Offense - Football Article Summaries

double wing for 10and11yr olds - COACH YAEGER (length=1941)
I have been coaching football for 12 years. In those years I have been trying a lot of different offenses, searching for the one that gave us the best opportunity to win. I really believe that I have ...

HOW DO YOU CREATE A SUCESSFULL OFFENSIVE LINE? - Coach Rob (length=757)
I help coach 7 th grade lineman. Our boys range from 140lbs to 200lbs. We had a lot odf problems with some of the bigger boys not being quick enough to get their blocks on pass plays. We have had good ...

Help coaching to be aggressive - Coach Wade (length=833)
I'm a big fan of half speed form tackling drills. My team ONLY does full speed tackling in games and scrimmages. With one exception: the bull in the ring drill. We ran it a little differently. We put ...

better blocking - NAK (length=1120)
I do not think there is a team out there that at some time or another has problems with blocking. If it is the case as Coach Wade suggested (having to many plays or defensive alignment changes)then yo ...

sweeps - Coach JT (length=1107)
we DO practice that, coach, believe me....i have kids playing in high school now that i coached, and they still remember yelling about outside contain...hahaha... do NOT let the de try to slip "inside ...

FORMATION SUGGESTIONS - Coach JT (length=1402)
Man I'm telling you....in the 7yrs ive been coaching, ive NEVER seen ANY team attempt to pull a lineman or even talk about it....till this year..one team had a kid that belongs on the 9th grade team, ...

DOUBLE WING CLINIC - JT (length=1138)
again, we re in two different worlds...there are only 4 teams in our league..(its expanding to 6 next year)...theres only 2 coaches per team...(i got stuck on 2nd shift 1/2 the season this year, and r ...

Passing - Coach Sam (length=1973)
To all who were posting on the subject of passing. I have been a youth coach for several years. I have always been a fan of the pass. Now as with any team at any level you need a QB who can react qu ...

DOUBLE WING CLINIC - JT (length=1865)
i appreciate your take...and respect your views...thats what this is all about...but, you havent spent much time with 5th graders, have you? hahaha...2hrs to them, is like 8hrs to us...and you know ho ...

Passing - JT (length=1118)
if im playing, im interested in stats...if im coaching pro sports, im interested in stats....if im coaching youth, the only stat i care about is, how many showed up for the game? do we have enough to ...

Passing - JT (length=2733)
if you got a parent that DONT think their child should be star of the team, and we re lousy couches, THEN worry....i mean no disrespect...and the info Coach Reed puts in his books is valuable...but do ...

Passing - JT (length=1116)
haha...sure...when i started coaching in 93, our league was 5th/6th...they dropped the 5th graders in 95...5th graders were allowed to join, if they wanted but werent "encouraged" to...last year there ...

Passing - JT (length=1573)
you bring up a good point..as some that played from 6th grade till the age of 30 something, when i got into coaching, the hardest thing to learn was you cant expect them to play like you did,...and th ...

Passing - GS (length=1729)
Sheila- What I did with mine was just tell him not to worry about being too big to play on a "young" league, and to NEVER give up and/or forget about it! I told him that his day would come when he got ...

offenses - JT (length=1077)
Hey D, saw one of the best high school playoff games ever.... 2 Division 6 schools ( only 500 students...) one of the schools is from the little suburb where my wife lived, and her parents still do. ...

offenses - JT (length=1430)
hey Rob, saw a tremendous high school game the other day between two of the smaller division schools...my wifes alma mater lost 46-42...only their 3d loss in the last 5 yrs.....the other team ran thi ...

Dayne or Warrick?... - JT (length=930)
KJ (Kevin Johnson..that syracuse guy) is cool...hes had to carry the load, for the most part...to team him up with a Warrick would give them an awsome twosome of recievers....they also have Cheverrini ...

DOUBLE WING OFFENSE (out of hospital) - COACH BOB STONE (length=1132)
As some of you know, i spent the last 3+ weeks in the hospital. (colon surgery and then complications 2nd surgery) Thanks for the letters of encouragement, I am home and doing well. I will have a CLIN ...

