9-man

Took me 11 months to see this post, but here goes. In a basic twins or doubles set we have usually run a seal-fold play side, (leaving alone the end man on the line) with a back side scoop when running our basic inside veer, depending on the front. With so many odd fronts coming into vogue, we are doing more zone play side now than what you have seen in any of those videos. The unbalanced you see is basically some wing-T stuff to go with our basic veer look, namely power, belly, and sweep. The reason we have had that unbalanced look is that it takes the nose off our center and spreads the front, besides giving us another hat up there. It also will almost always give us a 3 tech. on the strong side, which gives us a nice PSG release on midline without having to deal with a nose. If you look at the 2009 season you will see a lot of unbalanced, as well as a few games in '07. If does require extra work to learn the nuances. As to spread sets, when we have a nub, we almost always get a weak side 1 or 2i, so you have to account for that in scheming and drilling. For full disclosure, this may be the year we bite the bullet and go all zone with more power football and less option, mainly due to personnel, but I also have become more convinced that, by and large, zone does simplify it for the kids. Lastly, an old school idea. We have the old wedge play in the book every year. We run this out of unbalanced with no gap spacing. Aim point for the running back is the tackle's number, and we give him the ball. Our rule is simple; every lineman, and the wing, steps to the ball and does not let anything cross his face. In short yardage situations down at the goal line, I don't know that it has ever let us down. It takes the thinking out of scheming down there and is easy for the kids to figure out. When I decide how I'm going to post new files, I'll make my formation sheets and rules available on a separate post in here.