Offensive Line Drills Teach Players How To Use Their Eyes
WHEN EVALUATING MY team’s O-line film cut-ups one year, I saw our folding linemen running past blocks. They were so anxious to get upfield and “lead”…
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Keys For Success On The Goal-Line, Red Zone
IF YOU WANT to succeed at something, make it important and emphasize it. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the season, we go into the red zone and ru…
Buck Package Keeps Defenses Guessing
THE MAIN COMPONENT of our offense is the “Buck” package. Regardless of how we set the offense, we attack three defensive areas on each play. 1. The f…
Try These Highly Effective Slide Protection Schemes And Game-Tested Techniques
DEPENDING ON DEFENSIVE personal, defensive structures, blitzes, dogs, line stunts, slants and twists it’s important to incorporate half- and full-lin…
Wishbone Trap and Trap-Option Packages An Explosive Combination
OVER THE YEARS, many of my teams have used the Wishbone offense, which means we primarily ran the football, and approximately 60 to 65 percent of our…
Using Various Companion Plays To Keep Opposing Defenses Guessing
MANY TIMES IN our offense we’ll run a certain play to set up other plays for later in the game or for later on in the season. The following is a demo…
Explosive Shot-Gun Spread Option Offense Easily Adaptable To 8-Man Or 11-Man Game
OUR TEAM’S SHOT-GUN spread offense has been extremely effective, and we’ve led our league in passing for the past two seasons. Realizing that our run…
Proven Pass Protection — By The Numbers
TO IMPROVE OUR teams passing game, we tried to simplify our drop-back pass protection to make it as easy as possible for our players. The following s…
Receiver-Screen Package Racks Up Huge Passing Numbers
OUR TEAM HAS broken all of our school’s passing and receiving records, while leading our conference in passing in recent years. One key ingredient to…
Teaching Your Quarterback To Pass From The “Form-Throw” Position
BEING A CREATURE of habit isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, when you play quarterback in our program, habit is required. Good habits are just that —…
Beat Any Coverage By Combining Route Concepts
DEFENSIVE COORDINATORS are getting more comfortable defending the various spread offenses that are popping up everywhere across the country. Gone are…
Time-Tested Passing Game Concepts Out Of 1- And 2-Back Formations
A SUCCESSFUL PASSING game can be the great equalizer for less-talented and undersized teams. Our program is a small-enrollment school that participat…
Foolproof Snap-Count Gets The Defense Jumping
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the June/July 2002 issue of Gridiron Strategies. Due to numerous requests and demand for reprints,…
What Every Offensive Coach Should Know About How Defenses Prepare To Stop Them
EACH WEEK DURING the football season offensive staffs are preparing weekly game plans. These game plans are based on each team’s offensive philosophy…
Complements That Cause Confusion
WE’VE REACHED AN era in football, especially at the high school ranks, where some of the old guard who educated many of us are retiring or leaving th…
Gun-Option Offense Takes Aim At The End Zone
SHOTGUN OFFENSES ARE basically viewed as passing offenses. Our offense is a combination of the wing-T, I-formation, West Coast offense and wishbone —…
Attacking Multiple Defensive Fronts Using the Buck Trap
EVERY SUCCESSFUL OFFENSE must have an effective inside trap. In our offense, the Buck series has provided us with an effective inside running option…
Effective Ways To Get The Ball To Your Best Players
EACH OFF-SEASON, teams at all levels across the country make modifications and adapt their style of offense to the type of talent that they’ll have w…