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Toss sweep Buck sweep Flanker sweep Quarterback sweep. A sweep is an outside running play in American football where a running back takes a pitch or handoff from the quarterback and starts running parallel to the line of scrimmage, allowing for the offensive linemen and fullback to get in front of him to block defenders before he turns upfield.
A back body drop or backdrop (also sometimes called a shoulder back toss), is a move in which a wrestler bends forward or crouches in front of their opponent, grabs hold of the opponent, and stands up, lifting the opponent up and over and dropping them behind the back. It is applied frequently against a charging opponent.
Any defense consisting of six defensive backs. The sixth defensive back is known as the dimeback and this defense is also used in passing situations (particularly when the offense is using four wide receivers). As the extra defensive back in the nickel formation is called the nickel, two nickels gives you a dime, hence the name of the formation.
Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler talk with SVP about the Texas toss play on 2nd-and-goal from the 1-yard line that resulted in a 7-yard loss (2 plays before the Ohio State game-sealing TD). 🏈 ...
Ohio State running back Quinshon Judkins celebrates with teammates after scoring a touchdown against Texas during the 2025 Cotton Bowl at AT&T Stadium. ... before Texas called a risky toss sweep ...
In American football, a toss play is any running play which starts with a pitch to the running back. [1] In a toss play, the back often "curves out" towards the sideline on either side for a toss sweep .
Swift was stuffed for no gain on a toss sweep on fourth-and-1 from the Chicago 39 on the opening possession and again on a fourth-and-1 run at the Minnesota 29 in the second quarter.
The quarterback fakes a handoff to the running back and continues running with the ball opposite from the direction the running back was headed. The bootleg can have blockers similar to a sweep (and in such cases is it often called a quarterback sweep) or it can be run naked, that is without any blockers at all. A naked bootleg relies on the ...