PULLING LINEMAN?... - JT (length=3962)
man, you need to send me a tape of your PRACTICE!!!! haha...we only practice 4 days...1 1/2hrs a day..fridays are only an hour..walk thru, no pads (league rule)....the team you see on the tape from la ...

Offenses - JT (length=1105)
just do a "search" on any of the search sites..yahoo, lycros, etc...thats how i found this place... we have 2 coaches per team,also...we had 33 kids this year cuz they added 5th graders, and that was ...

Offenses - JT (length=1095)
football IS hard work....for everyone!!!..i had to learn that the hard way too...i went from ..screw practice, lets just play...to screw drills, lets just scrimmage...to being the first in line for ev ...

ANSWER TO UNBALANCED LINE - WESCON CHAMPS (length=1121)
COACH MULE UNBALANCED LINES I HAVE DELT WITH OFTEN TRY THE QUICK PASS FAKE, WITH THE QB TRING TO SPRINT FOR A FIRST DOWN. ALSO DO NOT FORGET THAT THE CENTER IS ELEGIBLE FOR A PASS. TO DEFEND KEEP YOU ...

Pay attention Coach!!!! - Gilbert (length=1760)
The "Twin I" formation" has "Twin" recievers on one side and the TE on the opposite side. the backs are Obviously in the "I" formation. I run strictly option plays. If you want to get technical, at ...

1st year DW play list - Jeff Oresik (length=1086)
There is the "old school" part of me that likes your minimal play list. I hope it is because you plan on focusing on fundamentals. You should consider adding plays as the season progresses. If you don ...

? for Calande and O-line guys.... - Dum Coach (length=1817)
"could you explain what a bucket step is and how to use it/teach it on the line....." A bucket step is where a lineman, usually a tackle, steps backwards on his outside foot and then picks up a defend ...

AirRaid - Malcolm Robinson (length=1239)
Coach: Your answer might be sprintout passes. The QB gets to move away from pressure and if you have a couple of decent receivers and the QB can throw fairly well, you can get him on the perimeter of ...

Archer, Clay, JB? - Malcolm Robinson (length=3972)
Guys: I think this can be run well at least by age 10. Here are several key points to teach: 1. The play is set by the sweep/power fake and the QB and the HB selling the fake, and everything therefate ...

Basic Wishbone Package - Dum Coach (length=6612)
I got an error message, so I'm reposting this. Pardon me if it appears twice. I think most of us will want to know if you want to run some form of option or not and, if so, what kind of option you'r ...

Best Offenses for Light Weight Teams - Coach Dewey (length=952)
Question is whether you have speed or not. Time your players in the fourty. Two plays where size does not matter; passes and reverses. I use dirt football plays to set up my passes and reverses. I use ...

Blocking Rules Free For All - Coach Gregory (length=6332)
DC, I have found if SAB is taught properly it is very effective with splits (ask Mike Mahonz and JC). The key is teaching that all important first step. My thought on teaching it now is to teach it b ...

Blocking Rules Free For All - Dum Coach (length=3408)
Here is a "triple option" run from "area wedge" blocking run from my DC Wing T, "Super" formation. The area wedge is directed at the first down lineman to the outside of the center and away from which ...

Blocking Rules Free For All - Malcolm Robinson (length=4057)
Clark, Jack, et al: Nice discussion. Everyone is searching for the Holy Grail, the Fountain of Youth, the magic bullet - the blocking scheme that covers it all. No one has discovered it yet - but kee ...

Blocking Rules Free For All - caz (length=1562)
Ok, let's start a serious topic and see what kind of participation we can have. I am trying to decide on the VERY best, if there is such a thing, blocking system for 9 -10's. As a relatively new coa ...

C-QB exchange - question - Malcolm Robinson (length=1669)
Sky has good tips here. Let me add that you have to decide more basically what type hand action the QB will use in receiving the ball on the exchange. Some coaches teach the QB to insert his dominant ...

