Part the Sea

"Part the sea" = a term I've heard coaches use (& have used ourselves) to mean that we want to make a hole at a (ANY) GIVEN SPOT, & precludes "option running", or "running to daylight". The old FB TRAP was such a play.

History10;

The play you are describing sounds more like the offtackle Power to me.

We have ran it this way (in college - called it 24 Power):

"A Block" Frontside: essentially a G scheme where the FSG kicks out the EMLOS, TE & PST will block down.

FB leads through the hole smacking the 1st thing that shows.

QB reverses out for the handoff.

The G scheme seems to make it a quicker hitting play than the Power-O

Hey Coach Campbell,

Did you coin that phrase?

Coach Easton

J.C. - when the Redskins beat the Cowboys in the 1983 playoffs (& beat the Dolphins in the Super Bowl) - they trapped Randy White on the "40 LEAD NOSE" play that you & I have discussed (Donny Warren's block HURT White & he was helped from the field). It was a big play in the Skins' win! Sonny Jurgensen (broadcasting the game) coined the phrase that "the Hogs creased Dallas like Moses parted the Red Sea"! I have heard it ever since to describe any endeavor to part the defense at any given point (like Jerry Campbell does on the ISO), etc.

Coach I coined the phrase from watching the movie The Ten Commandements from when the egyptians where chasing the jews and they got the the sea and found that they had no way out and then all of a sudden the sea parted and the jews crossed to safety and then when thew egyptian shoulders tried to cross the sea cloosed in on them. When teaching the near ear concept for your offensive line the hole parts because the linemen are counter rotating what I consider as a slow zone concept. Coach CAmpbell