Running Inside Zone with a Tight End
Tight Ends present all sorts of issues for defensive coaches. One of the main issues that they bring up is that the defense now has to defend an extra run gap.
Coaching Offense
General Offensive Coaching Tips
Simple Rules for the Pin and Pull Play
The Pin and Pull is one of the plays that is sweeping the country as a run game staple. There are multiple advantages of running the Pin and Pull and using it as your main tool to get to the outside in the run game.
Bash Tag on Inside Zone
One of the tags that is sweeping across the landscape of college football is the Bash Tag. This tag allows the offense to combine misdirection and the read game.
How Efficient Are Your Practices? Simple Steps to Increase Player Engagement
One thing that all coaches, players and parents can agree on is no one wants to have a practice where there are lots of kids standing around. Kids standing around at practice are not getting better at football and normally are not having fun.
Attacking the Defense with the Thing Series
One thing that can be frustrating for the defense is when the offense is able to give a variety of different plays off essentially the same look. When you combine this with a formation that presents a heavy run threat on one side of the formation with a passing threat on the other side of […]
The 5 Concepts in Developing a Winning Mentality
These 5 Concepts apply to coaches and players. Always remember that your team’s attitude, body language, and overall vibe is a reflection of how they are being coached.
Offensive Line Pre-Practice Steps
Pre-Practice is a great time for the Offensive Line to work through some of their basic movement patterns that will increase their ability to complete their assignments. There are a variety of different ways you can approach pre-practice.
Attacking the Backside of the Trips Formation with Read Routes
One of the things that can make life really difficult on defenses is if you can effectively throw to the backside of the Trips formation. Most defenses will put an extra defender over to the Trips side and leave the backside to the Cornerback and the Linebacker to defend the single receiver.
Defending the Spread Inside Veer Triple Option
By Ross Maddalon (Assistant Coach, Cinnaminson High School – formerly the OC at Old Bridge HS and Nottingham HS, NJ) Having coached the triple option for over 11 years, I have seen many different ways teams have tried to stop it. Here are three things teams have done in the past that have given us […]
Using the Mesh Concept to Beat Man Coverage
One of the universal rules for planning your offensive attack is that you must have an answer to man coverage. At one stage in the game the defense is going to put their defenders in man coverage and send a blitz.
Double Arch Counter Play out of the Pistol Spread
The Double Arch Counter is one of the toughest plays to defend. It combines misdirection with a gap blocking scheme that can easily move defenders and punish over pursuing defender.
4 Ways you can Utilize Jet Motion in Your Offense
Motions are very underrated and underutilized on the youth football level. In my opinion, motions offer a variety of different benefits.
How to Utilize the Stack Formation in the Passing Game
One of the best things you can do to a defensive back is to make them think and make decisions after the snap of the ball. While making players think about their alignment before the snap of the ball is great, when you force defenders to make choices after the ball has been snapped it […]
Building a Complete Running Back
There is so much more to playing running back than just carrying the football. Running with the football is only one aspect of playing the position.
Empty Motion-Simple Ways to get the Ball to Your Playmakers in Space
The goal of any offense, especially a Spread to Run Offense, is to get the ball to playmakers in space. By creating space around playmakers, the ball carrier has more room to make something happen.