A Bag of Tricks
A Bag of Tricks This is the last of a series of ideas to help your offense in-season. We’ve reached the point of the season where it’s “win or go home.” The teams that you face now are usually of…
Adding a Wrinkle: Attaching a Screen to Your Best Concepts
It’s getting late in the season and championships and play-offs are on the line. Finding a way to pick up a chunk of yardage or even a touchdown at a critical time can help propel your team towards its goals….
A Process For Adding A Wrinkle
Most of us have reached the midway point of the season or are into the second half. Now is a great time to take what has been successful in your offense and add a wrinkle to make it even more…
Adding a wrinkle: Strategies for Movement
Adding a Wrinkle: Strategies for Movement (Shifts and Motions) I often hear coaches talking about shifts and motions as “window dressing.” One of the most common uses of movement is to try to disguise some of your favorite formations by…
The Basics of Creating a Multiple Pass Concept
The Basics of Creating a Multiple Pass Concept I’ve had the good fortune of working in several different offensive systems, and it’s led me to have a great interest in the use of terminology, especially in how it is used…
Using Tight Ends in Your Offense
As a preface to this post, I’d like to point out that the focus of this column will shift to offering ideas that you can add to your offense right now, as the season is progressing. The idea isn’t to…
Don’t Get Jumped in the Alley
No, this isn’t a post on self defense, but the skills outlined in this post do help our receivers protect their routes and allow proper route distribution in many of our pass concepts. This is a basic skill that we…
Methods for Teaching and Practicing Your System
Methods for Teaching and Practicing Your System In early 2004, I spent a night learning the foundation of what would become our offense at Amherst Steele High School from Russ Jacques, current head coach at Strongsville High School and former…
A Multiple Run Game with the Zone Scheme
Over the last eight years, I have been using the zone run game with success at both the high school and college level. In learning the zone run game, I have realized its flexibility and many purposes. This post does…
Tempo and Procedures, Part 3 – Speed It Up
Having used the no-huddle for over five years, I grow impatient watching a game in which both teams huddle on offense. We play in a league in which just about every team runs no-huddle, so I’m used to seeing very…