Tripping up your goal line

I recently watched a clinic video of Coach Sonny Dykes talking about goal line offense.

General notes:

Build the sets and your philosophy around your best players. You avoid the second guessing after the game.

You start your RED ZONE when they change their defense.

He started in a standard 3x1 set with his best WR on the backside. This happened to be the TE. He gave the QB three options.

Hopefully the QB was taught Football Math.

SINGLE WR side –

Q: Is he single covered? Safety help? LB help?

A: SNAG/HOLE route

3 WR side

Q: Do we have leverage to run bubble? Or any other screen?

A: BUBBLE

B: STICK

BOX

Q: Are there two safeties? 6 or less in the box?

A: INSIDE ZONE

TAGS

X FADE

Z POST

Interesting fact is the over shift of the defense to the TRIPS side. There was only one time that they ran a play to the trips side. They lined up in TREY (trips with a TE) and ran STICK.

The three basic options

Route Descriptions

Two Safeties = Run the Ball

No Leverage and Free Safety has cheated over = SNAG

Two Safeties and Leverage = BUBBLE

 Coach Dykes talked about using some other formations on the Goal line. the first is a doubles formation with a TE. He would put his best WR at the backside #2 spot and check to routes that isolated him. His three favorite routes were OUT, WHIP, and SLANT

 He would also get into a true doubles formations and run the #1 WR toward the goalpost. The QB was coached to throw the ball right under the field goal post! They would work on this during a post practice session.

Here are some screen shots from the video.

Isolated single WR...LB is tucked inside,  run the SNAG route.

Isolated single WR...LB is bumped outside, run the FADE route.

Favorable box to run INSIDE ZONE.

Favorable box to run INSIDE ZONE. They ran STICK because of leverage of coverage.

Single WR coverage. LB inside. Run SNAG!