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Coaching Youth Football – Offensive Line Cut Blocking
There is a controversial blocking technique called a cut. Over the years cut blocks have been labeled as “dirty” by many coaches and players. A cut is very effective and if done safely it can be very effective against the defense. No block should ever be made with malicious intent to injure any player. Please make sure you check with the league rules, making sure cut blocks are allowed.
Offensive lineman will use a chop, or cut blocking style. A cut, or chop is a block that is hit below the waist of the defender(i.e., from the front of the defensive player) in an attempt to bring the defenders to ground, making them unable to pursue a running back for the short time needed for the back to find a gap in the defense. The reason this technique is frowned upon is because if the offensive lineman hits the defenders in the knees, he can hurt him.
The San Francisco 49ers of the 1980s and early in the 1990′s were famous for their cut technique(and leg-whipping blocking techniques, which is not legal), a maneuver that was ultimately used in the mid-90′s by the NFL’s Denver Broncos. The Denver Broncos gained a level of fame by using their cut-blocking style (often named a malicious play by other teams) which produced the NFL’s top rushing offense for over ten years, but likewise resulted in many defensive football opponents of the Broncos getting injured by the cut blocks. In a Monday Night Football game back in 2004, defensive tackle Tony Williams of the Cincinnati Bengals was injured for the year after a cut block (by the Broncos lineman George Foster), and in 2005, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive guard Paul Spicer was severely hurt on a cut block by Broncos lineman Matt Lepsis. The Broncos responded to these complaints when Mike Shanahan held a public film study, in 2004, showing that all the teams in the NFL use some form of a chop, or cut block technique.
As you can see from the above paragraph, there is a great controversy in the NFL regarding cut blocking, so please make sure if you do decide to teach cut blocking to your youth football team you use caution. It is important to show only safe, legal techniques for such a potential dangerous block. Our team rule is to only use a cut block, as a crab block, where we never allow a player to “dive bomb” at an opponent’s knees. We teach our players to stay on all fours and crab into the defender only if he is beat on the play.
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