They dont form a scrum where their own players surround them so they never take a direct hit. That’s the rule change mentioned in the article no one else apparently read
Did you read the article? It tells you teams have been pushing runners since the rule change almost 20 years ago, and makes no assertion (let alone evidence) that it is in any way safer for the ball carrier than any other short yardage carry.
It’s more effective because it hits quicker, because it’s a QB. Shocking, since Tom Brady also had an extremely high success rate on QB sneaks, right?
But absolutely no one is claiming it magically removes the fact that smashing the shit out of your QB is heavy wear.
A short yardage back runs a dive…
They dont form a scrum where their own players surround them so they never take a direct hit. That’s the rule change mentioned in the article no one else apparently read
Yes, they do. People pushing runners in short yardage didn’t start with Hurts.
Hurts absolutely gets beat up on these plays. It’s not even sort of different in any functional way from a fullback dive.
Well, I was going to quote the article you still haven’t read, but it really isn’t that long and you should just read the whole thing.
Then you can email the author, I’m sure they’d love to hear from Random Internet Guy that they’re wrong.
Best of luck!
Did you read the article? It tells you teams have been pushing runners since the rule change almost 20 years ago, and makes no assertion (let alone evidence) that it is in any way safer for the ball carrier than any other short yardage carry.
It’s more effective because it hits quicker, because it’s a QB. Shocking, since Tom Brady also had an extremely high success rate on QB sneaks, right?
But absolutely no one is claiming it magically removes the fact that smashing the shit out of your QB is heavy wear.