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Sunday, July 12, 2020

Practice in the Power Spread - Including No Sweat Wednesday

Probably the question I am asked the most and definitely have been over this break is how do we practice this offense. First let me say each year is a learning experience in itself. My practice schedule philosophy has been influenced by Josh Herring, Dub Maddox and John Konceki.  Men who have either won a state championship or played for it multiple times. Included is our No Sweat Wednesday practice that we started to use a few years ago. So, let’s start there, here is the practice script for Wednesday’s.



We go for about 75 minutes on Wednesday. We start off with Punt Team because to me Punt is the most important Special Team in the game followed by PAT. We do 5 minutes of best on best Red Zone 7 on 7 from the 13 in. We spend 25 minutes in individual thought we are 1.5 Platoon team we find a way to work it out if kids need reps on both sides, but on Wednesday they go mainly with there primary position group.

On offense we spend 5 minutes going over handoffs with RB’s. Those handoff’s include under center, jet sweep, etc. From there we do our screen drill, which you have heard me talk about and post the clip of before. You can watch it again HERE. We finish Indy with our Zone Read Drill with various Bubble Screens. You can also watch that video HERE

OL/DL walk through Inside Run Fits. While they are doing that, we are going Goal line 1 on 1’s. Outside WR’s focus on slants and fades. Inside WR’s focus on corner and fades. RB run outs and angle routes. 


We finish with ten minutes of team, follow by the 2-minute drill.


Because we have a few players that go both ways we practice like a 2-platoon team.

Monday is an offensive focus so we get an hour (55 minutes) of practice and Tuesday is defensive so offense only gets 40 minutes.



We begin both days with best on best competition. We either do coming out of the end zone, ball starts on the 2 or Goal Line starting on the 5.

Monday

We spend 15 minutes doing Indy. The Quarterbacks and Running Backs get together.  We then do RPO Drill (10), where we work on mesh with the RB and throwing the post snap manipulation. Our offensive lineman takes this time to go through pods working on run game combos vs the defense. We do have Half-line pass concepts (15) working on PUP with half of the OL and DL as well to simulate rush and QB escape techniques followed by Team (15).

Tuesday

Skill players go through install/team take off (8), then we move to Pass Under Pressure (9) , followed by perimeter drill with WR and DBs working various bubble screens and lineman working 1 on 1’s (8). Then we follow with team with a focus on 3rd downs on Tuesday.
 
This is a question I have answered in my new CoachTube class, named Tempo Plays and One Word Calls in Your Offense.




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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Part 2 of Game Planning - The thoughts on why...


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So what is the magic number of plays per game?

I can't answer that 100% certain however I think it's  somewhere probably between 36-48

Much like Coach said, the hope is you can run base down plays twice.

With the average number of plays being 65 per game, we try not to take more 48 calls into a game.

How does our plan start out?

22 plays from approximately seven formations MAX.

Find your formation and play advantage and build from there, be able to have answer calls..

For example
Zone Read
Split Zone
Zone RPO
Bootleg

the latter 3 answer the defense reaction to Zone Read.

We like to have 6 RedZone and Goal line special plays. 3 inside the 5 and 3 for when the defense changes into Red Zone Defense. Some it's at the 25 and others it's at the 13.

12 unique third calls,  3rd and 3 or less, 3rd and 4-7, 3rd and 8-10, 3rd and 11+

3 Coming Out Plays

3 Screens/Shot Plays

We may add a trick play into the game plan as well.

This allows us to practice each play multiple times a week before Friday.

Need to know how this works? Best Video you can watch on Practice and Game Planning BELOW!



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Sunday, May 3, 2020

4 most asked questions about the Spread - ANSWERED!

In this article I will attempt to answer the 4 most asked questions I get about what we do in our offense.


Question 1: On twitter you have talked a lot lately about 12p quickly becoming your favorite personnel package why is that?

12p cleans up the box for your Quarterback and allows RPO's to become 1 on 1 games between wide receivers and cornerbacks. Those are the match-ups we are looking for.

We used two 12p RPO's heavy last year. I want to talk about the one that was apart of my one-word calls!





With 7 lineman you force the defense to put 8 in the box if they intend to stop the run. 8 in the box means that our pre-snap slant or out becomes open and if not we can read our post snap glance. Of course because we want to run the ball we are hoping that the defense decides that 7 defenders is enough in the box.




To Learn more about how I use RPO's  Click Here --> Game Tested RPO's 

Question 2: Teams are doing a better good of playing zone stick from 10p how have you adjusted to keep this play working in your offense?

As I answered in Question 1, 12p made the box clearer for us. Here is video of us running Zone-Stick from 12p


If 12p is hard for you to get into, but 11p or 20p isn't then here is one of my favorite ways especially vs 3-4 and 4-2-5 quarters defenses.


To Learn more about how I use the Stick Route In the RPO Game Click Here --> Stick RPO's

Question 3: How are you controlling tempo in your Spread Offense?

1 WORD CALLS!

I tell people all the time, my offense is a No Huddle Offense, that doesn't mean we always go fast. It means we don't huddle.

