Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 339: Awakening Battle
In the NFL, everyone has their own battle.

Although the spotlight is always firmly on the quarterback, the charm of football lies in the fact that any link or any screw may become the key to the game, even the quarterback will be overshadowed.

Standing on the sidelines of the court, Henry quietly watched Levi and Hill celebrating wildly, and finally lowered his proud head to look squarely at the fellow student whom Burns praised so highly.

The former arrogance, disdain, contempt and neglect have now all turned into observation and gaze on an equal footing.

then.

Levi seemed to be aware of the gaze, stopped and searched the crowd for a moment. Levi and Henry's gazes collided in the air.

Strange, yet familiar.

Maybe they are not friends and may not become friends in the future. From the beginning of the story to now, they are competitors.

But this does not prevent them from respecting each other, and from continuing to work hard and strive for each other, and competing with each other through performance on the field.

Henry noticed—

Levi's eyes.

There was no provocation, no attack, no contempt, only an upright and aboveboard high-spirited fighting spirit. The look in his eyes clearly issued a challenge:

May the side with better performance win!
That fighting spirit burned brightly in his eyes.

Silently, Henry straightened his back and opened his shoulders, and the fighting spirit dormant deep in his soul slowly awakened. This was a flame that Henry himself was not aware of. It seemed that it had never existed but suddenly burst out with incredible energy.

In the past in the NCAA, the talented Henry could easily crush his opponents without even giving his all, and the Clemson Tigers were no exception.

Later in the NFL, Henry had a lot of energy but nowhere to use it. The coach always made him bang his head against the wall again and again, with no tactical coordination at all, so he fell into self-pity, blaming others, irritability and anger.

until now.

He cannot and must not lose to Levi.

With a glance, the beast in Henry finally awakened.

Their eyes only met for a brief moment and then separated immediately. After turning around, Henry's brain began to work at high speed.

If head coach Mulakay still does not change his tactics, continues to let him run into the wall, and continues to rely on Mariota, how should Henry change the situation?

think.

think!
Wait, so, this is the advantage of Levi that Coach Burns has always emphasized?
Henry used to think that he was not an idiot, he was always observing and thinking, so how could he run the ball blindly without using his brain?
Now it seems that this thinking is not that thinking.

The running back's thinking should be an observation of the offensive and defensive formations. The "wall run" arranged by the head coach is often a running route in the middle, because this is a densely populated area of ​​​​the forwards, and it is necessary to rely on the running back's body to move forward in a bulldozer manner.

A running back like Levi can fully utilize his speed and agility by breaking through the wing; a running back like Henry can fully utilize his strength and confrontation advantages by breaking through the middle.

Breaking through the wing often requires the coordination of the wide receivers and the tight ends; breaking through the middle often requires the coordination of the offensive line. Once the coordination is improper, the result is a dull collision with a human wall.

Now it seems that Henry has been trapped in his own fixed mindset——

If his offensive line fails to help open the way, is the running back helpless?
No, of course not.

Regardless of the effectiveness of the offensive line's opening, the running back can also observe the positions of the defensive line and linebackers and find the relatively weak position in the middle. It doesn't matter even if the gap is not as obvious as the wing, because Henry is not going to get out of the narrow gap anyway.

what does this mean?
Not only should we observe, but we should also interpret the team's offensive tactics.

Why choose such an offensive tactic? In such an offensive tactic, where are the wide receivers and tight ends respectively, and how do the offensive line and quarterback cooperate? Only by truly understanding the entire overall layout can we understand the tactics of the defensive team and predict the movement trends of the defensive players.

This is real thinking and observation.

Running back is not a position that can be played by relying on physical strength. Finally!

The unchanging tactical layout and the stereotyped confrontation formation finally took on their original appearance in Henry's mind, ever-changing and colorful.

As Henry waited to start the second half, the world looked a little different.

The Tennessee Titans' offensive tactics remain unchanged, and Murakai still focuses on Mariota.

This is what the team management wants to see.

They always believe that the fundamental reason why the team has not been able to open up the situation is that the athletic talents of Mariota and others have not been fully tapped and utilized. The head coach can be fired at any time, but the quarterback cannot be replaced casually.

Therefore, Murakai must arrange tactics according to the wishes of the team management.

This time, Mariota finally got into form, stumbling and leading the Tennessee Titans across the midfield line, but encountered crisis again on the 40-yard line, falling into a third-down, three-yard dilemma, and was about to be struck out again.

The opportunity came to Henry.

"attack!"

Henry started immediately, his eyes fixed on the forwards in front of him. He knew that the wide receivers would either run vertically or near the sidelines, and the crowds in the middle area would disperse at once.

However, this is still not all.

The Kansas City Chiefs use a "3-4" defensive formation. Their three defensive frontmen have performed well this season, especially their tough red zone ground defense, which is still at the forefront of the league. They also completely blocked Henry's breakthrough in the first half.

So, Henry needs to adjust, otherwise hitting a wall is a foreseeable result.

Push off the ground.

Holding the ball.

work hard.

Henry's eyes were fixed firmly on the front, and with a resolute momentum, he took the football from Mariota and pushed forward.

According to the tactics, Murakai hoped that Mariota would push Henry to break through the middle, tear open a gap and advance three yards. As long as he completed the three-speed three-yard conversion, the offense could continue.

But now, Henry thought one step further than Murakai.

Tap, tap, tap.

Henry's step forward was very firm and powerful, without any hesitation, and he was about to collide with the striker.

A sideways.

Squeeze, move, push.

Henry gave up speed and instead used strength to force out a gap, and the offensive line pushed the defensive line to both sides, like opening a door.

Seeing defensive end Bailey stretching out his hands to control Henry through an offensive tackle in an octopus posture, Henry not only did not avoid it, but also went straight at it, directly squeezing the offensive tackle as if he were the meat patty of a sandwich, and continued to move forward against Bailey's steps.

Mariota was dumbfounded, watching Henry moving forward with two huge loads of flesh on his shoulders, as if he were participating in a Guinness World Record contest. He even forgot to help for a moment.

But Henry didn't mind -

Push off the ground, step forward, and exert force.

Energy, burst!
(End of this chapter)