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Nunzio Campanile: One thing for us that is really important because we always carry the football in our strong arm. We do not really work a whole lot on stiff arms, we try on work on staying low and running our shoulder through the defender. Our basic philosophy is that we always want the ball in our strong arm because we feel that, that is our best way to protect it. That's the arm that is strongest, it's the arm that is always used to carrying the football and just about every other object in your life, so if we are a righty, we always, always have the football in our right arm. Some teams talk about switching the ball to your outside arm once you get out of midfield, out of the inside of the field or outside the hash marks, we do not do that. For that reason, we do not really use stiff arms, or it's not something that we technically practice in practice because we're always worried about protecting the ball in our strong arm.

Ryan's a lefty, so when he gets out to the right side, he's always going to keep the ball in his left arm and as he comes, instead of switching the ball and stiff arming, he's going to rip through with the strong arm technique that we use. Go ahead, Ryan, just run with it, stay outside the numbers.