If we want to increase the tempo at will, this is where the use of one word calls come into play....

Example

Call: Broom
Play: Jet sweep toss to the Boundary
Called: when ball is on the hash closet to our sideline
Clip:


To Learn more about how I use the Tempo Plays and 1 Word Calls Click Here --> 1 Word Calls

Question 4: How do you game plan the Red Zone?

Whew. I just updated a new article on Red Zone play.

1 tip I will give about the Red Zone is this.

It's Ok to use a RedZone package....

Here is my favorite a single wing formation I got from Rick Darlington we call it Tebow


To Learn more about how I game plan the Red Zone Click Here --> Score In The Red Zone

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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Spread Offense: Score in the RED ZONE (UPDATED)

Spread Offense: Score IN The Red Zone (UPDATED)

 
The average HS team has 15 3rd down plays a game and 33% of those in the Red Zone.

Have a plan from 5-20 and for inside the 5.

OK, to have a special package for inside the 5!

We carry 6-8 special Red Zone plays for 5-20, we practice 3-4 a week starting in the pre-season and pick the best 3 to take into the game weekly, if we use 1 in a game we rotate in another one

What additional plays did we find that worked?

1. We developed a inside the 5 package based on the Single-Wing but we also used this all over the field.



2. If you have been reading this blog, you know that I am a heavy snag team we found variations.

We added a variation to our 2 man snag play Thanks to Brennan Marion..

We tagged our snag play with slot fade a lot more this year and it work wonders









Please make sure you check out the clips below, thought process and links! 
************************BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE************************
Scoring in the Red Zone is essential to all offenses. Teams that are in the Spread can have problems when they get inside the 20.

I divide the Red Zone into 3 Sections 20-13, 13-5, 5-0. In my experience that is when the defense makes changes, at the 13 and then again at the 5.

#1 High 20-13

Think normally, think Smash and Snag concepts in the passing game and stay normal in the run game.

Smash for us is
#1 WR has an IN
#2 WR has an IN
#3 WR has a CORNER

3 man Snag have worked great for us... pretty standard
#1 WR has the SNAG
#2 WR has the CORNER
#3 WR has the BUBBLE

We had success with 2 new variations this of Red Zone offense due to our use of an H-Back this past season!


#2 From the 13 -5

We run a lot of Inside Zone slice and Run Pass Options.  We used this to our advantage, especially because for us a number of the teams we play play man coverage in the Red Zone. Here are two clips of us using a play-action shot in the Red Zone! We would motion a back into the backfield and fake Inside Zone Slice with a wheel concept.




#3 Inside the 5
Our Best Play this year inside the 5 was getting a H-back and TE in the game with the ability to run Inside Zone Slice Downhill at teams. But most teams will put 9 in the box and go press man on the outside so our QB could throw fade to either side



Have a game plan for the Red Zone in the Spread.
Don't be afraid to have a heavy package inside the 5, H-backs, double tights or Single Wing.

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Score TDs in the Red Zone!





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Saturday, April 11, 2020

Thoughts On Game Planning & Other Items (Part 1)

Thoughts On Game Planning & Other Items (Part 1)

I am a numbers guy so let's talk a few....

The Average HS Football team runs 65 plays on Offense...

15 3rd downs per game.

9 between -11 to 25
5 in the Red Zone
and 1 coming Out

As a matter of fact you average 3 plays a game coming out!
of those open field 3rd down plays 6 out of the 9 are between 4-10 yards.

You will play approximately 15 snaps in the Red Zone (25 in)
and have 8 P&10 plays.....

Why Am I giving you all this data?

I call it the economy of how to plan and how to practice your plan...

3 things that kill offensive drives 1) TFL, 2) Turnovers, 3) Sacks (this will be helpful later)

So when you do your scouting for the week, shouldn't you spend as much Time OR really more on Red Zone than 3rd Down?

16 plays in the RZ as opposed to 15 3rd Down Calls which by the way (5 will be in the Red Zone)
Coming Out (why do teams not keep the same 3 or 4 plays a game, perhaps even all season????)
Shouldn't your 3rd and short be bread and butter plays and maybe a shot off of it?

The Economy of Game Planning - Part 1 just the data...

If for some reason you have checked out our 20-minute Clinic on the Counter Run game and Variations here it is....


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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Power Spread Offense Clinic: 1 Word and Tempo Plays (Plus Bonus 2019 Team Drills of Top 5 Team)

Power Spread Offense Clinic: 1 Word and Tempo Plays

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1 Word and Tempo Plays by Brent Morrison, HC of Westerville Central in Ohio




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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Power Spread Offense Clinic: #1 RPO, Counter, Bash and Reads

Power Spread Offense Clinic: #1 RPO, Counter, Bash and Reads

Last week, I hosted a Zoom Clinic on those topics #1 RPO, Counter, Bash and Pre and Post Snap Reads..... The Clinic Video is below....



In addition to this, I also upload Old Clips of Brent Dearmon Offense at Bethel and Arkansas Tech


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