SteelerEmpire
08-06-2010, 03:16 PM
Interesting. Hope the team gets into this a lot more. Sam Bradford and the OU Sooners went "total" hurry up / no huddle and broke the NCAA's single season scoring record a couple years ago. About 50-60 points a game...
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Byron Leftwich and Dennis Dixon got all the work at quarterback when coach Mike Tomlin ran a hurry-up offense with some wrinkles Thursday afternoon.
A new NFL rule will position the umpire behind the offensive backfield -- moving him from his old spot behind or sometimes next to the inside linebackers -- for safety reasons.
That move would seem to be a subtle one except when a team moves into its hurry-up offense. It will take the umpire more time to run from behind the offensive backfield downfield to where a pass has been completed to spot it, and that is what Tomlin wanted his team to see Thursday with NFL officials working practice at Saint Vincent College.
"We worked the five-minute, hurry-up offense as if we were down two scores," Tomlin said. "Just wanted to see logistically how the positioning of the umpire was going to affect the game in those situations."
And?
"The reality is you're going to lose some plays. The spotting of the ball isn't going to be as quick as it would be [previously] on balls that are 10, 20 yards downfield in the middle of the field and you do not utilize a timeout."
Leftwich and Dixon looked sharp in the two-minute drill, although only Leftwich guided the first team in for a touchdown, moving 77 yards in nine plays. Dixon ran the second team and completed 6 of his 9 passes.
Read more: http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b5dyN
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Byron Leftwich and Dennis Dixon got all the work at quarterback when coach Mike Tomlin ran a hurry-up offense with some wrinkles Thursday afternoon.
A new NFL rule will position the umpire behind the offensive backfield -- moving him from his old spot behind or sometimes next to the inside linebackers -- for safety reasons.
That move would seem to be a subtle one except when a team moves into its hurry-up offense. It will take the umpire more time to run from behind the offensive backfield downfield to where a pass has been completed to spot it, and that is what Tomlin wanted his team to see Thursday with NFL officials working practice at Saint Vincent College.
"We worked the five-minute, hurry-up offense as if we were down two scores," Tomlin said. "Just wanted to see logistically how the positioning of the umpire was going to affect the game in those situations."
And?
"The reality is you're going to lose some plays. The spotting of the ball isn't going to be as quick as it would be [previously] on balls that are 10, 20 yards downfield in the middle of the field and you do not utilize a timeout."
Leftwich and Dixon looked sharp in the two-minute drill, although only Leftwich guided the first team in for a touchdown, moving 77 yards in nine plays. Dixon ran the second team and completed 6 of his 9 passes.
Read more: http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b5dyN