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    The Outside play is a stretch running play used by the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team where the running back takes a handoff and looks for cutback lanes on the outside of the offensive line. Lawrence Phillips is considered one of the best ever at running this play for Nebraska. An example given is Phillips' 25-yard touchdown run in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl where he cut back through a small hole. The Outside play can be run from any formation with a single back and is often run to either side of the field depending on the defensive look.

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    The Outside play is a stretch running play used by the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team where the running back takes a handoff and looks for cutback lanes on the outside of the offensive line. Lawrence Phillips is considered one of the best ever at running this play for Nebraska. An example given is Phillips' 25-yard touchdown run in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl where he cut back through a small hole. The Outside play can be run from any formation with a single back and is often run to either side of the field depending on the defensive look.

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    Husker Playbook - Power Football 4

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    The Outside play is a stretch running play used by the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team where the running back takes a handoff and looks for cutback lanes on the outside of the offensive line. Lawrence Phillips is considered one of the best ever at running this play for Nebraska. An example given is Phillips' 25-yard touchdown run in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl where he cut back through a small hole. The Outside play can be run from any formation with a single back and is often run to either side of the field depending on the defensive look.

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    11/3/2020 Husker Playbook: Outside Play

    Outside Play(41/49 Outside)

    Play call: 41/49 Outside

    TV announcers often call the Nebraska


    Outside play a "stretch play", which is NFL
    terminology for such runs. If you have Husker
    Video tapes overlain with Kent Pavelka's
    radio calls, you'll hear him use the term
    "stretch play" as well. In the huddle, Nebraska
    calls these plays simply "outside," as in 41
    Outside or 49 Outside.

    The Outside play takes its name from the


    Outside Zone Blocking Rules that the linemen
    use on the play. On Outside plays the IB takes
    a handoff toward the outside hip of the TE. As
    with inside zone plays, he is always looking
    for cutback lanes. The QB tries to get as deep
    as possible for the handoff. The play stretches
    the defense to the outside (hence the NFL
    term) and opens creases for cutback.

    Nebraska has run fewer Outside plays the last


    two years since Ahman Green left for the
    NFL. Green was great on the outside play, but
    Lawrence Phillips is probably the best ever to
    run the play at NU.

    An Outside play is called to the 1 or 9 hole


    but can break anywhere from the playside
    sideline to the backside guard. If you have
    videotape of the 96 Fiesta Bowl against
    Florida (required viewing for every
    Cornhusker fan), Phillips' 25-yard run on the
    second play of the game is a textbook
    example of the "41 Outside" play - he takes
    the handoff from Frazier, heads toward the TE
    on the right, blasts through a very thin cutback
    seam that most college running backs
    wouldn't be able to exploit, then turns on the
    burners for the 25 yard gain.

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    11/3/2020 Husker Playbook: Outside Play

    NU can run Outside out of any formation with


    an I-back. Because it can be run to either a
    tight end or split end side, this is a play the
    Huskers like to either/or in the huddle. The
    quarterback then comes to the line and
    examines the defense before calling the
    direction the play will be run.

    In a two-back set the FB is a lead blocker on


    an Outside play, giving it an extra blocker and
    the look of a sweep.

    Companion plays:

    41/49 Outside Wingback Reverse. Nebraska


    has long run a wingback reverse off of the
    Outside play. The I-back is given the ball and
    then hands off to the wingback coming behind
    him. The quarterback wheels after making the
    first handoff and leads the play as a blocker.
    This is the play where quarterbacks Tommie
    Frazier (vs. Washington State 94) and Scott
    Frost (vs. Texas A&M 97) made violent,
    highlight-reel blocks to spring big plays. (The
    number called in the huddle indicates the
    direction the I-back will go. For instance, on a
    41 Outside WB Reverse the IB will run
    toward the 1-hole on the right, but the play
    will go to the 9-hole on the left.)

    Fake Reverse: When teams become very


    aware of the reverse off of the Outside play,
    NU will fake it. The I-back does a piece of
    tricky ball handling by running with the ball
    behind his back for several steps as the WB
    passes as if to take the reverse. The behind-
    the-back slight of hand is a NU signature play.

    Return to Power Football

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