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MIDLINE OPTION

Midline Option is a great play when you are facing a very tough 3-tech DT. QB reads this 3-tech and either gives the ball to the diving B-Back or keeps it himself as he r…

Coach Markowski · April 2013

Defending the Big 5 Run Plays

When installing or designing defenses, all of us line up our defenses vs. an assorted number of formations. That is, formations specific to our opponent’s offensive tende…

Coach McDonald · April 2013

TRIPLE PASS

Triple Pass is called when your coaches up in the booth find that the defense is starting to either stuff the tackle box with 9 defenders or their safeties start to cheat…

Coach Markowski · March 2013
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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 b…

Coach Grabowski · March 2013

PISTOL-FLEX BASE FORMATION

The majority of plays that we run from the Pistol-Flex will be out of our base formation. Notice that it is a balanced formation that has the potential to have four recei…

Coach Markowski · March 2013

Time to ENDURE

Character Matters Timeout: ENDURE Coach “Do not grow tired of doing well, for at the proper time you will receive the rewards if you do not give up.” It has been said “It…

Character Matters · March 2013
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Super Safety

By Mike Sweatman Retired NFL Special Teams Coach How many Super Bowls have ended with one team taking a “safety” and then executing a “free kick”? We were rewarded in Sup…

Coach Sweatman · March 2013