Question on Inside Veer

Lou,

Thanks for your explanation. I'm with you now, couldn't visulize what you were thinking and I don't like to be a part of anything on the field that I do not FULLY COMPREHEND.
Coach Easton

Lou: We are a 3 wide team most of the time, but this year kind of stumbled on the unbalanced Twins as a good adjustment to the 4-3. (More than any other front, the 4-3 gave me the most fits against our 3 wides...just like you said, lack of good angles on the OLBs.) Do you run the unbalanced Twins alot? My plans are to run it next year a lot more. I've tried to find some references on this formation, but there isn't much out there. Any chance you'll share a little about how you utilize the unbalanced. I'm especially interested in the rules for veer. Thanks for your input.

Roberto,Midline G is when you dive the FB right up the center's butt and read the 3-tech,like you would normally do on Midline.The difference is the line is blocking G for the QB phase of the Midline keep.Guard pull and kicks DE.Tackle will leave 3- tech alone (QB is reading this man for give to FB) and pin the ILB.TE will block down on ILB also.Give ball to FB if 3-tech doesn't close,keep ball if 3-tech closes following guard.You could also arc the TE to SS/OLB so the DE doesn't squeeze as well.I have never tried this but there is a nice article on it in optioncentral.net.I coach in south Louisiana.E-mail me if you would like to exchange some game film. lotiefs@bellsouth.net

Here is our unbalanced Twins from weakside to strong: TE...BSG...C...PSG...PST...PST..............................X
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We are in the I-formation.

The two teams that ran the 4-3 late in the year when we ran the unbalanced adjusted in one of two ways. The first team treated our unbalanced like a pro set. From weak to strong, they gave us a 5 tech on our TE, a 1 tech, a 3 tech, and a 9 tech. The LBs played in the traditional 4-3 alignment, but the twins receivers did force them to drop a safety down. The FS played centerfield and the backside corner played a little tighter vs. our single TE. On veer toward the unbalanced, Sam took dive and the DE took QB, leaving the SS and FS to account for the pitch. We had put the unbalanced in earlier in the year, but hadn't really used it much, and I wanted to keep the new learning to a minimum. Our normal blocking rules for PST is to release inside the 5 tech and block the LB. So I told our overload tackle to do the same thing. He released inside and blocked Sam, the PST and PSG combo blocked the 3 tech and Mike, the center and BSG combo blocked the 1 tech and Will, and our TE scooped and tried to block Will, but since this was a WR we brought down inside to play TE, he usually got jammed by the DE. Our Slot stalked the SS and our WR stalked the CB. The problem was since the dive read (DE) was so far outside (and taking QB) veer was always a dive. Also, since our dive path is the PSGs outside leg, Sam didn't really have to defeat the overloaded tackle's block to make the tackle, he just had to be their faster, which we was. I know there are some option coaches who would have made Sam the dive read since he is technically the first defender outside the PST, but we had never worked on that, and I didn't want to confuse our QB. We would get 3 yards or so, but we never got the ball on the edge. In the second half we switched to a single option (we call it Freeze...the FB dives on a midline path, the QB fakes the dive, which really constricts both Mike and Sam, and we pitched off of the 9 tech). The first time we ran it, our TB went untouched for 70 yards... the FS had no chance. In retrospect for us to run a triple option, we should have moved the dive one hole wider and run outside veer. Now the DE would have to decide QB or dive, and with the wider dive path, Sam would have to go through the overload tackle's block to take the dive.

The second 4-3 team adjusted a little differently. The went ahead and slid the LBs toward the overload, so Will was in the weakside A gap, Mike- strongside A gap (and he widened as the game went on, mainly because we didn't have enough going back to the short side). The DE moved into a 7 tech on our overload tackle, and Sam bumped outside of him. They still had a 3 tech to the strong side, a 1 tech weak, and a 5 tech on the short edge. The difference was basically who the teams wanted to assign dive and QB responsibility. The DE took dive, Sam scraped to QB and the FS and SS had pitch. This was later in the year, and we went in with 2 blocking schemes. The first was the same as the one above. The overload tackle released inside and blocked the first LB (in this case it was Mike), the PSG and PST combo blocked the 3 tech and Mike, and the center and BSG combo blocked the 1 tech and Will. As expected, the 7 tech DE took dive, so this time veer was almost always a pull. Sam took QB, so we ended up pitching it, and we stalked the SS and CB with our slot and WR. As a change of pace, we arced the overload tackle to Sam, cut down our Slot's split, and cracked him. If Sam was already blocked, the Slot was to redirect and go toward the safety. Now the SS was the pitch key (instead of Sam). We stayed with our first scheme for most of the game because I wanted to ball in our TBs hands.

Sorry this explanation was so long. Hopefully, it makes sense.

Option Coach that is a good formation for several reasons I use this formation along with a extra TE as a wing off the TE. Coach Campbell

coach Lo,

would your pulling guard run into the unblocked three tech?

I know you would still be giving the ball if he comes up field, but it seems like there might be a lot of bodies at the point of attack. Could you confirm if this is something that was easy to install, or if you had to practice it a bunch to get used to the look.

coach,

I hope this doesn't mean we can't discuss football openly, but I am the head coach at Vermilion Catholic. I guess you probably won't send me cut-ups of your team running the option, though.