Chapter 955 New Challenge
A sincere question, why have running backs gradually become expendable in real life?
In the final analysis, it is because the league changes the rules of the game a lot for the sake of ratings and gives the quarterback as much protection as possible. This leads to the coaching staff inevitably spending more time passing the ball when formulating offensive strategies. In terms of layout, the space left for running backs to play is slowly shrinking.
When running ball tactics become more and more simple, the chance of running backs relying on their bodies to break the game becomes higher and higher, and ground attacks become more and more simple and crude.
At the same time, the defensive team is at a loss when facing the quarterback, and will encounter yellow flags and lose yards if not paying attention; when facing the wide receiver and tight end, the requirements for rough defensive fouls are becoming more and more strict. So much so that the defensive players couldn't stretch their arms and legs at all, with the exception of running backs.
According to the rules of the league, running backs are still discarded products that grandpa does not love and grandma does not love. The defensive players' tackles and impacts can completely release their power.
To some extent, the defensive players vented all their pent-up anger on the running backs, and the rough defense became more and more intense.
In addition, the running back itself is a position that focuses on physical confrontation and breakthrough. Compared with other positions, the frequency of collisions and contacts remains high. The position and role itself have obvious blue-collar characteristics. Color inevitably makes the running back's situation slip into the quagmire step by step.
After various reasons collide together, the risk of injury faced by running backs naturally remains high.
From a statistical perspective, the risk of injury to running backs is indeed the highest among football positions——
Naturally, teams just said, hey, look, running backs are expendable.
However!
Sanders proved with practical actions that it is not the fault of running backs that they have become expendable, but they are sacrifice sheep selected by the league's commercialization process.
At the same time, Sanders has proven with his career that running backs who are struggling to survive can still rely on their own persistence and hard work to fight back -
They can, like Tomlinson, Prove your abilities in different positions, and you can also use tactical reading to show your strengths like Bell.
As the league evolves, running backs should evolve as well. If the running back stays where he is and blames others, and simply and crudely puts all the mistakes and responsibilities on others, then the running back himself will become more and more passive in the tide of the times, and finally fall into the bad situation of "consumables".
Although Sanders was active in the 1990s when the league's commercialization process was not so fierce, no one knows whether he can withstand the impact of the times in the rolling wave after the millennium; but Sanders Si's training template is like a mirror, projecting the direction Levi continues to move forward.
The amount of information brought by the training templates was unprecedentedly rich, so much so that after Levi finished the template training in the system, he still found those game videos when he returned to real life, from the overall game, from the offensive and defensive ends. Tactical confrontation, re-examining Sanders' performance.
Sanders is not a god——
He is still an ordinary person, so if Sanders can do it, it means that Levi or others can also do it.
It's a tedious process, but a fascinating one.
It was during this process that Levi gradually realized that his understanding of the body was still insufficient.
In fact, Coach Burns has a discerning eye and took a liking to Levi at first sight. Ultimately, it was because of Levi's physical talent. His performance in the past three seasons also proved that Coach Burns was right.
But now Levi realizes that his body still has a lot of potential waiting to be tapped.
In his two seasons in the NFL, Levi has been faced with a balance in training. How to increase his physical resistance while maintaining lightness of foot and agility in speed?
On the one hand, he hopes to unfold beast mode like Lynch, on the other hand, he hopes to maintain Peterson's ability to change directions multiple times.
This seems a bit greedy. But Sanders had an answer.
This dwarf is like breaking into the giant family. He has found a delicate balance between strength and speed, confrontation and agility, and has become a polygonal all-round warrior.
Saunders’ ability to complete “David vs. Goliath” confrontations again and again is definitely not that simple.
Physical fitness and talent have always been Levi's biggest reliance; but now Levi realizes that he can continue to tap into his physical potential and reach a higher level at the physical level, leaving aside skills, tactics, consciousness, etc. The most basic and essential body still has room for growth——
This is a wake-up call and good news.
Objectively speaking, this can also be regarded as a reminder and an update from the system. In this way, Levi is urged to challenge his limits and surpass himself, and strive to grow into a better player.
As for the challenge, Levi has always had endless enthusiasm, gearing up and can’t wait.
This offseason, Levi still has a lot of work to complete.
There are still nearly three months before the team's spring voluntary training camp begins. At first glance, it sounds like a lot of time, even longer than summer vacation; but if you think about it seriously, you have to exercise, study videos, and It requires template training and review and summary. The training list is really full.
Looking at it this way, time is far from enough.
So, there was no time to relax. After Levi arrived in Miami, the offseason training camp was already in full swing.
Rumors quickly spread among NFL players and agents.
“What?”
Lamar Jackson suddenly sat up from the beach chair, took off his sunglasses, and looked at his teammate tight end Mark Andrews with bewildered eyes. The ice cubes in the cocktail in his hand were melting and flowing along the way. The outer wall of the glass slowly slid down.
Both Andrews and Jackson were players who entered the league in the 2018 draft. The tight end was selected by the Baltimore Ravens with the 86th pick in the third round. The two rookies in the same grade have been working together for a year. , become familiar naturally.
Andrews shook his head and used his body to meet the dance music that echoed around the swimming pool, "I said, both Watt and Donald went to Levi training camp."
Jackson still doubted his ears, "Then Aren’t the rookies still living and dreaming in Los Angeles?”
First it was “Saturday Night Live”, and then “Avengers 4”. Levi’s figure was frequently exposed, and they were still complaining that the guy was mentioned by Vanity Fair in Hollywood. His head is dizzy with all the colors, and he will probably become a loser after one offseason, and he may appear with a beer belly next season.
As a result, why did Levi start training?
And, unlike last year, this year Levi organized a mini training camp by himself, and NFL players came to his door one by one asking for trouble?
Jackson: I don't understand.
Andrews chuckled, sat down on another beach chair by the swimming pool, and was about to find his own glass of cocktail, "Who knows."
"Maybe I wasted too much time in Hollywood some time ago, and now I finally realize that I should catch up quickly. Who knows if he is lingering in the gentle land, haha.”
(End of this chapter)