JailBreak Screen

I use to run the rocket screen but in the spring I saw some cutups of the jailbreak screen that has been made popular by Air Raid teams. I decided to install it and I will probably never run our rocket screen anymore.
Here are the coaching pts for oline
Pass Set and Miss
Work to the side of the screen. Pick up most dangerous man as you are running your tracks.

QB fake the swing to the running back and then throw the screen to the X or the Z.

X or Z take 3 steps upfield and use fast hands and fast feet. Come back to LOS and pick your way through the wall of death. The oline is coming fast and I call them the wall of death.

Here are 2 clips from the Women's World Championship:

Untitled from Peter Johanson on Vimeo.

Here is the inspiration for the wall of death. I became aware of this term while I was working security at a major music pavilion.

My Google docs and Scribd

http://www.scribd.com/john_maurek

http://docs.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wo#all


ENJOY!!

Jeremiah Masoli=West Coast Tim Tebow

I know morally they are polar opposites but Masoli is an exciting player to watch on the field. I was impressed with how well he was able to run the offense for the Ducks last year. I hope we have another chance to see this young man play. If he does get a second chance then he better be able to keep his nose clean or he will follow in the footsteps of players like Maurice Clarett.

No huddle stuff I found on Scribd

No-Huddle Offense Package & Operation - Brian Flinn

Tulsa Hurry-Up, No-Huddle Offense - Bill Blankenship

Unbalanced Wildcat

Here is a clip of Team USA running the unbalanced wildcat from the Women's World Championship. We ran stretch to the TE and pulled a guard off the oline and turned her into the lead back.

Any thoughts on any counters off of this set?

Untitled from Peter Johanson on Vimeo.

Innovator of the Spread-Mike Springston

Many of you may not know this but those in the know this man can be credited with many of the nuances with the modern day spread offense as you know it.

Old Notes I found

I was reading one of my old Coverdale books and I found some notes.

Here they are:
4 Tempos

1. Regular-Signal in Play

2. Indy-Get to line, call signals look to sideline

3. Jet-Fast as possible, no play change

4. Scan-Call formation, look to sidelines

No huddle body clock- I think I got this from someone on Coachhuey's board but I'm not sure.

1. Touch top of head
2. Cover both ears
3. Hand around throat
4. Touch forehead
5. Hold out five fingers
6. Six shooters at hips
7. Drink Something
8. Hand on stomach
9. shoot in the air

I personally use warp speed no huddle with three pre-determined plays in row. We have taught our kids to make the necessary change to the formation(s) based upon the hash. Additionally, the players will yell out the direction of play prior to the onset of it via code words.

Here is some video of a Head Coach out of Auburn, Illinois speaking about his no huddle system. Some pretty neat nuggets in there if you watch the whole ten minutes.
At the end Coach Bates talks about his ten minute drill which is a neat way to run an uptempo system.

It's almost here!!

One week to go until the 2010 season begins...

Since the season will be busy and in depth articles will be few...My posts will become more of a diary entry with "hey, this worked great!" or "boy, did that suck!"


Any last requests?

Polecat-Any one run this?

I have been running this as a compliment to my offense. It is a nice change up to the offense. The kids love it and we have been blessed with athletic enough quarterbacks to run it throughout the years.

I believe that is can be advantageous to the offense if you spend some time to practice this formation and it's complimentary plays.

Here is a clip of the Redskins trying to run it against the Giants. You can find the clip at about the 1 minute 40 second mark.



Here are some other clips of the offense being run.
Polecat VIDEO LINK

If the aforementioned link does not work cut and past this one.
http://stream.watchgamefilm.com/disk18/86AAEB6F-DE67-44EA-8019-69D08F8E6F1C/64C9D5D6-4019-428A-8195-25029DF35AD2.wmv

I would love to hear what if you guys run this offense with you home team.

Here are some more variations of the Polecat this one would be considered the swinging gate on PAT attempts

Golf Balls and Tennis Balls

During training camp in Austin, Texas I had the wide receivers catching golf balls and tennis balls. I soft tossed both of the balls to the wrs and they were then required to look it.

Additionally, we took the golf balls and taped them to the palm of out hands to work on catching the ball with our hands.

If you want to bring some tennis balls out to practice but don't want to pay full price for them. Check out EBAY, I recently bought a 100 used tennis balls for just over 20 dollars. I borrowed one of those lobsters and we will be using it come Monday.