re: Grantland article on Ford's 15 yd. run that iced the game

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Apparently the key difference is to overload one side and run to the weak side. It just so happened to be the short side.

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Actually, it didn't "just so happen" to be the short side. If you line up strong to the short side, the defense has the sideline as an "extra defender", and so they don't have to unbalance as much to defend it as when you set weak side on the short side. So running weak side/short side gives you a better opportunity to overmatch.