Can the veer work well as a youth offense? - Dum Coach (length=3218)
At one time my team was a feeder to a local HS program and they ran the veer (The HS coach was the former head coach of the University of Idaho Vandals) so I had to run it too. The Houston (option) Ve ...

Coach Reece? - coach reece (length=1210)
coach the play that hurt the most was the bucksweep.what happened was they stack the line and blitz the 'a' gaps.thats the style of play when they have no respect, or feel that you can't hurt them.I ...

Coach Shine--DW - Coach Greg (length=2044)
Coach this is my third season running the DW. The first season I ran it Markham style and by the last season it was a mixture of Markham and Wyatt. I have decided to go to the playcalling style of Wy ...

DC - Clarifaction of the Buck Sweep - Malcolm Robinson (length=1721)
Clark: I don't see much discussiopn here about a very simple series of the wing-t - the crossblock series -. You may title it something else. But, the TE is to the R and the SE to the L. The HB is set ...

DC - Wing T questions - Dum Coach (length=2467)
"We had a decent full back, but he got injured and is out for the season. Our back up full back is a good athlete, but he tends to slow down as he takes the hand off and goes through the line." Place ...

DC - Wing T questions - Dum Coach (length=2471)
The DC Wing T is a FB oriented offense. It says right in the manual that if your FB averages 4 yards per carry, you will lose. He needs to gain 5 and that means the defense watches him. What is happ ...

DC Wing T Question for DC - Dum Coach (length=7393)
"What is the 46 quick? I was looking in your manual and did not see it (maybe I just missed it)." It's Malcolm's play. He runs it with great success. You're running a straight ahead Quick handoff to ...

DC Wing T changes - Dum Coach (length=2034)
There are some changes we have made to our offensive manual. They are: 1) We are allowing all the backs to play from two point stances. The manual doesn't mention which stance to use because we were u ...

DC Wing T - Dum Coach (length=6499)
I basically "reverse engineered" the Delaware Wing T and Army's 1947-48 "T" office to produce a youth friendly offense that works on the same principals. I changed the play calling system so that nobo ...

DC wing-t, DW, Single-wing, what to run?? - Dum Coach (length=9227)
Coaching is all about winning with "average at best". Anybody can win with "best". But walking away with the trophy with second best? Yeah. That's victory. When you can beat the other guy, switch team ...

DC's Offensive Playbook - New Coach (length=2427)
DC, I received your email yesterday. Thank you very much. I will be reading it over for the next few days. To answer your questions: I coach in a league that goes by grades as oppossed to ages. Las ...

DC's WingT offense is available - Dum Coach (length=2969)
I can now send out my updated playbook. It's about 90 pages and has over 60 plays, all of which can be run from about 8 calls using seven formations. The update includes the "Jet" series I developed ...

DC,Mahonz...others - Malcolm Robinson (length=3301)
BB: I mentioned my buddy with the 8/9 y.o. team who runs outside veer. Now, its not really outside veer because he doesn't allow his QB to "read" it. As I said he predetermines the play and tells the ...

DC--A Wing-T question... - Dum Coach (length=1903)
No. I don't mean that. The strong side (TE side) is to the near hashmark. When the refs spot the ball on the hash, then call your fomation to put the TE on it. So if the refs spot the ball on the le ...

DC--So your players can t block? - Dum Coach (length=2045)
You should open practice with "12 perfect blocks". They came to hit. This provides it. Do not hold the pole yourself. Get someone else to. Stand behind the blockers and police proper foot and stanc ...

DC-Pass Right Question: - Dum Coach (length=1541)
The DC Wing T Pass protection scheme is not designed for a "drop back passer." Drop him straight back and he will be dropped for a loss. First, let's fix your pass protection. On Pass right, the LT ...

DC46 (Dum) - Dum Coach (length=5152)
A thousand words or less??? Well - OK. Bottom line is you've got to stop the plays your opponent can run. You don't have to stop the ones he can't run. The average youth coach has an 8 play offense. S ...

