Untitled - Fast and Furious Football

18 FOOTBALL COACHING STRATEGIES
For these reasons the olTense gives our players
an excellent chance to be srccessful, because
nolrnally we don't measurc up to the physical
standards ofour opponents. We must depend on
speed and quickness.
If you don't "read" the offense almost every
qnap. fhen youre defearing rhc purpo"e ofuqing
it. Repetition isthekeyto beingsuccessful in the
€xecution ofony offense, and we don't have a lot
of meeting time with our players, due to their
heara academic demands. Therefore, the offense
suits our limited pmctice time because we don't
have to make alotofchanges from weekto week.
The triple option, shown in Figure 1, is our base
pla)r We read the fiIst man outside our guad.
Vercus a 50,6-1, or otrset defense, we'd read the
defensiv€ tackle. Against a 4-3 defense, we d read
the defensive end for the handoff key to our FB.
The rcal key to the ex€cution of this play is the
timing of the slotbacks getting into the same relationship
as they would be from the regular
Wishbone.
We want to establish play-action passes from all
our base plays. becausc we re goinB lo bc primarily
arushingteam, and this type ofpassingis the
toughest to defend if you'rc having to defend the
run so hard- We want the pass from the base option
play to look €ractlJ like the run, and we feel
this crcates a lot of one-on-one coverage, whichis
all you ever want in any passing game. This attack
also auo{'s us to use only one pass protection,
thus rcducing oul practice time on pass pro-
The slotback run-or-pass option complements
the base option and $.ill rcally put the rover or
corn€rback in no-manh-land (see Figure 2). The
slotsimply reads the covemge and its reaction to
FIGUBE 2 Slolback run-orpass oprion
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FIGUBE I
Fl€xbone triple option
the suppoit of the option. If the support hangs,
he rum it;ifthe suppod comes, he merely abops
it ov€r his head. You can designate who to thlow
the ball to by adding the term HB or X to the call,
and that way if the deep coverage is rcleasing
fast on the potential run, you have a deep pass
with blocking support in liont of the paBser
The down-theline frontside hook route in Fig,
ure 3 is one of our favorites. You're almost assured
ofhaving one-on-one coverage on the split
If you ovemhift you. defense, oul QB witl be
alert to run away from your shength, and we
might al6o employ one of our eight-man front
blocking schemes and carry the second option into
the secondary. There are several ways you can
block the front and we adjust game to game.
FIGUBE 3 r;*id.h."k
Play-Action Pass