Four Keys to a Successful Four Vertical Package
Four verticals has become a staple in many offenses. It’s a great plan of attack versus any eight man box whether that is something that the defense aligns in or rotates to. Executed correctly the defense is stressed horizontally. We…
Just Wing It
In his book “Scoring Power with the Wing-T Offense” (1957), Forest Evashevski, the father of the wing-t offense wrote: “The wing as a basis for an offensive attack goes back to the earliest days of American football and was popularized…
Distort and Displace with Double Teams
The bedrock principle of our running game is to attack with a downhill running game that focuses on level 1 movement and displacement. Fundamental to that is the combination block. A good combination block essentially guarantees a positive yardage play…
A Multiple Passing Attack with the Spacing Concept
In 2011 we became more multiple in our use of tight ends, h-backs and fullbacks, as well as with the compressed formations we used them in. Up to that point, the majority of our passing game revolved around our four…
Supplement to magazine article: An Evaluation System For Your Quarterback
The article “Avoid a Quarterback Controversy – An Objective System for Grading Your quarterbacks” in the February issue of American Football Monthly explained the criteria we first used for evaluating and determining our starting quarterback for the 2010 season. This…
Sweep Action to Enhance the Inside Running Game
The jet sweep and other types of receiver sweeps are nothing new to offenses. They have been around for years and fit into many different offensive systems. The focus in offensive football lately has mostly been on using the jet…
Adding Multiplicity with a Flexible Run Scheme – The Counter Play
A play that seems to get very little press today with the popularity of the zone schemes is the counter play. Popularized in the 1980’s by Joe Gibbs of the Washington Redskins, it’s a play that remains a staple in…
The Pin and Pull Sweep
In 2010, part of our attack of the D gap involved a stretch play in which we were trying to reach the next adjacent defender. We found the stretch play strung out quite a bit and decided to use pin…
Our Evolution of the Pistol Set
At the end of the 2009 season, we started aligning in the pistol and bouncing our back to his alignment next to the quarterback right before the snap. We had developed some tendencies with our back set and defenses were…
The Stick-Draw Concept
In 2002, Rich Rodriguez made the zone-read-bubble a popular scheme and opened the door to the world of two-or-three-in-one plays. Most recently Dana Holgorsen has popularized the stick-draw scheme as a great way to attack the defense and put players…