DEVELOPING A FRESHMAN QB - Dum Coach (length=8274)
At the youth level passing is a problem because, unless you have a lot of players, it's hard to have somebody who can throw and somebody who can catch both on the same team. And if you do have a lot o ...

DEVELOPING A FRESHMAN QB - JB (length=3615)
Coach Mike, My apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I have been working quite a bit lately. Some of this may be old hat to you; this is what worked for our kids. I worked alot with some HS fr ...

DEVELOPING A FRESHMAN QB - JB (length=5137)
Coaches, Lots of excellent stuff. I do not have the knowledge or expertise of you guys; but here are some of my thoughts on this topic. Starting with basics, your QB should be: 1) A leader 2) Exude ...

Double Wing - NoHuddle (length=3257)
I've just finished reading "Successful Multiple Offense in High School Football" (1957) by Robert "Bob" Walker This is an offense that is very adaptable to youth football (it would need some pruning). ...

Dum Coach: Would like your opinion - Malcolm Robinson (length=1642)
DC: In the 70s there was a form of the crab block known as the "scramble block" that was popular for a time. The o-linemen used a 4 point stance and fired out in a lunge-like technique at the upper ...

Efectiveness of a pulling off-side guard - Dum Coach (length=3654)
Sarnold had several interesting comments about pulling youth backside guards that I thought I would respond to in order to show how the DC Wing T addresses them: 1) it's a difficult block for kids at ...

Efectiveness of a pulling off-side guard - Dum Coach (length=2025)
The effectiveness of pulling at the youth level is generally of reduced value. If you look at the playoff teams, few are pulling. About the only exception to this is the DW and the DC Wing T. The DW i ...

Experimental Offense - Coach Tico (length=1652)
I saw Northwestern play about 5 times on ESPN 1 and 2 and ABC. When I first saw them run their plays, I was thinking to myself, 'How can this crap work,' when they ran about 90% of their formations f ...

FROM I- FORMATION AND WING BACK - Coach Wade (length=12337)
Coach Dino; First off, welcome to the rather exclusive fraternity of youth coaches that care enough about their players to want to improve their coaching. Youth football is the most complex sport you ...

For those who have the DC wing-T - Dum Coach (length=6195)
I wrote this post on a DW board but it probably deserves to be over here. So I'm reposting it. It tells you how I coach my wing T fullback. Coach Tom had posted on the other board for the need for ...

Formations/Plays - Dum Coach (length=1963)
You don't need big blockers at the youth level. Most little guys can snot-knock a big guy. They have a faster step and are underneath the big guy and, as we all know, lowest man wins. One of my best b ...

GAM and the sweep - Malcolm Robinson (length=4875)
Derek: I have seen many defenses and some that mimic exactly what you are describing. If the DE takes that deep path he is doomed. He simply cannot do anything but slow down a wide, deep sweep. And, i ...

Hands and Blocking? - Dum Coach (length=6692)
"I guess a better description is the palm of your hands going straight for the numbers of the D lineman and hitting the lower part of the shoulderpads and pushing up. Where you are teaching pushing th ...

Helpful DW blocking drills and notes - Coach Greg (length=15000)
I caught a couple of mistakes and made some changes. I also added the Shoeshine drill which I forgot to put in. Blocking Training 1. Stance  3-point stance inside hand down and inside foo ...

How about this for blocking - Malcolm Robinson (length=1070)
Steve: I have used a counting system for a long time now and it works fairly well. From the center out on the playside we simply count defenders. If you have a nose, he's zero. With my 12/13s, the fir ...

I HAVE SIZE AND SPEED - Coach Wade (length=2284)
Bucs, You need much more than a few plays or formations. You need an offensive system that is flexible enough to work with these strong, quick kids, and still work next season when you have smaller, l ...

I don't know much about football fundamentals - Dum Coach (length=2440)
Coach Jim is right. All your coach succeeded in doing was make two kids not want to play their positions. But here is the solution to your problem. Center takes the ball and hikes it to himself, takin ...

