Untitled - Fast and Furious Football

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We never want to get the punt blocked Our
rrJeB for our punt blocking are simple. We block
inside-over-outside. Ifwe fac€ t{'o men in our gap,
we catl for help. On oul covemge th€ SEs go to
the ball. The Rs have contain. The rest ofthe team
have lanes to cover the punt retum.
We can make the defense rcspect our kicking
game. I can assure you the!41cover tbe two $'ide
men;they'tl cover the two wingmen;they have to
assign someone to cover the upback on the pass
or run. That takes carc of five defenders. That
leaves them with sixmen. They will putone man
back to field the punt.
Now, they have only five men to rush the punt.
We can find five people to block those frve rushem.
We can run the ball on the fake punt (see
Fieure 2). We can run the option ftom this set
Who has the pitch man on the fake punt If you
play us, you better assign someone to take the
pitch, because w€ have it in our attack, and it's
worked.
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If we face a 10-man rush, we can caU the fake
punt and run one of our trick plays. You may ask,
"What do you do against teams that get in a 10-
man front and th€n back out just before the ball
is snapped" We run a pure fak€ punt on th€rn.
When they turn their back as they back out, we
run the screen pass \t ith the punter throwing the
ball. Ifyou complete one ofthose scrcen passes,
the,tll think t$dce before they run it again. We
can letthe punter throw the ball to the upback to
stop that crap (see Figure 3, for example)
They'll no longer fake tbe 10-man lush if we
burr them a time or two. You need to have a fake
punt, regardless oftheir set. Wben you are going
to run a true fake punt without reading the d€fense,
make sure you are out around midfield
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bind. Dnn r loqc )ourjob ovFr fak,ns punrs
Letme tell you the truth: This approach to the
kicking gam€ is rorgi. on a coach.As soon as the
QB looks at the defense and calls the fake punt,
you may want to cover your eyes. It's hard to
watch. But it's been fun and successtul for us. And
our players believe in what we're doing.
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I cannot tell you what we use as our keys Forgive
me for that. You can come up with your own
plan. Let me tell you how we get a fake punt
called. We use a city or state as a key word Montana
was our hot caU last year.
lf"e rp going Io ru n our Ia ke pu nr lo t he righl.
we tell them to pick any state east ofthe Mississippi
River (That's our geosaphy lesson for the
day!) We tell them to visualize a map ofthe Unit€d
States. Any state west of the Mississippi River
means we are going to our left.
We pick a state that is our live statc lf we call
a live state, we call a city. This tells the upback
which way to go. It is the same setup. East cities
are to the ght and West cities arc to the left
This is how it would work. The punter would
call "Montana-Miami-Montana." Montana means
w€ are going to run the fake punt; Miami m€ans
we are going to our dght sid€- If we call "Mon
tana-Las Vegas-Montana," we would r-un the fake
punt to the lelt. Ifwe call "Iowa-Miami'Iowa" instead,
w€'re going to punt th€ ball.
We can call liv€ states or dead states. We can
use cotors instead of states or cities W€ can
chaDge th€ live state, city, or color at the hau or