Tendency breakers. An idea we don’t think about much but a concept vital to every game plan. The ability to add play calls and looks that run counter to what you normally do. Keeping teams off-balance and less confident in what they’re seeing.
For the Pittsburgh Steelers, they have mixed in one key tendency breaker the last several weeks. One downside to running out of shotgun is the predictability it creates. Align with the running back directly behind the quarterback and the runner’s path could easily go to either side: left or right. Align with the running back sidecar, like you get in shotgun, and the run typically goes away from the back’s alignment.