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Coach Nicholson Senior Member Posts: 780	Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 24, 2005 9:45:41 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Coach Nicholson on Feb 24, 2005 9:45:41 GMT I would like to get a discussion going about trick plays. What is your favorit trick play that you have ran or have saw ran? I would like to hear about anything and everything. HB passes, reverse passes etc...
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govertical Senior Member Posts: 581	Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 24, 2005 11:05:27 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by govertical on Feb 24, 2005 11:05:27 GMT I've got a buddy who coaches for a program that runs the Wing T exclusively. He told me that his head coach's favorite trick play is the forward pass.

Coach_KD Senior Member Posts: 216	Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 24, 2005 11:21:24 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Coach_KD on Feb 24, 2005 11:21:24 GMT LMAO!

Coach Nicholson Senior Member Posts: 780	Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 24, 2005 12:09:35 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Coach Nicholson on Feb 24, 2005 12:09:35 GMT Defenitly a good one.lol Im not really a big trick play guy myself but I would just like to hear what other coaches pull out of the ole bag when need be.
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govertical Senior Member Posts: 581	Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 24, 2005 12:14:14 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by govertical on Feb 24, 2005 12:14:14 GMT We have all sorts of trick plays in our playbook, but the most effective has been the flea flicker. We scored a 50+ yard TD in the 2nd round of the playoffs last year with it.

BlackFly73 Senior Member Posts: 352	Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 24, 2005 21:42:09 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by BlackFly73 on Feb 24, 2005 21:42:09 GMT govertical; Are you using any gadget formations? Lonesome Polecat, BYU Formation?

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Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 24, 2005 21:49:32 GMT

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Post by saintrad on Feb 24, 2005 21:49:32 GMT

well, at the youth level (7th or 8th grade) our favorite trick play is to line up and run our opposition's favorite play. This really P.O.s the those opposing coaches that run the double wing, especially when they have to defend their own 36/37 toss play.

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Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 25, 2005 3:34:49 GMT

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Post by lochness on Feb 25, 2005 3:34:49 GMT

saintrad,

That's a great idea! Nothing bettern than running the favorite play of your opponent and doing it better than them!

govertical,

Would you mind explaining the execution of your flea flicker play. I've been thinking of running one this year, but I have never coached one up before. I'd be concerned most with protection and routes.

groundchuck
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Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 25, 2005 3:51:04 GMT

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Post by groundchuck on Feb 25, 2005 3:51:04 GMT

Our best trick play last season was our throwback to the QB off toss action. The QB tossed it out to the TB (who honestly has the best arm on the team) and just rolled outside up the field. The TB caught the toss sold it and pulled up to throw it back to the QB. Had a couple of big gains off it this season. We also took advantage of the TB's arm byt throwing to the same side as the toss to the flanker or TE, and we threw a swing pass to the TB who then passed it down field.

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groundchuck Senior Member Posts: 472	Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 25, 2005 3:52:13 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by groundchuck on Feb 25, 2005 3:52:13 GMT What is the "BYU formation"?
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Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 25, 2005 5:19:23 GMT

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Post by TIGER ONE on Feb 25, 2005 5:19:23 GMT

Chuck,

Teach your QB to "flip his hips" back to the throw back side when making the throw back mechanics work for him! It is a good solid technique in as much as you are going one direction one second, then hitting a plant step perform the hip flip and make the throw back the other!

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govertical
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Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 25, 2005 6:56:32 GMT

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Post by govertical on Feb 25, 2005 6:56:32 GMT

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govertical;

Are you using any gadget formations? Lonesome Polecat, BYU Formation?

A few.

Our Bone Cat formation is an inverted Wishbone with the QB in shotgun. We use it for goal line, short yardage situations. My hogs love it because our OC will take the two best linemen and put them at the two FB positions.

We also run a formation called Greek. The center and the guards line up normal but the tackles line up way out on the hash. We have had some minor success running screens and reverses out of it, but I can't stand it. I think that it is a waste of time.

Actually, for us, a "gadget" formation would be anytime we have more than 2 guys in the backfield. We are typically a spread O/1-back team, so anytime we line up in a "power" formation with 3 or more guys in the backfield, that is a "gadget" formation.

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Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 25, 2005 6:57:49 GMT

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Post by govertical on Feb 25, 2005 6:57:49 GMT

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saintrad,

That's a great idea! Nothing bettern than running the favorite play of your opponent and doing it better than them!

govertical,

Would you mind explaining the execution of your flea flicker play. I've been thinking of running one this year, but I have never coached one up before. I'd be concerned most with protection and routes.

Coach -

I'll get back to you on that one because I'm not completely sure. I'll ask our OC and post the response here when I get it.

