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VINCENT JAMAL: I'm Vincent on behalf of Expert Village. Now, we've gone over the one arm
tuck and that's a good possession and running style to have the ball tucked, put away, and
kept close to the body, away from defenders. Now, what we want to make sure that we do
with the one arm tuck is keep it away from the closest defender. But in this case, we'll
give it back to BK; he's going to tuck it, and he's going to be anticipating heavy contact
and maybe more than one person. So what he's going to do is he's going to get the ball
in front of him and he's going to bring this one over, and he's going to get his pads low
because Chris is coming in...and what he wants to do is keep that ball from being jarred
loose. He wants to get his arms over the top of it, big, strong forearms. He wants to keep
the ball cradled in and so when Chris comes in, there's no way that ball is popping out.
It's gotta be a bone jarring hit. Chris, come around the back for me, if you would. And
a lot of times, sometimes, you just know that you ran out of gas, you're going to be caught,
so here it comes...here it comes...attack from the other side. Sometimes, you pick the
ball up and you've got more than one guy ripping at this ball. You want to give as much protection
to this ball as possible, so when they're ripping at your arms, that ball is going nowhere.
And the smartest thing that he can do in that case is find the ground. That way, he doesn't
turn the ball over, he keeps possession and its money in the bank. The two arm tuck is
great for short yardage, heavy traffic, and just places you don't want to turn the ball
over, which is about a hundred yards to the field.