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…
Issue
February/March 2006
13 articles in this issue
Swarming Coverages That Work At Any Level
A LARGE PART of successful pass defense is the pass rush you’re able to generate from your defensive line. Likewise, a pivotal aspect of a good run d…
Preparing To Defend The 2-Point Conversion
ONE COMMONLY OVERLOOKED part of game planning is defensive reaction to a 2-point conversion. This oversight can often be fatal since, in many cases,…
Drill Your Quarterback To Beat The Blitz
WHILE A ONE-BACK, spread offense can pile up the yards and the points on an opposing defense, its one flaw can be a vulnerability to the blitz. We ha…
Successful Special Teams Starts With A Solid Philosophy
IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL, there’s an average of 32 plays a game that involve special teams, so that aspect of your team had better be prepared. You want t…
Two Trick Plays To Catch Defenses Off-Guard
Our staff are strong believers in the big play. We try to run trick plays off some part of our standard offense and we set aside time to look at film…
Mesh Pass Play
DIAGRAM 1: “Mesh Pass.” The “mesh concept” is run from a trips formation and it attacks the underneath edge of coverage very rapidly, many times from…
Flex Right, Bunch Pass Right (From Double-Wing)
DIAGRAM: This has been a very successful play for our team over the years and is a great flood-pattern set! The right TE sets up wide, while the wing…
Trey Right, Up The River
DIAGRAM: This play was originally designed to be run against 5-3 Stack defenses. (This play is drawn against a 3-5 since that is the most common vari…
QB Throwback
DIAGRAM: The left wing back goes into motion prior to the snap. The QB receives the snap, pivots and throws either a backward pass or lateral to the…
Proven Inside, Outside Zone-Blocking Schemes To Keep Defensive Fronts At Bay
ZONE OFFENSES ARE different than other offensive systems because there is no specific point of attack. As a result, the opponent’s entire defensive f…
“Wisconsin-I” Formation Keeps Defenses Guessing
AS AN OFFENSIVE coordinator, my four main priorities when developing an offensive scheme are to: 1. Keep the offense simple. 2. Make the offense inte…
10 “DB Objectives” Reinforce Key Basics
YOU CAN SPEND hours diagramming and developing the most swarming coverage scheme imaginable vs. multiple formations and offensive packages, but it’ll…