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re: Hardest position to play in football
Posted on 5/29/21 at 6:51 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 5/29/21 at 6:51 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Inside linebackers always get inside full speed lead block from fullback, and have to shake off the willies and coordinate the D.
Vise versa, fullbacks are nails to pop lead holes and rarely get rewarded.
I played neither in my hs days, but I consider these the most painful...
Vise versa, fullbacks are nails to pop lead holes and rarely get rewarded.
I played neither in my hs days, but I consider these the most painful...
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Posted on 5/29/21 at 7:08 pm to MintBerry Crunch
At least the Olineman knows where the play is going.
Dline has to absorb and get off the blocks protect their gaps and then read the play if they don't already have a good idea of what is coming.
Also they get double teamed on run or on pass plays.
Cornerback and safety are also tough as it gets.
You can't let your guy get by you and today's rules makes it that much more difficult.
Dline has to absorb and get off the blocks protect their gaps and then read the play if they don't already have a good idea of what is coming.
Also they get double teamed on run or on pass plays.
Cornerback and safety are also tough as it gets.
You can't let your guy get by you and today's rules makes it that much more difficult.
Posted on 5/29/21 at 7:13 pm to sta4ever
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OL. Hardest and most important position in the sport. On top of that, it’s required that you be 250+ pounds in order to play that position
You have to be 300+ to be a decent D1 college lineman now.
Posted on 5/29/21 at 7:15 pm to SaintlyTiger88
With Gerry Dinardo it’s fullback. Because you have 2 guys rotating against 20 linebackers doing iso blocks all day.
Posted on 5/29/21 at 7:16 pm to Spelt it rong
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Not a valid metric if Andrus Peat makes it and Colston never did. It's a popularity contest.
Peat position could just have less top end competition year in and year out... I love Colton but his competition at WR during his playing days keep him out
Posted on 5/29/21 at 7:31 pm to SaintlyTiger88
My vote goes to middle linebacker. Not only do you have to make a lot of fast reads correctly, but you have to hit someone every play or they hit you... hard. Easily the most painful position to play. And if you mess up, everyone sees it.
It takes a mean, fast, strong, and tough player to play the position. If you lack any of those traits, you’re garbage at it.
It takes a mean, fast, strong, and tough player to play the position. If you lack any of those traits, you’re garbage at it.
Posted on 5/29/21 at 8:25 pm to SpqrTiger
The answer is obviously, QB, but besides that it's TE.
For TE, you must know all the terminology and techniques of an lineman, plus all the techniques and tactics of a WR. It's the hardest position to learn in the NFL.
As for the most difficult to excel at, it's probably LT or corner.
For TE, you must know all the terminology and techniques of an lineman, plus all the techniques and tactics of a WR. It's the hardest position to learn in the NFL.
As for the most difficult to excel at, it's probably LT or corner.
Posted on 5/29/21 at 8:42 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I feel like it’s worth pointing out that punt-returning is an extremely high-pressure gig. You could do it right all year except for one play and then you become the a-hole who dropped the ball.
But yeah, the real answer is either QB or CB
But yeah, the real answer is either QB or CB
Posted on 5/29/21 at 9:40 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Corner is the least mentally demanding, most physically demanding. QB is the opposite. Yes being a great athlete helps but no other position in the sport is being athletic as little of a necessity as it is at QB, special teams not withstanding. Lineman actually have to be pretty damn athletic, especially if you consider pure strength an athletic trait
Posted on 5/29/21 at 10:04 pm to SaintlyTiger88
If you’re asking in terms of the most athletically challenging position, just look at the positions with the highest black/white player ratio across NFL history. This makes cornerback easily the hardest position to play in football. Since the merger, 24 seasons have begun without a single white corner on an NFL roster. No other position comes close.
Mentally it’s a little trickier. The default answer is QB, but most players always talk about center and middle linebacker as the most challenging positions in terms of processing. I’d probably go with middle linebacker, as it’s usually the quarterback of the defense and it’s much harder for a defender to figure out what an offense is going to do than vice versa.