I formation: Money where thy mouth is... - Rodney (length=1744)
I am a new coach to this site. I hope I am not jumping into the middle of a bees nest. I couldn't help but notice your comments on the I formation. You ask some very interesting questions about the ...

Ideas on Offseason Evaluation of Tape - Malcolm Robinson (length=4152)
JB: Most importantly, the QB has to know which defender is the pitch key and he cannot pitch off anyone else. He must trust the offense to block the front properly so as to isolate his pitch key. Pitc ...

Inside Trap With Kids? - Dum Coach (length=3546)
Trapping the defense when they "send the house" may, or may not, be a good idea. It depends on how many defenders are actually coming. I've watched many youth coaches conclude that they were being bli ...

Jet motion -- give me the play - Malcolm Robinson (length=2679)
Coach: Lots of ways to do this, maybe too many. I assume you need 2 set backs for your own purposes and I'll leave that alone. Obviously you need someone to put in motion. That is usually a wing or sl ...

Malcolm - Option from Jet? - Malcolm Robinson (length=1189)
We all have those problems - but some of us get to the solutions sooner. I think you have hit upon some good ideas. But, back to the play. I see this as being a situation where the wing (jet back who ...

Malcolm, another option question?? - Malcolm Robinson (length=4466)
John: BTW, I responded to your email basically asking these same questions. The hard DE - one who attacks the QB RIGHT NOW, can be problematic. The QB never knoiws when he will get this and must be p ...

Need Wing T Help! - Dum Coach (length=4620)
Double Wing coaches are fond of saying that the Double Wing is a system, not a formation. Well! The wing T is a formation, not a system. You are using your formation to move the defenders where you ...

New Wild Bunch playbook/installation guide -- Rocket Sweep+! - TedSeay (length=1156)
The completely revised Wild Bunch playbook and installation guide is now available for downloading from my Delphi forum: http://forums.delphiforums.com/TedSeay Look for it in the "This is the Wild Bun ...

No Offense - Dum Coach (length=5600)
Okay. I'll let you in on a little secret. The "I" formation is a waste of time in youth football. John McKay made it work at USC because he had OJ Simpson, Ricky Bell, Anthony Davis, etc. Do you have ...

O-Line Questions - JB (length=3205)
Appreciate the kind words DC. But, we do not have any special drills. We just really emphasize getting downfield. We hammer this into kids from day 1 and throughout the season. We do a standard shoul ...

O-line Stance - Coach Fell (length=1212)
I love the Offensive line. It's what I played all the way through college. It's amazing the difference in a team with a well coached o line and one thats not, and it all starts with the stance. I usua ...

Option Football - Dum Coach (length=5333)
I'm not trying to trash your idea. I'm just going to tell you how I'd do it. I'm used to dealing with little minds and making things simple for them. Here's what I see happening. Your team comes to th ...

Option/Ropes - Malcolm Robinson (length=2148)
I whole-heartedly agree with DblWing Coach on this one - at least the thing about the pitch read. The QB MUST know who the pitch key is or you don't really have an option play. You instead have a mes ...

Our Season - Dum Coach (length=8730)
The "stupid notion" that they can juke a defender comes from TV. Nowadays, there are no Earl Campbell's. Everyone's a Barry Sanders. So they immitate what they see on TV which is either a big gain or ...

Outside Veer from Wishbone - Malcolm Robinson (length=3600)
Coach: Yes, what you say is true. When in the wishbone (or I formation) with FB aligned behind the QB, the dive read on inside veer (with FB hitting the outside foot of the playside OG) is longer and ...

Pass Blocking - drills - stonebreaker (length=1265)
Coach, I suggest you try what we call the seven second drill. You have an offensive and defensive lineman on the line of scrimmage, and you place a football about five yards behind the offensive play ...

Pass Protection: Training - Malcolm Robinson (length=1146)
Coach: Agree & disagree with fish here. We use a wedge-like protection with backside TE staying in and FB blocking playside (call side - side ball thrown to). This provides a 7 man scheme to protect t ...

