I pro left, sift right, pin-and-pull, toss lead right.

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Never feels a bit strong, no?

Made a thread on this in game Saturday, highlight of the night

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To the best of my knowledge, Miles never used pin and pull.

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I know this type of football is antiquated. But it is really effective in spurts and I often wonder why no one runs it anymore. To the point where an entire position FB basically doesn’t even exist anymore. How crazy is that?

I could be totally wrong but the speed in which this type of play happens seems like a huge advantage for the RB. Just take off running to hit the hole. None of that shotgun slow hand off stuff.

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It's not really antiquated. Pin and pull is actually fairly new.

However, when you have an inline TE, a FB, and another TE loading at H to crunch, it's a pretty compressed formation. It's a tough formation to throw out of.

If you want to attack the A gaps, a direct snap will hit the hole faster than any handoff. If you want to attack the B gap or wider, a direct snap will hit the hole slower unless it's an angled snap.

But you don't have to toss out of the I to attack the outside fast. Kiffin has run a wide or outside zone toss out of shot gun with an offset that hits just as fast. And it is infinitely easier to pass out of.