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wishbone offense

the formation for the wishbone offense is where the fullback lines up directly behind the QB and the 2 halfbacks are split behind the fullback. Question , what do u call the formation when the halfbacks are split behind the QB and the fullback lines up behind the halfbacks?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.158.223.4 (talk) 22:09, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing

The "confusing" tag is correct -- there is too much unexplained jargon in the article which makes it unintelligible to someone who doesn't know the subject already. The follow terms need to be explained before or at the time of their use:

"pinches down"
"play-action passing"
"playside"
"standard fullback dive play"

Remember that we're writing for the average Joe and Jane, someone who perhaps hears "triple option" while watching a televised games and wants an explanation. The article doesn't need to be written in babytalk, but it does need as little jargon as possible, and should be understandable by someone with only rudimentary knowledge of the game.

Someone who understands the intricacies of the jargon used should do some rewriting. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:54, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Paywalls and linked articles

Currently this article links to a Wall Street Journal article that is behind a paywall:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-most-dangerous-play-in-college-football-1483887869
Is this scenario OK with Wikipedia practices? - Bevo (talk) 20:47, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This article should reference the innovations chronologically and give the year each innovation was instituted, and by whom. For instance, the veer, was developed by Bill Yoeman at Houston in the mid nineteen sixties, and became the basis of the Tom Osborne era at Nebraska, while Emory Bellard and Darrell Royal at Texas in the late nineteen sixties altered this offense by moving the fulback closer to the quarterback, creating the wishbone offense. Etc. 2601:2C6:4700:4F20:1C30:FEE3:EA44:F386 (talk) 14:20, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]