Quarterback

The quarterback ( QB , called quarter-back with the Canada or quite simply the quarter ), is an offensive station with the American football and the Canadian Football.

Qualities

The station of quarterback enjoys a great diversity gauges and styles play. Formerly, the quarterback was sutout large and little mobile with however a powerful and precise arm. It is still the type of quarterback dominating within NFL. This type of player, of which the current illustrations are Peyton Manning, Tom Brady or Ben Roethlisberger, measurement approximately 1,95  m for a little less 110  kg. These twenty-last years, the American league, relayed even more largely by the Canadian League of football, nevertheless opened with another type of quarterback smaller and more mobile whose best examples are Steve Young, John Elway, Brett Favre or Drew Brees. This type of quarterback turns rather around 1,85  m for approximately 100  kg. It makes use also more readily of its legs to gain some Yard S with the race.

Roles

It is him which directs the offensive and calls the plays. It is placed generally directly behind center-before (player of offensive line). It is thus with theback one that the center-forward gives the balloon to the beginning of each sequence of play, after having received its command. The players of its team must protect it from a plating time that it sends the ball or gives it to a runner. If it is made plate before passing the ball, that is called a Sack . It must also avoid being made intercept the balloon by the opposing team.

It is connected with a half of opening to the Rugby, it must have a good vision of the play, an excellent leadership, as well as calm and a coolness with any test. The pressure is indeed on its shoulders. Being the player more in sight on the ground, he assumes with the eyes of the public the responsibility for the result for the team. Thus the victorious quarterbacks become genuine stars. Contrary, its career can quickly be blocked if its team does not gain.

There exists a method making it possible to evaluate the performance with the master key of the quarterback; it is about the evaluation of quarterback called to pass rating in English.

The quarterback is not the only player authorized to make a master key ahead. All the players can do it, except the center and the other players of the offensive line, as long as they do not cross the line of fray.

Great quarters of the past

Quarterbacks in activity

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