High-low combination?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by CT1

A chop block is illegal because of the high potential for catastrophic injury to the blockee. If I can’t tell there’s an obvious separation between the two blocks, it’s a foul every time.

Why don’t you just put that back on the line and use a legal doubleteam block, instead of trying to game the rules?

Because we couldn't run the other plays we want from that formation. A2 takes the snap on some of those plays. (A2 is the quarterback, A1 is the snapper.)

A1 & A2 could instead combine to each block "half" of B1, but if at the snap B1 moves toward the side of him that A1 expected to block, A2's effort would be wasted, and B1 might still defeat A1's block.

P.S.: All of football consists of gaming the rules.