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Why Isn’t Every Pass Attempt Play-Action?

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The Importance of Running Your Play Action to Win

There is no relationship between how often a given team actually runs and the effectiveness of their play action attack. You don't need to run first and run well in order to take advantage of it, I think that's fundamentally true. The threat of rushing is sufficient to set up play action. And guess what Arthur Smith's Falcons can do, baby? They can kill you with the running game.

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