Passing Game - Ed Wiggins (length=2249)
If it ain't broke don't fix it! But I understand your desire to improve. I'm a single wing coach so I don't pass much but I do have two very effective pass plays. The first is a option pass. I line up ...

Personnel for Wing T vs. DW - Coach Wade (length=1815)
VGC; Well, I can't really diagram it here, but I can describe it, although at first glance, you'll probably think I'm crazy; that this play could never work. Here's the DWing formation: ETGCGTE ...

Pitch - Malcolm Robinson (length=2710)
Maax: Earlier tonight I posted here on the pitch question, but cannot now locate it. Anyway, I include a portion of an article on option football that includes the description of the pitch. The only t ...

Preparing to play against 5/2 - my second response - Coach Reece (length=1127)
Dum Coach ,In this area for football they do come up the" a" gaps like that. You see I forgot to tell you this was the first year for alot of these kids. This was the first year for me as a Head Coach ...

Pulling G versus T for DC and group - Dum Coach (length=2780)
It's pretty rare to have both pulling tackles and guards on the same team. DW teams do it because the pulling tackle only has to cover 3 yards. But here is the formula for an unsuccessful pull: "The s ...

QB Practice / Scrimmage contact - BucsCoach (length=2716)
Hope all the great coaches here can give me some input/support/correction with a situation I am having. We just moved to a new area last season and joined a team of 95# kids that have never won a game ...

QB with no Ooomph - dsqa (length=6805)
Hey Coach I have read this thread with some interest and would like to offer some thoughts for your evaluation of your QBs mechanics. There are many thoughts on throwing, but all arms are built the sa ...

Question concerning beating double teams - Coach S (length=1228)
In The 5-3 He has OLB Help, The coach can give the containment responsibility to either player. So here's both senerio's He is DBLTM and has Outside contain. He can Roll out of the double team. ...

Question for Coach Greg - Coach Steve (length=1063)
Coach I was wondering what you thought or if you could give me any insight on the DW. We have been coaching as a staff for 6 years and we run both the Wing T and the DW. One of the our favorite play ...

Question for DC on PLayer Cue s and other - Dum Coach (length=4193)
"The TE has the following rule: On “Sweep” block down on right guard’s man. But if you look at Left 16 Sweep it's a reach and other sweeps to strongside. Is it "Reach on plays to strong side and 'G - ...

Question for Dum Coach - Dum Coach (length=12274)
Here's what I see you running: O O O 0 O O O O O O O From this, you can change to this: O O O 0 O O ...

Running Back Drills - Mark Harner (length=1246)
I will run one back with the quarterback and the center. The running lanes (holes) will be painted on the grass to the left and right of the center. The QB will receive the snap and handoff to the run ...

Should we toss the - Wes (length=1217)
The way I understand it, and this is by word of mouth through the commissioner of a town in our league I work with, you must have a two TE formation. So, with the DW in mind, you can pull th ...

Single Wing - Woo Hoo!!! - Coach SB (length=1111)
Hey Guys, I don't post here alot but I certainly read here alot. I am an assistant coach (o-line/special teams) for a Jr. Pee Wee team. The head coach and I have been together for 6 years on another ...

Single Wing - Woo Hoo!!! - Coach SB (length=1094)
Hey Guys, I don't post here alot but I certainly read here alot. I am an assistant coach (o-line/special teams) for a Jr. Pee Wee team. The head coach and I have been together for 6 years on another c ...

Single Wing Offense - Ed Wiggins (length=1477)
I ran the single wing with great success in 1996 in the 10 to 12 age group. I disagree with the comment that you need pulling linemen. I have never in 6 years of coaching had the players who could do ...

Split 6 - Dum Coach (length=6263)
Both Archer and Coach B are right. Archer is correct when he describes the play as taking the quickest, shortest distance to the goal line and Coach B is correct when he says a great FB can make this ...

