Untitled - Fast and Furious Football

RIJN AND PASS OFFENSE 63
FIGUBE I
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would in tum-back protection (sprint draw senesl.
Along with the fire,out blocking by the lineman,
our backs must do a greatjob irnitatils ure
off-tackl€ play. The fullback will search 1or rlre
linebecker in the same areas as the running play
and will encourage the linebacker to meet him in
the LOS. As the linebacker attacks our fullback,
he is rcady to chop the lineba€ker to the ground.
The runuing back haB one assignm€nt, and that's
to "get tackled."
TIGUBE 2
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: .r\€ our tackle lead his man andforce ]un uo
. . .r ge' hooked so we incr.asp rhe running
- , ' ou r g!ard might be al a disadvantage size-
. .:. and therefore our tackle muBt get a great
,ike the tackle, we want our guard to reach
-. outside ofthe defender ov€I him. The guard
. usually get stuffed if he attempts to driv€
-:..Lght into this man, since the delender can use
i rfhis fome. By reachinghis outside, you force
rr = defender to move laterally so you can take
: ,t at s()me of his strength.
The FB must find the LB thrcush either A-Bjaps,
and like the guard and tackle, he should
!:l his man to the outside, which will also add
.::!tch to the play. We seal o1I the back side with
: re backside guard and center combo bloc.king the
:ose to the backside LB. Th€ tackle and the TE
r-e nofmal cul-off Thc cur-off is ihe most impor-
:ant part of all the blocking. You must eliminate
:he pur"uir wirh your blocking. The ball-carrier
xrust option run the block ofthe tackle first and
ihe guad second and hit the crease quickly Our
$ ide receiver must be able to block the pedm€ter
rlayers (every player on every play) eflectively
)r he wont play. Our quarterback opens at ,1:30
rr 7130 (lionts out) and gets the ball to oul runring
back as deep as possible.
In Figure 2, you will see what appeaft to b€
:he sarne basic olf-tackle play, but it's not; it's a
:ass. Matre X and Z look tike twins.
The line must simuiat€ the same kind ofbiock-
:g as it did in the runningplay rvith a little less
:igressiveness. The linemen should allow the
':;(€ of our backB to assist them with their blockrg.
Backside blockers will start for their cutotr
:locks and then tum back somewhat as they
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Our rcceiverb must run pxcellcnr routes, artempting
to sirnulate th€ run as much as possible.
Th€ split end (X) will take a proper split (if the
ba\l is on the hash rnark. tre shou\d, be 2 yards
outside the other hash mark) and run a curl route
at 15 yards deep and bring it back to 12 yards.
He should continue to movetowards the quarterback.
The inside rcceiver, our flanker (Z), should
take an alignm€nt offthe ball, splitting the distance
between our offensive tackle and X. He
should attack th€ defender over him as though
he will blocl him. dgain simLlrri'lg (\e running
play He'll actuaily break down into a blockins
position (quicklyl, avoid contact, and sprint direcUy
to the outsido, looking for the ball over his
outside shoulder In our scheme, h€ is the first
chojce ofthe quarte$ack. Our quarte$ack mak€s
a good fake, setUes back three steps offthe fake,
and throws the ball to the open r€ceiver.
The flat curl is one of th€ oldest.outes in football
and is easy to execute if we can isolate on€
d€fender The strong saf€ty will be on an island
as long as we can control the linebackem wrrn
the fale- We'v€ now eliminated the strong safety's