Two handed centers?

[stealth]

I am watching the dallas versus san fran championship from 1992 on NFLN.

Stepnoski is using two hands to snap the ball?

I played center for a long time as a kid and never thought once about using two hands?

Anyone in the league now doing that?

Ima go see if I can figure out why...

 

[Cowboy Junkie]

Did he do it on all snaps or just from shot gun?????

just curious

 

[stealth]

Its every one I have seen, he isn't putting a ton of weigh on it but the stance just looks awkward to me.

okay let me clear up what I am saying, he has both hands on the ball then at some point in his motion his left had goes to the standard position and his right is delivering the ball.

That would be hard to do well, and step was a great center, so thats even more impressive to me.

UGH now he stopped

 

[Cowboy Junkie]

I cant even picture him, I mean I remember the long hair and that he was only about Moose size but his technique I have no idea...

 

[InmanRoshi]

Did he do it on all snaps or just from shot gun?????

just curious

I'm not sure we even used the shotgun in 1992. I seem to remember Aikman thought not having a conventional drop messed up his timing routes, and it was a big deal when Chan came in and brought in the shotgun formation.

 

[Shady12]

Back in the day a lot of people used the two hand snap.. There is the one hand snap, then the two hander where it's held by two hands at one end longways, then snapped up and the qb would take it at the nose of the ball on the opposite end the center held it. Pretty awkward but I remember seeing it as a kid when I played.

 

[LowTech]

I remember one game, after step had returned to the team, where the defense was timing their rush because step was looking back between his legs, looking back up, then snapping the ball. The anouncers even commented on how easy it was to read the snap.

Then they had a 3rd and short, went through the same motion for the snap, but didn't snap the ball. Easy 1st down.

I believe step changed his snap motion after that.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

maybe it helped him get up in his stance faster after snapping the ball?

 

[Ben_n_austin]

I'm not sure we even used the shotgun in 1992. I seem to remember Aikman thought not having a conventional drop messed up his timing routes, and it was a big deal when Chan came in and brought in the shotgun formation.

Aikman always liked to work out of the shotgun; it was Jimmy Johnson who didn't like it. . . .

 

[jazzcat22]

I'm not sure we even used the shotgun in 1992. I seem to remember Aikman thought not having a conventional drop messed up his timing routes, and it was a big deal when Chan came in and brought in the shotgun formation.

You are correct.
in the 1st few years when Shula was OC, I think they used it a few times, but not often. When turner came in, they never or rarely used it.

Also I believe Stepnoski had both hands on the ball, because he could snap with either hand, so ithe defense could not key on the ball. I think it was him anyway.

 

[NorthTexan95]

I believe in the old days a lot of centers would use two hands since they were mainly run blocking. I believe there was a Super Bowl where the center would use two hands on running plays and one hand on passing plays. The defense picked it up. I'm thinking that might have been the Cowboys - Miami Super Bowl and the Miami center but I could be way off on that.

 

[tomson75]

He used both.

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