hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have another new breakdown for you today
it's going to be on the play action pass and really putting a focus on understanding when
doing the play action pass and how you can create a great play action faith this is a really really
important thing in being able to have success in any type of offense that is underneath the center
and just being able to set up the run sort of the past and obviously the play action so as always
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and hop in the video right now all right we're going to be using peyton manning here just because
he has a great reputation of really doing a great job with the play after past one of my favorite
quarterbacks ever just because he just worked on all the little things and made sure he was great
at all the little things and so what we're looking at here is a comparison and i just want you
as a viewer here to be able to look at this and say you know which one of these two videos is
actually a handoff in comparison to uh play action fake right so you can see it's a pretty similar
overall run play and you know one is obviously a play action and the other one is actually a
flea fickler so i'm going to go ahead and play this one here on the left which is going to be
an actual handoff right then it ends up becoming a fleet flicker he puts it back to him in comparison
to this one which is a play action fake and so really a big thing that i think is super important
to be able to recognize is when you're doing the play action fake really being able to put the ball
out there so the defenders can see it and and really making sure that you're extending your
arm and actually making it so it looks like it is a run play everybody else is going to continue to
you know move as if it is a run play and you want to be able to have an influence on the linebackers
and i think the best way to be able to do it is to get that full reach out and then at the last
second be able to try to hide it away the best that you can to make it so you know no one can
really see that it's a play action especially when it comes to any type of waggle type of a movement
all right so here's going to be another example of a great play action fake here so you can see same
type of situation this is just more of a straight back type of a waggle so now there's going to
actually be more of like a bootleg where you can see that first one he went from actually doing
the play action and more sat straight back or this one he's going to be you know booting all the way
around afterwards and you can see the same type of fundamentals here going back really extending
the ball out making sure that that defense bend is going to be crashing down on it and you can see he
does this thing where he kind of dips his head too and you know i would say that whatever you
do when you actually hand off the ball you want to be super detailed in doing that same exact
thing when you're doing the play action pass so if you do dip your head like that or you know if
you have anything that that you really concentrate on doing when you're when you're handing the ball
off make sure that you implement that when you go in and do a play action pass so you can see here
that he goes and hands it off and the last second again pulls it and i used to do this as well when
i i did the uh the waggles i would kind of hold the ball right there next to my waist and again
even after you you hand off the ball or you know do your play action you want to carry out kind of
the same movement so you know notice how he's not doing anything that would be you know different he
doesn't immediately tuck the ball or anything like that he's just kind of casually running away here
and making it seem like he actually handed the ball off and that makes it so now everybody has
you know fallen for it on on the defense right and now that makes it so you basically just walk in
from there you just sit out last second kind of pulls it back doesn't immediately go and take off
just kind of carries out the fake as if you would normally do so i got a little bit laggy there
and that makes us and then he's able to you know walk walk in for an easy touchdown so
um we'll go ahead and do a couple we have a good couple good ones for aaron rodgers as well we'll
just go ahead and go through that uh just so you can see kind of a different quarterback
same type of thing though here right so and and notice this is like a stretch play
notice how deep that they get even when they're doing the play action right so great job of being
able to you know get that mesh at about four yards which is typically what you want to aim
for four to five yards right this could even be considered closer to five yards so this would be
a stretch place this is something where he's going to be trying to go more to the outside
and to be able to get that much depth and be able to give the ball to your running back with that
much space to be able to obviously play action so he doesn't actually give it to him but um being
able to get give you the ball to your running back with that much space really helps him out
and being able to actually run the ball with a lot of success so i really want to put an
emphasis here on not necessarily throwing and the breakdowns of throwing but actually some of the
you know small again details that will really make it so you as a quarterback can set yourself up for
success so having a great play action is a huge huge asset that you could use as well as having
a great running game right if you have to always throw the ball you're not going to be able to set
yourself up for as much success and in order to have a great running game you got to be very very
active in the stretch and you know the waggles being able to carry out your fakes really good and
doing all those little things that make it so you know now that that defensive end will freeze now
you know the the guy that's on block will actually uh be an unblocked guy that won't be able to make
the play or you know in this case really making it so he goes all the way back so now you know the
off the linemen have a better set or better chance to be able to set the edge the running back
has a better opportunity to be able to read the linebackers the defensive line see what's going on
what's open on with the offensive line and that makes you have a lot more success as a quarterback
so uh just an important kind of point there that i want to be able to make but same type of thing
so now he goes back and now he just carries out that fake so this is would be the same thing
that he would do when he doesn't have the ball as when he does have the ball right and it's super
you know as a quarterback when you're watching the games on sunday start to be aware of that right
instead of always just watching whoever has the ball or you know anything like that start watching
what quarterbacks do when they don't have the ball how well do they carry out the fix and you'll see
a big difference between guys like tom brady aaron rodgers drew brees and what they do after they
hand out the ball in comparison to you know a guy that that is in there for or hasn't been a starter
for as long of a period of time so just take a a that into consideration when you're actually
watching games again you know does a great job carrying out the fake and because of that makes it
so that guy's wide open right same type of thing here open makes it so the the defense can can see
the ball makes it so he gets a lot of depth on again this stretch play here
okay running backs faking it now they see that it's uh it's a fake plenty of time to be able to
take a shot score a touchdown right so big point is if you can set up the running game you set up
your play action pass you can set yourself up to have more success as a quarterback which is
something that we all want to do and what this channel is all about so hopefully this video is
able to do that for you and hopefully is able to connect to some of your quarterbacks that
might not be taking the play action pass or the run game as seriously as you need to i'd say you
really need to be able to focus on that and recognize that and once you get into you know
if you want to be an nfl quarterback you're gonna actually have to know the protections know the the
blocking schemes in order to make it so your linemen and you know running backs
and everybody's in the right position to be able to make you have success so
you know right now it's a lot easier for you because i'm sure your coaches call calls into
play you just have to relay that to the lineman and everything but there'll be a time where you
actually have to be able to check in check out uh different types of you know running game uh
or or passing your protections or and blocking schemes to make it so you set yourself up for
more success so um as always guys i hope you like the information in the video thanks for watching
and we have a lot of things down below that will be able to help you out as a quarterback in your
development i'm working on some new programs to be able to help you out with that as well
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