Talk:American football positions

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[edit] Merge?

14 men on the field at one time? Please explain.


It appears that around Feb. 8, this article was replaced with a redirect to a completely new article, American Football positions (notice capital "F"). An administrator, at my request, merged the articles to preserve the edit history. However, as the creation of the Feb. 8 article was probably against Wikipedia guidelines, I'd like to revert to the Feb. 5 version.

If anyone has an objection, please let me know. -- Mwalcoff 00:46, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football Positions Image

Please see [this image].I posted this on American Football talk a while back, got some constructive criticism, redrew it, and now I think I nearly have an image that this article can use to demonstrate where on the field each position normally lines up. We all know that positions are not strict and there are many formations. However, there are general rules: a wide received is far to the left or far to the right. A safety is well behind the rest of the defense. The running backs line up behind the quarterback. So, this image is an attempt to give a person a rough starting point from which to understand all the weird formations and positions. --Kainaw (talk) 15:02, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Almost perfect. One major point: One of the WRs has to be on the line of scrimmage to make it a legal formation. A minor point: You could consider labeling the strong and free safeties (the strong safety plays on the TE's side). You might also point out, when you use the image, that it represents just one of many possible alignments of players -- in this case, an I-formation with two WRs on offense and a 4-3 defense. -- Mwalcoff 03:15, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

This page is completely useless. The main article Offensive team is much more complete. --207.145.105.170 21:25, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the 3 articles should be merged. But the merge should be to this page. "Offensive team", etc. is quite ambiguous. And the subject is not near long enough to warrant summaries and main articles. I don't think this page is completely useless, though. Civil Engineer III 19:10, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Special Teams

Not exactly sure how to do it but a note should be added at the top because special teams is also hockey terminology. When somebody types in "special teams" in the search, it automatically comes to this page. Canking 11:04, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wrong picture

the graphic of the football positions is wrong because there must be exactly seven men on the line of scrimmage, yet there is only six. usually, the wide reciever on the weak/right side would be on the line of scrimmage and not off like the picture shows. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.187.57.226 (talk) 01:39, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

So, you suggest moving the wide receiver near the tight end up to the line of scrimmage? -- kainaw™ 21:38, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Anyone have an opinion on this? I agree that one of the wide receivers should move up - but which? Note that this is for an introduction to the positions and it should be clear that wide receivers can play both on the line and behind it. So, I'm not sure which one is best. -- kainaw™ 18:33, 26 December 2007 (UTC)