Post Route Rules for Football

Video Transcript

"VINCENT JAMAL: Hi, I'm Vincent on behalf of Expert Village. Now, Chris has rules that he can't--that he has to--have enforced and so does Brian. And the first one is false starting. So what I'm going to do is emulate a snap count, and Brian is going to go ahead and jump. Blue 82, blue 82. And what that means is he left before the ball was set in motion which is a penalty. So he wants to make sure that he's disciplined. And he can actually look down the line of scrimmage, and the receivers are technically can be the last people to leave the ball but they want to make sure that they're firing off. Brian can also not impede Chris from taking the ball from him once it's in the air. Chris has just as much right as the ball--to the ball that Brian does. So, what he wants to make sure that he does is he's not tripping him, he's not pushing him. And push off is a big one. When the ball is in the air, a lot of receivers will push and then look for the ball, which is a definite penalty not always gotten away with though. So what we're want to look for also is--go ahead and run the post route again. Set, hike. He just runs a clean route. He doesn't necessarily have to make contact with Chris, and what he wants to do is make sure that he buys his own time with his footwork and timing rather than doing anything hands-on. He wants to run as cleanly and not get tangled up with Chris as possible. Chris wants to initiate the fight; Brian should be the one trying to avoid it."