Post by davecisar on Nov 9, 2009 7:09:39 GMT -6
In the last game of the season my 7-8th Grade team beat a very solid and huge Double Wing team 30-12 in a game we dominated from the start and could have named the score. It was last game for these kids with me, so we played everyone a lot and got 13 different kids the football. We were ahead 24-0 early in the second quarter in an extra game we lined up with an inner-city team with very good size and speed from Omaha from a different league.
This Double Wing team ran the usually Wyatt/Markham off tackle toss with both G&T pulling, wedge, counter, xx reverse, trap, sweep and a couple of passes. They didn’t get a first down in the first half and got just 2 in the game. In the first 4 offensive series they had negative yards. They scored on a 55 yard QB scramble with 4 seconds left to go in the half and on 60 yard pass play against our backups, ( they have athletes)
We used our base defense with a handful of nuances and techniques we installed in our Thursday practice. We knew we couldnt just sit back and let them take their 3-5 yards like they had done all season long in their .500 season in another league.
On offense we scored on every possession with the first team on spinner 32, rocket 28, 16 nasty tunnel (special), and spinner 26 pass. 16 nasty tunnel, and Burst 26 G were our big plays and we ran more 43s and Burst 43 Gs than normal. It was nearly impossible to throw against their speed, their 6'2'' 170 lb safety/WB was unreal.
Im not saying the DW isnt a good offense or we have the Kryptonite answer, but for this team and the base plays, our approach shut it down cold. Im a former DW coach and a huge fan of the offense etc
I was very pleased with my kids, finishing 9-1 and losing to the league Champion by 26-14 ( they won the title game 26-0) in a game we had 4 turnovers and had 4 starters out including our starting Quarterback, Blocking Back, Linebacker and both starting Corners. While we were outplayed we weren’t quite at our best, as our leading rusher had an after game temp of 101.5 etc My team was the smallest team in the league and the smallest I have every seen at this age group. Our starters from tight end to tight end were: 115, 118, 120, 138, 212, 120, 115 and our backups were even smaller, just a single striped player. Our starting 4 backs were 155, 114, 120 and 118 lbs My 5-6th grade team was bigger.
Due to the flu and injury bug we started a new lineup nearly every week. This forced us to not only cross train lots of players but also coach up everyone we had, even more than our very aggressive norm. This brought our team closer together and made them true believers, as we had different kids step up every week. The kids saw no 1 player out, no matter how good they were made a difference in our teams success.
This Double Wing team ran the usually Wyatt/Markham off tackle toss with both G&T pulling, wedge, counter, xx reverse, trap, sweep and a couple of passes. They didn’t get a first down in the first half and got just 2 in the game. In the first 4 offensive series they had negative yards. They scored on a 55 yard QB scramble with 4 seconds left to go in the half and on 60 yard pass play against our backups, ( they have athletes)
We used our base defense with a handful of nuances and techniques we installed in our Thursday practice. We knew we couldnt just sit back and let them take their 3-5 yards like they had done all season long in their .500 season in another league.
On offense we scored on every possession with the first team on spinner 32, rocket 28, 16 nasty tunnel (special), and spinner 26 pass. 16 nasty tunnel, and Burst 26 G were our big plays and we ran more 43s and Burst 43 Gs than normal. It was nearly impossible to throw against their speed, their 6'2'' 170 lb safety/WB was unreal.
Im not saying the DW isnt a good offense or we have the Kryptonite answer, but for this team and the base plays, our approach shut it down cold. Im a former DW coach and a huge fan of the offense etc
I was very pleased with my kids, finishing 9-1 and losing to the league Champion by 26-14 ( they won the title game 26-0) in a game we had 4 turnovers and had 4 starters out including our starting Quarterback, Blocking Back, Linebacker and both starting Corners. While we were outplayed we weren’t quite at our best, as our leading rusher had an after game temp of 101.5 etc My team was the smallest team in the league and the smallest I have every seen at this age group. Our starters from tight end to tight end were: 115, 118, 120, 138, 212, 120, 115 and our backups were even smaller, just a single striped player. Our starting 4 backs were 155, 114, 120 and 118 lbs My 5-6th grade team was bigger.
Due to the flu and injury bug we started a new lineup nearly every week. This forced us to not only cross train lots of players but also coach up everyone we had, even more than our very aggressive norm. This brought our team closer together and made them true believers, as we had different kids step up every week. The kids saw no 1 player out, no matter how good they were made a difference in our teams success.
