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Post by bulldogoption on Jun 16, 2006 7:57:29 GMT -6
For guys that run any type of no huddle offense: How do you signal in your formations?
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Post by billyclydepuckett on Jun 16, 2006 8:28:05 GMT -6
We are going no huddle this year. When we worked on offense during the spring it went pretty smoothly.
We will have wrist bands for every kid in the program 7-12.
We will have two coaches on the sideline that will signal in formation and motion if any. Two coaches will then hold up color cards (one is a decoy), the players will look at their wrist bands and the color will indicate what offensive series we will run. After everyone has the series the same two coaches will signal in what play we are running (one will be a decoy). The snap count is automatic depending on what series we are running we will either go on one, two, or first sound.
It is a little more detailed than that but this is a quick overview. PM me if you have any questions about the bigger picture.
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Post by bulldog on Jun 16, 2006 9:52:28 GMT -6
We name our formations and then develop a signal for each formation. For example, say we call a formation trips - the signal might be three fingers - or tight might might be clasping the hands together - or bunch might look like you are holding a bunch of flowers (single fist with thumb-side up) - or split might be a downward karate chop (like splitting a log). As long as you give the kids the meaning - they get it and don't forget it. We want it simple and fast so that we can go in a hurry. We don't want any confusion so that the kids could forget which signal is a dummy or misread the translation chart. We also signal the snap count in with our other information.
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Post by fbdoc on Jun 16, 2006 11:11:06 GMT -6
We put in our no huddle this spring and so far we are very pleased with it.
We have wrist bands with our "Play Codes" for all of our core starters. We call our formations from the side line using 2 coaches - The OC is the hot coach and the DC calls out a decoy.
We then call our our plays - we can call most of our base plays 8 different ways - sometimes we'll use a "fake" call and then call the same play using a different code.
Our feeling is that the formation is not that much a surprise to our opponent (we are a spread team with back and receiver variations) but that running multiple plays out of a few formations is what causes more confusion.
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Post by coachcb on Jun 16, 2006 20:19:51 GMT -6
The one time I ran a no-huddle offense, I just lived in double tight, split back. I signalled in the play and then just signalled left or right for the flankers position. I only ran five plays (using the type of hand signals bulldog described) out of it, but it worked exceptionally well.
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Post by sls on Jun 19, 2006 7:10:22 GMT -6
I am going to some no huddle this year. We run a ton of formations, but in our no huddle package we are going to run 2 by2 and 3 by 1. We will all wear wrist coaches with the plays listed in code.
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