Wing-T Line Play

We teach shoulders but we finish with our hands once we feel that we are losing the block. We also feel that you need to use your hands while blocking in the open field & on gap blocks if the defender is about to beat you inside we tell our linemen to extend your arms & knock him off course, in order to prevent penetration.

Hi Coach Easton

I would say it sounds ok but there has been written a lot of articles on this subject and in Wing-T I will say that you should shoulder block but only for contact then you should get the hands on him and control him.
But in pass protection if you have a sprint out or 3/5 step passing series you should use hands and only hands for the pass protection.

A link to and article from www.bucksweep.com, www.bucksweep.com/shoulderblocking.htm, this guy says hands just like you but we all have a different opionen and thank god for that else football would be no fun watching.

God bless
Coach Hansen

Hi coach Easton

I can only agree but know I'm a little more lucky then you because I coach in europe and here it's 1 out 100000 that makes it to a higher level ex. NFL Europe.

But if I was coaching in the states I would teach hands tec.

I will say the good thing I found out about teaching the shoulder tec. is that your O-line tends to stay low and be lower for a longer time then when you teach hands tec.

I used to cocah West-coast offense before I change to be a Wing-T coach so I know both tec. and the plus and minus from both of them.