Screen Package Adds Equalizers To Your Offense
SCREENS CAN BE an effective method for countering an aggressive, blitzing defense. The following screen package has proven to be extremely successful…
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Shotgun Zone Run Companion Package Keeps Defenses Guessing
PACKAGING PLAYS TO attack different areas of the field while maintaining the same basic look is an essential part of offensive football. The followin…
Critical Keys For Developing Better Wide Receivers
WITHOUT BUILDING the proper foundation for receiver play, your objectives cannot be obtained for the passing game. As a coach, you must firmly stress…
Mesh Play, Shallow Package A Simple Yet Devastating Attack
THERE ARE TWO primary keys for offensive football — getting the ball to your playmakers and controlling the tempo. Both are critical concepts for suc…
Inside, Outside Veer Combination Difficult For Defenses To Stop
OVER THE PAST few years, football has changed. Coaches have shied away from the triple option and the power running game. The “air-it-out” attack is…
Fade Route With “Landmarks” Frees WRs, Opens Up Passing Lanes
IF YOU WATCH kids playing pick-up football, you see that the most popular pass route is the “fade,” straight down the field going deep. Why? A well-t…
Drop-Back Protection Scheme Airlifts Offense Downfield
THESE PLAYS ARE based on a drop-back protection scheme with the fullback protecting the right-side A-gap. The FB and the center must combine to prote…
Attacking The Outside LB With Motion In The Wing-T Keeps Defenses Indecisive
FOR AS LONG as I can remember, it seemed that every team that ran the wing-T offense would send its wingback in motion behind the backfield when runn…
Running The Iso Out Of The “I” Brings Defenses To Their Knees
THIS OFFENSE IS BASED on running isolation plays at linebackers and by having a complement of option and G schemes to keep defenses from using wholes…
Go For The Kill In The Red Zone
IF YOU SURVEYED a group of head football coaches and asked them where they consider the start of the red zone to be — almost everyone will say the op…
Buck Package Keeps Defense 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…
Throwing The “Dig” As Your Go-To Pass Piles Up Big Offensive Numbers
OUR OFFENSE HAS thrown for more than 16,000 yards and 157 TDs during a recent 5-year period. Without a doubt, our best “go-to pass” has been the “dig…
Combo-Option Drill Works Pitch To Perfection
AN OPTION PITCH that ends up dropping to the ground can be a disaster for your offense. We developed the following drill to help quarterbacks and run…
Simple Bunch Package Is An Easy-To-Install, Yet Tough-To-Defend Offense
OUR TEAM’S PASSING GAME is divided into packages of plays. Each package requires a certain personnel grouping to execute. We’ve found that packaging…
10 Tips For Better Team Defense
ONE OF THE BIGGEST mistakes defensive coaches make is they don’t practice “real” football. That is, they don’t create a mirror image of what happens…
Off-Tackle “G-Series” Explodes For Big-Time Gains
THE G-SERIES IS a fullback off-tackle series that requires the pulling of the on-side guard who traps the defensive end. It’s always run to the tight…
Developing A Championship Quarterback
DURING MY ENTIRE coaching career, I’ve never been at a place where we had our pick of a “blue-chip” or top-rated quarterback. No matter where you coa…
The Day The Ghost Galloped
PERHAPS MORE THAN any player in the history of college football, Red Grange captured the imagination of America during the 1920s and beyond. It was o…