Calculating football efficiency is important metric for understanding how your team if performing. If this is important for you, and you do not have an easy way to do it, keep reading for a link to an Excel file to help you with those calculations. Typical ‘efficiency by down’ metrics for offense are… For the… Continue reading Calculating Football Down Efficiency Easy
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An Air Force Football Staple Play: Cutback
Air Force’s answer to slowing down the inside linebackers: Cutback.
Triple Option Counter – How to ‘Slice’ an excessively shifting defense.
Triple Option Counter – How to ‘Slice’ an excessively shifting defense.
Defensive Line Gaps and Alignment – What is a ‘4i’ Coach?
This post is for all of you young players learning to play this great game or for those fans who want to understand a bit more of what those football announcers are talking about. Consider the scenario… Coach looks over at you and says ‘Line up in a 4i if there is a tight end… Continue reading Defensive Line Gaps and Alignment – What is a ‘4i’ Coach?
Four Creative Ways to Run Midline.
We all love midline triple and getting out to the edge. But what about good old midline with just the double read? Either a sweet give with the FB hitting the hole quicker than you can blink, or the QB pulling the ball and getting vertical in a huge gap that magically appears in the… Continue reading Four Creative Ways to Run Midline.
Shapes: Formations to influence Numbers, Angles and Grass.
Shapes? What is that? Maybe you heard John Gruden a few years ago call one unique formation ‘Star Wars’. Here is a link to that Bengals game where he described it as such. Gruden described it as being kind of crazy? But is it? Is there something legitimate to it? I am going to call… Continue reading Shapes: Formations to influence Numbers, Angles and Grass.
Coaching the Wide Receiver in the Triple Option Offense
Playing the wide receiver position when running the triple option offense is like fishing for Muskies in Minnesota. When fishing for Muskies it is going to take you a ton of casts, but when you finally hook into a Muskie, you are going to have some fun! When being that receiver in the triple option… Continue reading Coaching the Wide Receiver in the Triple Option Offense
Midline, Inside Veer and Outside Veer: Same Play / Different Gap
It is interesting how Inside Veer and Outside Veer seem to be more closely related for most people. I think that is because they have simply been around longer. Those two plays also had many years together from the split-back Veer teams. But as I will show Midline, Inside Veer and Outside Veer have the… Continue reading Midline, Inside Veer and Outside Veer: Same Play / Different Gap
Unbalanced Formations – Why Use Them?
To start with, what is an Unbalanced formation? Well, let’s look at one… So the offense has put both of its wide receivers, the Xs, over to the right. This is still a legal formation because the offense still has minimum required seven players on the line of scrimmage. The rule is also that only… Continue reading Unbalanced Formations – Why Use Them?