Split Veer - Wes (length=2963)
DC, Actually I do have King Kong at Center. The absolute stud of the draft, IMO, is now on our team. I told the Head Coach I would take him No. 1 overall. He ended up taking him third, but we ...

Spread offense - Coach K (length=5095)
Coach Wade, Your comments are most interesting and, in general, I am in violent agreement. I'd like to share an experience and get some feedback both on what I may have done wrong and how to do better ...

Thanks, also the laces - Dum Coach (length=2433)
This is a repost for the Knowledge Base. When I hear you stating concerns about ball exchanges, it suggests to me that there is a collision occuring between the back and the QB at the exchange point. ...

The DC Wing T Fullback - Dum Coach (length=7011)
While we call football a game, the game is presently based upon the military strategies developed by the Germans in WWII for use against the defenses of WWI. If we were to think of World War I as a fo ...

The Dive - Dum Coach (length=2701)
The Dive differs from the Quick Hit in that it is a slower developing play. It is usually performed with the runner four steps back from the hole instead of three. In the extra time it takes for the r ...

The Quick Hit - Dum Coach (length=5817)
Occassionally, I get asked why my HB is set ahead of the FB in my wing T playbook. The answer I give, of course, is so that he can run the "Quick Hit". I devote a whole section of my playbook to the " ...

The Sweep - Proud Papa (length=1313)
Wouldn't blitzing a corner on a sweep just put him totally out of position given the angle? I am not a coach but given the angle of a blitz (which is a direct path to the QB) would cause a corner to ...

The - caz (length=2864)
DC, I may be setting myself up for criticism here but I will give it a shot. Seems to me that 36 Toss with SAB would be best against the 5-4 at least the way I see it drawn up. TE scrapes DT and tak ...

To those who wanted my offense... - Malcolm Robinson (length=2403)
Derek: Climb off that high horse for a moment. Remember that the vast majority of youth football coaches in this country are around at most for a season or two and then are gone. Their kid grew out of ...

Trap/Cut - Coach Wade (length=1707)
FZ; Both of those six year old teams I've mentioned run the FB Cut straight from Vallotton's book. Like FZ and D C mentioned, it comes down to front recognition, and that's easy. There are a couple of ...

Veer & Wing - Gilbert (length=1465)
Great, If they are picking it up quickly. BASICS and REPITITION are the key. I also have my pass plays from the veer. 1) What starts out as option, after the FB mesh, QB begins to roll-out and ...

Veer Blocking - Malcolm Robinson (length=1720)
Fish: There are two ways that the mid-line is run. The QB can pull from the FB and hit (or "duck") into the LOS in the general area of the B gap. If this is the plan, there is usually a TE or a slot b ...

Waggle of rocket sweep - Malcolm Robinson (length=1325)
Yes, I have. I love it. However, it takes a good fake by both QB & motioning sweep back. QB must get both depth & width after the full underarm ball fake. He pulls ball back inside and pushes off left ...

Wedge offense prototype with moving pivot - Dum Coach (length=3720)
"DC, My lineman are way behind. The coach the had never taught any progressions. Last year when I got them I didn't know much about line play. I tried base blocking ( gon ) but there was to many blitz ...

What do you look for in your Fullback or Tight End? - Dum Coach (length=10009)
JB and I run the same offense and so look for many of the same characteristics. But usually how fast he carries his weight is near the top of this list. Ability to take a hit and aggressive attitude i ...

Wing T alignment - Dum Coach (length=2306)
"I have noticed in some (not all) Wing T formation diagrams that the halfback is lined up closer to the L O S than the fullback. What are the reasons/advantages of doing this?" That's how it was done ...

Wing T - Dum Coach (length=5789)
You probably notice a lot of Wing T discussion on this board because I'm here a lot. But this is not actually a "wing T message board". It's for everybody to exchange ideas on in regards to anything ...

Wing t installation - Dum Coach (length=6498)
I basically "reverse engineered" the Delaware Wing T and Army's 1947-48 "T" office to produce a youth friendly offense that works on the same principals. I changed the play calling system so that nobo ...

