 If you just watched that video on downs, you might have heard me use a few terms like running and passing and so that's what I want to look at in this video is what do these things mean because really what this all gets back to is how do you gain yardage because after all you can't score without moving down the field. So let's take a look at how you move down the field. So when your team is on offense as we have this offensive team set up here, when your team is on offense you have two options of how to move the ball forward and the first one is called rushing or sometimes you might just hear it called a run and then the second option is to pass the ball. So it's either one or the other basically every play will result either it will either be a rush or it will be a pass. And so let's take a look at rushing first. You see our two running backs here in the back field is what we call the area behind the quarterback or behind the offensive line and so remember the ball will be here in the middle with our center and he's going to snap it back to our quarterback and everything really goes through the quarterback. The play will be called by probably the coach and he'll tell the quarterback and then the team will probably see them huddle up before the play and then the quarterback will explain to all 11 guys this is the play we're going to do and then they will all run up to their position and get ready because they don't want the defense to know what's coming. They don't want them to know if it's going to be a rush or a pass and if it is which direction is it going to go. So running backs probably look a little different than they did in the position video. I think they were lined up and goes the eye formation but again there's no they don't have to stand in a specific spot so they can move around a little bit there's some restrictions but for the most part they can move where they want to. We'll get into all the more detailed stuff later on. So for a rushing play typically the guy who's going to be running is the half back and remember it's kind of confusing because the half back actually stands further back than the full back and the full back is the guy in the middle. Sometimes the team again they won't even have a full back maybe they have a third wide receiver or something like that. For this play let's say we have our full back we have our half back. So the center is going to snap the ball to the quarterback and then the quarterback he's going to turn around he's going the half back is going to hand is going to start running forward and then as he's going by the quarterback the quarterback is going to hand the ball off to the half back. So this is we would call this a handoff and then the full back will probably run up and he will block for the half back because all these guys are the offensive line especially. They're a bunch of big guys so they're going to get up there and they are going to push the defense back as far as they can. So the half back has room because the half back is usually a smaller guy he's really fast and so he's going to get that ball and he's going to run as far as he can as he can down the field and so it might make a little more sense if you actually see it happening. So this is our quarterback here with the ball he's he got the ball from the center turn around and then he's going to hand it off you can see he's physically going to put the ball into the chest of the half back and so he's going to give him the ball and then we see our full back out here in front he's going up to block so that's our quarterback handing off to the half back so that's a rush play right there so that's rushing and so the half back it will be probably designed in the play that the coach calls where is he where he's going to run so is he going to run straight up behind the line or is he going to try to get outside and it could be to either side maybe kind of a kind of related play would be rather than actually handing the ball off he would he would pitch the quarterback would pitch the ball to the running back so maybe the the running back would start out going toward the outside and the quarterback would kind of underhand toss on the ball and he would catch it and keep going so that would be a pitch play but really those are all rushing plays so that's one way to do it to gain yardage as we said then the other way is to pass the ball and so to pass the ball it's going to involve the quarterback physically throwing the ball through the air and so it will usually be thrown to one of these guys to his wide receivers maybe sometimes the tight end will have the ball thrown to him so again before the the play the coach is going to call in the play and the quarterback is going to tell everybody and when he tells them will probably tell them in some kind of code that they understand and so that will then determine which routes the wide receivers run so kind of like the rusher or the running back he can run to either side or wherever he wants to the wide receivers they can run wherever they want to to so once the play starts maybe this the wide receiver on the right will go out and he'll run across and then maybe the wide receiver on the left he'll just run straight as fast as he can down the the sidelines maybe the tight end he'll kind of peel out over this in this direction and so then the quarterback so all these things are happening at the same time and then the so and this all starts again when the court when the center snaps the ball to the quarterback that's when the play starts that's when all these guys will start running maybe the running back is even involved in the play he can go out he can try to receive a pass too or they can block as well so the quarterback will get the ball he'll take a few steps back we'd call it dropping back and he'll look for a wide receiver who is open and that basically just means that see think he can throw him throw the wide receiver the ball without having the defense either knock it down or catch it themselves and that would be an interception we'll look at that in the next video when an interception is but so the quarterback he's going to drop back he's going to look for his open receiver and he's going to throw the ball through the air that receiver is going to come across catch the ball and then as soon as he catches the ball he's going to start running again because he's trying to gain as much yardage as possible so he's going to turn upfield and try to run obviously the defense will be trying to stop him so they'll grab him and try to pull him down and tackle him as soon as they can yeah so again the picture here's a quarterback dropping back and he's looking for his his wide receiver who's open and then on the other end the receiving end not all plays will be this close sometimes it'll be a real quick pass but this one it looks like the the receiver here he's obviously has to jump um in the air over the the defender looks like here he's trying to stop him and so the receiver looks like he's going to catch it here um and looks like he's going to get one two uh touchdown so those are the two ways then the the rush or the pass and the rush those are the two ways that you can move the ball down the field