Using the Tight End to Dictate Defenses and Gain an Advantage
You can dictate the defensive front and tempo by utilizing a system of multiple formations and motions without changing personnel. The no-huddle offe…
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The Air Raid Offense Installation and Practice Break Down
Attack, Attack, Attack! That is our philosophy and strategy with the Air Raid offense. Our offense has been built around the concept that less is bet…
Split-Flow and ISO Two-Back Run Scheme
You can confuse any defense by implementing this scheme. Our basic philosophy in our running game is to give the defense two or three different forma…
High Percentage Run/Pass Options When You Have No Option
Four different play concepts – the Stick-Draw, Zone-Stick, Zone-Zero, and the Fold-Stick – can protect your quarterback. Many football programs at th…
3-Step Passing To Success
A few adjustments in a quarterback’s technique can improve his short passing game. The Drop When teaching the 3-step passing game, scheme is importan…
Sound Technique for Wide Receivers
Three days of drills and proper technique can improve your wide receivers’ performance at any level. As a former receiver and current receivers coach…
WIDE RECEIVER BLOCKING DRILLS
We expect our wide receivers to not only run detailed and precise routes, but be effective blockers. Our wide receiver philosophy consists of: 1. Giv…
GAINING BIG YARDAGE WITH THE JET SWEEP
If you have speed on your team, you should be considering some form of the Jet Sweep. This is a play that can be run from almost any formation with a…
Using Your Tight End in the Zone Read Game
Tight ends are asked to do two main things, block and catch. The technique and approach of how they block is what makes the difference for the positi…
Making the Spread Team Throw Before They’re Ready
In my 30 years coaching high school football, we learned a number of ways to disguise our defensive coverage and make the spread team throw early. Th…
Why We Run The Spread No-Huddle: The Methods Behind the Madness
We run the spread, no-huddle offense at Stillman College for a number of reasons, mainly because it: • Pressures the defense in terms of alignment: M…
The Falcon Shotgun Zone Read
In any shotgun offense, it is vital to the success of the run game to be effective at the zone read game. At Bentley, all adjustments, including the…
Proper Development of Your Wide Receivers
Wide receivers have many areas in which they must be proficient. The receiver must be properly drilled and taught fundamentals to succeed in each are…
Effective Play-Action Passing Techniques
Play-action passes can be a great method to attack an overly aggressive defense and make them defend the entire field. Play-action is a term that can…
Utilizing the “Drive” Concept - Part 2
As mentioned in the previous article, this package may look extensive and complicated to implement, but in reality the repetitive nature of the serie…
Zone Blitz Read it for Success
Our base package at Hartwick College is a 4-2-5 alignment which allows us to be multiple, but simplistic for our players. With the flexibility of our…
WHY WAIT? Play Fast From the Very Start!
Every football team in America does the same thing when they have to score at the end of the half or at the end of the game. They go no-huddle, play…
Adding Option to the Wing-T
For the first six years of being a head coach, coaching the offensive side of the ball, our teams were strictly a Wing-T football team. We had succes…