BlackFly73
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Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 25, 2005 9:17:20 GMT

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Post by BlackFly73 on Feb 25, 2005 9:17:20 GMT

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We also run a formation called Greek. The center and the guards line up normal but the tackles line up way out on the hash. We have had some minor success running screens and reverses out of it, but I can't stand it. I think that it is a waste of time.

govertical;

I'd love to see your stuff on your 'Greek' and 'Bone Cat' formations. Could you email them to me... I could return with some things as well.

We like running gadget formations in bigger games. We'll typically run it close to halftime... we find that often the opponent will spend a significant portion of the half adjusting to our formation, and thus, less on the base adjustments needed (as well as taking time away from their O-adjustments as many are playing 2 ways). If they don't adjust; we can always keep running it - usually it is just a package of option, bubble screen type plays but we try and run some of our regular offense as well. I also like the excitement and change of pace it brings to practice; especially during a long season.

My personal favorite is a 'sleeper' type play - we'll send a guy jogging to the sidelines as if he's coming off (we often have the QB gesture as well)... the snap is early... the 'sleeper' runs a fly... simple pass. Really works good out of a FG/PAT formation - but you could run it out of punt.

Some aspects of this play are illegal... we know... but we find ways to fit it in the rules. That's a large part of a trick play... finding things that aren't covered (or forgotten) in the rule book... and letting the officials know in the pre-game what it is and WHY it is legal.

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Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 25, 2005 11:21:02 GMT

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Post by CYFL Coach on Feb 25, 2005 11:21:02 GMT

groundchuck,

Coach, the BYU formation is a spread with the tackles moved outside leaving two guards, the center, QB and RB in the middle. Their are deep slot receivers to either side aligned between the guards and tackles. Their used to be a diagram of it and some other trick formations on either the Chuck-n-Duck website or the BCWarrior site which is not currently working.

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govertical
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Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 25, 2005 13:02:56 GMT

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Post by govertical on Feb 25, 2005 13:02:56 GMT

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Originally posted by: govertical
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Originally posted by: lochness
saintrad,

That's a great idea! Nothing bettern than running the favorite play of your opponent and doing it better than them!

govertical,

Would you mind explaining the execution of your flea flicker play. I've been thinking of running one this year, but I have never coached one up before. I'd be concerned most with protection and routes.

Coach -

I'll get back to you on that one because I'm not completely sure. I'll ask our OC and post the response here when I get it.

lochness -

This is from our OC:

Play: Flea Flicker

Formation: Eagle (I backfield, 2 receivers, 1 slot)

Action: run a 3 Power (lead) with handoff to the 2nd back. Tailback then pitches underhand to QB who floated 2 steps back after handoff. WR on the left shows hands to demonstrate stalk block, and then releases on fly pattern.

govertical
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Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 25, 2005 13:04:35 GMT

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Post by govertical on Feb 25, 2005 13:04:35 GMT

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We also run a formation called Greek. The center and the guards line up normal but the tackles line up way out on the hash. We have had some minor success running screens and reverses out of it, but I can't stand it. I think that it is a waste of time.

govertical;

I'd love to see your stuff on your 'Greek' and 'Bone Cat' formations. Could you email them to me... I could return with some things as well.

We like running gadget formations in bigger games. We'll typically run it close to halftime... we find that often the opponent will spend a significant portion of the half adjusting to our formation, and thus, less on the base adjustments needed (as well as taking time away from their O-adjustments as many are playing 2 ways). If they don't adjust; we can always keep running it - usually it is just a package of option, bubble screen type plays but we try and run some of our regular offense as well. I also like the excitement and change of pace it brings to practice; especially during a long season.

My personal favorite is a 'sleeper' type play - we'll send a guy jogging to the sidelines as if he's coming off (we often have the QB gesture as well)... the snap is early... the 'sleeper' runs a fly... simple pass. Really works good out of a FG/PAT formation - but you could run it out of punt.

Some aspects of this play are illegal... we know... but we find ways to fit it in the rules. That's a large part of a trick play... finding things that aren't covered (or forgotten) in the rule book... and letting the officials know in the pre-game what it is and WHY it is legal.

BlackFly73 -

Let me know if you didn't get the PM I sent you.

BlackFly73 Senior Member Posts: 352	Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 25, 2005 19:42:58 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by BlackFly73 on Feb 25, 2005 19:42:58 GMT govertical; Got the PM... seems I always have troubles getting the response to go through on them. Thanks for the reply!

Lou Cella Senior Member Posts: 1,486	Your favorite TRICK plays Feb 26, 2005 6:36:09 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Lou Cella on Feb 26, 2005 6:36:09 GMT Pitch Pass and Pitch Pass Throwback.
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