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Bread-and-Butter Running Plays
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In all the clinics that I've attended over the years,
when a coach wift anghing, everybody comes
and take8 the diagrams he puts up and says,
"Thats it." The laBt couple of yeals it's be€n the
Wishbone.
We don't use the Wishbone, but just to get in
the s$.ins of things, we changed the name of our
offense ftom the I to the I-Bone. The offerse rs
the same, andjust the name is changed.
Foryeam, we wanted to run fight at you with
the blast play and find out wherc you werc, and
establish the fact that we were as strong, physically,
as you were. Afler we establiEhed the blast,
we went to our pitch play, or, aB it's also called,
"student body lef! or right."This year, we started
\ .ith the pitch and ran it until you stopped it, and
th€n we'd go to the blast. We run the pitch awhil€,
then go to the blast, and back to the pitch.
We really are pretty simple. Over the years,
we've found out that play€rs win, not plays. Our
attack is based on multiple sets, using motion and
shiiting. We start out \ .ith si.teen different sets,
and by usins motion and shifting, we can add
greatly to the number ofthings we do. It's pretty
complicated for the oppon€nt, but ifs simple to
us, and out of it come oul two basic plays, the
pitch and the blast.
The Pitch
.'\-e start by running the pitch play,.lntil you put
.,r many people outside that we can make our
.:.!ide offense go. We stad everf offensive set to
run the ball outside. If we go outside to the tight
end side, we ask the tight end to block the outside
man on the line. We don't carc where you
line him up, we feel we can block him. We ask
rim to block the delensive man high up in his
ir,:= :nd his main job is to keep the defender on
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]nd, if possible, hook th€ man. If the
!*-:,ier fights to the outside fast, then we ask
:c: .,r drivehim to the sideline, but to stay t1p on
-.:: :nd keep him on the line.
ii::'e are our blmking assjgnments between the
\r'e tell our tackle to hook the defenBive
tackle, to stay up, to never go to his knees. He
should stay up and block him as high as he can,
keep puEhing on him.Ifthe defensive man slants
iNide, our tackle just goes on to the linebacker.
The center'sjob is to reach to the onside, unless
he is covered, and then take that man. We tell
the guard to block the onside linebackex We ask
him to pull amund the tight end for the linebacker.
If the linebacker shoots, the guad just
stops and takes him. So it's imperative that the
guard keeps his eyes on the linebacker all the
time (see Figue 1). We tell the offside guard to
pull andgo through the firstopeninghe can find.
The offside tackle's assignmentis the sam€ as the
guardt.
FIGUBE I
Pitch, blocking assignmsnls
Our quaft€rback, at tines, Ieads this play. If
we ask him to lead, assuming we're going to ihe
right, he should step right with his risht foot, and
then reveme pivot. He shouldn't reverse pivot
first;ifhe does, he will be behind the play. Then,
he just leads arcund the end and lookE inside.
We asL him to fall at th€ feet of t}le dcfende. We
don't want him to body block him o. g€t tough
with other people. Our quarterbacks make a lot
ofgood bJocks that way.
We tell our fullback to take a slight step forward,
and then go parallel tr the line and annihilate