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Post by longtigercat on Dec 21, 2007 22:34:12 GMT -6
As part of my off-season research, I'm looking at trick plays. I know that it may be difficult to explain without diagraming, but do you have any favorites whether offensively or with special teams? Or do you have any specific coaching points to the types of trick plays below?
- reverses
- double passes
- hook & laterals
- flea flickers
- by formation or motion
- statue of liberty
- other
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Post by coachnichols on Dec 21, 2007 23:57:27 GMT -6
I'm making it a point to not label my trick plays, trick plays. What I mean is, I'm not going to call them that because I don't want the idea in the player's heads that this is some sort of gimmick.
That said:
two reverses built off of stretch, zone, and zone option.
flea flicker with any of my 5 step game (just tag a pass number)
(around here) any 4x1 set would be a trick formation ;D
I've been working on adding a statue of liberty look to use with some runs.
And of course, let's not forget the play action run game that has been getting some pub lately. I've added tags onto run plays to account for a pass fake, my bastardized version of the play action run game.
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Post by k on Dec 22, 2007 1:53:12 GMT -6
My "trick plays" are all just parts of my offense... Playbook is being changed up quite a bit this off season.
Because we're gonna use orbit motion heavy to run the triple this year we're gonna look at the following:
Reverse (One flanker in Orbit motion gets toss and hands off to second flanker coming back the other way. Built into Rocket Toss Series we ran this out of outside zone last year). We ran the reverse at least once a game.
Reverse Pass (We ran this as both a double handoff fleaflicker and as a more simple fake on the outside-zone-reverse we ran last year.) We ran the reverse pass several times shortly after running the reverse and it worked well.
Hook and Ladder. (We ran this last year on a 10 yard curl and our single back getting the lateral after running essentially a swing route. We are going to keep him in the backfield when running it this year and run it off of a 5 yard hitch with the orbit motion man getting the lateral.) After we put this play in we ran it every week. One week we ran it three times.
Direct Snaps. Out of the regular gun (not pistol) we almost always direct snapped instead of handed off. We played one game in the gun completely (1/2 pistol 1/2 not) and every run from the normal gun was a direct snap. Wasn't meant to fool anyone...
Counter: Inside handoff to flanker. Worked best off speed option.
Trap: Not sure this is gonna get a lot of action this year but was very effective for us from under center last year.
Shufflepass: To the flanker off speed option.
But without a doubt the best "trick play" that we ran last year was the silent count QB sneak where our entire line stayed perfectly still except for the center and QB. Vs the 4-4 which is a pretty no nonsense trick play but got us two big TD Scores and a ton of 3rd or 4th and shorts. =)
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Post by coachnichols on Dec 22, 2007 17:59:01 GMT -6
But without a doubt the best "trick play" that we ran last year was the silent count QB sneak where our entire line stayed perfectly still except for the center and QB. Vs the 4-4 which is a pretty no nonsense trick play but got us two big TD Scores and a ton of 3rd or 4th and shorts. =) That's awesome! Seems like West Virginia or Boston College or somebody in the Big East did some different stuff like that a few years ago. Watched the game where, I believe they were in a trips wide formation, and the entire offensive didn't move. The center snapped it, but other than that, the line didn't move. If I remember correctly, the dline came off, but hesitated and LB's just stood there for a moment. |
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Post by k on Dec 22, 2007 18:27:28 GMT -6
That's awesome! Seems like West Virginia or Boston College or somebody in the Big East did some different stuff like that a few years ago. Watched the game where, I believe they were in a trips wide formation, and the entire offensive didn't move. The center snapped it, but other than that, the line didn't move. If I remember correctly, the dline came off, but hesitated and LB's just stood there for a moment. Because our parent program didn't run it and no one scouted the underclassmen it worked once every game very very well. We'd come out in two wide two tight so they couldn't shift to strength and their DTs were headup or outside shade of our Guards instead of one sunk inside. I imagine four wide would have accomplished the same thing. =) Coaches lost a lot of hair over that play last year lol. |
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Post by pegleg on Dec 23, 2007 11:23:39 GMT -6
they're not trick plays if you practice them............
we have a 10 min segment on wednesday every week to practice what we call our big plays. it's the same 3-4 reverses/double passes or whatever, but we practice them every week.
the kids like it and it makes it fun at the end of the week to go to big play segment, we get fired up that time every week.
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Post by cmow5 on Dec 23, 2007 11:24:50 GMT -6
We ran the silent count QB sneak at the middle school level. One of our most productive plays. Could of been better but the LG did not want to stand still always needed to hit somebody. Hard to get mad at a OL at the middle school level that wanted to hit somebody on every play.
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