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All right. So just a quickie. I thought about this too, but a lot of people ask me. So I want to know what you think of it. We added an extra lineman. Sometimes they go double tight in to help the running game to match up with the heavy box.

What's your philosophy as far as thinking this is, well, why don't they just spread it out,

go four wide, and then it make it a little easier for Bar for Berkeley to get running lanes because it's going

to be less people in the box. Obviously, it's not as simple as that because, you know, it would

do it if that was that easy. Right. The bottom line is if it was that simple, then everybody with a good back

would just spread it out. You know, it's like people sometimes say to me, well, if a play works,

why don't they just run it over and over and over again? Obviously, it's not that simple.

You know, and, you know, some teams do that on occasion, but obviously, over time, teams don't feel that the best way to run the football in the national football.

The college is different is to just spread everybody out and hand the ball off.

You know, so if they felt that way, you know, more teams would do it as a foundation of their run game.

So, you know, they don't.

You know, I think there's a sense that, and we've talked about this, in your run game, even if there's eight in the box, even if there's nine in the box, depending on the run game concepts, you don't have to block all those people.

So, you know, you're just trying.

You're saying like if you're going left, you don't have to block the two on the back side.

The run game is really about angles, leverage, aiming points, you know, all those things.

That's what you're trying to create.

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