America 1979

Chapter 62

"In this long offseason, what we have to do is solidify your advantages in running with the ball and make up for your shortcomings in receiving, running, and flexibility." Coach Murphy arranged Bill's direction in this way.

Starting from the Wednesday afternoon of NO.16, the three coaches finally conducted a comprehensive training for the members of the Hamatun school team. Among them, Coach James was responsible for the basic physical fitness of the whole team and special training for bench players, and Robert was responsible for the training of the players in the first three groups. For routine training and tactical actions, Murphy is responsible for the targeted training of offensive quarterbacks, running backs and tight ends, as well as defensive linebackers and safety guards.

After following James through routine running, push-ups, planks, etc., Bill, Howard and others fell into the hands of Coach Murphy to start intensity training.

After being given the direction, Bill's daily training programs were almost fixed.

First, he had to practice catching the ball in various positions with quarterback Howard, from face-to-face ten-yard passes to back-to-face ten-yard passes, and the distance continued to increase as the number of successful catches increased.

When passing the ball statically, the distance between the two is mostly fixed, and the pass is not bad when you find the touch, so it is still very fast to practice a tacit understanding.

The limit of the static passing program is the Hail Mary pass.According to mythology, Mary is the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.A Hail Mary pass means that the pass is so far away that it takes prayer to catch it.

When Bill and Howard practice this project, they are often forty or fifty yards apart, which is half the length of the entire baking pan. This requires a lot of arm strength and accuracy for both of them.During practice, Bill can usually throw the ball to the specified distance, but the error is much larger. Howard's throwing distance is generally smaller than Bill's, but eight out of ten times he can fall within the range of Bill's wingspan.

After groping to the limit of the two, Coach Murphy limited the range of ultra-long-distance passing to within 35 yards to increase the practicality of this tactical action.

After the static pass, it will enter the dynamic pass practice, which is divided into the quarterback standing still, the tight end running to catch the ball, the tight end standing still, the quarterback running and passing the ball, and the two running at the same time to achieve the catch. pass the ball.

Dynamic passing requires a high degree of tacit understanding between the two. In the initial training time, they often move at a very slow speed to achieve the success rate of passing the ball.However, with uninterrupted practice for several weeks every day, the number and success rate of short-distance running passes have risen sharply. Under the condition of no one interfering, 80.00% of the success can be achieved within 50.00 yards, and [-] yards to [-] A distance of ten yards can also achieve a pass-catching action with a success rate of about [-]%.

Run a little farther to catch the ball, and you really have to pray to the Virgin Mary.

In the subsequent practice, players were introduced as obstacles, which is to simulate the situation in the official game.At the beginning, it prevented the players from intercepting the passing of the two in a relatively gentle way. As the training progressed, the way of interception also converged with the official game, which greatly increased the difficulty for Bill to receive the ball. The accuracy and success rate are also improved accordingly.

Bill's strength is advancing with the ball. It is enough to have a certain foundation in receiving and passing the ball. There is no need to spend a lot of energy practicing for super long-distance receiving.

In terms of propulsion with the ball, the prerequisite for ensuring a smooth road ahead is super strong arm strength, so the coaches specially customized an upper body strength strengthening package for Bill, including bench press, deadlift, and pull-ups. The number of times, according to the increase in training time, the number of times per session is also slowly increasing.

As for the skills of escaping from capture and throwing and shaking off the safety guard, there is not much training. According to Assistant Coach Robert, pushing down the opponent can obtain a safer advancing range, otherwise after shaking the opponent, they can choose to catch up, but Bill's speed Not fast enough to push down opponents from behind.

Pure brute force, no skill!
In terms of running, Murphy's training for Bill was quite satisfactory. They were all about the same intensity as running backs. They ran back and forth, fast and slow, and changed directions. Sometimes the coach got interested and added a tire to Bill. Tight end dragging a tire running around.

After training in this way, Bill's [-]-yard speed has improved slightly, still in the form of [-] and [-], but his speed and flexibility have increased significantly when running on obstacles.After introducing players to serve as obstacles to the movement, Bill's ability to dodge improved visible to the naked eye.

In this regard, coach Murphy commented: "You are not a full-time running back, so you don't need to be within [-] yards and [-] seconds. It is enough to maintain the speed within [-] yards and [-] seconds while increasing your size. That’s right. To improve professional running, we need full-time coaches from the university, they are more authoritative than me.”

The D-1 level university team has an astonishing ability to absorb money, so it has a coaching staff that is no less than a professional team. Some full-time assistant coaches are even the physical education teachers of the school. In terms of professionalism, it is indeed far beyond Mexico. Fei.

During the three or four weeks of training, there were also several matches within the Hamotun school team. Bill, who has strengthened his running and ball-catching ability, performed even more brilliantly. Insufficient strength, no one can stop Bill who is as violent as a bison on the strong side.

Even if the big players are arranged in advance on the road of Bill's advancement, they will often be pushed away. In terms of sudden burst of strength alone, there are almost no opponents in the team.

This has excited the die-hard fans watching the training from the sidelines, some even thinking about the next season immediately.

Watching off-season training is a way for NFL professional teams and college teams to attract money. In addition to increasing income, maintaining enthusiasm during the eight-month off-season is also one of the reasons for establishing this project.

The Hamatun school team has done this before, but the number of seats sold is not many, about 20 to [-] seats, and the average number of fans who come to watch the training most of the time is only [-].

However, after the Hamatun school team entered the championship with 600 wins and 200 losses last season, the seats for watching the training were sold out. After discussing with President George Jackson, Coach Murphy spent money to expand the stands of the football field in the school. , the capacity increased to [-] people.Even the viewing tickets after the expansion were sold out. An average of [-] people attended the training after [-] o'clock every day to watch, cheer, and even ran to the sidelines to give specific training opinions.

Some senior fans have watched football for more than ten years, and they are no less professional than the coaches, which makes the training of the Hamotun school team smoother.

Although Bill and his teammates don't know how much each seat sells for, according to the weekly player fan meeting, the school is making money in this regard.

Every meeting, Bill's muscular body is always taken advantage of by fans with their families, which annoys him a lot.

PS: Ask for a recommendation ticket and ask for a monthly ticket.

(End of this chapter)