Runs VS 5-3

Coach -

Try running the FB to the strongside A gap and bending him to the backside A gap( like a trap path). The MLB should flow to the strongside before reacting weakside. You can pick him up with and center-PS guard combo. If they are playing a 4i weak, you can fold the weak tackle to the weak stacked LB and turn out the 4i with the weak guard.

Also, split the heck out of them to create bigger seams inside.

You will have a heck of a time running strong against this. We run this quite a bit vs the wing-t except we have a 5 tech strong and a 4i weak.

Good Luck!

I like wham action in a verses 5-3 situation: 24 wham= FB straight through to Mike, double team at the point of attack and combo to SAM, pull BSG to lead up into hole behind combo and have TE turn out on the DE. Devastating play when I ran the option as a complimentary!

But, if I see 8 in the box we are going to run as little as possible and throw the daylights out of it. If you don't have a good passing game, it may a long night as in my estimation the 5-3 is the best run stopper ever invented!

Coach Easton

Hey JD,
Those are the kind of coaches with that mentality that I like to coach against! HaHa

Coach Easton

Hey Chuck, Have you thawed out yet? Send me an email on my personal address, you never told me if you like to hunt and fish?

JC

If the weak tackle is in a 4i try speed option weak.

Center - block back on off set nose
Weak guard - Block MLB
Weak tackle - block down on 4i
FB - block weak OLB
QB - pitch off stacked LB

You can also pull the BS Guard into the weak B gap to help seal any penetration.

Good Luck!

JD,

Your right, those nights are fun, sure enough! Man, your in the wrong state to hate snow, aren't you?
Do you like to hunt and fish, or no? Chuck likes to hike but is not much on the other two.

Coach Easton

JD,

I would rather hunt and fish than eat when I'm hungry! I love to hunt pheasant!!! Every moment I can get away, I fish year 'round. I live about 500 yds. from a great bass and striper lake here in South Carolina, but have been spoiled by Florida Bass fishing for 40 years. Georgia is great too, with mountain trout fishing available in north Georgia. Used to raise English Pointers and hunt every kind of bird (quail, pheasant, grouse, partridge, dove, etc.) that I could get to. Had dark golden retreiver for ducks and geese. I posted the other day that hunting and fishing is the only thing that comes close to coaching football, IMO.

Coach Easton

I gotta find someone to take me hunting sometime. Sounds like fun!

Chuck, Just invite me up sometime and I'll be glad to take you after you have had your hunter safety course, learn how to handle a firearm, understand fully that once the triggger is pulled, you can't recall the bullet! On a typical high calber hunting rifle of today, the bullet has the ability to travel 5 miles if it doesn't hit anything sooner along it's path. I've have enough guns and fishing equipment that you won't have to bring anything, just be safe.

I just heard about the tragedy at one of the schools in your state! What a crying shame! When are people going to wake up and smell the coffee? Todays lifestyle is just not cutting it! WE need major reforms enacted that will put us back on the straight and narrow! Old fashioned point of view? I'm sure it is, without doubt. But, unlike most young folks of today I can say that I have lived and functioned in society in those times, and in todays. Unequivocally, IMO, without a doubt the older ways of rasing children were far superior to todays methods! "Time outs" wouldn't have cut it back then, a good "wearing out" administered with love and correction in mind, always did the trick. God set the standards for us to live by, not the local dope pusher. The saying: It takes a whole village to raise a child has a lot of merit, imo. Adults didn't hesitate to step up and admonish a youngster they had never seen before if he was getting out of line in a public setting! Now days, these kids call the social service office and tell them their being abused if a parent so much as verbally scolds them! What a trerrible, terrible, joke on us!!! The great roman empire fell in ruins because of internal moral decay, we are not far behind!!!

Coach Easton

Chuck,

Take the hunter safety course like tigerone mentioned above and I will bring my dog down if you can find us some land with birds.

JD

lochness,

On the trap how do you get the linebackers blocked when the DT's are in 4i's? Trap is our base play and inside shades always give us trouble because its hard for the tackles to get up on the linebackers.

That's a very good point coach. Most 5-3 teams will remove a LB to adjust to a simple twins formation, so you can formation them somewhat. I also think every team has base plays that they need to be able to have success with no matter what defense you see. By the way, can you help me get those LBers when the DT's are in 4i's?

Hey Lochness,

No doubt it, you have to have the personnel in place in order to throw the ball.

Coach Easton PS: All running plays suggested looked like good sound calls to me.

We saw alot of 5-3 this year especially in our playoffs game. We just ran our crossbuck (Belly Series) to death. The MLB bit on the FB almost everytime and the TB was heading the other way with the ball. Did not always work but as far as freezing those LBs it was a great play. Our TB had 329 yards on 39 carries, but we lost 20-7...they had better all around execution and played better defense. We also fumbled on our first two drives of the game literally giving them the 14 points.