Mentally it’s a little trickier. The default answer is QB, but most players always talk about center and middle linebacker as the most challenging positions in terms of processing. I’d probably go with middle linebacker, as it’s usually the quarterback of the defense and it’s much harder for a defender to figure out what an offense is going to do than vice versa.
Posted on 5/29/21 at 10:14 pm to lepdagod
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Well history tells us TE takes the longest to translate... rookies never make the pro bowl
I think in reality DT as far as NFL takes the longest
Posted on 5/29/21 at 10:20 pm to Bo Rein 80
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Vise versa, fullbacks are nails to pop lead holes and rarely get rewarded
I played fullback
Posted on 5/29/21 at 10:30 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Offensive line, tackle, guard but probably center the most. You are constantly getting your arse kicked just to slow someone down for a couple seconds.
This post was edited on 5/29/21 at 10:31 pm
Posted on 5/29/21 at 11:02 pm to SaintlyTiger88
“Kicker”
-Cody Parkey
-Cody Parkey
Posted on 5/30/21 at 2:58 am to SaintlyTiger88
In today’s football, corner, in your father’s and grandfather’s football, linebacker. It took a real man to clog a hole with Walter Payton, Emmitt Smith, Jim Brown, Earl Campbell, any power back running up the hole. Technique of delivering a hit and rapping up has been lost, mouth to mouth football is a thing of the past.
This post was edited on 5/30/21 at 2:59 am
Posted on 5/30/21 at 6:07 am to rantfan
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Offensive line, tackle, guard but probably center the most. You are constantly getting your arse kicked just to slow someone down for a couple seconds.
I’ve heard offensive linemen and coaches say center is actually the easiest O-line position because the overwhelming majority of the time you are double teaming a guy with a guard.
Yes there is unique technique and mental aspects of the position, but physically it isn’t as difficult as guard or tackle.
In my opinion, the hardest position to play correctly is corner back. You have to have elite technique and freakish athleticism/reaction time, and typically you are facing the other teams most dynamic athlete.
Posted on 5/30/21 at 6:13 am to Roger Klarvin
The middle linebacker/off ball linebacker has become a really tough position to play with the adoption and explosion of the RPO. Constant decoding of a run play or pass, and half the time they are reading you, thus making you wrong.
Not to mention in college the 3 yard rule isn’t enforced a ton so you could have a guard in your face on a pass play
Not to mention in college the 3 yard rule isn’t enforced a ton so you could have a guard in your face on a pass play
Posted on 5/30/21 at 7:57 am to Oilfieldbiology
quote:correct and centers don’t have to pull much either so you don’t have to be very mobile
I’ve heard offensive linemen and coaches say center is actually the easiest O-line position because the overwhelming majority of the time you are double teaming a guy with a guard.
Yes there is unique technique and mental aspects of the position, but physically it isn’t as difficult as guard or tackle.
Posted on 5/30/21 at 8:31 am to upstate
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The middle linebacker/off ball linebacker has become a really tough position to play with the adoption and explosion of the RPO.
The Jim Heacock "3-3-3" defense is really the immediate future of the LB position IMO,and I know that's not controversial to say.
Grantham at Florida played around with moving our most athletic LBs out to NB with some moderate success, but it's so much easier the other way. You can teach a 190lb SS to wrap up a RB or rush the passer; it's almost impossible to find a true LB that can athletically match up against slot receivers and even harder to find an entire LB corps that can hold against the run while short a starting caliber player who's had to shift out to the slot.
I always joke about my Madden strategy as a kid being to run nickel and quarter blitzes constantly, trusting that my DBs could provide adequate run support, cause additional turnovers and sacks from non-traditional schemes, and generally just slow down the opponent enough for me to outscore them. Maybe I was just 15-20 years ahead of my time
This post was edited on 5/30/21 at 8:35 am
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