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Originally Posted by Buehler445
You beat it by hitting the quarterback. Hard. Early and often.
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Pretty much. This is how teams shut down the Run and Shoot back in the day, the difference now is that QB's essentially have no-contact flags on them. The strategy of lighting the QB up on every play can't work with modern rules, at least not the way they used to when QB's used to get mugged wholesale. Go see some clips of Warren Moon looking like he got run down by a mack truck.
Its still the best way to proceed, but not nearly as effective as it once was.