Equalizer Offense?

Tog,

Your number one choice as listed above has been my nummber one choice for almost 20 years now, LONG BEFORE IT GOT POPULAR.

Coach Easton

Good Luck coach!!! Give 'em heck!!!

Coach Easton

Air Austin,
I agree with Lou, option is a great offense that doesn't require hour up on hours of full squad time up like some schemes do. It takes time to work the qb and rb's handoff/pull and qb reads but if you have any kind of athlete as a qb he CAN do it, just takes time. Also, the OL techniques are very simple and within a week they can have them down.

If you go five wide, all your OL better be able to move and block at the same time, something very rare at the high school level. I did it one time in a JV football game just because I could and it worked out well....my qb ran for about 40 yards on two plays and threw one pass away to stop the clock.

Bottom line, however, coach what you know and are comfortable with, there is always help from other coaches here!!

A saw a similar situation arise in the district we were in this past year. We played a team that was 1-3 at the time, and they came into our house and pulled out a tight game. When watching film on them they were trying to spread the field alot and throw, without a great deal of success. What was keeping them in ballgames was when they got into the double tight bone, sometimes going unbalanced, and running double leads, and QB follows. After they played us they started playing 3 yards and a cloud of dust with their big plodding backs, and their oversized OL. They ended up winning something like 11 straight games and ended up in the state finals.

I have a fall back plan in case we need to do just that with the inverted bone which is going to be our pre-shift set. We'll have our F (the singleback) set in his normal position, with offset backs to each side. This will also be our formation for GL and SY. I'm also planning on using it when I want to throw the defense a curveball and smash them in the mouth.

That is one of the qualities of the good coach. To be able to adjust to your team. The OC from the team I spoke of earlier could've continued on his quest to prove to everyone he was an offensive guru and kept on trying to throw the ball. The results would've probably been disastrous. Instead ala the 200 Ravens they let their defense, special teams, and running game win.

Lou,

As you know from our past postings, I run the option too! In fact, scored our third TD last Saturday night of the game on an inside veer from about 7 yds. out! But, as you know the option, any option game, is not known as a quick strike offense and if your trying to play catchup it is very difficult to score in a hurry. The offense is just not designed to do that, but to rather be a ball controll type offense with plays based on 3-4 yd gains for the most part. Sure we pop the big one on occasion just like everybody else, but why run it 10 times to get as many yds as you can in a single pass play??? My one example I always use to drive this home is our 1994 AFL Super Bowl Championship semi-final playoff game. With 3min. and 33 seconds to go on the clock and trailing 16-14 to Miami, we hit a 5 wide all up (deep vertical) pattern for 65 yds and a score. Kicked the extra point and led at that point 21 to 16. They came out and paniced and tried to get it all back on one play. They threw it to our goaline from their own 35! My weak corner skied and pulled it down for the INT and ran it back almost to midfield. 4 plays later we were on their 25 yd line and stalled. Kicked a 42 yd field goal to ice the win. I looked up and we had scored 10 points with the clock beginning at 3.33 and when we scored our 10th point I looked up and the clock read 1.29 seconds remaining! Thats my case for spread football as we scored 10 points in 2min and 4 seconds to win the right to play in the AFL Superbowl, which we did and won that game 20-14 against a previously undefeated opponent with a perfect 15-0 record. We finished the season with a 14-2 record and put 3 players to the NFL from that squad! We averaged 39.9 points per game for the year while giving up an average of 14 for 16 games. That was in a league that had 18 teams spread over as many states. I give all the credit to my players who did the winning, of course, and to my spread that I have spent 20 years trying to perfect while learning something new almost daily to make it even bettter!

Coach Easton

Coach AIR Austin,

That is a very astute assessment of the topic at hand, imo.

Coach Easton