Shallow Cross Pass Concept
In our offense, we currently hang our hat on four main drop back concepts and five quick throws. Today, I plan on discussing our “shallow” game. When looking at different passing schemes, we felt that the “Air Raid” shallow cross…
Why You Should Use A Tight End and/or Fullback (Or 3)
I was always told as a young coach that everything works in cycles. After many years of running a four wide receiver offense, I have in the last few years started using one, two, and sometimes three tight end’s in…
Gun vs. Pistol
There are pro’s and con’s for both the Shotgun and the Pistol alignment. Since we now use both alignments, I thought I would share a few of the good and bad I have found up to this point. Pistol Alignment:…
High Completion Vertical Pass Route
I think that balance is the key to having great success in any offense…not just spread offenses. You need to be able to throw the ball…and not only when you have to throw it, but also when you want to…
Key to a Successful Power Read: QB/Sweeper Mesh
Having a week one bye has allowed me some extra time to watch both high school and college football for the last few weeks. A play that I’ve seen numerous times is the inverted veer or “power read.” It’s a…
“Bread & Butter” Power Run For Any Offense
The 46/ 47 Power O was my best running play for years. I won a lot of games running this play out of 21 personnel. The play required having a tough fullback who had to take the right angle to…
Play-Action Made Simple
The key to any successful play-action pass is the ability to sell the run. But, there are a few other things to consider when trying to maximize a play-action. First, make your routes simple enough so that they can be…
The Illusion of Complexity: Using Simplicity and Aggressiveness to Manipulate Offenses
Modern football is not about lining up and relying purely on athleticism and technique to defeat opponents (not that it ever was just about that). Today’s offenses have numerous ways of capitalizing on just about any advantage given by a…
High Percentage Route for Every Offense
By Gene Suhr, Retired Coach I would like to introduce you to a pass route that I had great success running in both high school and college. I started running the route late in my high school coaching career and…
Combining Offensive Concepts
Here at Meade HS we are a spread offense team. We have created a relatively unique system that fits the personnel we have. We have borrowed concepts from several successful college football programs that run variations of spread offenses. When…