01-30-2013, 08:59 AM
It noted that the challenge with coaching RBs is that it's the most instinctive of all the positions. Success less dependent on technique than any other position. The coaching challenge is to take this instinctual athletes and make them think enough. It's surprising, the commentary said, how often a running back's instincts run counter to what the play is designed and schemed to do. The greatest instinct they have to tame is the urge to bounce outside on a play before the line has time to make their work produce the opening. The hard part of coaching RBs is knowing what not to mess with. Guessing that Bo Jackson's RB coach had the cushiest job in football.
Just an observation: Wilkerson seemed to me to have that tendency to jump outside, or show indecisiveness hitting the hole. Like he was debating where to go. OTOH, new RB coach Tavita Pritchard might say I don't know WTF I'm talking about. That's another value-add a RB coach can make.
Just an observation: Wilkerson seemed to me to have that tendency to jump outside, or show indecisiveness hitting the hole. Like he was debating where to go. OTOH, new RB coach Tavita Pritchard might say I don't know WTF I'm talking about. That's another value-add a RB coach can make.