Wing-T or Single Wing and why? - Dum Coach (length=1358)
Generally, you select an offense no one else is running in your league and go with that. In this case, no one's running either of your choices so you have to look for other criteria for the deciding f ...

Wing-T vs. Deleware Wing-T - Dum Coach (length=4055)
Yes. The "T", the "I", the wishbone, and the wing T all require a beast at FB. When you hand the ball to the FB in the wing T he has to get 5 yards. I have found 4 yards won't cut it. It has to be ...

Youth Passing Game - Dum Coach (length=4761)
A good passing game usually requires you have more than one kid that can catch. Otherwise, the defense simply assigns their one kid that can cover to your one kid that can catch. A kid that can catch ...

Youth Passing Game - Malcolm Robinson (length=1646)
Coach: What Clark says is good, but it overlooks a thing or two. The worst type of passing attack for a youth team is a drop back pass. Much more can be obtained from sprintout and play action passes ...

Youth Passing Game - Malcolm Robinson (length=1249)
Yes. Terminology differs, but most wing-t coaches refer to a "keep pass" as a boot to the same side as the fake is made. IOW, if in your 100 formation with WB to the right and the run fake to the righ ...

a "TOSS" question - Dum Coach (length=4200)
The FB has the DE on his own with no help. At the youth level this is not a very difficult block once the FB learns his route. The WB has a far more difficult block and must be a better athlete than ...

best play in youth football(pulling line man) - td (length=2311)
I have been coaching youth football for 15 years.All of these years I that I have been coaching I have not had any of my kids on my team.I coach an 8 & 9 year old team.Same team all these years. I ...

counting blocking - Calande - Malcolm Robinson (length=1423)
Obviously, coaches have been looking for the 'holy grail' of blocking rules since Pop Warner was an infant. We all want one simple scheme, rule or system that, once taught, will cover everything you m ...

double wing wedge - Dum Coach (length=1391)
How do you stop a wedge? I just asked that over at the DW forum a month ago and got no answer. However, in practice, I've always had trouble wedging the small #2 backups or one FS sized stud if they a ...

interesting stuff from option central... - Dum Coach (length=3703)
I teach three different blocks (Actually 5). I use the shoulder block for a down block for the extra power as well as the increased surface area of the forearm. It does everything Calande says and it' ...

offense scheme - Coach Wade (length=6207)
Coach Wannabe; Thanks for the compliments. Those kids deserve every honor I can give them. They really busted their butts for me, and for each other. If I'd had a team like that in high school, perhap ...

play sequence - Dum Coach (length=1505)
I use a play chart that looks like this: Play 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Wedge 8 36 Toss 6 24 3 5 ...

single wing - Coach Rusty (length=1118)
Coach Wade, Just a side note: The college coach was Keith Piper from Denison University in Ohio. He was the last college coach to run the single wing. I had talked by phone with him several time ...

teaching the long snap? - Malcolm Robinsoon (length=3919)
This is a skill that can be taught - taught to some people - like a lot of skills. but some will learn it with work, and others never will. But as AFA has said, the long snap (and here I'm talking 10 ...

using the GAM against superstud - cazsr (length=1251)
re. the idea of WB getting the DE, the problem is the DE is getting to sweep spot, but then if S is blocked down by the TE who is the best blocker on their team, (not even an eligible receiver, over 9 ...

what is your opinion on the Wing-T offense? - Dum Coach (length=5487)
"How many push-ups should I start with? Stop the very moment you feel "poor form". This is about 3 pushups short of max. You want your last pushup as good as your first. "They will most likely put me ...

wishbone - Malcolm Robinson (length=5686)
Derek: Funny you shoud ask. I wrote an article that was published in Scholastic Coach magazine in the middle 80s about the dive read in triple option offenses. It was targeted at Jr High coaches and s ...

youth offense - Coach Wade (length=2525)
Dino; In all honesty, I think the Single Wing is one of the absolute best offenses you could run at the youth level. It has power and misdirection, and can take advantage of whatever talent you get in ...