re: Official Alabama assistant coaching search thread: staff complete Edition

Great info.

I noticed Mullen fooling our LBs and safeties by pulling guards on RPO and play action pass plays -- excerpt from that article:

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Pulling Guards

In a fantastic blogpost by Chris Brown (a Purdue grad by the way), he talked about how Robert Griffin III, Andrew Luck, himself, and Bill Walsh all are proponents of pulling a guard in playaction. Notre Dame rarely pulled a guard when they used playaction last season, yet this spring game showed many instances. Personally, its ironic to me that Long is pulling guards to “fake” a power/counter look, when he doesn’t really run… either of those concepts. Regardless, pulling a guard helps give run keys to safeties and linebackers and will greatly improve the believability of the fake.

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