Simple Adjustments Add Diversity To Your Offense
EVERY FOOTBALL team has one or two base plays upon which the offense is built. Typically, the team then builds a counter run and a play-action pass t…
Issue
October/November 2007
23 articles in this issue
Run Over Your Opponents With The Up-Back Package
THE UP-BACK PACKAGE is a great way to cause defenses to react to what you are doing, thereby causing them to get out of what they want to do. When de…
Create Defensive Confusion By Incorporating The Gun I Formation Into Your Offense
A DILEMMA FACING many coaches is how to give a defense multiple looks while still staying consistent with your plays and blocking schemes. Plus, prac…
Implement The Midline, Inside & Outside Veer Into Your 8-Man Football Team
COACHING 8-MAN football is a much different beast than heading an 11-man squad. However, some of the principles, philosophies and strategies used in…
Rocket Sweep Spreads Defense, Opens Offense For Maximum Yardage
THE ROCKET SWEEP is a great package when you want to force the defense to have to cover the entire field from sideline to sideline. It’s an easy pack…
Multiple Fronts With The 3-5-3 Stack Defense Creates A Dangerous 8-Man Box
THE 3-5-3 STACK DEFENSE is gaining in popularity at all levels because of its versatility and ability in giving the athletic players on defense the f…
9 Sure-Fire Strategies To Become A Better Football ‘Teacher’
PRODUCTIVE COACHES spend 75 percent of their time teaching the sport to their players and the other 25 percent of the time coaching. With younger ath…
Beware Of The Coaching Ego
IT’S BEEN SAID all coaches have an ego. This is true to a point as all people have an ego and the desire to be valued and accepted. There are all sor…
Belly Pass
DIAGRAM: This play is run from the spread formation. The backside slot runs Jet motion and on the snap runs an arrow route (3 yards to the deep sidel…
Hide Play
DIAGRAM: The linemen break the huddle and walk shoulder-to-shoulder to the line. They stay in a two-point stance with no splits. The left halfback go…
Fake Punt Left
DIAGRAM: Center snaps the ball to the up back. The linemen keep their heads up to inside-block down. The A-gap player on the left kicks out the end m…
Close 27 Reverse Pass
DIAGRAM: This is a Wing-T play off the Wing-T criss-cross. The linemen from the tight end to the weak-side tackle block down (seal inside). The fullb…
8 Seam
DIAGRAM: This is a speed-option play with zone blocking. To keep the pitch defender playing soft, run the seam route behind him. The quarterback read…
Switch Gun Rip 38 Sweep
DIAGRAM: 3 goes in motion (RIP) and receives a handoff from the quarterback (1). The QB utilizes a quick snap to get the ball to 3 when he is in a fu…
Rocky Far 8 Quick Pitch Vs. 4-4
DIAGRAM: The quick pitch is designed to get the edge without blocking the defense end. The tailback’s alignment is inside foot on the outside hip of…
Trouble Right
DIAGRAM: The quarterback starts Z in motion and when Z reaches the X, the ball is snapped. Z works up and out to the back corner at 10 yards and X wo…
Z Screen Counter Pass
DIAGRAM: The quarterback is in the shotgun. He takes the snap and pump-fakes the Z screen. The running back circles around the QB so as the pump-fake…
Empty Right, Jet Left Z Rocket
DIAGRAM: The offensive line pass-protects for two counts. The play-side guard releases to the first defender outside the box. The center releases to…
Take A Safety — WWE Style
DIAGRAM: There comes a time in a game when you need to take a safety. Maybe the weather is bad or you just need to run some time off the clock to pre…
Jet Right 352 Flicker
DIAGRAM: The quarterback goes in motion to the zone play side. The direct snap goes to the tailback. The TB catches the snap and runs downhill to the…
Bunch Right 49 Longhorn
DIAGRAM: Out of a bunch formation, run counter trey away from the bunch using the flanker (Z). This formation gives you multiple options on who you p…
Adjusting The ‘G’ Defense To Combat The Spread Offense
THE “G” DEFENSE is an eight-man, even-front defense. It employs four defensive linemen and is aimed at outnumbering the offense — defense to blockers…
Taking Care Of The ‘Little Things’ Enhances Your Team’s Big Picture
HAVE YOU EVER lost a game in overtime due to the fact that your team failed to block a kick? What about failing to reach overtime because your team c…