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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mradtke66" data-source="post: 1038119" data-attributes="member: 4199">I don't think this is a perfect Lombardi sweep, though in the modern NFL run games, very little is new.  This just looks to me like a sweep with two interior linemen pulling.Things that are different (having just watched Lombardi's blackboard session and the particular play in slo-mo too many times)1. The real sweep doesn't have the center pull.  It's both guards. 2. Different personnel and alignment (12 out of pistol vs. 21 under center with split backs).3. The tackle blocks down like Lombardi's "odd" call, which makes sense as the DT to the playside is a 3T and the center shouldn't be able to make that reach block.  Also the center is pulling, moot point.4. the inline TE (89) is doing something more like the tackle is supposed to in the "even" call.  Get up field and turn inside to seal.  In the original, the TE is supposed to deal with the OLB to his side and invite him upfield and wide.5. The Wing (82) is filling the role of a FB of the original and is taking the wide lineman out.  Part of why the "real" screen isn't used any more is that a FB vs. DE is a gigantic mismatch in favor of the defense.  TE vs. DE is less so.Lombardi teaching his sweep: [MEDIA=youtube]uv4CXySXxCk[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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