Untitled - Fast and Furious Football

PASS OFFENSE 45
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Versatility at Quartelback
$-hen I was very young, I heard a great coach
..rate that "Your quaterback doesn't have to be
able to do ever,'thing-hejust has to do one thing
$ell." He waB talking about the quarterback being
a sprint-out or dropback or play-pass type
rhrower. We believe the opposite now. I would
rather have a quarterback who can do a 'little of
We begin our passing attack by being positive
about our methods of protection. We feel that we
need different types in order to handle differ€nt
problems. One of the beEt ways to keep the defense
off-balance iE to change the spot ftom which
:he passer throws.
We buil d our running attack $/ith that thought
rn mind. We want to run the sweep play reason-
:bly w€ll so that we can run our "roll pass" action
+om it (see Figure 5).
We also want to r'un two types ofbootlegs from
it, one ofwhich is shown in Figue 6.
We play pass also from our sprint-draw run
play. Figure 7 shows one of two pattems we run
off this action.
We feel that our tlap and weak side "under
sweep" are two ofour best running threats, so we
want to be able to throw ftom that action also.
The best r'un play a dropback pas6 team can have
is the draw play.
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The best pattffn we run ftom dropback pass
action is this one which makes the "Mike" backer
shorten his pass drop and allows uB to hit the
flanler with a high percentage ofcompletions and
for larye gains (see Fisure 8).
We have, aB do all other dropback pass teams,
many patternB which we favor in ceriain situations.
We've discussed only the main concepts and