. (Wikipedia, 2014)

An example of the players on the field at any time

A good metaphor to describe a sport like American football is that it is like a chain, in the way that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.  Although the QB has the power to control the tempo and decisions made on the field this does not mean that a team is only as good as its QB. Every player on the team has a job to do and if they do that job correctly they will have a successful, competitive team.

Session

As in all my previous sessions my focus has been on the technique involved with throwing the ball as well as improving my efficiency and accuracy. This means that I have had little experience in what a quarterback really has to go through in a typical play. So for this session I chose to finish with a mini game of 3x3 American football

All of the throws besides the warm up involve being put under pressure by a linebacker

10 warm up throws from knees/standing
10 throws to stationary target (10m)
10 throws post pattern (short)
10 throws stationary target (20m)
10 throws post pattern (deep)

10 plays to try and complete a pass (complete 6/10 sacked 1/4 incomplete 3/4)

This session was good because it involved all of the aspects that I have been trying to learn. I had to adapt my throw for both long and short pass and moving and stationary targets, then the game at the end allowed me to integrate all of my throws. It added a decision making element to my session, a new challenge I have not had until this session. I learned that each play is unique and no two throws are ever the same and that the last play, has an immediate impact on the following and so on. Especially after being sacked, that gave me a new factor to think about as I definitely did not want to be sacked a second time and make sure that I got the pass away before that happens.

 The time I got sacked, as you can see I became off balance when put under pressure

References
Wikipedia (2014). American football positions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved June 9, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football_positions