Vary Your Double-Wing Offense By Adding False Keys To Confuse The Defense
WHEN RUNNING THE DOUBLE WING, you know guards are critical to the success or failure of your offense. However, the opposition knows this as well. An…
Get Back To Running With The Gun Inside Zone Series
WITH THE PREVALENCE of spread offenses and one-back sets, the inside zone play has been a popular one to generate some rushing offense. Innovations h…
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…
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…
Inside Traps, Passing Scheme A Winning Offensive Combination
WHEN YOU WORK at a school that isn’t a state powerhouse, and worse yet, hardly has enough players to field a varsity team, you need to make game plan…
Containing The Spread Offense Does Not Have To Be A Headache
IN THE LAST quarter-century, no offense has come along more difficult to defend than the spread offense. Much like the dinosaurs or gas-guzzling cars…
“Color Drill” Helps LBs, DBs Maximize Their Drops
OVER THE YEARS, our defensive staff successfully has identified areas where our defense needed to improve. After identifying a weakness, we have had…
Developing Top-Notch Wide Receivers Starts With Skill-Building Through Drill Work
WIDE RECEIVERS are not a dime a dozen. You can’t pull a speedy kid from the practice squad (or even the track team) and expect that player fill the r…
Strategies For the Coach In Search Of A Team
THE OLD SAYING GOES, “There are two kinds of coaches — ones who are about to be fired and ones who have been fired.” No matter the coach, there comes…
Option Punt Springs Element Of Surprise On Opposition’s Sleeping Special Teams
THE OPTION PUNT has been one of our most successful “trick” plays and it’s easy to install into any squad’s special teams. The Option Punt uses motio…
Reaching Full Potential In The Weight Room Begins With Goal-Setting
THERE ALWAYS ARE those players who don’t reach their full potential. They could have been bigger, stronger, quicker and more dominant. But, for some…
Touchdown
DIAGRAM 1: Vs. 3-Deep Zone. This play works well against a 3-deep zone coverage. Put twin receivers to one side of the offensive formation and a spli…
Gun Doubles Right 550 Top
DIAGRAM: This play attempts to high-low the safety. X: Starts at the top of the numbers. Runs a post route, staying outside the play-side hash. Z: Z…
Right 4, 31 Counter
DIAGRAM: This is a great play to disguise running to the outside zone or running a stretch play. This play is part of a number system for formations…
Drive
DIAGRAM: This is a five-step pass route with a pre-snap read to the right side with one wide receiver. If that WR is being single-covered, then it is…
25 Counter
DIAGRAM: This is a base counter play with many set and motion variations, as well as the option to run a play-action pass off the counter action. The…
18 Pass (2-point conversion)
DIAGRAM: Starting from an unbalanced line, run the play from the left hash. Fake a weak-side iso and bootleg to the split end. The tight end drags ne…
Key Qualities Of A Dominant Linebacker
MOST DEFENSIVE EXPERTS concur that dominating defenses are defined by the quality of their linebackers. Tim Schaffner, the defensive coordinator and…