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Old Fri Mar 16, 2012, 11:45am
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Coaching Thoughts

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Originally Posted by Tebo2526 View Post
Once again, help me with this one out of curiosity. Kind of hard to explain but here goes:

Ball is rolled in bounds as is done so many times in order preserve clock.
Agree this action doesn't contravene any rules...But...
from a coaching/strategy viewpoint rolling the ball is counter-productive.

Reasons against:
increased chance of TI violation,
receiver's head is down and can't see defenders approach,
wasted time and motion to bend down

Reasons for:
????

This has long been a pet peeve and it keeps being repeated mindlessly by every generation of players.
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